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Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1919-06-12
THE SENATE FIGHT OVER HUN
TREATY TAKES ON NEW ANGLE e

Washington-The Senate fight over
the treaty with Germany branched out
into new channels with the introduc.
tion Of a resolution by Senator Hitch.
cock, ranking Democrat Of the foreign
relations committee. proposing that
the committee investigate state
ments by Chairman Lodge and Sena.
tor Borah, Republican members, that
copies OF the unpublished treaty are
in the hands OF certain interests in
New York.
Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1919-06-12
RAILROADS SHOULD BE MADE
TO RETURN MONEY ADVANCED

Washington.-Railro under fed.
eral control should be required to re-
turn to the government "as rapidly as
practicable. $775.O0O.OOO advanced for
improvements and equipment. Direc.
tor General Hines told the house ar
preparations committee at his appear
ance. according to the printed record
Of the hearings.
These improvements have been
made for the benefit Of the railroad
companies" the director general said.
Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1919-06-12
INCREASE IN NATIONAL
BANKS SHOWN IN REPORT

Washington.-The office Of the
comptroller OF the currency issued q
statement today showing a great in.
crease in new national bank organise
tions since January and marked i'm
provement in general business.
Since January I there has been re
eeived 312 requests for new charter,
and applications approved for permis
sion tc increase the capital Of existing
national banks. Ten Of these Coma
from North Carolina
Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1919-06-12
AWFUL CATASTROPHE OCCURS
IN WILKES BARRE TUNNEL

Wilkes Barre. Pa. - Eighty-three
men dead and so others burned and
manned, many OF whom will die. is
the toll OF a disaster in the Baltimore
tunnel OF the Delaware e Hudson
Coal Co, in the East End section of
the city. Seven kegs OF black powder.
5000 pounds In all, were detonated
and the dead and the manned were
literally roasted by the super-heated
gas flames following the explosion.
Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1919-06-12
Not to Be Had,

A colored bakery company, while
en- route to the other side, was being
Inspected to see that each man had a
life belt.
Company COmmnnder-Now, II any
man is without n life preserver I want
to know 1t.
Private JOhnson-Wheah am dat
life reservah. nh had 1T heah right
on ma bunk.
Private Jackson-LiSten heah, bud.
dy. you all beta fin dat life reservah,
cause when the time comes to use
em da amt nobody a-lendin' 'em ut
all.-Camp Merritt Dispatch.
Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1919-06-12
AVERAGE DAILY COST OF WAR
MADE VERY RAPID INCREASE

Washington.-The average cost Of
the war increased from $50 900 daily
for the first three months to $27.4OO.-
600 daily for the period Of July /. 1918,
to April 30. 1919, according to figures
prepared by the statistics branch, gen.
eral staff. war department. and made
public here by the army recruiting Of
flee. The statement showed the dis
bursements for the period Of the war,
minus the normal peace expenditures.
Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1919-06-12
BoLSHEvIk AGiTATOR HAS
BEEN EXECUTED At MUNICH

Munich, Bavaria.-Levine Nissen.
the bolshevik agtator who was one Of
the leaders OF the Munich communist
soviet regime. was exec ted at stad-
elheim. outside the capital. He was
convicted and the Bavarian cabinet
refused to commute his sentence.
maintaining that he was the cause Of
the civil war in Bavaria and deserved
no mercy.
Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1919-06-12
FIRST CUBAN is GRADUATED
FROM Y. s. NAVAL ACADEMY

Washington.-Ensig Carlos Aurelie
Hevia,. son Of Colonel Aurelio Hevia,
former secretary Of the war and navy
in the Cuban cabinet. is the first
Cuban to graduate from U. s. Naval
Academy. He was handed his di
ploma at the graduating exercises by
his father. who was accorded this un
usual privilege by Secretary Daniels
Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1919-06-12
NOW KEEP DEMOCRACY SAFE
All Glasses Must Join In Fight to Re-
tain the Fruits Of Recent
Victorious War.

NThere will be skeptics Of course; but
let tkem ask themselves whether the
times are not out Of joint and grave
problems pressing; and whether, there
fore. community service may not help
to set the times>right and aid In solv-
-fng these problems by bringing all
classes together In common sympathy
Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1919-06-12
FIVE THOUSAND LIVES LOST
THROUGH VOLCANIC ERUPTION

The Hague.-The governor general
OF the Kediri district OF Java reports
that 500 persons were killed in the
recent eruption OF the volcano of
Kalut
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FRENCH FIRM IN OPPOSITION
Hun Government Orders Arrest Of Or.
oorten, President Of the New
Rheinish Republic.

London.-There is a probability that
Germany may secure as a result Of
Rer strong counter proposals some
iessening in the severity Of the epace
terms Of the allied and associated
powers. Germany's pleas that it will
'Re impossible to fulfill the financial
requirements OF the allies and her pro-
Dsts against certain territorial re-
1n9qishxnents have been held and are
tn6 dtscussed by the council of four.
@ ysPorts have It that in certain
Il thss peace conference the
s4 4 fun discnssion OF the German
lcf1nter proposals especially concern.
Ing reparafions and other economic
features OF the peace treaty has been
held by President Wilson and the
stan OF American experts of the Amer
ican peace delegation. Great Britain
Is said to favor q number Of conces-
sions to Germany but France contin-
ues firm in her stand not to waver
from the original terms. On the other
hand, the Americans are declared to
be not averse to minor concessions
but are not in favor Of going to the
extent that the British propose.
The German government is in
censed over the formation of a Rhen.
ish republic. 1t has ordered The ar
rest OF DR.. Dorten, the president OF
the republic. and also has protested
to the peace conference and the ar.
mistice commission at Spa against the
behavior OF the French authorities in
the occupied Rhineland.
Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1919-06-12


League 'of Nations covenant as the
s.greatest document of human liberty
ever prepared" Chairman Cum
Inings on his arrival in Chicago start
ed things moving briskly. Striking
smartly at the Republican "Old
Guard" he said: ut is manifest that
the Republican party has again fallen
under reactionary leadership. The
choice of the committee heads in the
recently organized house of represent
atives is very discOuraging to every
progressive American. while the cleo
ton of Senator Penrose to head the
finance committee Of that body indi-
Gates the type of leadership to which
the Republican party is committed"
The banquet held on the evening Of
May 20 was the occasion Of addresses
by Mr.. Cummings, Attorney General a.
Mitchell Palmer, and Franklin d.
Roosevelt. assistant secretary of the
navy.
Mr.. Cummings was loudly applauded
when he said that "As l read the re-
ports Of these speeches of strict and
unrelenting partisanship wonder
what phrases Of abuse what language
of vituperatiOn, what invective, what
recital of blunders and crimes would
have agitnted the political atmosphere
If the president of the United States
had led the country to disastrous
conclusion Of an unsuccessful war
Every epithet Of reproach already has
been exhausted In an attempt to dis
credit the leadership of Americas s
president Mt a time when America s
prestige was never greater, America s
power never so vast, and Americas s
success never so transcendent. The
campaign Of slnnder, which is the very
Spume Of politics. has been reserved
for Americas greatest leader in the
hour Of Americas greatest triumph
To listen to the spokesman of the Re
publican organization is to gather the
impression that America lost the war
and has been forced into n discredit-
able peace, humiliating to all lovers
of constitutional government and free
DOM"
Democratic Partys Record.
In refuting Oldtime Republican
claims that the Democratic party was
sectional, lacked experience in leader
ship. was committed to free trade, in
capable of providing revenue, insin-
cere in professions Of friendship for
labor, inimical to the farmer, an en-.
emy to legitimate business and in
capable of carrying on a war, Attor-
ney General Palmer paid tribute to
President Wilson by saying:
"They said the Democratic party
lacked the experience in training in
craftsmanship which made for con-
structive leadership in solving the
complicated problems on the far-f1ung
line Of your governmental activities.
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DEMOCRATS OPEN
1920 CAMPAIGN
aggressive Fight for Presidency
:, Promised by Leaders
of the Party.
SHOW SPIRIT OF CONFIDENCE
Representative Women From All Sec
tions Of the Country Present at
Meeting Of the National Com
mittees at Chicago.

The formal opening guns for the
presidential campaign of 1920 were
fired Mt Chicago on May % and 70 at
a gathering Of the Democratic Ma
flonal committee, the Associate WOm-
ans National committee and many
Shairmen and secretaries Of state COM
mittees. Members of President Will
sons cabinet and other notable party
leaders were present, and while
sounding keynotes took occasion to
vigorously denounce the Republican
leaders for the character of their at
tacks. as well rs to call attention to
Democratic achievements during the
last eight years.
The participation Of the women, for
the first time, in the national councils
OF the party brought representatives
from all sections Of the country. and
on the occasion of the banquet they
divided the oratorical hOnOrs with
men Of political note for many years.
| There was no lack Of confidence on
the part of men or women. The lat
ter. while hoping for universal suf-
frage in the election Of 1920, pledged
the Democrats those western suffrage
states that played such m important
part In 1916. The general effect Of
the meeting was to sound the tocsin
for an aggressive war from now on,
in WHICH tour to every debatable
state west Of the Mississippi river, by
Homer s. Cummings, national chair
man, will form an important part.
There was not a Democratic leader
present who did not leave Chicago
c6y3pnAd that vigorous counter
InffS be made on the Repub-
Monroe City Democrat., 1919-09-19
Day Wants Parole

Benjamin F. Day, wealthy stock
man of Oklahoma, musician. COM
poser. Sunday School superintend-
ent, school director, ex deputy sher-
if, poet, lover. member of two fine
lodges, a bigamist and convict in
the Missouri state peDitentiary
removed from Randolph County
but recently, has already written
a touching appeal to Prosecutor
Hammett urging a parole on the
grounds that a man with such glori-
Gus. spotless and highly creditable
career behind him should not be
too severely judged upon the oc-
casion of his first downfall on the
highway of life.
The young lady who became Mr..
Days second wife met him in
Moberly when he was enroute to
Jefferson City and held a long, earn
est conversation with her doomed
lover. She seems still to stand by
him, and to have faith in his pro-
fessed love.
Mr.. Day will probably become
the Prison Poet" of Missouri.
Monroe City Democrat., 1919-09-19
The Victim

A member Of Congress from New
England undertook to raise sum
of money for a charitable purpose,
and, in order to collect as much
money as possible, he wrote elo.
qnent letters of appeal to his
wealthiest constituents From one
of them he received the following
art-breaking reply:
Il have your letter requesting a
donation for what you consider o
worthy cause. flatter myself that
l haYe a spirit of loyalty and
generosity. | have contributed to
each and every object that has been
presented to me. but have to de.
cline helping your cause along for
the following reasons:
Il have been held up. held down,
sandbagged, walked on, sat on, roll
ed over, flattened out, and squeezed
first, by the United Stated Govern
ment for Federal war tax the excess
profit tax, the Liberty Loan Bonds
and the bonds of matrimony; in New
Jersey for the state tax, the high
way tax, the income tax, school tax,
cat tax, and syntax, and every
society and organization the inven-
tive mind of man can suggest to ex.
tract what you may or may not pos.
sess, to form the Society of John
the Baptist, the wifeless, the hus-
bandless, the childless, the con-
scienceless, the navy league, the
Red Cross, the green cross, the
double cross and every other cross
of all colors. and by the children's
home, the Dorcas society and the
hospital
Zone of my mills burned down,
the hen house and board walk blew
away, and because will not sell all
that have to 90 beg, borrow and
steal, l have been cussed and dis
cussed, boycotted. talked to and
talked about, lied to and lied about,
held up, hung up. robbed and nearly
ruined, and the only reason l am
clinging to life now is to see what in
hell is coming next"
Monroe City Democrat., 1919-09-19
Coal Inquiry

Tuesday Attorney General Meal
lister commenced taking testimony
in proceedings instituted in the Su-
preme Court two years ago to as
certain if there is an unlawful COM
5ination in this State to control the
price of coal. He commenced TAX
ing testimony in ST. Louis Tuesday
and will later take testimony at
Kansas City. 1t is his contention
that there is an unlawful combina-
ton between the big mine opera
tors. and that this has existed for
long time. The court appointed
Mayor Lilly of Moberly a commits
sioner to take testimony. Before
the hearing was we'll under way
two years ago, war conditions caus-
ed the government to take control
of the fuel supplies. and matters
have since remained dormant.
Monroe City Democrat., 1919-09-19
The League of Nations.
BY CLARENCE M. CASE

worth and solemn authority of any
and every ethical code, and it was
an execrable moral wickedness for
any Power to trample it in the dust;
but in the strictly legal and govern
mental sense the Hague conventions
were. as the ruthless German mill
tarist declared, mere scrap of
paper"
In this cOld.blooded saying was
the basis for the greatest lesson of
this war. which is that anarchy, i. e.
non. government. among nations
must cease forever, and law and
order must be made to reign over
the largest, just as they do over the
smallest dealings of mankind. In
other words, League of Nations
must be formed, or these millions
have died largely in vain Interna
tional ruffianism must be put down
and out by the hand of law, just as
the bad man" of the frontier had
to yield to the march of government
and order, and peace.
In doing this we shall simply con-
ii nue. a movement which has been
running through all the age long
evolutions of human society. from
the days of the Cave men to the
present hour. Nothing stands out
more clearly before the student Of
social evolution than this. which
has been styled the enlargement of
the peace group" The tiny forest
hordes, such as those which roam
the big woods of Ceylon today.
coaleseed into tribes: tribes united
in tribal confederacies like that of
the Iroquois in early American his
tory; tribal confederacies became
ethnic nations; the small ethnic ma
rions compounded into the vast
political nations and empires of
modern times. At every step in
this process men saw that their real
economicsand social interests de-
manded a larger srea where peace
and cooperation might take the
place Of antagonism and war. The
expanding life of humanity demand
ed that they over-step the bounds
Of their own narrow, blind prejudlces
in the service of their true interests,
" hich lie always along the pathway
of a wider and more stable peace
and order. And just so the inter
twined interests OF the nations to-
day demand that we rise above our
narrow. jingoistic nationalism and
realize the great truth that Above
all nations is humanity"
! The thing which the growing
Monroe City Democrat., 1919-09-19

A Kansas editor has discovered a
home in his town in which the usual
order of things is reversed. The
mother plays the piano while the
daughter washes the dishes, says
the editor. The shrewd reader, how
ever, will reserve decision as to the
truth of the story until he learns
whether the editor gDy his ilforma-
ton from the mo- her or from the
daughter.
Monroe City Democrat., 1919-09-19

This immeasurable catastrophe
which we call the World War is the
logical outcome of the system of
anarchy upon which we seek to run
the International life of the globe.
The use of the word anarchy" in
this connection does not involve
the slightest exaegeration. 1t is
sOberly and literally true that the
affairs of nations move in a realm
of non government. and that is ex-
actly what the word anarchy means,
for it comes from roots which mean
without law" or without govern
ment."
The dealings of nations. one with
the other, are conducted upon the
anarchistic level where neither law
nor court exists. and where the
motto is Speak softly and carry a
big stick" 1t is true that we had
for some years preceding the Great
Calamity a code of International
Law, so-called, and tribunal at
The Hague which we were pleased
to call a Court" But that code,
which we courteously referred to as
international law. was simply set
of ethical ideals. expressing eur
hope that nations would grow to be
fairly decent in their dealings, while
The Hague Tribunal itself sat as q
sort of amicable maiden. aunt among
the nations, having vast privileges
IN the way of recommendation but
no power to spank. The inevitable
consequences for social order were
precisely what they would be in
your own county if the constable
were to disappear from the side oI
the justice of the peace and the
sheriff cease to stand at the elbow
of the judge on the bench. You
would then have a court without
teeth, with a fine judicial bark anC
no executive bite. and its functions
would consist in exhortiDg thu
culprit before the bar to quit hi
meanness, and to expressing the
pious hope that he might amenc
his ways and bis doines, whereupor
the enemy of society would turf
away and do according to his owl
taste.
This ridiculously impotent system
is an exact description of the one
which fell to pieces, like the house
of fcards that it was, when the thund
seer of the big guns at Liege and
Namur shook the world in 1914
The socalled international Law" oI
that day had, to be sure, all the
Monroe City Democrat., 1919-09-19

The cost of living in Germany, &C.
cording to dispatches, is rapidly
falling. Eggs are down to 1895 a
dozen. butter is now only $6.25 per
pound, and a pound of coffee can be
purchased for the small and in-
significant sum of $4.00. All of
which goes to show that conditions
in the good old United States might
be considerably worse.
Monroe City Democrat., 1919-09-19

economic life of the globe has been
moving toward by this long process
OF social evolution has been also
the dream and the prophecy of the
worlds great ideslists, and the plan
for a league of nations in the in.
teIests of peace is already over four
hundred years old. It will be found
in astonishing detail in the writings
of Sully, prime minister of King
Henry w of France, William Penn
Emmanuel Kant, Edward Everett
Hale, and host of others, both high
and low. The hour has come for
us men who call ourselves civilized
to take the lesson of social evolution
and the vision of the prophets and
build it into a solid world. order
where, as Penn said, in his Plan
For the Peace of Europe" in 1893,
Peace shall rest on justice, and
justice will be founded on govern
ment." In other words the nations
cannot hope to maintain regime
of peace and anarchy at the same
time without getting just what they
DOT this time. except that it will be
great deal worse.
Finally, to all who oppose the
formation of a League of Natious,
we have simply to say that every
single argument they are bringing
in opposition might have been urged,
and in fact most of them were urged.
against the adoption of the Constitu.
ton, which ended the reign of an.
archy between the thirteen Amer
ican states (really nations in the
political sense) and united them
under common order of justice.
law and peace. Let opponents of
the League of Nations ask them.
selves whether they themselves
would not have been oppC sed. by
the same logic which they are now
using, to the great Constitution. a
true League for Peace, of which they
are now so proud.
Space will not permit of an
elaboration of the arguments and
drawing of the astonishing parallel
between them. but let the reader so
inclined take every objection now
being pressed against the League of
Nations, substitute the words Con
stitution of the United States" and
see for himself that if true 10 the
one case they are true in the other,
and if false in 1887 they are equal,
ly false in 1919
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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1919-04-03
twenty-five Years Ago, 1894.

Married, in Mineral Point, March q,
by Rev. f. w. Straw, Mr.. Samuel
d, James and Miss Eta A. Milton, both
of Cottage Grove.
On March goth, Mrs. Elizabeth Tregea
died at her home in Modesto, Cal aged
SO years. She was resident of this
place some Is years ago.
The window placed in Trinity church
in memory of Il. D. Pulford is fitting
tribute to devoted supporter who was
senior warden for Al continuous years.
Mr.. James jackson and his little son
Erwin were badly burned about the face
and head on Tuesday by the explosion Of
powder in a can which the former was
opening. The boy is most severely
burned, but both will probably recover.
Tommie W, son of Chris and Jennie
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1919-04-03
Forty Years Ago, 1879.

Even our young and enterprising mar
BILE carver submitted and was bound in
holy matrimony and is happy. Fred
Shepherd and Miss Lou Pierce were
married at Dodgeville on the 29th by
Rev. Cook.
Owing to want of knowledge, we
failed to chronicle last week the death
of Mrs. Alma Eastman, aged Sc years.
Every man on the Democratic ticket
was elected on Tuesday j. Nj. Smith,
municipal judge, Nick Schmit. treas
urer, Geo. Priestley, assessor, DR.. Van
Dusen. supt. of schools, Jos. Gundry
and DR.. j. II. Vivian, supervisors, II.
Joseph and Samuel Jenkin, aldermen,
John Thies. alderman to fill vacancy, j.
r. Tramel and Sam'l Thomas, Justices.
The governor has appointed DR.. John
II. Vivian Of this city as member OF
the state board Of Charities and Reform.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1919-04-03
Fifteen Years Ago. 1904

Edward p. Phillips, who was born in
Dovenshire. England March %. 1926.
died at his home in this city March 26th.
He had been a resident of this vicinity
for over 60 years.
Mr. Cyrus Lanyon died at his home in
this city March 10Th, aged So years. He
was a lawyer of exceptional ability.
Messrs. Henry Ovitz, Frank Keehn
and James Harker ran onto nice sheet
of blackjack on the Schaaf land this
week. IL is very flattering prospect,
varying from six to ten inches thick
About forty new books by the leading
authors of the country have recently
been added to the Mineral Point public
library.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1919-04-03

Last Saturday morning Mrs. C. p.
Healey and son Ulmont met with seri-
Gus accidents because of runaway.
The boy was thrown out and Mrs, Healy
was dumped on frozen coal pile, I'll
mont being badly bruised and strained
and Mrs Healy sustaining three breaks
in the lower right limb and one in the
left near the ankle
In the high school decamatory con-
test Friday evening Henrietta Kane won
first place in the girls event, Leila Pri-
deauX second and Helen Mess third i.
For the boys, Ulmont Healy won fir
Samuel Jellilfe second and Eugene Rie-
del third
PenhalleRon & Son are closing out
their hardware business.
News have reached this city to the
effect that Blair Crawford was married
at Pueblo. Colo, last Sunday.
The trial of Otto Haldeman in circuit
court this weeks for the murder of
Henry Rankin last September, created
much interest in this city, near where
the shooting took place. The jury did
not take long to render verdict Of ac-
quittal.