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New-York tribune., 1919-03-11
Other Peoples Money

Information is flashed from the neigh
borhood of the Hotel Crillon and echoed
from Washington that the United States
has no thought of handing in bill to
Germany. On the basis Of the same sort
of plebisctc behind the recent oracular
announcement that the American people
regard it as sacrilcgious to alter word
or a comma Of the so-callcd covenant,
it is said America does not want cent
from Germany.
No generosity is as prodigal as that
Of scattering other peoples money.
Who has given any one authority to say
the American people wish Germany to
go scot free? When have they been con-
suited? The newspapers have not re-
corded that this question has been sub
mittcd.
Not to speak Of direct war cxpcndi-
lures and a public debt which amounts
to about 81 500 a family and which it
viii take a generations sweat to pay,
thousands Of Americans have been in
jured by Germany. If the sums are not
collected from Germany, they must be
paid out Of money extracted from the
depleted pockets Of our masses. The
public, if consulted and speaking in an
organized way, doubtless has right to
assume burdens which should be carried
elsewhere, but has any one a right to
determine such a matter without q
shadow of consultation? We almost
went to war to compel Great Britain to
pay the Alabama claims, and what rea-
son is there for being easier on Ger
many, which openly sent out subma-
rines, than on Great Britain, whose Of
fence was in letting commerce de-
stroyer secretly dodge out of one of her
ports?
And if advertisement of a purpose
not to put in bill is in contempt Of
self-determination, it is likewise close
to an insult Of our allies We imply
there is something dirty and low in ask
ing an indemnity. We intimate by our
trumpeting that we are above such
meanness. Here is Pharisaism not
calculated to make US popular More
over, to let an unrepentant offender go
free is scarcely way to discourage
future wars of aggression.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-11
The Lodge-Lowell Debate

The acceptance by Senator Lodge Of
challenge from A. Lawrence Lowell
president Of Harvard University, to
sign. A series of such debates would
be a most valuable contribution to the
great issue now before the country.
Fundamentally there is little opposi-
ton in the United States to the idea Of
a league Of nations. Mr. Lodge has
specifically so stated time and again.
The question is whether the people want
the particular plan now before them. If
such men as President Lowell and Sena-
tor Lodge draw from the covenant such
various meanings that they must mount
the rostrum to debate them, what must
be the state of mind of the ordinary citi-
zen, less versed in the subtleties of dipo-
matte language?
1T is of the utmost Importance, said
President Lowell in his letter of chal-
lenge to Senator Lodge, chat the COM
mittees report at the conference in
Paris for league Of nations should
receive the fullest public discussion"
No one, unless perhaps it be Mr.
Wilson, who appears to believe that
the public mind is made up and the
question settled will be disposed to dis
agree with Harvard's president. In an
earlier crisis the debates Of Lincoln and
Douglas served greatly to clarity public
opinion. A revcrsion to the ld-fashoned
method will be good now 1t will tend
at least to bring to an end the mole
like method of proponents of the Smuts-
Wilson school going underground with
the statement, "The world ought not
have Wars
New-York tribune., 1919-03-11
Bolshevists Through Labor's Eyes

John Ward, Labor member of the
British Parliament, special representa-
tive of the "navvies' ana one of the
general officers of the General British
Federation of Trade Unions, is with his
regiment on the Omsk front, in Siberia.
He has had an opportunity to study
Bolshevism at first hand, and in a letter
eXclaims:
"For the love Of Allah, never more
talk of the glorics Of revolution am
in it here Friend strikes down him he
thinks his foe and finds the dead man
his brother Princes, peasants, pluto
Gratis, workmcn, rich and poor, go down
together in one welter of blood and dirt.
The Bolshevik thinks nothing Of stand
ing 500 social revolutionists against the
wall and shooting them down before
breakfast because of some small petty
difference Of opinion as to whether the
railways should be national or communal.
How the gods must cry with rage that
mon can be so mad. How ever any Of
our labor leaders failed to grasp the
Bolshcvik creed Of blood and presumed to
condonc the horrors committed by this
mob Of fanatical maniacs cannot
imagine. Rather pray heaven defend our
old country from such a calamity"
At Ekatcrinbcrg, whore the Czar was
imprisoned Mr.. Ward relates seeing the
Cossacks at work cleaning out an old
WELL with an occasional grand duke
mixed up with the timber; then another
.c
grand duchess, then another as the fore
man Of a nearby ironworks, then a few
workmcn and workwomen, all murdered,
mutlated just to prove the love Of hu-
manity."
Il believe it was necessary" concludes
this British labor leader, "to destroy
the old regime, but those swine whom
we call Bolsheviks were bloodthirsty
cutthroats who murder for the love Of
it, as some of their proclamations show. y
But in the Russian tragedy the
chief victims have been masses of
unknown men and women and chill
dren The assassinations have been
many, but for every one who per
shed before a firing squad hundred
have perished through lack Of food or
exposure. Fearful is the price paid
when modern country is dsorganzed.
The Bolshevist leaders, of course, have
no special malice against peasants
and workmen if they will but quietly
obey; nevertheless, they have slain them
by hundreds of thousands through their
abysmal ignorance Of the laws of
civilized society.
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military law or has not been done dur
ing the war period. And my own
acquaintance with the course of military
justice gathered, as it is, from the
large number Of cases which, in the reg
ular routine, come to me for final action,
conyinces me that the conditions implied
by these recent complaints DO not exist
and have not existed
Mr. Baker made public the other day
a communication which he sent to the
President on May /, 1918, dealing with
four of the cases cited by General
Ansell. In the letter he urged the Presi-
dent to set aside the sentences. He has
repeatedly stretched a point to secure
cemency for so-called conscientious
objectors." Many soldiers now serving
hard sentences have committed offences
far less injurious to military discipline
than the conscientious objector's" root
and branch refusal to submit himself to
any form Of military authority.
1t is not necessary to go into the ques-
ton of whether General Ansell was right
or not IN holding that an old statute
vested reviewing power in the judge
advocate general. 1t is of little i'm
portance what his relations with General
Crowder have been He took an open
stand, at considerable risk to his per
sonal interests, as champion Of re-
forms. He was courageously "anXious
to modernize and humanize military JUS
tice,' to quote Secretary Bakers phrase.
Yet he was not only relieved from ser
vice at the head of the judge advocates
department, bat actually reduced in
rank.
Mr.. Bakers attitude is peculiar. He
strained justice in dealing with the "con-
scientious objcctors" But now he says
that his experience leads him to think
that in the matter Of unduly severe SEN
tences for the actual fighters "thc condi-
tons implied by those recent complaints
do not exist and have not existed" Is
military justice archaic as regards mu-
tinous stay-at-homc soldiers, but up to
date as regards men in the trenches
who may fail IN duty occasionally under
the hard tests Of war?
New-York tribune., 1919-03-11
What Happened to Ansell

Brgader General Ansell, until re
Gently acting judge advocate general,
recently called the attention Of the Sen
ate Military Affairs Committee to var-
Gus failures Of military justice. He cited
cases in which harsh and excessive pen
alties had been imposed by courts
martial on soldiers in camp or at the
front. lie testified that he had violated
department routine in order to get some
of these cases before the President.
Almost Immediately General Ansell
was relieved from the headship Of
the judge advocate generals Office
and reduced in rank. The inference
was naturally drawn that the War De-
partment sought to discipline him as
critic Of things as they are.
The revelations to the Senate commit
tee shocked Congress and the public
Secretary Baker was moved at the time
to say: "No member Of the Senate
Committee on Military Affairs is moro
anxious TO modernize and humanze
military justice than | am That was
on February a. But on March the
Secretary wrote to Major General Crow
der:
81 have not been made to believe By
the pcrsual Of these complaints that
justice is not done to-day under the
New-York tribune., 1919-03-11
A State Income Tax

In his statement before the joint COM
mttee of the Senate and Assembly at
Albany Controller Travis submitted
persuasive special reasons why New
York shall not enact a state income tax.
If per cent tax were now levied
it would be necessary to exempt no less
than a billion and half of individual
incomes. With such an aggregate of
individual incomes exempt, the levy, ex-
cusively falling on the non-exempt,
would be grossly discriminating, and
hence most unfair and unjust
The tax would not be assessed against
incomes from Liberty bonds and other
public securities, amounting to $212,50O,-
600 annually; nor would it fall on the
$250,000000 annually derived from
mortgages, which, having paid the
mortgage registration tax, are free from
further taxation; incomes from savings
deposits, aggregating $50 900 900 yearly,
are exempt from all taxation now and
probably would be exempt under an in
come tax law; national bank shares are
subject to but one tax, which is already
levied, and as to other banking institu-
tons unless double income tax is to
be collected, their shares, with dividends
amounting to S82,500,00O yearly, must
be exempt; on manufacturing and mer-
camille corporations 3 per cent income
tax Is now levied, and this deduction will
take 5000 100000 from the proposed new
{ (r.t,~ ~,tt.x
controller Travis arrived at his estimate
that the total exemption would be a
billion and half.
To be fair an income tax must he
lewed in respect to citizens entire
income, no matter whence derived But
TINS is not possible except there is re
peal Of large part Of our tax laws.
That is To say, New York as a conse-
quence Of the development Of its cor
poration tax system, already has large
income tax. The Federal government
was not similarly called on to repeal ex
isting statutes when it turned to the in
come tax for revenue.
The general objections to a state in
come tax are TOO familiar to need re
statement. The nation is taking per
cent on incomes from 1000 to $4,000
and II per cent on incomes from 1000
TO $4,000, with rapidly increasing sur
taxes above thcge limits. For the state
u plaster On another per cent will be
~ tap a source drained almost dry.
Aor IL "A state income tax necessary
Controller Travis has. outlined tax
New-York tribune., 1919-03-11
Male and Female Made He Them

To the Editor Of The Tribune
Sir: AS consistent reader Of The
Tribune | very respectfully suggest that
you can make your paper even more popu-
lar than it now is if you will arrange it
so it can be divided into male and female
sectons-i G., sections in which male and
female members Of the household are in
tcrcstcd.
The head of the family likes to take the
business end Of the paper. with financial
and sporting news, downtown with him and
leave the other pages for home consump-
ton and for his evening enjoyment This
is the only improvement | can think Of
for The Tribune. c. b. HUMPHREY
New York, March 7, 1919
New-York tribune., 1919-03-11

alton scheme by which, without an in
come tax, more than S25,0Oo,ooO can be
raised, whereas but Sl0,6OO,0O0 is
needed.
The nation, by preoccupation, seems
to have gained a sort of title to the in
come tax field. Similarly, the states may
be regarded as predmptors of the inheri
tance tax field. BY developing this and
other lines the state can balance its in
come account without resorting to a sys
tenn which, if put in at all, may we'll be
postponed until the whole tax law is re-
written
New-York tribune., 1919-03-11
Tunnelling Against War

The British government is consider
ing the immediate construction of tun-
mel under the English Channel Such
line Of communication would greatly
minimize the war danger Had it been
in existence in 1914 the Kaiser would
probably have thought again. He be
lieved even though Great Britain should
come into the conflict, that she would
not be able to maintain a large army in
France. There is more real peace in
Channel tunnel which Will make it easier
for Great Britain and France to CO.
operate when danger threatens than in
a bushel Of schemes for peace which rest
solely on words. An under Channel
transit line will partly answer the
French demand that her friends shall
not only be willing to help her if men
aced, but able to do so. This will tend
to strengthen the anti-conscrpton pro-
pOSal
New-York tribune., 1919-03-11
Diplomatic Relations Restored

Diplomatic relations with Cuba have been
resumed. A legation has again been estab-
lished in Great Britain
The United States, so we are told here by
an Associated Press Dispatch has raised the
embargo on gold and has also lifted the CEN
sorship on the cables
Announcement has been made here. al
though not officially, that the Catholic
bishops and archbishops are planning CON
ference to be held in Mexico City, after
which they viii resume their administrative
work. The revolution, in the new constitu-
ton, declined to recognize any church, while
guaranteeing freedom of worship to all de-
nominations and prohibiting religious teach
ings of any kind in the schools, public or
private. The church is apparently on the
point of accepting the situation.
TO return to mere personal impressions,
let me describe a visit TO the bullring. from
which have just returned. The Federal
government of Mexico does not interfere
with the state governments, except in cases
of necessity, but is supreme in the Federal
District, which corresponds to our District
of Columbia President Carranza disap-
proves of bullhghts and lotteries, hence the
lottery has disappeared. and there are no
moro bullfights in the capital The bullring
described as "the Hippodrome.' on official
maps of the city, but spoken of by the people
as IA Plaza 'el Toreo.'" is a circus with
seating capacity of 10000. 1t has been used
for opera, and this afternoon was the scene
Of an entertainment by Anna Pavlowa and
company.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-11

The working people and the middle classes
are better Off, and there is more money in
circulation than have had in long time
These mean that we are beginning to get
suits Wealth is being more evenly distrib-
uted and the contrasts between extreme lux
ury and dire poverty are less striking than
in many years"
Spanish hotel proprietor: I'VE would
be glad TO give you a room and bath, cspe-
cially if You expect to be here for some time,
but Mt present we arc full up. A group Of
American visitors has engaged in advance
every available room and we can do nothing
for you until they depart. 1t seems like old
times to have so many tourists from the
north"
New-York tribune., 1919-03-11
4 Sign OF Money

cannot figure how, after giving the bal
let liberal support for a long run AT the
Teatro Principal, this city of half million
population could afford to spend $1,000 to
10000 pesos for an open air performance
unless business conditions were fairly good.
even making due allowance for the fact that
the MeXicans, like all Latin-American pco-
pies, are melomaniacs.
we'll dressed, good humored, highly APP
preciative gathering it proved to be- The
performance was scheduled to begin at 4 80
O'Clock, but was late, and the people in "the
bleachers" indicated their impatience by
clapping with triple rhythmic beat, and oc-
casional catcalls, just we might do at
home at ball game But when the trumpet
call announced that the curtain was about
to be drawn, there was hearty applause, fol
lowed by complete silence.
This same signal, by the way, is employed
at bullhghts, to announce that fresh bull
is about to be brought into the arena, and so,
after the intcrmission, when the trumpet
sounded, some wag in the blcachcrs'
shouted "Otro toro!" cAnothcr bull'), and
the vast audience shrckcd with laughter
New-York tribune., 1919-03-11
The Coming ower
THE BATTLE OF THE SOUTH

Fling the gallant banners skyward let the
brazen trumpets blare
In n royal. rousing welcome to the boys from
over there.
Give rousing, roaring welcome. with cheer
from every mouth,
of the South.
From the desert dunes of Kelly, from the mud
fields of Fort Worth
From the ouposts of creation. from the back
yards OF the earth
Home they come unsung, unwelcomed-to the
cities and the farms
With the silver Wounded Feeling chevrons
cleaning their arms.
They're line of thin red heroes, and they're
looking pretty sick,
For they've lived sand at Gcrstner, and
thcyv eaten mud at Dick
They have suffered down at Macon, Pensacola
and Fort Sill;
Houston, Hattiesburg, and Charlotte; Newport
News and jacksonville
So fling out the gallant banners. fling them
bravely to the breeze,
As give a hearty welcome to the boys from
overseas
gers pangs they've felt, and drouth
Better fifty years in Flanders than n week end
in the South.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-11
ind Then II "BOon,"

A Canadian banker: "Conditions are
easier than they have been for some time
The return of prosperity involves the return
complete, but I think we all feel a sense of
relief when we compare banking conditions
to-day with those have gone through
An American importer: "a complete un-
dcrstanding with the United States is the
one thing essential to the commercial and
industrial development of Mexico. When
that has been arrived at, you may expect a
boom in all lines. Until then, we Will do the
best can, but the uncertainty of the past
has been a most serious drawback"
Of primary Importance ! count the return
of the cmigres. Thousands of Mexicans of
intelligence. wealth and position were forced
into exile, or retired from the country of
their free will during what the Ameri-
cans here refer TO as weekend govern
succession until General Carranza obtained
control of Mexico City.
They are coming back Some of The most
important of the earlier regimes are here
now. The Madero family has returned. The
Iturbdes are here. Passengers with me on
the Mexico from Havana last week we're
General Camacho. former brigadier of the
Rurales who had been in exile for five
years. and Carlos Rincon- -Galardo, general
of division under both Diaz and Huerta |
mention names only of a few of the emigr,s
we'll known in our own country. The list
could be swelled into the hundreds
New-York tribune., 1919-03-11

The eminent Hun mlitarist General
Erich Won Ludendorff, on whose sword
the blood of a quarter of million
Americans IS hardly dry, has taken up
the pen. His amiable "reminiscences APP
pear in Hearst's Ncr York american.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-11

M AnS" Dssoo S br'1aay 'a flags S" Of "o u"s'a %;s"
States Of Mexico flew at half mast
from all public buildings. From a few pri-
vatc buildings, including the American Club,
flags of the United States of America foatcd
proudly in the breeze proudly, ] say, be-
cause there have been times in this city
when such display might have caused
riot times gone may hope, to return no
more.
1t is unfortunate that Washingtons
birthday and tho anniversary Of the muir
der Of Francisco /. Madcro, once President
of this republic, and of Don Jose Maria Pine
Suarez, Vice President, must be commcm-
grated on the same day, but there was no
conflict between patriotic mourning on the
part of the Mcxicans and the equally pa
triotic rcjocings Of the small American
colony.
Madcro is referred to in that excellent
daily Gel Universal" as an "Apostle of Lib
crty.' Gel Pueblo" the government organ,
says: "Madero and his fellow martyr, Pino
Suarcz. have not merely ascended to i'm
mortality, but have secured for all time the
liberties Of the country, conquered through
the revolution"
The entire press of the city this morning
describes in many columns and with profusc
illustrations the three ceremonies held during
the day in honor of Madero and Pine
Suarez, in which Federal and state officials
took part, many patriotic and political or
carnations assisted, and in which oratory,
music and flowers were offered to the memory
Of these victims of "the usurper Huerta."
And full justice is done to the celebration
of Washngton's birthday at the American
Club
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TRAG ED

once did know
gal named Lii
She lived on Twenty y-seventh street
! used TO 20
To her TN
The other man | chanced to meet
hlack. woe!
IA like 10 Kill
Him soon or step upon his feet
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Crceling

From Tho Washington UrrohJ
cone thousand innocent bystanders killed
in Berlin" That's frank cxaggeration.
There aren't ono thousand innocent persons
in nll Germany.
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NFNnFR or TIE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Tia Associated Press exclusively entitled tho use
for republication of dispatches credited TO It or
not oherase credited in this parer md tho local
news cf spontaneous origin published Nrrfin.
All rights of repuuuc alton Of AL etner matter herein
src also reserved
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THE TRAIN TALKEHS

1895 A. M
"That's a good idea"
"What's that?"
"That sign out there"
"Whats that?"
DIN y notice it,"
"No, I didn' see it."
"Said: Train Occupied Please Keep
Quiet"
"Thats good idea"
"Certn'y is"
wonder what time they open the cars"
"Oh, about ten"
~ guess so. About ten"
''Or ten thirty. | don't know"
Eyes, ten or ten thirty, I SUPPOSE
'Wonder what time we get in"
About seven, | guess
"Somewheres around there
Porter!"
"Yes, sir
"What time do we get in >"
"Seven thirty"
"Got to get out them"
"No sir. Not till eight"
"Well, don't wake me till seven fifteen"
ono, SIR
'That ought to give me time enough"
eyes, sir"
Better make it seven"
"Yes, sir"
81 sleep fine on the train Kind O.
lulls me to sleep
"There's Darling, the cartoonist," writes
MIR. O. 0. Mcintyre in his syndicated let
ter to out-of-town papers. Funny looking
little guy and always smoking a cigar.
Hope he invites me out to his home made
of ship timbers in New Rochelle next sum
mer." "Now | suppose" observed Mr.. C.
A. Briggs, "I'll have to send that bird a
ticket to Dcs Mones so he can see nv
house"
New-York tribune., 1919-03-11

opposed ms we now are to the misuse of
couple famous misuses-and Old Dr.
Freud probably would discover great sig
nli1cance in this-kccp recurring to us
Our favorite occurs in Edmund Vance
COOKIES poem, THE Moo Cow-Moo," thus:
MY pa held me up to the moo -cow-moo.
so close | could almost touch;
Ana fed him couple o. times or two
And wasn't a fraid-cat much"
There is no doubt that the former Ger
man Emperor was the first and responsible
author OF tho war says the Prince Of
Monaco
Cries Of "Author! Authorl"
New-York tribune., 1919-03-11

Everybody knows precisely what his
future conduct will be, and all Of us
grizzlcd vets know what we are going to
do in tho ncxt war. Macmillan Foster,
who was gassed at noon on November II +,
says he is going to be n chaplain in the
Home Guard. Our application is in for n
job in the Office Of Naval Intelligence,
Council Bluffs, la.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-11

Gambling winnings are to be taxable, and
losses deductable, the Internal Revenue
Bureau has decided. The difficulty is that
we gamblers especially we losers never
keep track. We are an unsystematic crew.
And, as you can ascertain at any poker in
quest, there is always more money lost
than won. The heavy winners favoritc
speech is, "Well, l don't know who win
it all. | had $50 wncn | started, and all
I've got is $35."