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The Morgan County press. (Wartburg, Tenn.) 1916-1926, 1919-04-18

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New-York tribune., 1919-04-03

Enough Republican votes divided between
Judge Harry Olson and Captain Charles
E. Merriam permitted his success.
Chicago voters probably resent refec-
tions on their loyalty, and rightly so.
There were enough anti Thompson votes
to vindicate them. But the votes were
split between two candidates. The
Mayor won over the regular Democratic
candidate, Robert M. Sweitzer, by 17,600
votes. But the total Democratic vote eX-
ceeded the Thompson vote of 257,88S by
1928, and Maclay Hoyne, a Democrat
running independently and without a
party organization, polled 11O,S98 votes.
Mayor Thompson catered to the Ger
man vote by snubbing Marshal Joffre and
the French commission. Loyal Chi
cagoans of every party held that against
him and felt he deserved rebuks BUT
Sweitzer smelled of gas and other pub
lie utilities and Hoyne had slim chance
to win without party organization.
Thompson is a type of politician it is
still the practice of American municipal
pubics to develop
New-York tribune., 1919-04-03
The Useless Weed"

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: year ago wrote urging that farm
ers discontinue the cultivation of tobacco
IN order that Food might win the war" A
strong opposition was raised on the ground
that our soldier boys at the front lequired
full ration of cigarettes.
This fallacious objection can no LONGER
be urged Europe is still starving, and we
ourselves are forced to pay nearby double
what we should for bread see no reason
why so large a part of our richest land
should be diverted from the production Of
necessary foodstutfs in order to raise a
worse than useless weed. which debauches
youth, stunts and enfeebles manhood and
brings about an early old age The amount
of land, labor and machinery tied up in
the tobacco industry is enormous. IL is
high time that this abuse be stopped.
EVAN O'NEILL KANE, M. D.
Kane, Penn, March 81, 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-03
Americas Duty to France

Whatever views may be held as to the
French peace policy, so far as it has
been developed, the obvious friction its
consideration has engendered is unfortu-
nate. The proceedings are too closely
shroudcd in secrecy to permit a clear un-
derstandng. But the French government
has held from the first that Germany
must furnish adequate bonds for future
good behavior, and that France cannot
assent to any arrangement out Of which
a new peril may arise. FOR France was
on the firing line from the beginning of
the war, and fresh German aggression
would again force her there.
This is sane and inteligible posi-
ton, is pr1no tacie reasonable. The feel
ing that the American delegation--in
other words, Mr. Wilson-does not un
derstand or appreciate the dangers to
which France may be exposed is natural.
IT Mexico were a powerful empire and
had made war on the United States, if
her armies had devastated a broad belt
from the Gulf to the Pacific, if France
and Great Britain, bound to us by an
alliance, had been unable to give us sup
port until months had passed, then VIC
would be clrcumstanced as is France, and
doubtless would be quite as eager as she
is now for peace which would remove
the nightmare Of a repetition of the
peril.
The apparent Indifference of our dele
cation to the fate Of France is neces-
sarily irritating. No wonder an ancient
ally feels surprise and regret. National
friendships are like individual friend
ships in that they rest upon sentiment
as much as upon advantage, and COM
paratively trivial matters may interrupr
them. If France is making impossible
demands their rejection calls for tact
which, it is to be feared the President
does not always display. No theories
about the kind of peace we ought to have
with Germany should be allowed for a
moment to supersede the claim Of France
upon our gratitude and love- France,
more notably than any other nation. did
defend civilization.
AS The Tribune has often said it
would be a tragedy if this war came to
an end with the ties between France and
America weakened instead of STRENGTH
cned.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-03
Personal Liberty Straws

AS straws to show the direction of
the personal liberty" wind, Tuesdays
elections were not altogether convincing.
In Chicago there was a vote on the
question, "Shall Chicago be dry terri
tory?" On this issue only 67,7O7 men
and 76,325 women voted yes, while 1885,
500 men and 124,731 women voted no.
But the drys discount the result by the
assertion that they made no effort to
get out their vote, as the country vas
so soon to go dry anyway.
Another straw is Baltimore, where
Mayor Preston, eight years in office and
supported by all the Democratic party
machinery, was defeated for renoni-
nation. The various candidates had
been put on record by the Anti Prohbi-
tion League, Mayor Preston declaring
with that organization. But Mayor
Preston's running mates, who did rot
reply to the leagues inquiry, and were
consequently classed as drys, ran behild
Preston. Also, every dry candidate for
the Council was defeated.
One clean-cut victory is credited 70
personal liberty however. That is a
repeal by the Nebraska Legislature of
the anti-cigarette law, despite the re.
Gently launched campaign to shelve to-
bacco along with alcohol
New-York tribune., 1919-04-03
Politics and the League

1t is true that attempts have been
made to use the league of peace project
in a partisan political way. The friends
of the Administration have made no con-
cealment of this purpose. From the be-
ginning they have manifested a desire to
make party capital
In other days partisanship stopped at
the frontier, but this time we have seen
a persistent effort to exclude from ser
vice and counsel the representatives Of
one-half or more Of our people--a half
which, if any special merit has been
shown, has been the more Jealous in
support of the war. Yes, there has been
a deliberate effort to play politics..
The principal Republican leaders, such
men as Mr.. Taft, Mr. Hughes, Mr.. Root
and Mr.. Lodge, have refused to become
partisans. They had enough faith in the
people to believe that silly assertions
would perish from their own absurdty;
that constructive criticism and firm re-
fusal to allow an impairment Of the con-
stitutional powers of the Senate would
not be long construed as indicating q
liking for war or an aversion to bearing
a due share Of world responsibilities. 1t
was Mckinley who broke wit the tradi-
tion of aloofness, and Roosevelt and Taft
followed him. Colonel Roosevelts pas
sionate conviction that America could not
stand aloof was one of the major rea-
sons why we entered the war.
The good effect of conspicuous Ameri-
cans electing to be Americans first is
already apparent. A crude, ambiguous
and spineless instrument is in process of
betterment. The double risk of prevent
ing any surrender of American vital in
dependence and of giving the league some
/ force has been essaved, and while full
success is not yet attained much has
heen accomplished The President has
little reason to be grateful to his party
much reason to be grateful to his polit-
ic;,l opponents.
Politics is not expected to be charac-
termed by fairness, but seldom has there
been contemptibleness as great as is con-
tained in the partisan misrepresentation
that the critics of the covenant have been
animated by partisan or personal no.
tlons and that they were against any
arrangement that would genuinely make
for peace, And seldom, it is only Just to
record, have the leaders Of any party
shown liner restraint than has been
recently displayed by men who have
steadfastly refused to put party above
country or to be goaded, even by insult,
into narrowness
New-York tribune., 1919-04-03

however this may be, never tried; he
assumed there was something unclean
about an open and honest alliance among
the democratic nations. Here has been
the great failure of his craftsmanship,
as history is likely to assess it,
The amended covenant, if ratified, and
it may be if it is seen to be merely a
string of words, as the Hague string
of words was ratified, it will not pre-
serve peace or more materially lessen
the danger Of war than did the Hague
convention, which in theory is still in
full effect. Nevertheless it will be nee
essary to record that the great hope Of
the world was disappointed-that states
men did not have the wisdom to con-
serve the peace that the soldiers won.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-03
Has Bolsheuiisn1
Reformed Since?
To the Editor Of The Tribune.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: On September %, 1918, in the COL
umns Of all the daily newspapers there ap-
peared the text of telegram sent by this
government September 21 to its diplo-
matte representatives at Allied and neutral
capitals. Since probably nine-tenths of
those who read it then have now forgotten
its text, it may not be out Of place to repro
duce it, 1t read as follows:
"Ths government is in receipt of infor-
nation from reliable sources revealing that
the peaceablc Russian citizens of Moscow,
Petrograd and other cities are suffering
from the openly avowed campaign Of mass
terrorism and are subject TO wholesale ex-
ecutions Thousands of persons have been
shot without even form of trial; ill-ad-
ministered prisons are filled beyond capac-
ity, and every night scores of Russian citi-
zens recklessly put to death, and ire
sponsible bands are venting their brutal
passions in the daily massacres of untold
innocents.
"In view of the earnest desire of the peo-
pie of the United States to befriend the
Russian people and lend them all that is
possible of assistance in their struggle to
reconstruct their nation upon principles of
democracy and self-government, and acting
therefore solely in the interest Of the Rus
sian people themselves this government
feels that it cannot be silent or refrain
from expressing its horror at this state Of
terrorism. Furthermore, it believes that in
order to check the further Increase Of the
indscriminate slaughter Of Russian citi~
New-York tribune., 1919-04-03
Thompson Still Rules Chicago

For four years more William Hale
Thompson is to continue Mayor of 'the
sixth German city" Chicago newspapers
have been unit in seeing in him "thc
greatest obstacle to Chicago's prosperity
and progress" But neither newspapers
or civic organizations nor Independent
Vo1ers we're unit in concentrating on
ran to defeat him, ard the Lundin ma
ehine won. The same division had gained
Thompson the Republican nomination.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-03
Speak Up. Irishmen!

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Allow me. as the son Of an Irish-born
father, to ask some of these long distance
patriots what grievances Ireland has thss
she has not brought upon herself?
Has not Ireland more representation per
100000 of population in London than
either England or Scotland?
Has she not been free from conscsiption
Has not she had cheaper and more apun'
dant food than Great Britain?
Has she not received grants Of money
and land from the "hated Saxons"?
Has England separate Parliament
Has Scotland? Has Wales?
ROBERT GRIMSHAW.
New York, March 81. 1910.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-03
A Subsidy for Newspapers

Two other measures passed by the
leagues legislators 90 even further into the
field of political propaganda and old fash
ioncd gang practices. One is the newspaper
bill. On the surface this bill ends the
wasteful absurdity of advertising legal
notices in all the papers of the state, by re-
quiring such advertisement in only one
paper in each county. In Minnesota the
papers bid for the business. In North Da-
kota, at the next election and at each sue
cecdlng election, tho voters will choose
their favorte weekly. Until then the Off
cial paper will be designated by the Gov
crnor. Opponents of the league point out
that this means subsidy for the papers now
favorable to the league (thcrc is one in
each county, and the financial cmbarrass-
ment, If not the death of opposition papers.
The education bill is capable of a some
what similar construction. At the last cleo
ton the only Office not carried by the league
was that Of Superintendent of Schools
There the league incumbent was turned out
and a woman supported by the opposition
put in. BY one Of the league bills just
passed, the schools, the prisons and the
charitable institutions of the state will be
merged under single educational commits
New-York tribune., 1919-04-03

zens, all civilized nations should register
their adherence of such barbarsm
You will inquire, therefore, whether the
government to which you are accredited
Will be disposed to take some immediate
action, which is entirely divorced from the
atmosphere of belligerency and the conduct
of war, to impress upon the perpetrators of
these crimes the aversion with which ciyili-
zation regards their present wanton acts"
E. HENRY LACOMBE.
New York. March 81, 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-03
Concerning the Nonpartisan League
The Soviet Cleuer at Politics
But the Organic alton Is
Peoples Machine, fhe Leaders Say
By Kenneth Macgowan

TT HE, highly effective organization to
be seen in all the propagandist &C
tivities of the Nonpartisan League
penetrates number of the laws just passed
by the North Dakota Legislature. Quite
apart from its extensive programme of
farmer reform, the league has passed meas
ures which, good or bad in themselves, are
quite evidently designed to aid in propa-
ganda and in the perfectng of q machine.
There is the labor legislation, for in
stance--a good-szed and thoroughgoing set
Of bills. Out Of the states 100000 in
habtants, only Is per cent live in the
towns. Of these, only small proportion
are working in trades covered by the aver
age labor legislation--pe perhaps 10000. The
league has shown great anxiety for the
welfare of this laboring mass Socially,
such interest is certainly wise. Politically,
it is the height of wisdom, for the Nom
partisan League must not only bid for
labor votes as we'll farmer votes in
states like Illinois, but it is negotiating far
reaching alliances with the new-formed
labor parties.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-03
Q A Medical Issue

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir; read that the "Alies pnn to make
league appendix to treaty" This would
seem to change its status from legal to
medical issue, VIII the Senate doctors
decide an operation for appendicitis is
necessary JETSON.
Washington, D. c., March 2s, 1910.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-03
Film Statesmen
,From Tho Parsons. Kan

'From Tho Persons. Kan, San>
Douglas Fairbanks. the high jumper of
the movies, says the constitution of the
league of nations should be taught in tho
schools. Every time Doug talks politics no
makes everybody think what great states
man Charlie Chaplin must be.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-03
Pacifsm Unabashed


If the United States had been led to
comprehend the issues of the European
war more promptly and had entered it
forthwith when the Lusitania was sunk
and our national rights were invaded
how far would Bolshevism have gone,
how much of the present exhaustion and
despair of the world would have been
avoided?
True, our American losses would
probably have been greater. British
and French losses would probably have
been less. Russian revolution would
doubtless have come in one form or an
other, sooner or later But it would
probably have stopped short of insan-
ity; and even if it had reached the ex-
travagance Of Bolshevism it would have
had far less favorable fields in which
to spread.
We have no wish to fix the blame on
any one man. That task will be for his
tory hereafter But the blame, the
bloody, inhuman responsibility resting
upon paciism, is already inescapable
BY waiting till the eleventh hour to go
to the rescue of civilization America
minimized her own losses, but she dis
organized Western Europe to the point
of despair and destruction Wherever
the final blame belongs, whatever the
exact causes, the unavoidable truth is
that by overestimating the efficacy of
pacific methods and hesitating to use
force when force alone counted America
did the gravest injury to the enlight-
ened powers of the world. With the
best Of intentions she delivered an all
but mortal wound to right and justice
and every force making for the true
peace Of the world
We do not say that force is ALWAYS
the only weapon. We do say that a
pacifsm that shrinks from the use of
necessary force and shuts its eyes to
the facts of the nations has been proved
as dangerous to the peace of the world
as the worst brute power. We urge
that such pacifism, whenever proceed
ing, be not needed in Paris.
Imperialism, the creation of fresh
Alsace-Lorraines, is to be avoided as a
certain source Of war; but equally is to
be avoided fatuous trust in any for
mula Of peace. 1t is not imperialism to
keep ones powder dry 1t is not i'm
perialism when a wild beast has been
Gagged to insist that proper precautions
be taken against it's escape. Such pre-
cautions are essentially military in their
source and character. Touching them
military advice is paramount. When
Marshal Foch says that the essential
defence of France is the Rhine he is to
be believed above any statesman. His
is the duty to expound the military fact.
1t is the statesmen's duty to recognize
that fact and square it, as it can be
squared in essentials, with the rights of
the Rhine provinces to self-government
and free development.
In the mean time, as Of old, the pacifist
outcry of "imperialisml" has arisen
We see again the old policy, as after
the Lusitania, Of denying facts, OF
trusting in words and hopes and prom
= ises, of accusing those who see the fact.
and insist upon self-defence of aggres
sion and conquest.
1t is thus a simple question that face,
Paris: Shall the hand of folly which
held back America till France and civ
ilization were all but conquered nov
deprive France Of her first essentia
bulwark against barbarism in tn,
future?
New-York tribune., 1919-04-03
admit It's q Machine

The education bill, the newspaper bill, the
immigration bill and the labor bills are
very significant of the seriousness with
which the Nonpartisan League must be
taken, so long as SO astute and thorough
going a politician as A. C. Townley directs
it. In these things, added to the sense for
organization, lies unqucstionably vast diff
ference between the fate Of the Populist
movement and the possibilities of the Nom
partisan League. This difference is nothing
more nor less than the creation Of large
and effective political machine. Friends Of
the league point TO the democratic control
with which government in North Dakota
is hedged about-the initiative, referendum
and recall-and they say: eve have a politi-
cal machine, but it will be peoples poiti-
cal machine, If it isn't, there will be some
thing doing"
New-York tribune., 1919-04-03
A Friend Needed

(From Thc Toronto Mod and Empiro
There is general agreement that Germs"'
ought to be admitted to the league OF sS'
tions some time. but who will introdas'
her2
New-York tribune., 1919-04-03
But Farm Labor Exempted

Among the acts affecting labor are these
workmen's compensation act affect
ing all except domestic and farm labor.
These latter may be brought under the
law by the application Of the employer
who prefers to carry the risk through the
state. League opponents claim the farmer
should have given his employees compu-
sorry protection.
coalmining code, establishing the
eight-hou day, prohibiting child labor
underground and giving protection
against dangerous conditions of employ
ment Opponents Of the league claim this
will hobble private mining interests and
give the state free hand. The league
points to similar legislation in other
states
A minimum wage law for women in in
dustry, and the forty -eight-hour week
with the minimum eight and one-half
hour day for women and minors.
An anti-injunction law
A full crew bill.
A law requiring the use of the union
label on state printing.
Another example of the long-sighted
plans Of the league for making the most
of its Legislative opportunities is the So
called immigration bill. 1t establishes u
commissioner of immigration, whose bust
ness is to be the distribution of propaganda
in other states which will bring settlers
to North Dakota. League leaders say that
his first business will have to be the COM
batting of stories current about the evil
purposes of the league and the manner in
which it has already wrecked the state.
Opponents see in the commissioners $780,
600 fund another campaign chest for the
league. Everybody sees, of course, that
the effect Of the thing will be to spread the
news of league-ized North Dakota through
all the doubtful states
New-York tribune., 1919-04-03
The fonning 7ower

Speaking of what actors did for the SOL
diers, it was little less than year ago
when the A. L. F. heard that its appeal for
entertainment was to be needed. There
much rejoicing in France, especially when it
was published that there had been q big
meeting in New York and that at the first
public meeting Of the Over There Theatre
League, at the Palace Theatre, among those
who volunteered their services for the enter
tanment of soldiers in France were Maude
Adams, Julia Marlowe, Lillian Russell, Will
lam Collier Frances Starr, John Drew,
Amelia Bingham, Otis Skinner, Joe Weber,
Lew Fields, James T. Powers Grant Mitchell,
Jane Cowl, Ruth Chatterton, Louise Dresser,
Donald Brian, Walter Jones, Billie Burke,
Julia Sanderson, Joseph Cawthorn, David
Bispham, Blanche Ring, Thomas A. Wise,
Marie Doro, James j. Corbett, Nora Bayes,
Viola Allen and Grace George
II any of those volunteers entertained the
A. L. F., we do not know it. Perhaps there
was good reason for the non sailing Of
each. OF those who addressed the meeting
at the Palace that day Miss Margaret Mayo,
so far as we know, is the only one who actu
ally did go to France-and she did good
job. let it be added.
"The difficulties which beset the fairly will
ing players,' says an editorial in the Stars
and Stripes of Feb. %. 1919,-and the writer
knows his sub ject,-"werc many. Red tape
by the mile passport piddling enraging de-
lays of months and mopths-all these things
coggcd the machinery of good will. That
they were not insuperable, however, is evil
denced by the fact that more than 700 players
are here now Some of them came at great
personal sacrifice, most Of them thor
oughly familiar now with the discomforts
of our existence, many Of them solid for
life in the hearts Of young America"
at is in honor Of these 700" continues
the S. and S., "that it is worth recording
with what singular unanimty the big stars
stayed away. With few exceptions, the
ones who could best have afforded to come,
those great favorites of the theatre whose
names are printed largest and whose pockets
are stuffed fullest, failed to answer the call.
Name over the 30 or 80 best known men and
women of the American stage and see how
many of them came. One or two, perhaps.
No more The uxury-loving, overpaid, over
PRAISED crowd the spoiled chlldren OF Amer
ica-they are strangers to the A. +. f..
Some of US can't help hoping that
some fine night, at the first performance
of some allstar production on Broadway, the
greatest applause, the reception that viii
fairly stop the show, will be accorded not to
one of the advertised stars but to some little
soubrette, because there will be some soldiers
out front who will remember that upon
q time she was one of them in France"
All of which is submitted for the benefit
of the Actors Equity Association and the rest
Of the public
New-York tribune., 1919-04-03

1t is our growing conviction the traditional
power of the press is about 2-candle; and
that the influence of propaganda is overesti-
mated. Every newspaper in Chicago opposed
Thompson; the campaign of propaganda was
long and vigorous And Thompson was
elected.