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The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1919-08-28

early in the peace negotiations at
Paris we were told that the British
were insistent that they should retain
supremacy Of the seas, regardless of
what the league of nations might say.
From the moment Of that firm stand
by Great Britain the subject of free
dom of the seas was never taken up
by the conference. so far as Secretary
Lansing is aware Why could we not
have had an American at Paris with
sufficient courage to insist that our
Monroe Doctrine, questions If immi-
grafton. tariff, and coastwise trade,
and the right inherent in our congress
to make war only when it chose to do,
should be excepted from any intafer-
ence by the league of nations?
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1919-08-28
SOUND AND TIMELY APHORisMS
OF A COMEDIAN.

Harry Lauder, the thrifty genius OF
song and comedy, who perhaps did
more to dispel the gloom of war and
brighten the lives of the soldiers In
France than any other man, is the
author Of a few maxins which are
especially applicable in these days Of
high cost of living He says:
View the reckless spending of
money as criminal, and shun the
company of the reckless spender."
Dress neatly but not lavishly; a
bank pays higher interest than
your back" Behave toward your
purse as you would toward your
best friend" Don't throw away
the crusts; eat them; they are as
nourfshing as beef" 1T Is more
exdlerating to feel money in
your pocket than beer in your
stomach" Take your amuse-
ments judiciously; you will enjoy
them better" A bank book makes
good reading-better than some
novels"
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1919-08-28
A FEW DON'TS.
(Forbes MagaZine)

NfOTDeS MdSdZlDe)
Don't work 365 days a year, not
withstanding that some other trojans
did that year after year in their days
of struggle. Take vacations.
Don't, however, let pleasure-seeking
supplant success-seeking.
Don't become wholly self -centered.
Don't succumb to the temptation to
be too busy to have any time to be
nationally sociable.
Don't cultivate exclusiveness.
Don't forget that there are no ex-
press trains to the submits Of sue
cess
Don't look for an escalator to dc
your climbing for you.
Don't depend upon others to push
you along
Don't count upon any pull which
you yourself did not create.
Don't fancy that others succeeded
because Of mere duck and that you
are where you are solely because luck
did not come your way.
Don't expect to hear Opportunity
knocking at your door until you have
trained yourself to recognize her
when she comes.
Don't eat more than you feel you
have to.
Don't oversleep.
And finally:
Don't forget that things are apt to
go right If we do.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1919-08-28

American apprentices, over-anx-
ious to get a journeyman's pay.
will not serve the time a German
will; they never rise above medi-
odity. American workmen with
pockets full of money, ears full of
sedition, mouths full of folly and
eyes firmly fixed on the clock, are
degenerating In the ability to la
Dor, and industry can produce the
figures to show that the work.
man who produced a certain
amount in 1914 now produces but
three quarters Of that.
American labor fought the
German in a war of self-defense
With the Job not more than half
finished, American labor Is yield
ing Its preponderance to the Hun.
Misled, they pin their faith to
charters and instruments, treat
les, principles and the resounding
eloquence Of axe-grinders. But.
grim, unremitting, self-obliterat-
ing hard work will overcome all
the bonds that the ingenuity of
laZier, weaker-willed people may
devise.
Hard work will pay the Ger
man bill, or find a loophole for It's
evasion. Hard work will swing
back to Germany the trade con-
nections that have been lost.
Hard work will be the instrument
by which German emissaries in
every country of the world will
spread insidious propaganda, re-
habilftate the Hun In the eyes of
civilization and gain place in
the sun anew.
"Only hard work will prevent
It,"
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1919-08-28

/ promiscuous devotion to all other per-
sons in the place of steadfast devo-
ton to those to whom We owe it,
| wish to insist with all possible
emphasis that the men in this country
who have stood the staunchest for the
performance of international duty
have always been the men who have
most keenly felt nationalism and Am
ericanism in their blood.
every American paciflst Is in actu-
al fact, whether he knows it or not,
the tool and ally of every foreign mil
itarist ana imperialist.
WE ought always to act fairly and
generously to other nations. In in
ternational matters | hold that we
should have the same standard of
morality that we have in private mat
ters. But we must remember that our
hrst duty is always to be loyal and
patriotic citizens Of our own nation,
oetenders OF her rights, maintaining
her noblest traditions These two
Facts should always be uppermost in
our mind when we take up any pro-
posai for a league of nations. We
can then be loyal to great ideals az
well as true to ourselves.
Test the proposed future league of
nations SO far as concerns the pro-
posal to disarm and to trust to any,
ming except our own strength by
.hat rule In such league we have
70 depend for its success upon the ad-
hesion OF nine nations which are ac-
.uaily or potentially the most power
lul military nations Unless
our folly is such that it will not de.
part from us until We are brayed in
a mortar, let us remember that anv
such treaty will be worthless unless
our own prepared strength renders If
uhsafe Tor any other nation to break
the treaty.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1919-08-28
Roosevelt on League of Nations

("Lafayette Day" Speech, 1919
frequently meet one of those nice
gentry in whom softness of heart has
spread to the head who say, How
can we guarantee that everybody will
love one another at the end of the
war;" The first step in guaranteeing
it is to knock Germany out.
1t is now said that a part of the
peace agreement must he a league of
nations which will avert all war for
the future and put stop to the need
rof this nation maintaining its own
strength for it's own defense. Many
of the adherents of this idea grandilo-
quently assert that they intend to
supplant nationalism by International
ism, and that the United States must
take the lead in doing this
In deciding upon proposals of this
nature 1t behooves our people to re-
member that competitive rhetoric is a
poor substitute for the habit of reso-
lutely looking facts in the face.
Patriotism stands In national mat
ters as love Of family does in private
life. Nationalism corresponds to the
love a man bears for his wife and
children. Interna tionalism CORES
ponds to the feeling he has for his
neighbors generally.
The sound nationalist is the only
type Of really helpful internationalist,
precisely as in private relations 1t is
the man who is most devoted to his
own wife and children who is apt in
the long run to be the most satisfact-
cry neighbor. If I met new neigh
Dor and he told me he loved me as
much as he did his own family, I'd
watch him. should know that he
was not to be trusted.
To substitute internationalism for
nationalism means to do away with
patriotism and is as vicious and as
profoundly demoralizing as to put
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1919-08-28
THE MIDDLE CLASS.

Roscoe Brambough in Life.
When workers win shorter day
The cost is passed along to me;
With larger taxes, larger pay,
The rent comes, higher, too, you see
And so it goes all down the line,
From shoes and clothes to light and
heat;
No time luxuries for mine
Tn thankful now If 4 can eat.
Let none begrudge the pay they get
On farm, in factory and mill;
But every increased wage that's met
Is added to my grocer's bill.
do not figure in the game;
There's nothing offered me to
/ choose;
! pay the piper, just the same
When some one wins always lose.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1919-08-28
NO STRIKE AT BUNKER HILL
AND THERE'S A REASON.

Other mining companies might
study with profit the reasons back OF
the fact that there is no strike at the
Bunker Hill & Sullivan mine while all
other mines. of the district are tied UP.
1t can not be explained in the fact
that the company splits the time with
its employees going to and returning
from work under ground, nor In the
fact that surface men at the Bunker
Hill work only eight hours. While
these conditions are important, they
are offset at other mines by the pay
ment Of 20 cents per shift more to
muckeas than Is paid by the Bunker
HILL In all other respects the condi-
tons under which employees work are
practically the same in all the mines.
Since the differences mentioned offset
each other, or possibly place the ad-
vantage with the mines now shut
down by the strike, the reason for
men refusing to strike at the Bunker
Hill must be sought elsewhere than in
the working conditions of the mine.
1t is found in the consistent policy
OF the Bunker Hill & Sullivan COM
pany toward its employees and to the
community which depends upon its
successful operations for support, The
company has at all times taken per-
sonal interest in the welfare of its
employees, helped them to secure conn
fcrtable homes, and cooperated with
them in all matters that would con-
tribute to their pleasures and promote
their contentment. In the same man
ner the company has interested it.
self In local affairs, not in a dictator
ial manner, but in a spirit of cooper
alton just as any citizen should show
his interest in the community in
which he lives. The Bunker Hill COM
pany has expended large sums for
municipal improvements. AT the same
time 1t has refrained from all connec-
ton with company stores, banks and
boarding house, leaving the field alb
solutely free to local business men
ard employees without the shadow of
restraint or influence in the matter of
trade and board 1t is this policy that
has developed a spirit of loyalty to
the company among its employees and
the people of the community in gen.
eral, and which can not be overcome
by the specious arguments of agita-
tcrs who would close down the mine
II is this spirit that enables the Bun
ker Hill & Sullivan to continue oper-
ations while all other mines are clos
ed down by the strike.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1919-08-28

A poll of Nebraska, Iowa and South
Dakota on the league of nations, con-
Quoted by a newspaper in Omaha,
shows in the first weeks returns 9SS
against the league in any form, 26S
for it with reservations, and only 100
for it's ratification as it stands. 1t is
stated that the replies come from all
parts of the state mentioned, large
majority from farmers and at least
20 per cent from women.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1919-08-28
HARD WORK THE ULTIMATE So
LUTON OF TROUBLES.

Legislation and agitation may he'll
to solve the problems and overcom
the difficulties that beset our country
but the ultimate and permanent re
lief must be found in hard, homes
work with hand and brain. This i
the thought emphasized in the follow
ing editorial from the Boston New
bureau of August 10:
After all the wrangling and
dispute, compromise and adjust
ment, is complete and the partic-
ulars of Germany's debt to her
victims are settled, it will be
found that her outstanding asset
is quite intangible, impossible to
appraise Gu estimate and in cap
able of forfeiture, Her most val
uable asset is not her iron works.
her dye factories. her potash
mines, her electrical or chemical
or metallurgical industries-it is
the ability of her manpower to
work.
whether from nature or train
ing, or both, the German is prob
ably the best worker in the world.
The idle class in Germany has al
ways been very small-even the
army officers worked and worked
hard. The general staff saw to
that. Americans who were in the
occupied territory are unanimous
in describing the German as
fool for work. and this appella-
ton Is very close to the truth,
whether the subject is a newly
captured p W., carrying stretch
ers for his captors in hopes Of
square meal, or a tailor Inf an oc-
cupied town, rushing a uniform to
completion for a pound of soap.
Here is a heavy -caliber gun
trained on the American position.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1919-08-28

President Wilson has cabled to
Premier Clemenceau asking him mot
to make public the minutes of the
league of nations commission. Doubt
less that action Is to forestall any at
tempt by the foreign relations COM
mittee to obtain from French sources
what they are denied by our presi-
dent.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1919-08-28
OUR OWN RACE WAR.
Haryey's Weekly.


Comments might be plenty upon the
atrocities at Chicago and elsewhere
But the one outstanding fact is, that
we have had a race war Explain 1t
as you will. with this or that incident
as a starting point, you must Ncome at
last to that fact. 1t was a race war.
1t arose from racial antagonism. 1t
was famed into fury by the hatred of
one race. or Of members OF one race,
for another, and by the resentment and
revenge of the race thus made the OBJ
ject Of hatred. And that in land
dedicated to the proposition of the
equality Of men!
1t il an impressive circumstance
that II should have occurred just at
this time. Two generations ago Whit
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1919-08-28

Mr. Wilson has notified Carranza
that If the murders of American cit
liens continue he may change our
policy toward Mexico. Why wait for
another murder? Wanton killings
have continued for a number of years,
each followed by an impressive war;
ming from the state department. Let's
have a real change in the disgraceful
program.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1919-08-28

Telegram received Personally and
officially. as president OF the American
protective tariff league, l am opposed
TO the covenant of the league of ma
tons, and II were to contribute any
thing to a propaganda in this connec-
ton 1t would be against the adoption
of the covenant Of the league Of ma
tons without reservations. l agree
with the position of Chairman Lodge
and Senator Borah as announced in
the newspapers of today. Very truly
yours,
"a. H. KELSEY,
President the American Protective
Tariff League"
In these two messages Is the formal
confession of the advocates Of Ameri-
can surrender to the league Of nations
that their scheme of national emas-
culation has been rejected by the
American people, and 1t marks their
last despairing effort to pile up OBJ
stacles to obstruct the broad road on
which intelligent, sane and far sighted
Americanism marches irresistibly for
the complete salvation of the Ameri-
can government from the policy of
folly to which Woodrow Wilson has
endeavored to commit 1t. Together
they form heartening document for
all citizens Of the United States whose
idealism is not corrupted by irrational
doctrine and whose political virility
has not been Slapped by the worship
of false gods.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1919-08-28

more like confessing, in humility and
shame of spirit, that we after all are
common mortals" and like urging that
We should not undertake to regulate
Inc affairs of other nations at the ex-
pense of neglecting to set our own
house. in order.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1919-08-28

tier wrote a poem of scathing invec.
tive and irony against human slavery
in which he challenged his countrymer
to ask the car to release Poland an6
the sultan to set the Greeks free: re.
minding that there would come the
scornful answer:
Go, free your fettered slaves at
home,
Then come and ask the like of
us!
Has not this tragic episode sub
jected us to danger of like rebuke
today? We have been demanding of
Poland that she pledge herself not to
prosecute the Jews, and there has been
talk of our becoming an international
mandatory to prevent the Turks from
butchering the remnant Of the Ar1nen-
ians. What should we say, what could
we say, If some European or Asiatic
power suggested that 1t would be well
for us to solve our own race problems
before we meddled with those Of other
lands?
We are not intimating that our own
troubles at home should restrain us
from taking any part in international
affairs. But we do think that this
dare not venture to- say
the last--outbreak of race warfare in
our own land should measurably
chasten us and admonishh us against
toward others and
against vaingloriousness concerning
We may be. as the presi-
dent assures us, the hope Of the world.
But just now, sick at heart with the
hideous spectacle which Washington
and Chicago have presented, we feel
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1919-08-28

has started there spread throughout
the nation and complete the demo-
cratic wreck begun by Mr.. Wilson
when ne deserted Americanism and
espoused the doctrine Of information
alism.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1919-08-28
My Prodigal
(Helen Watts McVey)

Last night the boy came back to me
in dreams
The little lad. with merry eyes of
Came from far wanderings in strang-
er lands;
So long-so long since he had gone
Unsullied by the worlds wild strife
he came
Just as he went; and with his brave
young eyes
Mocked at the shadows by the great
world flung,
Facing the future with pleased
surprise.
And l. grown old through patient
grief and pain,
Give him sweet welcome to my
home and heart;
Laughed at his laughter as he dried
my tears,
VSoothed by the thought that we no
more should part
So, binding him with gentle cords OF
love,
Lest he grow FESTIVE and away
again,
l followed where his hayward foot
steps led,
And In his Joy, my heart forgot it's
pain.
But all too soon the cold gray dawn
dispersed
The slumber-mists from my sad
eyes away;
My empty. aching arms again out
stretched,
/ was too grieved, too desolate to
pray.
For on my shrinking heart, like
thrusts of sword,
The cruel truth beat out this sad
refrain:
1.-THE boy. long wandered among men,
Is lost;
Only in dreams will he come back
again."
Pokrok zaÌpadu. [volume] (Omaha, Neb.) 1871-1920, 1919-12-17
Lenin1Iv pripis
italskym ~komunistGIm

Rim, II. p%rosince. Nikolaj LIE
min, rusky bolsevicky premier, pc.
.slal pripis redaktoru znam6lIo so
ciaIistickeho casopisn Avantl, y
.kterem gratuluje mu ku skvelenlu
~vit6zstvi, kterdho docilily komu-
nisticke zivly vsltalii. Prayi, ze
Iuspechy italske socialisticke stra-
ny budou miti velky yliy ia cely
svet. pripomlna vsak, ze italskl
proletariat ma pred sebou velmi
ukol, nebof prg jc jisto, ze
Anglie a Francie "a pomoci ital.
skeho m6sfactva pokusi Sc vyvo.
lati .iei k pfedcasnemu povstani y
|nade.ji, re snadno Dude mono je
zdolati. Lenin v~ysloyuje Mailed
re veskery industrialni a zemedel-
sky prolctariat a stfcdni vrstv,
Dude NOME ziskati pro komunisn
a pripojuje: .'Po te zvolte 81 who'd.
my okamzik $ hlediska mczinarodn.
situace a ucinte napor k vitezstv
diktatury."
Pokrok zaÌpadu. [volume] (Omaha, Neb.) 1871-1920, 1919-12-17
.OTAZKA NAVRATU
CESKOSLOVENSKE
ARMADY SIBIRSKE
Ceskoslovenske narodni
~shromazdeni povoli
nutny naklad.

Praha, 20. listopadu. = Otazka
|nayratu ceskoslovenske armady 81
|birske opetnG dostala Sc la pre-
tres netoliko V casopisech a vcfeJ-
|nych schuzlch, nybrz j v Narodnlm
shromazd6ni ccskosIovcnskem, kde
podan byl nalehavy navrh IA u
|spiseni @prevezenl sibirske arnlady
do vlasti. Pc cely jiz tyden otaz-
ka tato stojl Y popredi zajmu cele-
no naroaa, kterF n~ezlstava HUI
|chym k zoldalemu volani sibif-
|skych hochd, ably navrat byl uspl-
Sen netoliko Y zajmu hochl samot-
nych, nybrz j celeho naroda, Y
|nemz V budoucnosti tito legionafl
budou z~ajiste dhlezitymi ciniteli.
Novy za.iem o osud nasl sibiiske
arnlady byl vyvolan clankem Ma
rodnich Listi, V ktcrem Sc pravilo,
zc cast ceskoslovenske siblrskc ar
mady podaIa zadost, ably mohla Sc
vratiti cestou n~ejkratsi, to jest
pres Rusk6. 10 by oysem bylo
%znamenalo cestu 81 probiJet. Teto
|zpravy pouzil tisk socialne demo
|kraticky k ostremu naporu prot
Narodnlm Listiim, spojiv svuj Il
tok Sc sym vykladcm pficin cesty
DR.. karla kramarc ma Rus, 10
nGkolik dni byly V proudu ostft
nbyinafske polemiky a posl6zc svo-
lana byla vclka schiizc vyslouzilcu
Icesk6slovensktho vojska a lcgiona.
liza ia Zoffn, kdc Sc 0 otazce ma
wrath ceskoslovenske armady zt
ISibire jcdnalo. Pc v~yslechnutI
ygvodh nskolika fecnfk1, mluyl
Icich proti novgm bojnm V Rusku
lprijata byla n%asledujici resoluce
"Shromazd6ni ma schulz, svOIa
Int Svazem ccskosIoycnskych Iegio
naFml Y Praze dne IL. listopadr
1919 ma Zofint, profcstujf proti IA
yiIym zameriim, ably nase slblf
ske legie byly zneuzIty kistranlck'
politice az mezmarodni nebo ynltf
hi, ably Sc staly naetrojem urcit'
meynarodni koketerie, kterA u
dohodpggch vlad cbce pomo
Ii nasich sibirskfc h legif uylatnit
Pokrok zaÌpadu. [volume] (Omaha, Neb.) 1871-1920, 1919-12-17
Zoufale pomery
jsou v Cafihrade

Carihrad, IA. prosince. Carl
brad ma povest, re je nejspatneji
spravovanym mestem ma svete. X
tomu dluzno jenom pfipoJiti, re Je
take mestem, kde ziyobyti je neg
drazsi. Cafihrad dnesnl je obra-
ZEN zmaiku. Druh okrada tn dru-
|ha a nikoho nasledkem toho nett
Ii svedomi. Ukazkou zdejsich po-
merH ie fakt, ze .je nutno zaplatiti
"a dopravu . lodi na breh vice, nez
Sc platf "a dopravu Q New lorkll
do Carihradu. NSechny druhy kra-
dcze Sc tn provadej1. Y nejhor-
sim hotclu jc nutno platiti cd S.
do IS denne a ceny jidel jsou stej-
ne vysoke, pres TO, &c trll JIG plny
%potravin. Ccny vsech potravil
zvyseuy byly 0 1,2O0 procent opro-
Pokrok zaÌpadu. [volume] (Omaha, Neb.) 1871-1920, 1919-12-17

sve reakGni a imperialisticke umy-
sly ma Sibifi a v Rusku. Jakakoliv
mtervencnf politika ma V zapeti
krvave boje, v nichz osud nasich
legif Dude vazne. a nenapraviteln6
ohrozen. Ukol sibirske armady
jest skonGen. A jest nyni povin-
nosti vlady a celeho ceskosloven-
skeho naroda, ably TEN, kteri zlska-
ii nejvctsich zasluh o ceskosloven-
skou samostatnost, byl umoznen &C
nejrychlejsi navrat bez dalslch bo-
i'll a utrpeni a bez jakyehkoliv 0.
hlcdi ma vydaje spojene $ dopra-
YOU pc mort. Dluzno, ably konec-
ne vIidci cinitcle Ceskoslovcnskf
r%epubliky pristoupili cd akademl-
ckych prohlaseni Ike skutktm. Ne
bot .ien tax niue byti zabraneno
katastrof6 V fadach naSi sibirskf
armady vycerpane, znavene d zou'
fale nesmirnou touhou pc domov(
a roztrpccne dosavadni lhostejno'
sti k jejimu osudu. Armada III
kdy 81 %nepfala a nepreje zasaho.
vati do vnitinich pomGrn ruskycl
a. plnym pravem zada, ably byla
dopravena do vlasti."
o veci jednano bylo take V Ma.
rodnim shromazdenl, kde podar
byl navrh, ably povolen byl hvel
.jcdne miIliardy korun k tomu L
.celu, ably ceskoslovenska armada
60 ncidfive mohla byti piivezena
do vlasti. Poukazuje Sc k tomtl, IL
armada tato musi byti vladou vel.
kJm nakladem ma Sibifi vydMova.
ma, 2 cehoz nikomu neplyne zadnJ
zisk, ami Rusku, ami Ceskosloyen
.sku.
Pokrok zaÌpadu. [volume] (Omaha, Neb.) 1871-1920, 1919-12-17

ii tenn, jez pfevladaly pred valkou,
kdezto najemne zvyseno bylo pat
nactinasobne. Mesto .je plno vo-
jakdi a namofnikG vsech narodno-
sti. Gambl1rny pro vsechny tri-
dy .jsou V cinnosti od rama pozde
do noel. Obchodnici, prohrajl-li,
haji Sc ma svych zakaznlclch IVY
senim ceny zbozi. Ulice jsou plny
kapsarriIl a kradeze ma ulicich "a BIZ
leho dine .jsou ia dennim pofadku.
Turecka policie prohlasuJe, re je
bezmocna vzhledem k tomu, re me-
to nachazl Sc pod mezispoJeneckou
kontrolou. Turecka vlada pax
prohlasuje, zc pro stejnou pfici-
M nemize zlepsiti pomery. Touto
pficinou .ie prilis mnoho PAM. O.
sud Carihradu .je ia vazkach. Pre-
vlada tn ale min6ni, &c Cafihrad
nebudc. odtrzen cd zbytku turccke
rise.