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is this difference between the offensive
of March, 1918, in France and the Of
fensive Of the summer and fall of 1919
IL Washington: the latter never had s.
ehcat of a chance" e"-and this is what
passes for editorial information and
interpretations
Of course it has never been true A..
was so frequently alleged. that the
Republicans were defying the popular
will and digging their political graves
by their opposition to the treaty. Had
here been any such universal feeling
MIR. Lodge and his associates must
ave bowed before an overwhelming
'last. On the contrary, there has been
steadily growing opposition to the
roaty; this was demonstrated in Ken
lucky when King Swope, Republican.
arrled Democratic district; and it
las now been proved by the extraor-
mary overturn in the election in Okla
oma, where ]. ". Harreld, a Repub-
can, also carried for the first time in
It's history q rock-ribbed Democratic
district by more than 700 votes upon a
straight issue Of opposition to the
treaty and The aeaxuA
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recognizing it by the section which
says that the provision for equal rep
resentation of the states is irrepeal-
able. But what is the Constitution?
Why should any one pay attention to
it? Has not the Constitution con-
tinuously been in the way during the
treaty discussion?
A dictatorship is the ideal of the
new autocratic doctrinaires. Not
only should the Senate be abolished,
but also the House of Representa-
tives and the Supreme Court. Car
ranza has arranged matters better
than did the overpraised body over
which Washington presided-a gath
ering so foolish as to seek to safe
guard liberty by dividing power.
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Abolishinx the Senate

Others may be inconsistent and
illogical, but the charge is not to be
brought against the downright per-
sons who have launched campaign
to abolish the Senate. No halfway
measure satisfies them. Believing in
a dictatorship, they are filled with
wrath by the existence of any body
able to disobey the sacred DEGREES of
chief executive.
When the Russian Constituent AS
sembly did not do as Lenine directed,
that courageous apostle Of the doc
trins that the proletariat needs a
master dispersed the gathering.
We are also to have supreme
boss, and during his reign no one
10 to interfere with his despotism.
Congratulations must be extended
to our neighbor The World on it's
zeal for its new outcry. 1t had
dark days when it was shaken with
sobs as it bewailed what were called
President Roosevelt's attempts to
our institutions.
II IL an unfortunNe circumstance
that tho Constitution recognizes the
Senate Is the one branch Of the gov
ln1oA NhasA T. tndsstxuetablss
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4 amous ManiifG Gesto
BY William c. Drehcr
Berlin Correspondent of The Tribune

BERLIN, Nov. 1O.-In recent letter
to The Tribune l spoke of a tendency
among the Germans to reconsider their
position toward questions connected
with the war To-day I am able to re-
port something more striking in that
line. 1t refers to the famous deciara-
tion by nincty-threc German univer-
siGy professors. literary men, artists
and musical composers on October Ia,
1914, addressed to the learned men of
other countries as a sweeping denial
Of the atrocity stories charged against
Germany.
Just now Dr.. Hans Weinberg, one of
the best known German pacifists, has
communicated with all of the signers
who are still living, and the answers
he received show a strong tendency
either 10 discAaim all responsib;.i.~ .c;.
the pronouncc:1ent, CIR to condemn il
outright. Some of the signers say
their names were attached without
their authorization, others that they
had only been communicated with by
telegraph and did not see the contents
of the ill-starred document; still others
come out with round confession of
having done wrong thing.
Weinberg says that the "manifesto"
was prepared by a small group of men
here at Berlin, among whom he names
Professors Harnack, Won List, Emil
Fischer and Gustav Schneider, the last
three of whom are now dead; the au-
thor Ludwig Fulda. the painter Max
i-ie5ernaHn. the composer Humper-
dinck and 3urgomaste9 Rcickc. These
men, or somebody acting in their be-
half. proceeded to obtain signatures by
telegraph, even before the document
had been drawn up, and of course with
out communicating its wording. Some
of the signers have since declared the
withdrawal of their signatures on the
ground that they had been given without
sight of what they signed and some
because they disapproved of it after
seeing it.
Of the signers not less than fifteen
already haYN passed to INC greas snA-
jority. Some of the Others are III and
could not for that reason be heard
from. Altogether, however, Weinberg
got fifty-five answers to his Inquiries
OF that number only sixteen declared
that they still stand by their gurs.
These include Professors Eduard
Meyer, the historian, just now rector
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unions have done in limiting the
output per man and in increasing
the number on a job. A large per-
centage of Industrial troubles would
not occur if the simple truth were
recognized by the unions that
wages are paid out of current pro-
duction. But just as early in the
last century there was opposition
to labor-saving machinery, so now
there is opposition to labor saving.
In private conversations labor
leaders admit that to save labor is
the way to help the laborer, yet
the actual rules reflect the survival
of the traditional prejudice. Sell
dom do labor leaders tell what they
know is the truth-they kowtow to
the false idea that when two men
are placed on job where one
would serve it is good for labor.
If regulations to limit production
were eliminated from shop rules
disputes between employers and
employed would tend to disappear,
effective resistance to organization
and collective bargaining would be
impossible and seldom would the
employers, whose books are becom-
ing more and more open, get away
with excessive profits. There would
be economic conflict between pro-
ducers and consumers, but the
ranks of the producers, whether
capitalists or wage workers, would
be little divided. Education has
surely proceeded far enough to
make it safe for union leaders to
challenge the doctrine that job
multiplication and small output per
man are good things for labor.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-06
Truth and Her Agents
They Are Radicals and They Never
Mention Violence

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Your correspondent Elisha
Garrison seems to have become very
much "het up" over the thinkers
question: "Snce when has it become
a crime to be a radical?"
What is the matter with some peo-
ple's brains that they cannot see that
for ages past all agents of truth have
been prosecuted, yet truth prevailed ?
Don't they realize, can't they see, that
because there have been radicals
throughout the ages advancement has
been made toward higher civiliza-
tion; that because there were radicals
the American Revolution was fought,
which freed this country from the un-
bearable yoke of England; that be-
cause there were radicals the Civil
War was fought, which freed por-
ton Of our countrymen from the un-
bearable yoke of personal slavery, and
because there are radicals to-day
there are good chances for the people
Of the world being freed from the
unbearable yoke of industrial slavery
We hear much nowadays about
radicals preaching the overthrow Of
government, but have not govern
ments been overthrown throughout ali
the ages and has not good resulted
| have heard many radicals speak
within the last few years, but none
have advocated violence But l know
that such "patriots' as Mr.. Garrison
have used violence toward radicals ;
for what reason it is hard to say, but
the suspicion will not down that they
have vital personal interest in keep
ing the system of exploitation by the
few of the many in vogue, which is
industrial slavery, rather than aiding
in the peaceful overthrow of such
false Institutions, Just as the slave
owners OF Tic South lad vital per-
sonal interest at stake when The radi-
calls Of the North proposed the free
ing of the slaves.
If the change in the system of So
ciety through which we are now pass
ing becomes bloody revolution it
will be only because those people be-
longing to the dying order (whose
minds are so clouded that they can
not see the vision Of equal freedom
for alD attempt to retard the evolu-
ton of mankind. E. T. B.
Plainhcld, N. j., Dec. 3, 1919.
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A Nonpartisan Exclamation

To The Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: The Nonpartisan League has not
joined the new labor party or any other
third party movement. The league is
everything its name "nonpartisan" i'm
plies, and it would be reputation of
Its principles to ally itself with any
party. The league works through exist
ing political parties, throwing its sup
port to progressive candidates who
favor its program and who run on
Democratic and Republican tickets.
The representatives Of the Nonpartisan
League at the Labor party conference
made this stand clear. The league has
working political agreement with or
ganized labor in Minnesota and several
other states, under which candidates
for office running on the old party tick
cts are jointly indorsed by labor and
the farmers
The league has had no severe setback in
Nebraska, as you alleged, for the simple
reason that the league as an organiza-
tion took no part in the recent Nebras-
ka constitutional convention election.
The league has only Just started organi-
cation work in Nebraska and does not
have a membership sufficient to warrant
participation in statewide political
campaign. For that reason the Nonpxr-
tisan League spent no money and made
no effort as an organization to influence
the convention election, except in a few
counties where it has membership and
where Nonpartisan League publications
threw their support to progressive and
labor candidates for the convention.
some of them being members of the
league. Several of these candidates
supported by the league publications
were elected in counties where the
league is organized, but the league has
no statewide organization as vet in
Nebraska, and to say that it suffered a
setback before it had entered the state
campaign is rather premature.
OLIVER s. MORRIS.
Editor ~Ths Nonpartisan Leader.
n 1aal xinas nsA 4 1e1e.
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Wanted, a Labor Yardstick

In paper read before the So
ciety Of Mechanical Engineers A.
l.. De Leeuw valiantly tits against
loosely using phrases in debate-for
example, such a phrase as "collec-
tive bargaining" A bargain means
that community of mind which is
arrived at when the parties in inter-
est mutually affect one another's
opinion. But trade union is a
fighting organization which de-
mands and seldom bargains. When
there is settlement following a
strike, or threat of one, the decision
is necessarily based on coercion
which negatives bargaining.
Moreover, bargaining (here is the
principal feature of Mr.. De Leeuw's
contribution) is practically impossi-
BILE. Time is sold, but less and less
is labor sold. One side does not
specify what work it will deliver.
When rs cents is swapped for twelve
eggs quantities are dealt in, but
when 81 is paid per hour there is no
specified amount of labor bought.
Wage is defined as remuneration
for work done. 1t is not so except
in few employments.
If there is to be collective bar
gaining in any rea. sense meas
ure of labor must be found. The
practical profit-sharing inherent in
piece scales must be brought back
and trade unions must abate their
hostility to them. AS first step,
if the full journey cannot at once
be made, the unions need to ad-
vance 1.-The dead line" up from a
level that gives the poorest worker
as much as the best to the level of
average capacity.
The antipathy of which there is
complaint of some employers to
unions springs not so much from a
desire to deny the right to organize
- &opp hasHli11 e ihines ~
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of Berlin University; Professor Max
Lenz, Of the new university at Ham,
burg; Professor Dorpfeld and Siegfried
Wagner, the composer and son of the
greater Wagner. One man in this
group avowed that be had aca;a read
through the document carefully and
found nothing in II .hat he could not
sign to-day.
IAe thlrty-nine ojher men who an.
swered the inquiry said that they would
by no means stand by everything to-
day that is contained in the address.
Some put their present viewpoint into
rather strong language.
Thus the writer, Herbert Eulen,
berg, writes: ~ am willing to with
draw MY signature from that notorious
address," The most outspoken state
ment. however, comes from Carl
Uauptmann, the writer and brother of
the much better known gerhard Haupa-
f.:anr. He writes as fellows:
"lf our indignation was stirred at
that time with such pure yet self-decep-
tive idealism by the attacks of our enc
mics upon Germany's policy, and if we
rejected them with a grand gesture, this
was done in good faith, but without
proper feeling of responsibility. To-day
we know how on both sides political
conditions have their roots in the raven
Gus animal instincts of human nature
| contemplate, too, with feeling of
horror my deviation at that time from
personal trustworthiness, and for the
rest OF my life | take warning against
the rash herd-instinct which has made
fools of men for thousands OF years."
The essence of the original documen.
was contained in six paragraphs, be-
ginning with the words: at is not true"
The things so roundy denied were that
Germany had caused the war, that it
had crimnally violated Belgium's neu-
trality, that any Belgian citizens life
or property had been touched except in
direst self defense, that the German SOL
diers had proceeded brutally at Louvain
that the German conduct of the war had
infringed the laws of nations. and that
"a fight against Germany's so-called
inlitarism was not also a fight against
German kultur."
OF the twenty three men who sent no
answer to Wehberg's inquiry ne says
that some were i'll, but he surmises that
many of them were ashamed of having
signed and did not want to be reminded
Of the matter again.
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The Coming 7'ower
B.Ilads to C. A.

I'm sorry to spoil hne ballade:
I'd be much happier praise to bring;
To seem to criticize makes ma sad
I'm not of those who love mud to sling
1t gricves me whene'er a poet takes wing
II I check his fight and make him fall
Yet the burden Is this Of the song sing:
The Red Queen toasn't asleep at all.
Why, the first acquaintance that Alice had
In that garden so strangely blossomnR
Was that very Red Queen, who seemed quite
glad
To guide her upon her wandering.
And il you had known her tongues
sharp sting.
Which was bound to make Alice feel quite
small.
You'd surely approve Of my arguing
The Red Queen, ,Uasn't asleep at all.
It's true that after those questions mad,
When Alice she was examining.
She took one nap. which was very bad
For Alice's comfort and ev'rything.
But in general she was the source and
spring
Of all the trouble, you may recall.
Both as kitten and queen, she had her
fling:
The Red Queen wasn't asleep at all.
LENvoI
Then, poet, pray that you henceforth
cling
To the sacred truth as faithful thrall.
The person that had that dream was the
King,
The Red Queen wasn't asleep at all.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-06
Dished
cFron The Nation

Despite the fact that Senator Lodge
is so Far removed from being a liberal
or opposing the treaty on liberal
grounds, it is Impossible 70 withhold
from him a certain reluctant admira-
tion for the calm and clever way in
which he has conducted his campaign.
And how completely he has dished the
great dailies who have been daily de-
riding him and his strength Is amaz-
ingly apparent if one runs over tn
files of "The New York Times" or
"World,' or Evening Post" 1t was
the last-named that declared only e
month ago:
The Republican leadership has pitt
blunder upon blunder. 1t has divided II
party in the Senate, and in the count.
at large left 1t mortified apd apprehen..,-.
Lodge and Knox and the others VAN
g'oriously attempted what they could NC
perform. Their plans were formed wi.i
out an intelligent estimate OF the for..
at their disposal. No reproach OF wofrin
be leaders can be moro severe than that4
~ ne1A dav II aasartn1 that sa%ha
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The present dispersion Of authority
has resulted in hesitating, patch
work policy. The only way out
seems to be through unity Of COM
mand and complete recognition of
the status which the airship has
achieved as military instrument
and as an agency of transportation.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-06
France Speaks Out

The Journal des Debats, in many
respects the most influential news
paper of France, has ungagged it.
self. What it now says shows that
the French, hitherto restrained by
prudent politeness, think about what
this country has thought they
thought.
The Journal des Debats now open
ly uses the phrase ''the failure of
the Wilsonian policies" and attrib-
utes the failure to their author. The
President arrived at the peace con-
ference with a prestige that steadily
shrank. He obstinately violated his
declared principles. The apostle of
open diplomacy became as secret. as
Talleyrand; the champion of ideals
that were to save the world was dis
covered to be without plan; the ad-
vocate of league Of peace fought
every practical proposal to make the
league effective.
Nor is this Partisan editor blind
to OF silent concerning other mat
ters. He finds that the President
assumed that more than one-half Of
the American people were non-eXist-
ent, that he surrounded himself with
Democratic advisers and sought to
make party victory out Of the vic
fnrxy ovor Coro,opv
The governments of Europe were
compelled to accept the Presidents
valuation of his authority-could
not debate with him the question Of
whether or not he possessed absolute
power; but it is something, even at
this late day, to discover that re-
spcnsible Europe was not as much
deceived as it pretended 10 be- The
discovery restores faith in the intel
lectual capacity of European public
men. Europe knows where lodges
primary responsibility for the
lamentable mixup that has prevent
ed Americas prompt ratification.
The behavior the Journal des De-
bats finds inexplicable continues.
The President, still playing politics,
gives no direct indication that he has
learned anything. Through him the
treaty is held up with seemingly no
higher motive than to gain some sort
Of personal victory over Senator
Lodge. Not only this, but the Pres
ident keeps on his desk, untrans-
mitted to the Senate, the tripartite
treaty with Great Britain and
France which has the vertebr@ Of a
real league of peace and which he
pledged himself to work for.
All-sufficiency and self-sufficiency
bear their natural fruit-namely,
insufficiency and inefficiency. The
treaty should be ratified at once. So
says all the world; so say eighty
Senator's; but the President will not
permit it to be. He will not say he
will pass on any ratification resolu-
ton that a majority of his constitu-
tional partners write and in good
faith do his utmost to secure accept
ance thereof.
Europe will accept our reserva-
tions-realizes that they relate
chiefly to the domestic question of
who shall speak for America. The
semi-official organ of the French
government practically says France
will accept. Great Britain will ac-
cept. But nothing is done. The
President will not agree to forward
the ratification, and until he does
there is little point in ratification.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-06
Tho Book Borrowers

Dear Tightwad:
Suppose I did borrow your Gray YOUTH
four years ago and have it now safely
buried i'll cold storage with all the other
books ever owned OF borrowed?
Now tnat you remind me Of that delight
full story. I shall turn i. into sinste,,
movie entitled Boy and Girl" or The
Admirable Amory.'' Floss.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-06
GUARANTEE

Ysu can purehsse merchandise advertised In THE
% II sssss' sass 1Ht
g ray your money back upon request. No red taps.
Ne euihhllns. We make good promptN II the
advertiser decs not.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-06

L is obeerved b. d reader Of the
Greensboro, N. G., News that there
were four weddings on Thanksgiving
Day; and the reader wants some ex-
perenced copy reader to tell him
why the headline is Thanksgiving
Tragedies.
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The Gastronomic D. 8. c.

Sir: My personal opinion and it is shared
b. thouSaadsis that If Snyder Harrison's
hero swallowed even attempted to swallow
his artchcke wit',ou: chs'-;ng it, the accent
could not be the art but would have
to be on the choke. ,.,
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So many contribs have suggested
that. in view of the universally of the
44-hour week, the designation of hu-
manity be changed, that
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Our Own Traveloxues

Folks come all the way to Denver for its
air. And then shut their windows and seal
'em tight for fear some of it sneak into
their homes.
The bellboy at the Brown Palace Hotel
saw me opening window. please, mister. =
said he. YOU'D better not do that; TN
freeze the radiator. HAL.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-06

Well, Consul Jenkins has been re-
leased, and we all may as we'll sell
our uniforms.
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SATURDAY. DECEMBER s, 1919.

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A certain automobile concern NAV
get what advertising it can out of the
fact that most of US are now riding
in air-cooled cars.
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Illustrations Artful and inexpensive Aid

luuStrdtlOH ATt1ul ana inexpensive Ala
Sir: After everybody has done his
bit for the poet, let's all get together
and help out another deserving man Of
letters-good old Uncle George Horace
Lorimer.
Everybody knows Uncle George isn't
bit like that stingy feller, Irving
APPEL, in Miss Shores quaint story
which begins on page Is Of the curren.
Satevepost. Yet, on page 80 of the
same, there is an illustration which
Uncle George has printed in his paper
twice before, in the past year or so.
We all know Uncle Georges plight
Advertising is so bad that this weeks
magazine weighs only a pound and a
quarter, and it hardly ever has more
than two hundred pages.
And-you know how it is. Twenty
dollars anyway you got to pay one OF
them artist fellcrs for a good picture,
$l1.75 on top for engraving-you keep
on, and endlich the magazine wouldn't
throw off anything.
Should we stand it, that Uncle
George Should look like a schnorrer,
while We got plenty? A question: Let
us put like good friends the hand in
the pocket; let us schick him a bissel
money. so he can afford it to buy all
nice, new fresh pictures for his paper
NORMAN.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-06
MEnmER on rHr ASSOCIATED PRESS

Tho Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the
oSe for republication OF all dispatches credited
{-t1 II or not otherwise credited in this paper and
alAe the local Of Spontaneous origin published
herein~
All rights Of republication Of all other matter
herein are also reserved
New-York tribune., 1919-12-06
Fairness to Other Capable Singers

Sir: In response to yours of this date, beg
to state that the following is a list of
artists. all of 'em ultra-meritorious never
mentioned in your esteemed department: :
Anna Case. Marie Rappold. Nina Morgana,
Evelyn Scotney, Giovanni Martneli, Morgan
Kingston Rafaelo Diaz. Orvil!e Harold,
Giulio Crimi, pasouale Amato. Giuseppe de
i.uca Thomas Chalmers. Marguerite DIAL
varez, Helena Marsh, Toscha Seidel. Tnelma
Given. Pablo Casals and Marvin Maazel. The
fact that these world bcaters are associated
With the bureau for which I work has moth
ing to do with the case, tra-la, has nothing
to do with the case FREDDIE SCiANG
New-York tribune., 1919-12-06

Ten minutes after emerging from
the subway last night, at 6:20, we
opened can of sardines. Evidently
Dulcnea, who had observed how pas
sengers were packed into the cars,
never had seen the spacious inside of
such tin,
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The six Day Raea.