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The daily morning oasis., 1919-07-13
1.-THE ACID
TEST" asst
HITS THE
Line CITY
To THE DAILY MORNING OASIS:

10 The DAILY MORNlNG OASIS:
Nogales, Arizona.
Will you kindly permit an Amer
ican doing business in Sonora, to re-
gister feeble protest against the
policy of agitation which seems to
dominate certain elements of the
American press, with the apparent
purpose of fostering international
discord and ultimately to bring about
military Intervention into the affairs
of Mexico.
Standing on the threshold of
economic opportunity and with broad
vistas of an extensive export trad
stretching towards the south, Amer
leans in Mexico are unable to under
stand the new theory of first arousing
antagonism as preliminary to future
friendly trade relation. Assuming
that the gods first make mad those
whom they wish to destroy, it does
not appear within the realms of
human probability that the idealisc
and peaceful utterances of our dis
tinguished President, were simply
camouflage to the doctrine that the
powerful American people are at last
ready for action" and to apply the
"acid test" to a nation enfeebled by
nine years of fratracidal warfare, as
was recently published on the Amer
lean side.
Instead of eulogizing the principles
of diplomatic and amicable adjust
ments of the differences between the
two peoples and the re-establishment
of peace through the friendly aid of
the Washington government certain
newspapers have lately inculcated in
to the minds of the Mexican people
the fixed idea that Americas great
peacemaker has discarded his dis
guise and is now ready to 'burn"
them with the "acid" of rec.
And this at time when it practical
ly is assured that effective resistance
would be lacking.
If an international analysis of con-
ditions in Mexiio mas convinced the
allied powers that active Intervention
is the sole methoi of restoring order
in the southern repuol:;, why cannot
j. be accomplished with1u: deliberate
ly seel ing to arouse .hc baser pas
>iors If the people who have long
.eeu the victims Of a contemplate
propaganda. washington government
to overwhelm our prospective future
customers have been spread abroad
by interests loyal to an imperialis-
tic policy of conquest which every
American worthy of the name knows
is not to be incorporated in the list
/ of our national aspirations.
The pernicious effect of the "acid"
propaganda already is manifest on
| the Sonora side of the line where the
people not only are bitterly aroused
by the implied threts recently made
public but are being led to believe
The daily morning oasis., 1919-07-13

German planes and lost only 271 dur
ing the war.
That the United States built almost
as many aviation engines of other
types as she did of the Liberty.
That America reduced the cost of
helium gas from $17OO per cubic foot
to ten cents.
That America shipped 533 loco
motives to France on their wheels,
packed in baled hay, in the holds of
vessels.
That American troops alone had hot
coffee under fire, due to the invention
of soluble coffee in the United States.
Millions Saved.
That packing economies saved the
coun,ry $55,OOO,00O in the shipment of
clothing alone to France ard, by saw
ing space, offset the operations of u
boats for several months.
That salvage during the last nine
months of the war saved 100000, 900.
That the total war construction in
the United States amounted to more
than 81, 900, 100000 in cost.
That America produced over $4,000
miles of outpost wire for signaling pur
poses at the front, a material never
manufactured until America entered
the war.
That America developed a sub
stitute for salvarsan, formerly pro-
duced only in Germany, and which
proved to be better than the German
product.
The daily morning oasis., 1919-07-13
AMERICAN WAR
WORK DESCRIBED
BY Mr.. CROWElL

WASHINGTON, July 12-" -"Americas
Munitions" is the title of an interest
ing volume from the pen of Assistant
Secretary of War Benedict Crowell,
just from the press and containing
most interesting and Illuminating
story of Americas achievements in
production during her participation in
the great war
Secretary Crowell's story contains
many facts that are new to the averape
American. Many of these facts will
be accepted with surprise because they
concern accomplishments that appear
ed well-nigh impossible. They are
some of the things Germany believed
America corld not do. They are
achievements that, coupled with the
wonderful fighting spirit of the army
overseas, made it possible to end the
war eighteen months before most peo-
pie believed it would be brought to
a close, with an enormous saving in
life and treasure.
Troops at the Front
in
France than the British at the signing
of the armistice.
That the American artillery in
France fired more than -FOUR times as
many rounds of artillery ammunition
as the Union army did in the Civil
War.
That America was the only coun-
try that succeeded in building re-
cuperators for French designed guns,
epcept France herself.
That between April 6, 1917, and No
vember II, 1918, America manufac-
tured as much smokeless powder as
| France and England combined.
That between two and three miles
were added to the range of the Amer
| lean army>s six-inch guns.
That America produced two of the
three airplanes fixed machine guns
used successfully against the Germans
That America developed five air.
| planes the equal of or better than any
! thing in Europe.
That America brought down 4S1
The daily morning oasis., 1919-07-13
NEW MINISTER TO ITALY
UNITED Press servIees

PARIS, July 12.-Thomas Nelson
Page has resigned as American Mini
ster to Italy. He is succeeded by
Brand Whitlock, now Minister to Bel
gium. Mr.. Page, who is a noted
author, will resume his literary labors.
The daily morning oasis., 1919-07-13
LEADERS OF PRO-GERMAN ELEMENT
In FORMER TURKISH GOVERNMENT
GAS CUT OFF

To make repair at the
works gas was shut off at
midnight; and the metal in
the melting pot of the type
setting machine cooled be-
fore all corrections could be
made; so this item is an
explanation and apology for
t h e m any Typographical
errors in THE OASIS this
morning.
The daily morning oasis., 1919-07-13
BARTENDERS CAMOUFLAGE

SAN FRANCISCO, July 12.-The
Bartenders' Union has announced that
its name may be changed to soft
Drink Dispensers Union, but the or
ganization will be maintained, and its
connection with the labor movement
The daily morning oasis., 1919-07-13
Brought To Book By Present
Government Of Turkey Which
Is PrO-A||y, And Working To
Save From The Wreck
HEAD OF MAHOMETANS IMPRISONED
Omitted Press Service)


CONSTANTKNOPLE, Of
prominent officials the Turkish
the big
connected also
their
victOn and sentences imposed today.
The daily morning oasis., 1919-07-13
DIRIGIBLE REACHED IRELAND
UNITED Press Servieel

LONDON, July 12.-The British
Dirigible R-34, passed over Cliffden,
Ireland, at 4:1O, New York time, the
Air Ministry has announced.
The daily morning oasis., 1919-07-13
Would Make Him Dance Atten-
dance Upon A Committee From
Day To Day To Give Information
Could Be Written.
PRESIDENTS FRIENDS SAY NO
Omitted Press Service)

WASHINGTON July 12OppOnen of Nations
sdering to force the President Washington
adoption
League.
The daily morning oasis., 1919-07-13
H. F. Slocum

Nogales, Sonora, July IL, 1919
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-09-26
Dunn Endorses johnson

1t ought to be Z matter of great
qualification to Senator Johnson,
when he visits Helena on the
trail of President Wilson, to know
that he comes with the highest
recommendations of w. F. Dunn
OF the Butte Bulletin.
'Mr. Dunn, during the visit of
the president, published practical
~ nothing about it, but he devotes
about Eve columns to the report
Of the Johnson speech in st. Louis
and the Borah abuse of the presi-
dent at Omaha.
Commenting approvingly on
Borah's vicious attack On the
president, Dunn chortles happily
and winds up by saying that
President Wilson is a bigger
traitor to America than Bene-
dict Arnold. This from a con-
victed seditionist, who did all he
could to hamper the conduct of
the war against the Huns.
"He winds up his editorial
praising johnson and Borah and
cursing Wilson, with this express
sion:
Wilson the Patriot! Bah!
ION the front page of this same
issue, Sept. Is, of the Bulletin is
the story Of Bullitt the Bolshevik
booster and praise for Russia
and Lenine and Trotzky.
Taking it by and large, Senator
johnson should feel highly COM
piimented by the support of the
Bulletin. And those who think
Johnson is u hero, ought to feel
endorsed, bec:.lise OF the remarks
Of Dunn.
1T is said that politics makes
strange bcdfc':ows, but the bed
fellow of Johnson and Borah is
not the kind that Z sane man
would choose. Not if he knew it.
Helena Independent"
The above =, editorial commentin
pom the attitude Of the Butte Bull,
in and w. \. Dunn, is clipped frol
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-09-26

the paper published by "Wild Bill"
Campbell, the crazy, hairbrained
blatherskite, who is known to fame
as the President of the Montana 10y
atty League.
"Wild Bill" feels awfully disgraced
and ashamed for johnson and Borah,
because they have j seemed to have
won the sympathy Of w. F. Dunn,
in their efforts to keep England from
annexing the United States to the
British Empire and substituting the
"Union Jack" in place of "Old Glory"
"Wild Bill" Campbell doesn't like
Dunn, whom he delights to refer to
as 1.-THE convicted seditionist,' con-
victcd for referring to the Montana
Council of Defense as a "slimy po-
litical gang" and as Campbell him
self was a member Of the Council of
Defense, he can not deny the truth
Of the assertion, however seditious it
may be.
! Mr.. Campbell is himself self-con-
fessed perjurer and taxdodger, and
is man of very questionable NOR
atty and integrity.
And as a closing reflection, we
suggest, taking it by far and large,
President Wilson should feel highly
complimented by the support of the
Helena Independent. And those who
think Wilson is a hero, ought to feel
endorsed because Of the remarks of
Campbell"
Of course we hope that that large,
patriotic mass of honest and decent
people who admire the patriotism of
that stalwarwt champion of the rights
of man and of pure Americanism,
Hon. w. +. Dunn, will take no Of.
tense at our making an apparent CON-
parison between statesman, held in
the high esteem in which w. F. Dunn
is by the honest, working, producing
mass of the population of this state,
with a Shiny lickspittel, mental, men,
al prostitute, of the calibre and char
acter of Will Campbell, editor of the
Helena Independent.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-09-26
Loss On,Both Sides

In the first place, we realize now
that the millonaires were not inter-
ested in efficient production but in
profits.
We know that very few of these
fortunes arose except through unfair
advantages which the millionaires got
over other producers through political
manipulation.
Thus Carnegie got high tariff
which fined every one us.'ng steel, he
got railroad rebates, and he got state
military forces to help him break
American union and bring in hordes
from southern Europe largely under
false promises.
he and others, playing the same
big profit game with stacked cards.
were thus a curse rather than q bless
ing, just as the packing trust is a
curse to the livestock industry and
the consumers today.
But how about the good works >
The millionaires can not remove the
injury done in acquiring the un-
canned millions. And practically all
are turned in such a way that in
themselves they corrupt otherwise
good institutions to perfume the
tainted money.
Thus Rockefeller has corrunted mr.
universities and schools and our de.
partment of agriculture for propa.
ganda purposes under the Ruise of
financial aid.
Carnegie died with more in his will
than he had when he started his ca
reer Of good works."
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-09-26

Thirty-five alleged members of the
l. w. w. organization have been in
Jail at Wichita, Kan, for 10 months
without trial. No court has even
determined that they are 1. w. w.
members. If they are found innocent
Of any law-brea6ng, America offers
them no compensation for these 10
months in foul Jail. No matter
what we think about this organiza-
ton, such a failunre of justice to
workingmen is both a disgrace and
a danger to America. It is a danger
because once a precedent of this kind
is established any of US who dis
pleases a sheriff or prosecuting
attorney is open to similar treatment
and because such treatment makes
desperate men.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-09-26

Let it be noted, on the other hand.
that no organization of farmers or
workers has attacked the retailer as
a profteer.
The remedies which they have ad-
vanced and urged on the government
deal entirely with the great monopo-
lies, including that of land,
II the farmer-labor organization
were stronger, there is no question but
that they would force the government
to stop its monkey business with
small business men and begin on real
remedies for the high cost Of living.
Even where farmers and workers
take up cooperation today in buyin.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-09-26

The death Of Andrew Carnegie calls
to mind question the people usee
to debate vigorously :. when he en-
barked on his effort to give away hi&
wealth-the question OF. whether thu
making of millionaires is harmful o,
beneficial to society,
The Americans of two generations
ago. among them, for instance, Abra.
ham Lincoln, generally looked upon
the growing aggregations of wealth
as a serious menace to the nation.
But these earlier Americans saw
nothing like what we saw when Car.
negie began to give away libraries.
His decision to part with lot OF
money for supposedly good causes
was hailed everywhere by millionaire
defenders.
In amassing their fortunes the mil
kooAires added to our productive pow
O..
They organized great combinations
and employed vast armies of workers.
Then, with their superior know
ledge Of what the people needed, they
did vast amount of good in promot-
ing those things which uplifted the
people.
So the argument ran, and the argu-
ers would point to Rockefeller and
Carnegie trying to Guido each other
n goods works.
The other side had far better argu-
ments but were handicapped because
the people took much more superficial
views of things than they do now.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-09-26
The Retailer S Friends

With reailers drawing the first and
perhaps the only fire Of the govern
ment crusade against the high cost
ct living, some of our. retailers will
have to alter their opinions as to
who their friends are.
The big press and the publicity
agents Of the great corporations have
tried to push the blame on the retail
e..
In our large cities supposedly pub
sc. committees (but in reality made
~ of wholesalers and other large
speratives) announce fair price lists
- the pretense Of protecting the
public against retail prodteering.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-09-26

suppl1sl, they have gotten ss2y folp
(er'. Fronts, 4 reported y defender.
Eof The eRrpelations. {, 4
Tidy how plan to GET re economics
Fof buying on : large scale for many
local stores. 80 !
Here again they do mot cut inte
the retailers trade 70 much. % they
bring new trade to town; whereas tho
great chain stores, established and
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-09-26
The Way of the 7ra,,sgre<sor

Writing ON the Psychology Of Re-
formers" in the July number Of the
National Municipal Review, Henry
F. a., nas;ss' s RFd'88*' out " point worthy
He de41itsg( ahatait is the universal
practice of conservatives and grafters
to accuse the reformer Of the wrongs
the reformer is crusading against.
Who can not recall many illustra-
tons of this from the past and pres
ent?
Right now, for instance, the poll
teal ring which was ousted from
North Dakota because the people
were tired of outside domination are
accusing the reform leaders Of all the
tricks this ring was guilty Of.
The man who handicaps his country
in war with reckless profiteering cries
"disloyalist" and TRAITOR"
Perhaps the grafters like to talk
about what they are most familiar
with?
This observation also explains the
vast amount Of noise being raised at
the present time supposedly in the
interest Of law and order. >:'
No serious reformer or reform Or
ganization escapes being dubbed an
enemy Of law and order. ......
Why?
Because all these reformers and re-
form movements demand better
law and order than we have now.
The America Of hundred years
ago needed comparatively little regu-
lation.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-09-26

Iii nssdsssee-lAlalsslsaas ass all
fhst esF,esate -. lntY.a0ds q
Fierce ~ ~ : a. ~ ase IN
lits policy with tssazf . ksxi3s." u
u iExts' Department 'ix}y d!!l :i9
u - tAat IL I'll, EkS S as.s
'S6ls and willing t. furnish tksSs kill
ings7., II they are aaxio.s 70 ,havs
thousands OF Americans killed in de.
elsred war, moral seruples certainly
would not prevent them from hiring
. few killings to start il.
The grabbing Of 40 many dhferen.
fov. necessar1es bv tn: packer !, he
lu.. kcrs' answer to the puolic's en-
Ces> Or to find substitutes u, meat
! rmour 4 Co. advertises TIA the
pubic can buy nearly everything for
The American table flo4u its list.
What the packers want is condition
in which the public will have to buy
every food from them. The packers
appreciate the value Of autocracy.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-09-26

Our industrial life was simple.
There were no great utilities o,
business corporations.
Justice between man and man wa
generally very simply affair settled
through the old-style courts.
Since then we have filed a grea,
territory with over 10o,000,0o0 peo-
pie.
We have been able to do 50 by
large-scale production and quick com.
munication and a multitude of inven.
tions.
Almost every citizen uses daily
products drawn from all quarters Of
this great territory.
Obviously, then, civilization and
progress demand better and more
complex social organization than We
had 100 years ago.
Here is where the great split comes.
Our reformers want more organi-
cation to protect the common man
in his livelihood and freedom.
Our conservatives fight against any
development Of order because the lack
of it has enabled those with wealth
to profit.
With our lack Of organization for
the common good, the great corpora
tins are able to privateer in society
like those armed ships which used to
roam the seas for profit by plundering
enemy merchantmen.
And their press writer's call those
who want q better organized society
enemies of law and order!
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-09-26

Labor lays high cost Of living to
the protfieering farmers" says farm
paper that ought to know better. The
only labor that has spoken, organized
labor, has placed the blame where
1t be4ongs. Perhaps it was the labor
in the editorial rooms Of this. paper
that laid the burden at the farmers
door per order from the silent part
nei.
II the public could hire experts to
LOOK into the matter, it would discover
that it had ALREADY paid for the rail
roads once. In some cases it has paid
more t44an 100 per cent Of the actual
investment.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-09-26

The return of Archduke Joseph to
Hungary, with the help of plundering
foreign armies, is in line with the
tradition Of autocrats and plutocrats.
Their patriotism never gets beyond
the rule or ruin stage.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-09-26

"Wild Bill" Campbell, tax dodger
and perjurer, loudly applauded "baby''
Ted's pan to shoot anybody who
would bring the thieves and "body
robbers" to the ak. "Wild Bill" likes
honesty and common decency as a
"cat likes hot SOUP"
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-09-26

Kate Richard O'Hare is in prison
because the "baby robbers" didn't
like her line of conversation. "Wild
Bill" Campbell filed a false return to
the assessor and he was made the
president of the Montana Loyalty
League.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-09-26

run On atlss cAsital &hle trst cor
,por1tions lean bat usshhstassidr sow4t,
businejs9 haxhk :fst zthe ffA3so Ewlieat,
the Observation-Disclosures .:t:
= snsH BadEieGi ,ll,tiSl ally tlssFe via
The farmers .ad workers. II Il 'saz 66s,st.
- Aefend itself against tho seomoa
eaeuy Of al. 4 - =
The retailer, particularly, has enc
real friend, and that 10 the consumer.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-09-26

A South Dakota book-binder told
The Leader the other day that he
paid $4,000 for a cow hide for use in
the bindcry. The farmer who raised
the cow from which the hide was
taken got about $500 OF $500 for the
hide. Who gets the $500 rake-of!
between the producer and the con
sumer? Is the high price of hides
due to the high wages of labor? TIL.
labor employed in the tanning of the
hide did not cost to exceed $500 There
is still $4,000 unaccounted for
South Dakota Leader.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-02-05
"Siberia'd Be Great Country
IFS Americans Viewpoint

place 90 live. and dArncd II I don't
think I'd live here after It's all over
and marry one 81 these here Illus.
Sian darn.s that are 10 strong for
me. II a guy could only get TO a
decrnt city like Terre ifautr once a
week or 50. and II everything wasn't
80 doxgonrd expensive"
The third swallowed a piroxhnala
at a gulp and looked around fieFocly
for the waitress. you guys are
both right said he siberia
would b. swell dump II Il waa a
regular country: and the Russians
would De swell folks IL they was
Americans. And n they was a lot
OF swell restaurants on the moon.
and tho old Murray nm gang lived
there. and the place Was crowded
with swell DANES. and I could get
three daya a week off and spend
them In New York and sU-nebossy q
pay me $500 week for living there.
I'd just az soon live ON the moon as
not Jus, as soon as notf'
At this jnneture carnc away.
The doughi,oy il certainly adapt.
able: and adapiabllity II a wonder.
full thing. But I hope with all my
heart that the YAnks in Siberia
won't prove 60 adaptable that they
will start raising Russian whlskers.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-02-05
by PEGGY Hull
i. r. 4. staff Correspondent

vI.ADfyoSToK. Feb. s.--Ifow do
the Yanks like sibcrla1
watched three fanka file into
kokin's yesterday. SIT down uncom.
fortably at small marble topped
table. One OF them finally caught
the eye OF waitress and fnuttsrad
Tree stakhan tchai. pazholsta. and
tree piroxhnaia. and hurry upsky
for the love Of Mlkeaky.~ which
translated into the mother tongue.
means. Three glasses % tea. please.
and three orders OF cakes. and lot
Us have them a rapidly as posi-.
Bile" In due course the tchaI ar.
rived. whercupon all three dough.
boys took hasty drag at IL and
started in.
You can pan this country all you
want to-" said one. hut believe me.
DO. II tho climate was warmer and
the people here spoke English and
weren't 50 blamed dirty. ia just a.
soon live here az San Francisco
ME. too said the second.
There's a lot Of knockers around
here that's doing n lot Of knocking
and moaning about going home just
because It's the fashion 10 moan.
This would BE- ono darncd swell