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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-19
what all the other small independent
states will do which have been carved
out of the extinct Hapsburg monarchy.
The Smell-Makers

The ink on the armistice was hardly
dry when alien hyphensts and their
American imitators became busy, very
busy They said: "If we don't hasten
and arouse American prejudices and sus-
picions, Germany may lose at the peace
table as she did on the battlefield"
The finger Of detraction was first
pointed at Italy The "wops," as they
were called by those who regard "dago"
as term of too great politeness, were
said to be a set of treacherous faith
breakers, who were about to act most
wickedly toward the innocent Jugo- Slavs
who were just home from raiding Italian
provinces.
Then Great Britain fell under the
bastinado and she was denounced, almost
IN the language of Reventlow, as the
vampire of Europe as a monstrous
schemer who had deuded France into
fighting her battles and then America
Every one who spoke the mildest word
for John Bull was an anglomaniac and
British gold was jingling in his pockets
At what business the distrust breeders
are now engaged is suggested by the
following extract from a Sunday New
York newspaper, the name of which it
is scarcely necessary to mention:
THE plain truth of the matter is that
France is tired of the American soldier
and the American soldier is tired of
France.
"The Doughboys haven't as much money
to spend as France thought they we're
going to have and the officers have spent
about every penny they can rake and
scrape, and there is no doubt of the fact
that in French eyes it is about time that
Uncle Sam packed up his suitcase and
went homeland stayed there
France is out for the stuff as they
say in The patos DRAMA and Just now
they are certainly getting what they are
out after-from the Americans.
Our boys want to come home
because they are tired Of being robbed
and tricked and made fun of; they are
tired of being insulted and shown dozen
times day that in the eyes of the French
their room is better than their company"
The poison gas cannoneers may soon
run out of targets, they are using them
up so rapidly. Japan is, of course, left
to fire at, but Japan has so often been
viewed with suspicion as to deprive
malignancy Of novelty. But let not the
yellows who call to the yellows be wholly
discouraged. Serbia and Greece are
doubtless capable of successful dis
paragement. And if worse comes to
worse and no other war associate OF
ours remains to be insinuated against,
there is Montenegro, a small country.
but one concerning which there is not
much known and, therefore, one that
can be lied about plausibly. The wood
pussies Of the German propaganda owe
1t to their cause not to cease smell
making.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-19
This Stock advances to 50 per
share on February !. Buy now
at 81 a share.

That seems to have been enough. The
concern took in something like $4,000
in six weeks. The other day it was
raided. The company had no factory.
The promoter of it was sentenced few
years ago for forgery. All the public
had to expect was that the stock was
going to double, not in value, but in price,
and it handed over its money.
Every year the public squanders mill
ions on these get rich-quick schemes;
but never was there a year, according to
all accounts, like the last year. If the
market was milk before, with the incom-
ing of Liberty bond holders it became
cream. The Treasury Department may
issue, its warnings, and the fraud order
department of the Posto1ice may do
its best, but the game goes right along.
thousand years ago good public securi-
ties were selling on a S per cent basis.
But through the days of John Law and
the Mississippi Bubble. or through the
South Sea Bubble, through everything,
there have always been those who were
sure they could make their hundreds per
cent if they only had chance. 1t is
said that there are wide districts out
West where scarce q Liberty bond re-
mains. Fake and frauds have sub
tracted them all.
And what can be done which has not
been done? The enactment of pure
food law for financial flotations and
denial of the privilege of advertising to
all concerns not submitting to reasonable
public scrutiny.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-19
GUARANTEE
MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Still an Enemy

The renewal of the armistice and the
more stringent terms which Marshal
Foch has imposed on Germany stress the
almost forgotten fact that a state of war
still exists. That fact has been obscured
in the civilian mind by the discussion
of peace and after-peace projects at
Paris. In the military mind it dominates
the situation.
The Paris Conference, naturally enough,
looks ahead to restoring relations wi h
Germany as malefactor nation put un-
der bonds for good behavior. 1t visual
ICES Germany as q probationer and
prospective debtor. But to the Armistice
Commission she is still an enemy, over
come, but sullen and potentially danger
Gus. The military attitude is one of
healthy distrust. German professions of
readiness to accept defeat and live
down an evil past are all we'll enough.
But, according to the soldiers skeptcal
view, they ought to be reinforced by an
overwhelming sense of the futility of fur
Their resistance.
One defect in the original armstice
terms has now been repaired. The Ger
man armies are to be demobilized under
Allied supervision and the strength of
the standing force is to be reduced to
100000 men. Probably the defences Of
Helgoland and at the entrances of the
kiel Canal will be dismantled. If at the
same time the manufacture of war
materials is restricted Germany will be
left without the means to make good re-
cent truculent talk like Professor Del
BRICKS about starting a new war of lib
GRAFTON.
Germany is impoverished. But she
shows few signs of having taken her
chastity military failure to heart. So long
as she is in this mood she will remain
peril to the worlds peace. Her real status
to-day is that of belligerent Marshal
foch is logical and foresighted in con-
tinuing to treat her as such. 1t is by no
means unlikely that he is doing more to
establish permanent peace than all the
b!ack-coated company at Paris.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-19
The French and
Prinkipo
Nel0 York Tribxr.
OfclQ7s Press RY-eop

Foreign Press Byreou
ME hostile attitude of French pubas
opinion toward the plan of tbs
Princes Islands conference is ex.
pressed by editorials published in Paris
newspapers just received. 1t appears tina.
with the exception of quasi-Bolshevik or.
gans like "LI4umanite." there is hardly
publication with a good word to say for
joining in parley with the Bolsheviki.
Even pronounced radical like Gustsvs
Herve- otherwise a strong supporter Of
President Wilson's polices-is aroused to
indignant protest He writes in his news
paper, LA Victoire," known in pre-war DAYS
as LA Guerre Sociale":
'The decision taken by the concert e, III.
Allied great powers to call Lenine before an
international tribunal of Cancellation has
produced disastrous effect on French pub.
lie opinion. By the exuberant ioy man.
tested by our Bolshevik and quasi Bolshevk
organs President Wilson and Mr. Llovd
George may measure the disappointment C.,
the immense majority of the nation.
'No one doubts the good intentions and
evangelical spirit of our friends in America
and England-good intentions which in the
case of Lloyd George are merged with his
desire not to give offence to the Bolsheviks
and quasi-Bolsheviks of mis- own country.
But our friends do not seem 10 give them
selves full account of the peculiar situation
of France in regard to the Russian problem
and of our special obligations toward
Russia
Of to-day France does not hurry to the
aid of her ally, now in the grip of a gang Of
fanatics and German agents, it is not
against England or against the United States
that the wrath of patriotic Russia will turn
of the Russia that has never betrayed Us
but against Franco, and France alone"
Alfred Capus, writing in "Le Figaro" &C.
clares that the tombstone of the success Of
the proposed league Ct nations. or Of any
world settlement that may come up, will be
its manner of dealing with the Russian
problem. Recalling the lesson OF the French
Revolution, he points out that there ara
several instances in history of popular
upheava which after a series of excess
has solidfed into a regime Of law and O..
der. But in the case Of the Bolsheviki the
tendency seems to be reversed-the move
ment is not toward more order and more
justice, but toward more anarchy and sois
bloodshed. The Prinkipo conference vii
tell the world what kind of relations the
United States, England, France and Hay
Will establish with Bolshevik savagery."
Arthur Meyer editor in chief Of "Ls
Gaulois,' processes his inability 10 under
stand how the Allies can even contemplate
entering into negotiations with the BOlshe-
wiki What is Bolshevism?' he asks an
answers: The negation Of the principle 0.
society. What is the League Of Nation
The triumphant extension Of the principl
OF society to the universe. How can tn
two concepts be reconciled; that Of mega
ton that recoils from no collective atrociiF
20 suppress the individual. and that Of al
Affirmation that recols from no individual
sacrifice to insure the interest Of the CON-
monwealth ?"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-19
For Blinded Soldiers

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Information has reached me tHS'
on sunday evening last in a restaurant O.
Broadway. near Forty-sixth Street. Hal
and two women appeared and made PIE"
for blinded soldiers relating pitiful stores
of narrowing experiences. They then to0'
up collection which was reported 10 ''
generous.
Attention is called to This incident DC,
cause at the annual meeting Of the Nations
Committee for the Prevention Of BlndhsS'
Lieutenant Colonel Bordev, who IS -
Evergreen. Baltimore. announced that Nv
government had made ample provision "a
the proper care. recducation and rehaO'"
tation Of soldiers and sailors blinded ="
the service Of the United States. ihci'
fore, any solicitation of funds for Amer
can soldiers would seem TO be unau'n0'
lied and proceeding that naturally aro"S''
suspicion OF wrongdong.
WILLIAM FELLOWES MORGAN
President National Committee for 'Ns
Prevention of Blindness
New York, Feb. s, 1919.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-19
Roosevelt as a Reader


fCnUUc BUHff{ni
With homage to the memory of Theodore
Roosevelt, the great President, the moral
awakencr, the impassioned patriot. the
Authors League of America would here nav
ITS tribute Of respectful affection and
gratitude to a fellow member who since
the inception Of the organization honorcd
ard aided it by acting as its vicc-prcsident
A vigorous writer, catholic reader no
continued to write and to read books even
during the most cXacting years Of most
strenuous life. Vvidly interested and cx
pertly engaged in "A greater variety of ac
t'vities than any man of modern times. his
interest in authors and authorship. hia
'aith in the social efficacy Of good itera-
'ure' ab'dcd to the end, and will remain
IN "'1 and an inspiration to the future
Of American life and letters.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-19
Lowell's Day

1t was the misfortune of James Russell
Lowell, the one hundredth anniversary of
whose birth is appropriately being made
an occasion of ceremony, to SAVIOR of the
library. The last, and in some respects
the greatest, of the group whose work is
Americas chief contribution to ltera-
ture, the festival Of remembrance is
naturally the special charge of men Of
books, but he might have preferred
mass meeting.
"A great poet, greater essayist and
supreme pamphleteer, yet one senses he
never realized his deepest ambition. He
was citizen more than he was a man of
verse and Of letters. In his copious polit-
lcal writings it is possible to detect be-
tween the lines an unsatisfed spirit. He
was Brahmin, but he did not want to be
Brahmin He would have liked, one NAV
suspect, to have been elected to office and
be in the hurly-burly of affairs.
tie was a democrat-in fundamental
ways one Of the deepest we have eve
had. To him democracy was more than
scheme of governmental was a spirit
of life whose mission would not be full
filled until every man, full statured in his
personal independence, was linked to his
fellow man through free and Joyous CO.
operation based on intelligence No.
without significance is the fact that he
was one of the first to realize Lincolns
greatness.
Lowell was never reconciled to the idea
that culture must be served by priestly
class. He didn't see why because a man
attuned himself to respond to high
thoughts he thereby untitled himself for
human contacts. He held with Theodore
Parker not that Il am as good as YOU
are but "4 cure as good as | am" But.
alas! he lived in years when professors
we're thought to be good enough for study
closets and classrooms but incapable of
common sense in the application of their
theorlcs-at a time when public man
was an object Of suspicion unless there
was a smell of the soil about him. Bage-
hot accepted the mandate of exclusion.
but Burke did not and Woodrow Wilson
did not and TO- the professor beneath his
black is seen to be a human being like the
rest Of US.
Few understood the deeper things of
America more sympathetically than
James Russell Lowell, and that he had
great capacity for political leadership is
not to be questioned. He was fastidious.
but his fastldiousness was only skin deep
"a matter OF manners. He had an aver
SION to chcapness and could not brig
himself to practise it, but he was philoso-
phcr enough to know that any one who
could not find Levels on which to meet the
average man was not much of a philoso-
pier. If he had been born fifty years
later than he was, perhaps now he MIGHT
be deemed proper person to carry on
the work of Abraham Lincoln as the
leader of Llnco!n's leaderess party.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-19


this horrible torture apain-all Of this of
course, for the purpose Of extending de-
mocracy to the Huns and making the world
safe for democracy!
A New World by Mass killing?
Eager as am to uphold the Presidents
hands, sincerely as l believe his fourteen
peace terms can be made charter of a
new and better world, find it very hard to
believe that such results can be produced by
mass killing"
AS an example Mr.. Willard cited the case
Of a group of four Russians of Bolshevik
procllvties who were given sentences ag-
gregating 200 years imprisonment because
they circulated handful declaring the in
reference in Russia was a capitalistic out
rage, and signed themselves as being for
the revolution. Continuing, Mr. Willard said {:
Men have been tarred and feathered and
beaten and driven out Of their commune
ties for failing to contribute to war loans
or to buy savings stamps in sufficient
quantities to please the self-constituted
autocratic committees that handle these
campaigns in the various communities.
Reputable citizens had their names printed
as slackers if their contributions to the Red
Cross did not reach the size these commit
tees thought they ought to be-
Under the government there has been
built up spy system which cannot have
been surpassed in the palmiest Gays of the
Car.
National Unity.
81 think I need hardly add anything.
therefore, to show you in what spirit the
war has been carried on and how ruthless
~ the minority anti-war opinion has been
suppressed in order to give the false idea
to trn world of national unity and in order
to enable Mr.. Wilson to say, as he is say
ing, that he speaks for an entirely united
people"
I mentioned the death of Colonel Roose-
Welt, recorded in the mornings newspapers,
and Mr. Willard replied:
"Mr. Roosevelt's death is great piece
of good fortune for the President, whom
he bitterly and unjustly assaled at all
times. His was q vindictive personality
and one of great charm and fascination
which made him all the more dangerous
lie was distinctly imperalistc. believing in
navies and armies, and might have been for
the third time a Presidential candidate had
he lived. AS it is his death clears the
political atmosphere and means the coming
to the front of some new man like Herbert
Hoover or General Pershing'
That finished our conversation. and Nh
Willard fastened to prepare himself for the
next item in his crowded programme
CLEMENT j. BUNDOCK
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-19
Seeing Red

young returned soldier came into the
Home Service Bureau of the New Haven
Red Cross last week, talking to himself in
nightly, semi-hysterical manner. Investi
CATION proved that there was nothing wronr
with him but hunger He had eaten inst
one inadequate meal in two days. There
was no money in his pockets to buv food
or pay room rent. He had applied da;]v
for work since his return-without suc-
cess. 1t was IN sheer desperation, and in
physical state bordering on collapse. that
he finally applied to the Red Cross for mid.
The Red Cross has fed him and paid his
rent for one week in advance. We'll and
good. In other words, one of our soldiers
who fought for us in France-a self ro-
speeding young man-has become an object
Of charity. And meanwhile the govern
ment IS still! his debtor for money due him
winch he has more need of right now than
he IS ever likely to have again. This il
onG case out of many, and one such caso
is too many
begin to see subtle connection h.
tween Red Tape and the Red Flag. Don't
you? And is the Red Cross to be the onIu
answer? r w n
Suggestion to the worlds greatest back
page cartoonst: Wonder What a Pres;-
dent of the United States Thinks AboutY
Most headline words eventually cream
into the language, but we have vet to hear
a conversation in which "laud" is used.
After July (which is the beginning of
most paragraphs nowadays
Inc SIX pest cellarcttcs2 +. +. A.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-19
Hayti and Santo Domingo

"Slmilarly, when we hear him talk about
the rights of free nations and self-deter-
mlnstlon We have to think Of the republics
OF Haytl and Santo Domingo, whose govern
ments he had destroyed without ever hay
ing given a reason to the American public.
He has pulled down the governments there.
closed the parliaments, turned over TIE
whole government to naval satraps officers
and surrounded the island-both republics
are on one island-by censorship so dense
that not word of what is going on gets
out.
"Alss in Nicaragua a dictator is being
kept in position as President By force OF
American bayonets. If our marine guard
were withdrawn from his Excellency's resi-
dence he would have to retire with it.
"That is Mr.. Wilson all over Idealist
one moment, breathing the highest aspira-
tions OF democracy, clothed in the most
beautiful language, and then utterly auto
cratic in government and wholly unmoved bv
the sufcringa of the conscientious object
ors, whose brutal treatmcnt-as n the case
Of your absoutsts was only ended by Sec
rotary Baker on December last
up to that time absolutsts in our
military prisons were cructed to the doors
of their cells for nine hours day. Often
they were kept in dark cells on bread and
water for two weeks, being then fattened
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-19

created debt of s2o,ooo,O0O 900, but
five times this sum has been concur
rently provided to Offset the debt Hence
the phenomenon Of abundant money
supply in times of gigantic demands on
credit.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-19
Eternally GuIlible

The sign in the Broadway windGM
road.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-19

Mrs. Hahn is quite recovered, thank
you. 1t was only passing indispostion"
said Mr.. Hahn, using one of his ridiculouslv
suited phrases.-From "The Roll Call" by
Arnold Bennett, p 11S.
And yet on page lis Mr.. Bennett saws:
Her arms traled limp. Mr.. Hahn and
Mr. Prince jointly raised her lower limbs" "
The Bolshevist may cite Scripture for
his purpose; so may the anti Bolshevist.
The Prohbitionist may do it; and-but
what says the prophet? Isaiah xiv, ~
There is crying for Wine in the streets.
all Joy ls darkened, the mirth of the land
is gone"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-19
"The Nation" Wins

when they held up one edition of nv
Nation because I dared to critcse the
impossible Gompers who is so thoroughly
misleading labor in America l was able to
take The matter at once to the White
House. to bring it to the attention of mem
bers of the Cabinet and to bring about a
reversal of the order. Furthermo I had
the means to carry the case to the Supreme
Court Of the United States and would have
done so had it been necessary Since then
| have been left alone and allowed to saw
what | please
"The stupidity Of the actions of our gov
eminent is apparent from the fact that. now
the President is in need of liberal opinion
to support him in his fourteen peace terms.
it is scattered, disorganized and in PLACES
rendered speeches., and men like myself
who are enthusiastically for his peace
terms find ourselves unable to speak for
him with the enthusiasm we should like
because of the dastardly cutrages upon
liberty and constitutional rights erpetrated
by Mr.. Wilson's subordinates.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-19
The Coming 7ower
THE PATHFINDER

In memory OF Capt. Belvidere Brooks ConpcuY
C, 9oSth INF, 18th Dvison. killed in action August
Il, 1918, at the Vesle River. He recomroitring
the position whch he rcas to lead his company
the following night, Vile Saroye soest OF
Fisnes, rchen struck By fragments from ,phi-s-
bang.
For him santing sun serene this morning,
No trees--no fowers-no greeting smiles to
For him. among his loved and loving comrades
Legion of hearts gone numb
| saw him start away into the moonlight,
His lips aframc with Jest. his boy eyes keen;
He went pioneer to blaze the safe ways
He vent where steel is sheen.
1t was not given that he should meet the foeman,
Meet him as man meets man, each at his
worth.
The cannoneer the valley snlote him,
Struck down his youth to Garth
And who shall say the lifeblood spent waste
full
He went to point the safe ways-went ahead
He found them, and beyond. paths laid in danger,
And these he marked with red.
For him santng this morning,
But oh. dear God above, for him no
| ne mortal Gtench tnat 6uHOCdteS the flowers
You mustered him from war.
ARTHUR McKEoGH.
LIST It., Inf, U. S. A.
1t is hopeless to try to be Radical
these days What is radical this morning
IS reactonary by the time the fve-star
completes come out this afternoon. RaGi-
calism is too unstable you can't trust it
out of your sight. All that remains of our
Radicalsm is a belief that the Government
should control colyum conductors.
Some morning we may write colyum as
it might be done under government su-
pervision.
The average annual rainfall in Brest is
said to be huge, but if there is to be a
contest we should like to enter Boucq Bac-
carat, and Menl-a-Tours; and spot Brest
a couple Of weeks
Suggestion for short story: Author wait
ing for his check from a magazine that
ordered him to write story attacking
the War Department for holding up SOL
diers' pay.