davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Filer record. (Filer, Idaho) 1919-1930, 1919-08-14

When President Wilson shook hand,
the other day with Mrs. II. W Somers.
wife OF General Somers Of Civil was
fame. he was the twentieth chief ex-
ccutive OF the United States to whom
she had been Introduced. Mrs SOmers
made her debut at the White House
On the arm " Daniel Webster when
William Harrison was president The
aged lady declares that since that time
she has attended many OF the social
functions given by presidents and that
she was intimately acquainted with
many of the executives. Washington
has been her home for % years. ~
spite her advanced age she Is very
active aud IN the stormiest or hottest
weather can be Seen among her wards
the poor.
The Filer record. (Filer, Idaho) 1919-1930, 1919-08-14

That man is idle who does less than
ne can.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-12
Co,uboy Hands Wilson
4 Dime for a Smile

Staff Correspondence
billings, Mont, Sept. 11.-Presi.
~ dent Wilson is richer by one
dime by reason of his visit to Bill
ings to-day. Three youngsters on
COW ponies came in from the back
lands and worked their way to the
President just before his train left
for Helena. One Of them handed him
an American flag and received a
smile and word of thanks. The
second handed over bunch Of
wild flowers, and he also received n
like greeting. The third, his face
scarlet by this time, not having
either flag or flowers, bored down
into his jeans and found dime.
"Mr. President, will you take
this?" he rather confuscdly asked.
81 certainly accept 1t with thanks,
my boy" said the President. joining
in the hearty laughter that went
round.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-12

it will not be easy to direct it any
better than it will direct itself When
he had ample time for action last
December and might have prevented
the subsequent continuance of high
prices, these are his words: Our people
do not wait to be. coached and led
Any leading strings we might seek to
put them in would speedily become
hopelessly entangled because they
would pay no attention to them and go
their own way. The American business
man is of quick initiative'
AT that time we had a competent
Federal food administration, complete
ly organized throughout the nation.
Mr.. Wilson deliberately scrapped his
vast organization. which might have
removed part, at least, of the causes
of high prices. Now. months after he
has dismissed the Federal and state
agencies, he is calling them together
again to deal with the question. The
ratification Of the treaty, he says, will
increase exports, but increase in ex-
ports will not reduce prices at home.
If responsibility for the high cost of
living rests upon any agency or man
1T rests upon the present Admnistra-
ton and Woodrow Wilson,"
New-York tribune., 1919-09-12

tlonal Administration at Washington
and added, "They pick the taxpayers
pockets to poison the public mind"
When he asked the crowd if it favored
the league there we're loud shouts of
"No!"
The audience laughed when the
speaker referred to William H. Taft as
"a distinguished ex-Presdent whom
many respect, but none follow"
senator johnson declared that if re-
sponsibility for the high cost of living
rests upon any agency or man, it rests
upon the present national administra-
ton and Woodrow Wilson.
president Wilson adds to his fear
some harsh names, appeals to our ma
terlal interests, and even taxes the
two months that the league and treaty
have been before the American people
and Senate with the high cost of liv-
lng,' said Senator Johnson. He con-
veniently forgets the eight months he
spent abroad, secretly pledging our
resources and our man-power to Euro
pean and Asiatic governments
The two months of discussion by
our people and our Senate in the open
OF what ne discussed secretly for eight
months has had, of course, no bearing
upon, and the reasonable discussion
~ 'ile luture cannot possibly AFFECT,
the high cost of living. If any single
individual can be charged with respon-
sibility for the high cost of living,
that man is Woodrow Wilson. The liv-
ing costs in December and January
last were substantially what they are
to-day. Mr.. Wilson then had exactly
the same laws he now invokes
He had neither time nor inclination
to deal with a problem then practically
as acute as it is now. He never even
touched the subject. except patroniz-
ingly and as an ephemeral i'll of no
consequence or Importance. He makes
its solution depend now upon the i'm
mediate ratification of his treaty. He
would frighten us by cheap and speci-
Gus statement, devoid of economic
logic, and wanting in any sound reason
He covers his own derelction by an un-
founded counter charge. Remember his
address to Congress, December last
He said:
"'The moment we knew the armi.
stice to have been signed. we took the
harness off. 1t is surprising how fast
the process of return to peace foot
ing has moved in the three weeks since
the fighting stoppcd.'
"His idea of reconstruction then was
New-York tribune., 1919-09-12
Wilson's Billings Talk
Is Criticised as an
'Incitement of Unrest

BILLINGS, Mont, Sept. 11-Pres-
dent Wilson is being sharply criticized
here for what he said about radicalism
and unrest, his critics arguing that his
address is direct ncitemcnt of un
rest leading to Bolshevism.
"As long as things are wrong said
the President in his speech here this
morning, Il do not intend to ask men
to stop agitating. l intend to beg that
they will agitate in an orderly fashion
| intend to beg that they viii use the
orderly methods of counsel . as long
as there is something to correct, | say
God speed to the men who are TRYING
to correct it. That is the only way to
meet radicaism. Radicalism means
cutting up by the root, remove the
noXious growths and there will be no
cutting up by the roots'
Those who objected to the tone of his
remarks say that if the President lived
in state like Montana. or Idaho, or
New-York tribune., 1919-09-12
The Presidents Plea for Ratification of the Treaty

extreme conditions arising out
of the war and the extraordinary
circumstances. 1t is due to the un-
usual effect Of the conditions under
which men live and labor which now
exists. That is the condition all over
the world. There is no use in talk
ing about q. political democracy un-
less we also. have an Industrial
democracy.
"Thcrc can be no democracy with
the control of few, of whatever
kind or class; there can be no de-
mocracy of any sort. The world is
finding that out, like what is respon-
siblc for the conditions in Russia
find. wherever ] go in America, an
infinite pity for that great people.
Everybody who has mixed with
the Russian people tells me they arc
among the most lovable people Of the
world people who easily trust you
and accept ybu to be trustworthy, as
they are. and yet this people is de-
livcred into> the hands of an intol-
cradle tyranny. 1t came out of one
tyranny to get into worse. A little
group of some thirty or forty men
arc the masters of that people at
present. They chose themselves.
They maintain their power by the
sword
New-York tribune., 1919-09-12
This Treaty
Or No Treaty,
Says Wilson
Continued from page 1

said Mr. Wilson, was that the terri
tory everywhere belongs to the people
who live upon it. 1t was the laborious
work of many minds, he added, and
"has very few compromises in it," fol-
lowing in general American spectica-
tions. Should it fail. he declared, it
would be impossible to get together
again the elements necessary to make
a new settlement The United States
either must take the treaty. he sad, or
play lone hand in world affairs.
"If you're going to play lone hand.'
said he, "the hand that YOU play must
must be all the young men of the
country and the business Of the coun-
try must pay the piper.
There was a spirit of Unrest every
province of the treaty to set UP an
industrial democracy as we'll as q po-
litical democracy. He continued that
there were domestic questions to be
settled in that connection because there
could be no industrial democracy as
long as monopolies existed.
He was interrupted by applause
when he added: "And we have not
yet finished with the monopoles."
Ieninc Agents Among Us"
Citing again the upheaval in Russia,
:
not seen evidences OF the spread of
the unrest. 1t was the dread" of
every statesman in Europe, he con-
tnued, and a propaganda was spread
ing il in the United States.
There are apostles of Lenine in our
midst" he said, land it means TO be
an apostle OF darkness. Our business
is to see that no minority. no matter
how rich no matter how poor, shall
get control OF the United States"
The publication of political cond-
tons never could be accomplished until
the treaty was accepted and peace
established. Some men debating the
treaty. he added, seemed to think there
was "leisure,' but there should be no
lelsurely discussion of such an issue.
Repeating declarations made in his
previous addresses, the President said
that his whole heart was in the pro
vision for discussion and arbitration
OF International controversies. you
can't hate fellow you know" said
Mr.. Wilson. Il know some crooks
that can't help liking
New-York tribune., 1919-09-12

partial determination in this world
is by consenting to do something
you don't want to do.
81 find that the two houses Of Con-
grcss suggested there be an intcrna-
ational court and they put it in
place where you would not expect
it; they put it in the naval appro-
priation bill. And now that they
have it they don't want it.
"lf we are headed toward peace
then we must take the necessary
steps to secure it and we must make
the sacrifices necessary to secure it
and not only discuss it.
1--WE have served mankind and we
shall continue to serve mankind, for
| believe that VIC are the flower of
mankind, so far as civilization is
concerned.
II am just as sure what the YER
dict will be as if already rendered,
and what has convinced me most is
what plain people have said to me.
particularly what women have said
to me, but when | see woman
dressed with marks Of labor upon
her and she says, God bless you,
Mr.. President, and God bless the
league Of nations,' then know the
league Ol udtlOIlS is sale. KNOW
the league of nations is close to the
hearts of these people. A woman
came to ME the other day and took
my hand and said: God bless you,
Mr.. President and she turned away
in tears. | asked neighbor, What
is the mattcr?' and he said, She was
intending to say something to you,
but she lost u son in France
"That woman did not take my
hand with the feeling that her son
should not be sent to France. sent
her son to France. She took my
hand and blessed it., but she could
not say anything more because a
whole world of spirit came up in
her throat. Down deep in the heart
of love for her boy she felt that we
had done something so that no other
woman's boy would be called upon
to lay his life down for thing like
that.
81 anticipate your verdict to what
am pledged with deep and serious
thought to satisfy the heart Of the
world"
New-York tribune., 1919-09-12
U. S. Investigates Radicals
Bulletin of Federated Soviets
Onends Defence Society

The latest bulletin issued by the
American Federated Commune Soviets
which has been given wide circulation
in the city, is being investigated by
the Department of Justice at the re.
quest of the American Defence Society
One Of the passages in the bulletin
according to Charles Stewart DAWSON
chairman of the society's board OF
trustees, is the following:
"By our united strength we, the
workers of all colors and creeds, shall
start the real worth while war for
the overthrow of the entire capitalist
system and the taking over of all the
industries, farms and warehouses of
the country.'
New-York tribune., 1919-09-12
Senator Cheered When He
Assails Treaty and Says
That League Propaganda
''Picks Peoples Pockcts''
Demands US. S.Quit Russia
If Any Man Is to Blame
for High Cost 1t Is the
President, He Declares

INDIANAPOLIS, Sept Senator
Hiram. w. Johnson, of California, was
enthusiastically received here tonight
by crowd which filled the largest hall
in the downtown section of the city
in the second address of his speaking
tour through the Middle West to op-
pose ratification of the league of ma
tions covenant by the United States
Senate. The mass meeting was ar
ranged by nonpartisan citizens com
mittec.
In introducing Senator johnson
Henry Lane Wilson, former United
States Ambassador to Mexico, said:
Like the late Colonel Theodore Roose-
velt, Senator johnson calls things BY
their right names"
There were cries Of "You are right;
you are right" when Senator johnson
insisted that American troops shoulc
Immediately be brought back from
Russia. He frequently was interrupted
in the course of his attack on the
league of nations by the cheers Of the
crowd.
Senator johnson referred to the Of
fetal propaganda issued by the Ma
New-York tribune., 1919-09-12

Washington, where the authorities have
had to deal with the /. W W, he never
would have said what he did.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-12

New Victor Records demonstrated at
oil dealers on the lss Of each month
"Victrola" is the Registered Trademark or
the Victor Talking Machine Company desig
natinG the products Of this Company only.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-12
Text of Presidents
Speech at Billings

BILLINGS, Mont, Sept. f1.-Thc
fert of President Wilson'S speech to-.
day foll0re, IN part:
Il have come to consult with you
in the light Of certain circumstances
which | want to explain to you. cir
cumstances which affect not only this
great nation, which we love and of
which we try to constitute an hon
orable part. but also affect the whole
world. | wonder when we speak of
the whole world whether we have a
true conceotion of the fact that the
human heart beats everywhere the
same.
I'VE are making a mistake, take
the liberty of saying, debating it as if
II were an ordinary treaty with some
particular country; a treaty We could
ourselves modify without conflicting
with the affairs of the world; where
as, as matters are, ii is not really
a treaty with Germany. Matters
we're drawn into this treaty which
affected the peace and happiness of
the whole continent of Europe, Amer
lea and the farthermost populations
IN Africa, the peoples we hardly know
about in the usual affairs of our
country. where the influence of Ger
man policy had existed and every
where that influence had to be
guarded had to be ejected; had to
he aitareJ
New-York tribune., 1919-09-12
Europe Fears Spread
OF General Unrest

"Have you seen these symptoms Of
chaos spread to other countries? II
you had been across the sea with me
YOU would know the dread in the
mind of every thoughtful man in
Europe is that that distemper will
spread to their country. That poison
is running through the veins of the
world There are disciples of Lenine
in our own midst
Our immediate duty, therefore, is
to see that no minority, no class in
special interest, no matter how re-
spectacle, how rich. or poor, shall get
control Of the affairs of the United
States.
'Ths is the best treaty that can
possibly be gotten and in my judg-
ment it is mighty good treaty, if
it has justice or an attempt at JUS
tice, at any rate, at the heart of it.
Don't YOU think some insurance
is better than mono at all And the
security obtained by this treaty at
It's minimum, as 1t is, is great deal
better than no security at all, and
without it there is no security at ali.
THE leisurelincss of some OF the
debate creates the impression in my
mind that some men think there is
leisure. There is no leisure in the
world. with regard to the reform of
the condition under which men live.
desire. to- say that, as many of you
know, I have called a conference to
sit in Washington the first week of
next month: "A conference of men in
the habit of managing business and
OF men engaged IN manual labor;
what we generally call employers
and employees; and | have called
them together for the sake of get
ting their minds together, and get
ting their purposes together; getting
them TO look at the factor of our
life, at the same time. in the same
light and from the same angle so
that they can see the things that
ought TO be done | am trying to
apply there what is applied and in
degree covered by the league of ma
tions; if there is any trouble the
thing to do is not to fight, but sit
around the table and talk it over.
"The league of nations substitutes
discussion for fighting. Without dis
cussion there will be fighting. One
of the great difficulties we have been
through in the past is getting men
to understand that fundamental
thing.
"The conference is the healing in
fucnce Of civilization, and the real
difficulty between classes when a
country is unfortunate enough to
have classes, is they do not under
stand one another. |. myself, think
the real barriers in life arc the bar
rlcrs of caste.
at is the absence Of the ability to
get at the point Of view and lcok
through the eye of the person with
whom you are not accustomed to
dealing.
"ln order. therefore, to straighte
out the affairs of America; in order
to calm the ways of the world, the
first and important requisite is peace,
and it is an important requisite that
cannot wait. 1t is not wise to wait.
"Thc only way to keep men from
agitating against grievances is to
remove the grievance, but as long as
things are wrong | do not intend to
ask men to stop agtatng. | intend
to beg that they will aeitate in am
orderly fashion. Otherwise, we will
have chaos.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-12
WilsOn to Hear LabOrs
Plea He Free Prisoners

SEATTLE, WASH, Sept. 11.-Presi-
dent Wilson has agreed to meet dele
CATION Of representatives of Northwest
organized labor here next Sunday for
conference which, it is declared by
local labor men, will deal with the re-
lease of "political" prisoners.
Word that the President would meet
the labor men was received to-day by
l.. W. Buck, secretary of the Washing
ton Federation of Labor, in a telegram
from the Presidents secretary. Mr..
Buck is expected to act as spokesman
for the labor men at the conference.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-12
All Peoples Have
Right to Fix Own Rule

The fundamental feature of this
treaty is the principle that had its
birth and growth in this country
that the countries of the world be-
long TO the people who live in Them
And they have a right to determine
their own affairs. their own form Of
government, their own policy, and
that nobody of statesmen sitting any
where in the world should have the
right TO assign 10 any people any ad-
vantage.
This is the great treaty which is
to be debated This is the treaty
which is to be examined with
microscope. My friends, are you
going to be narrow minded enough
and near-sighted enough to allow
them to weigh that great charter of
human liberty in that way? That
is impossible.
"Now the chance is there to accept
this treaty or play lone hand
What does that mean? To play a
lone hand now means that we must
always be ready to play by our
selves. 1t means that We must al
ways be armed; that we must al
ways be ready to mobilize the man
strength and the manufacturing re-
sources OF the country: that means
that we must continue to live under
not diminishing, but increasing taxes
and strong enough to beat any ma
tion in the world and absolutely
contrary to the high ideals of Amer
lean history. If you are going to
play lone hand, the hand that you
play must be upon the handle of the
sword.
THE lone hand must have a
weapon in it, and the weapon must
be the young men of the country
traired to arms and the business of
the country must be prepared for
making armament and arms for the
men. And do you suppose. my fel-
low citizens. that any nation is will
lnC to stand for that?
Industrial Democracy
Is Real Need of World
"The fact that the world is in a
state Of unrest is not due to the
New-York tribune., 1919-09-12
Says Congress Turns
On Its Own Proposal

THAT fault is being found with
the league of nations, is because ap-
parently the gentlemen who are dis
cussing it unfavorably arc afraid we
will be bound to do something we
do not want to do. Now the only
way in which you can have an i'm
New-York tribune., 1919-09-12

affairs Of the world. and ! want to
render my testimony that these gen
uemen entered upon their delibcra
tlons with great openness of mind.
Their discussions were character
lied by the utmost candor, and they
realized, my fellow citizens, what as
student of history. venture to say
no similar body never acknowledged
before-that they were nobody's
masters. They did not have the right
to vary line to any nations ad-
vantage IN determining on the settle
ments and the basis of peace. they
were IN the service OF their people
and the service of the world. r'his
settlement, my fellow citizens. is the
first international settlement in
tended for the happiness and safety
of men and women throughout tho
world This is indeed and in truth
peoples treaty; it is the first
peoples treaty. and venture to
say that no parliament or congress
will attempt to alter it. 1t is a
peoples treaty. notwithstanding the
fact that it is also treaty with
Germany. and it is not an unjust
treaty with Germany, as some have
characterized it.
My fellow citizens, Germany tried
to commit a crime against civiliza-
tion. and this treaty is justified as
memorandum to make Germany pay
for the crime ordered up to her full
capability for payment
Critics Of Treaty
Pisiful, He Says
Some OF the very gentlemen who
now arc characte rizing this treaty
as harsh are the same men who less
than twelve months ago were critics.
ing the Administrati tion at Washing
ton in the fear that we would COM
pound the crime.
They were pitilcss thcn-they are
pitiful now.
ut is meet. my fellow citizens, that
we should not forget what this war
meant. am amazed at the indca-
tons that we are forgetting what We
went through. There are some inf
cations that on the other side of the
water they are about to forget what
they went through. venture to say
that there are thousands of parents,
fathers. mothers, wives, sisters,
swee!hearts who are never going to
forget what they went through. Thou
sands of our gallant youth lie buried
IN France. Buried for what? For the
protection of America? America was
not directly attacked. For the saliva
ton Of mankind everywhere and not
alone for the salvation of America
Il appeared once in the presence
of a little handful of men whom
revere, who fought in the Civil War,
and it seems to me- that they fought
for the great principle in their day,
and we know with what reverence
we look upon those men who fought
for the safety of the nation. l say
this although | was born below the
Mason and Dixon line We arc not
going to deny those sentiments to
the boys who were in this war
Don't YOU think that when they are
old men halo will seem to be about
them because they were crusaders
for the liberty Of the civilized world :?
One Of the hardest things for me to
do among the many men Of this
country was merely to advise and di-
rect and not take gun and so my
self.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-12
Says Candor Ruled
At Peace Sessions

Consider the circumstances. For
the first time in the world some
twenty nations sent their men
thoughtful and responsible men-to
consult together at the capital OF
France to effect settlement of the
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1919-05-29

The high school baccalaureate sermon
will be preached by Dean Chase at
Trinity church Sunday evening.
Old lady GRADER, relict of Hanikel
GRADER, died in this city, at the home
of her daughter, Mrs. John Mari, Sat
urday evening, at the age of 81 years.
Memorial Days, 1904. will be OBJ
served in Mineral Point by the schools,
churches, war survivors and people gen
orally. Comrade Thomas Luchsinger
of Monroe will deliver an grafton.
1t was sad news indeed which reached
this city Tuesday to the effect that
Mrs. Martin Murrish had died in the
hospital in Chicago early that morning
Some of our citizens are of the opin-
ion that it would be a good move tc
take the material in the discarded schoo
building, the city hall and old bank
building and utilize the same in the
construction of large modern building
fitted up for bank, law Offices, council
chamber and public library room. all or
the first floor, with a commodious, up
to-date opera hall above.