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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-01-24
Hospitality grows best where it is most
needed.-Hugh Miller.
THE LOST COG IN BoLsHEv1sM.

In Russia the boshevik industrial machine
has run down; it will not work the wonders
prophesied for it, They have demolished the
thing they call capitalism by taking property
and rights away from those who had them and
vesting both in theoretic commonalty which
is practically group of glib takers The boil
shevik industrial machine produces anarchy.
and anarchy and business make an impossible
team. All over the world IN one form or an
other there is a cropping for machine that VIII
give to those who have least more than they
seem able to honestly earn. But every time the
theory is tried out failure is made. The new
machine lacks cog and one which socialism Of
the intelligent sort and professional lucubra-
tons alike ignore Here is the lost cog and the
manner in which it is lost: Looking at the II
dustrial and social organization, the bolshevzk
declares that he sees only two factors producing
it-noney power which he calls capitalism and
labor. Of these he declares that labor Is the
productive factor; that work produces wealth
and wealth belongs to the workers. He there
fore proposes to take property away from It's
owners, management away from those engaged
in it, money away from its repositories and 70
give all these to the workmen who produce
commodities. With the workulen having. con
troll of the industries and with the soldiers hay-
ing control of the armies. the bolsllgvik sets
forward toward the promised land o. plenty
He does not get there His industries are para
lyzed; his armies deteriorate into mere 1not1g:
his politics become riotous struggles OF far
tons. His machinery will not run
In this time of soft speech, soft talk and
equally soft thinking this matter of class
distinction and warfare, the truth is somewhat
carefully camouflaged in apt phrases The
truth is that work pure and simple is not the
prime moving power in producing wealth: it is
not the responsible factor in industrial pro
gress. II it We're, the period of the pyramids
OF the great constructions of antiquity would
have been the golden age of industrial develop
ment, of trade guilds and of the proletariat
The real productive factor in progress in indus
tr1es are intelligence and ambition-purely sell
fish IN the older day, far less so today. perhaps
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-01-24
Erasing the Monroe Doctrine

it impossible longer to claim that Eu-
rope has no longer right to interfere
in America"
What shall Americans think OF this !?
We have been of the opinion that. far
from Intervening in the affairs OF Ed
rope, we were fighting for a human
principle, seeking to whip Germans be-
fore they got a chance to whip us. And
now. because our conflict with Ger
many Is advantageously termed Inter
yening" we are to lose our own Ameri-
can principles.
Let US set Mr. Aranha's verdict
AGAINST one in the London Times, as
follows:
Only In so far as the new peace
conference Is to be the embodiment Of
certain principles which win make
peace, justice, and progress has Amer
ica any real and living interest in its
work II. then, she talks more about
principles than the rest OF US, it is not
from any excessive consciousness OF
her own virtue and still less with any
IDEA OF teasing any one on this side of
tie Atlantic. but precisely because she
is so distant from our territorial prob
lens OF Europe and feels that the only
contribution that she can make to oar
discussions Is in the realm OF ideas.
The true settlement win not be pure
American or pure European -
american viii constantly be referring
European proposals to the test Of the
ideal; we on our side will con-
stantly be plunging American ideals
in the cold bath Of facts
Europe is willing to have us submit
ideas and 1t IS willing to accept them
ii they stand the cold bath. THAT must
be cur test OF ideas as they are to be
applied t6 MS.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-01-24
IOWA PRESS COMMENT.

Davenport Democrat: We want bet
ter roads-let's have them. We want
well supported and well managed
state institutions, the best OF schools.
healthy development of cities and OF
rural communities. We want an
abundance of work, that everyone
may be busy, wen paid. and content
The real needs OF the state today
are fundamentals on which il ought
TO be easy to agree. There is no
room for division about them on
party lines.
Waterloo Times-Tribune: Iowa
would indeed be rich state If its
mud roads were worth ANYTHING
Storm Lake Register. Already
there are q number OF candidates for
the republican nomination for COVER
nor in the state and al the rate they
hare being mentioned every county
should have an asniranl before the
primaries of 1920
Burlington Hawk-Eye One OF the
stock arguments against prohibition
was thar il would ruin the country
lindustrially and financially May we
now expect the country TO go TO the
dogs; or is there left ray OF hope
we may yet pull through somehow,
and in some way. and avert the pre-
dicted ca1aclysmT
Webster City Freeman-Journal. i
las to be hoped that Uncle Sam viii
fare better as umpire in the world
readjustmen1 than the average UNI
Fire does
Cedar Rapids Gazette: a table com
piled a few years ago showed that
Iowa's hens each year laid eggs
worth more than all the gold mined
In Colorado in ike period, II we
remember correctly With eggs
nickel apiece now we are wondering
IF the annual valuation OF the total
output wouldn't compare favorabiy
with that OF all the mineral produc-
ing states combined
Atlantic News-Telsgraph: The en-
dorsemenr in the hard roads idea by
Governor Harding in his address to
the general assembly indicates that
the pendulum is swinging the other
way in road matters in Iowa
Iowa City Citizen: The interesting
point suggested by the governor 5
message on roads is The great ad-
vance made in public sentiment IN
the state With this recommendation.
which does not differ in principle
from the Florida plan now under dis
cuss;on. il would seem that the Iowa
legislature is at last in position TO
take forward step On the road cues
ton
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-01-24

United States Senator Harding, OF
Ohio: Instead or saving we were going
to war because Germany had Violated
American rights we said we were max
ing war for democracy's sake, 1t has
been a lie from the beginning. We
have been wandering in maze of
dreams. We have forgotten the prac-
teal things
/ do not agree with the president
that we must establish a new inter
nationalism paralyzed by socialism.
The world today, trembling with the
menace cf bolsheyism, owes a good
part OF It's difficulties TO the policies
Of the chief executive
Garcia Aranha, former Brazilian
Ambassador to The Hague. The Mon.
roe doctrine, as / see il, is swallowed
up in the new league. Besides, the
United States las, by intervening In
the affairs CT Europe, made it impossi-
HE longer to claim that Europe has
no right 70 interfere in America.
The Monroe doctrine seems to me
to be worn out and no longer neces-
sary.
Chicago Tribune: In spite Of the pro
tests voiced In the United States SEN
ate. the suggestion that the Monroe
doctrine is declining in virtue seems
TO have gained considerable currency.
And this decline of the most emphatic
Of American declarations appears TO
be founded on ideas OF what the
leasue Of nations proposes TO achieve.
IL the league OF nations exercises a
benign paternalism over the affairs OF
the whole world and of all the specif-
ic activities of all peoples, there is no
longer any need for the Monroe doc
xrine- 1t is hardly Mr. wilson's while
while to tell US that our Monroe doc
urine is safe while at the same time
he in5lstriousIy IS recommending with
the utmost warmth an enterprise
which appears TO be nothing more than
an Absorbent extension Of the same
principle
Indeed, Mr. Wilson seems TO have
been SO successful IN his mission tEat
he already has made one disciple. in
the person OF Garcia Aranha. Brazil
ian diplomatist, who is SO profoundly
converted to the league OF nations that
he completely deserts the Monroe doc
trine and 1t totally beIeagued-
THE Monroe doctrine says he. SIS
swallowed up in the new league Be
sides. the United States has. by inter
Tening in the affairs OF Europe. made
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-01-24
THE DEFECTIVE PRIMARY.

st LOUIS GlobeDemocrat. No
amount OF patching of the state
wide primary law win overcome the
inherent defects OF the system
Making violations OF the law a crime
would help, and II is a singular fac:
that no Penalties were originally pro
vided- There is no legal provision
to contest primary results. but. in
practice. such provision would be of
little value, SO far as statewide
contest or contest in congress
sional district is concerned The
time between the primary and the
general election is too short to per
NIT long drawn-out legal contests,
and the pressure for harmony, ex-
erted by all undisputed candidates
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-01-24
and by jealous partisans, woul,
courage contests. y

and by jealous partisans. wor,.
courage contests.
But the trouble with the u,
system is Geep-seated. Its yerr
dalton is the false assumntic,
all the people will take the tim.
viii have the chance to pass -
qualifications Of the mplti,ns
persons seeking nomination n
courages the candidacy OF rich
or OF men with rich hackers T.,
most important offices and
over the selection Of candidate.
minor offices to luck. Even i
counties, the system is cau,i,l
multitude of men 10 spend =
time and most of their accn,1
tons seeking nomination. and
quality OF the public officials b.,
been raised a whit. The moral \
ency is bad, rather than gos|
there have been cases where
Gals tried to make back in oftie.]
large sums spent TO get office
only actual beneficiaries are
newspapers. Job printers. bill po,l
hired workers. hotels and rain
The statewide primary also siys|
such city wards as are dominate
committeeman disproportionate
er. for ward with a solid vote
balance the effects OF the dehbs
action OF voters in four or five B
ties, each the same size. This v,
not happen under a proper con
ton system.
But the chief fault OF the priu
is that ii restricts the choice Of
didates to aggressive aspirt,
Some OF the greatest governor
the history OF the United s;
would not have turned a hand 10
a nomination. but were drafted.
is impossible for the office to
the man under the primary sys
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-01-24
The Theatre Tax.

Cedar Rapids Republican:
proposition to double the ihsI
taxes may be looked upon as anil
position II is contrived by soutI
backwoods statesmen who know
SHOW business only from a few
disreputable strolling players,
with the rest OF the people it is Sd
thing more than a tolerated nuisa]
it is part of their intellectual it'd
well as their entertainment VI
out shows or spectacles people Ed
be dead In many ways What vi
life be with such diversions ID
out Of It. To tax it unduly. III
fore, is to condemn the people 1
certain kind of gloom As war
the theatres have been willing tol
and they have done SO unstinta
but now that the war is over
war taxes ought not TO be dcaS
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-01-24
TODAY,s BIT OF VERSE
THEY LIE lN ERANcE w4gRE LlLIEs GLOON.

They lie in France
Where lilies bloom,
Those flowers pale
That guard each tomb
Are SANITY souls
Thai smiling stand
Close by them in
Thai martyred land,
And muIely there the long night shadows creep
From quiet hills Tor them who sleep,
While them through the dusk go silently
The grieying clouds that slowly Drift 10 SEA,
And lately round them moaned the Winter wind
Whose voice, lemen1ing, sounds so coldly kind.
Yet II their faith those waiting hearts abide
The time when turns forever that false tide.
IN France they lie
Where lilies bloom,
Those flowers fair
For them made
Not vainy placed
The crosses stand
Within that brave
And stricken land;
Their honor lives,
Their love endures
Their noble death
The right assures,
For they shall have their asarts desire
They who, unfaltering, braved the are,
Across the fields their eyes at last shall see
Through clouds and mist the hosts of victory
-Percirai Allen.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-01-24
CORRECTIVE REFLECTIONS.

Premier Ciemeneeau knows what teefer
board life Is that when it goes up 1t must come
down and that pos1hnmous fame depends TO
great extent on whether Ii is the fortune OF men
to Jump off into the future when 1t IS rising or
has reached is height, or when II Is falling or
has touched its lowest point This man to
whom France and humanity owe so much re-
marked on the dav the armlstiee was signed
that If he should die then France would give
him grand funeral, but that if his death de-
Ilayed six months no one could tell what sort OF
la funeral he would have.
MANY other great men have realized that
their regulations were always Fl the mercy OF
events. and that If men want fame which Is to
fill certain portion OF uncertain paper. they
must pass from life at the psychological time
The greatest can but blaze and pass away =
whether they pass when the blaze Is brightest
or after II has died down.
And vet there is a compensation for men who
leag outliye the glorious peak OF grand careers
They come 20 see that catafalque and eenotaph
and mortuary ponp and nausoleuns amount 10
less than they had thought They learn TO ap-
praise applause for what II Is worth, winch Is
not much They realize that love Of fame is an
.infi-1nity which noble minds outggpT, and that
death may se, according To when and how il
comes q punishment a favor, a blessed privil-
lege, gift
Reflections along this line are always profit
able. especially for men who ere playing lead
ing roles upon the stage Of life, they being cor
receive Of that natural tendency 10 megalo-
mania which popular plandits beget. Il the
words Of Sir Walter Raleigh.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-01-24

The Tner1ts Of fhe songs Of this war cannot
be determined for twer1tT-fiTe years, Ascending
70 z writer IN New York City newspaper. The
nation has mad a deInge Of war songs most Of
them gaining almost nationwide popularity
overnight. They passed from camp To camp
like w5idfrs til eTerr soldier WIS familiar
with tlern- BEt few Of them have lasted more
than few months and still fewer Of t1as1n VIII
be remembered twenty-five years FROM now. A
few Of them VII i've though and 10 matter
what personal likes and dislikes uaay say. ore
persons guess as TO what these Few Will be Is
as good a. sassther7s.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-01-24

Il must ~ bitter blew - Germany when
she looks aroz1nd her and sees Low well dbe
world L getting along without things that are
made II GerTnangs.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-01-24

Some / ". -, 0ssIsors base stopped orat5-lr
because they hsTe found ]oos5n pea1ten-
tiaries.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-01-24

The people whom regard good company are those
like pictures the authors, the same
plays kind smokes, the amount OF red
pepper food and the amount OF IN life
that with whom discuss these topics IN
endless tranquility high enthusasm-Dorothy
Dix
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-01-24

If the peace Conference 9rags, IL s5a BE w1se
to remember tE-as var. 10, car be tedious.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-01-24

When answering advertisements
please mention The Gate City.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-01-24

. s1oquer- just and -1iEn-3e destn. wzc-z none
could a5Tiss, thor hast ps-BEansd7 WHIT
Ran dared thpu hzs- dpne, Rnd whom al the
World natt fa-tersG tBer o-liE naEt cast ort q
Ehe wp-zd and despsed- thou zas d-zwne togera-
r. az me fa-Te stretched g-saLnesse al the Tride.
c-uei-3e and ambition q men, and eeTe-ed r Al
pye- via these txo marrow worde Eic 3seet.
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1919-08-16

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The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1919-08-16
FACTOR OF CITY
Nothing Really Of Greater Moment
Than the Question Of Proper
TRANSPORTATION.

A city is big business institution.
Not merely in the business 1t under
takes Of its own, but rather in the part
It plays in the business Of the whole
community.
Take the comfort Of its citizens, for
instance. During the war the lumber
men found they had relatively little
labor trouble in camps In which 1t was
possible for families to live normal,
wholesome life. Schools, churches.
medical attendance, amusementS-all
entered into the labor problem.
What was true in the camps is true
In every city. The comforts available
for people help to determine the bust
ness possibilities Of the city.
Another important business factor
Is that Of the traffic system. In addi-
ton to street railway transportation.
there must be adequate trafficways to
handle business. It must be possible
for people to get quickly and easily
from one part Of the city to another
and 1t must be possible to deliver
goods readily.
Would a large automobile plant be
able to turn out its enormous produc-
ton Of cars daily If It were cluttered
mp. il its passageways were relatively
as narrow and congested as those Of
Kansas City?-Kansas City Star.
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1919-08-16
FAMOUS
PEACE TREATIES
TREATY OF FRANKFORT, 1871.

BY H. IRVING KING


ten to him. The Germans had Metz
and were resolved to keep it.
Bismarck yielded. Prussia WIS not
quite as ready In 1871 to defy the
whole world as she was In 1914. Be
sides, the city Of Belfort was entirely
French by population and Bismarck
had already said with regard to Metz
Il do not quite like so many French
men brought into our house against
their WILL"
At German headquarters the ex-
preston: 1--WE will bleed France
white" was common saying, and in
demnity proposed by Bismarck was
six millards-about one billion two
hundred million In American money.
But British influence had been at work
urging Germany to abate her demand,
and Theirs obtained from Bismarck a
reduction of a millard-$2OO,O 900 900.
Alsnce and Lorraine were ceded to
Germany. There was no help for 1t.
Germany was to hold certain fortresses
in France until Indemnity was paid.
Through Arch Of Triumph.
The German army had not as yet en-
tered Paris, though that city had sur
rendered. 1t was now insisted that II
France retained Belfort part of the
invading army should enter the French
capital. This demand was made SIM
ply for the purpose Of theatrical eff
feet. The world must see the Ger
man kaiser leading his legions through
the Arch Of Triumph. Theirs protest
ed that this would only cause irrita-
ton and effect nothing. Bismarck in
sisted, the emperor William made 4
point Of it, and SO 10000 German
troops marched under the great tri-
umphal arch Of Napoleon l and occu.
pied for two days the Champs
Elysees.
1t was calculated that II would take
ten years for France to pay of the
indemnity and the German troops were
to be withdrawn gradually A. Its in
stallments were paid. All the expenses
of the army Of occupation were, in the
meantime. to be paid by France. When
the terms Of this treaty were present
ed to the national assembly sitting at
Bordeaux the members from Alsace-
Lorraine lodged solemn protest
against their expatriation and some of
the more radical members resigned
their seats rather than confirm the
treaty. The treaty was confirmed by
the assembly on March 2 and the defn-
tive treaty signed a. Frankfart %
Nay 10
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1919-08-16
FAMOUS
PEACE TREATIES
TREATY OF VIENNA. 1864.
sehieswIa and HolsteIn to Prussia.
BY H. IRVING KING
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The treaty Of Vienna, signed In 1864,
between Denmark on one side and
Austria and Prussia on the other. put
an end to the war which the two latter
powers had been waging against the
FORMER and tore the duchies Of Schles-
wig and Holstein from the Danish
crown. The revolutionary spirit which
had swept Germany In 1S4S had grad
ually died away and a period of re-
action had set in. Nowhere was the
reaction so strong as In Prussia. In
1857 Frederick William, under whom
Prussia had suffered so many humili-
atoms, became insane and his brother
William became first regent and, early
In 1861, king. He was Hohenzollern
OF the true type. deeply imbued with
the spirit of militarism. Bismarck
had already made for himself reputa-
ton as the exponent Of force and the
new king employed him as just the
man he wanted to work out his plans.
William proposed a great increase in
the Prussian amy and navy, and when
the Prussian parliament rejected his
plans sent for Bismarck and, making
him minister-president, told him to
tame" the parliament. He tanned it,
or acted without 1t, g. he pleased.
THE German problem" he told
them, "could not be solved by parli-
mentary DEGREES, but by blood and
iron." He forced bills through by en-
ploying every means in his power; he
Instituted the army reforms; he
framed q trade treaty with France
which Austria declared unfriendly and.
upon Austria's protesting, he recog-
nized the new kingdom of Italy. He
dispatched an uitimatum to the elector
Of Hesse, which brought that poten-
tate to reason with regard to the Of
fairs of his electorate.
Illegal and Arbitrary Powers.
To the Austrian delegate to the diet
Count Karolyi, ancestor OF the Count
Karolyi who has just played so i'm
portant a part in the affairs of Hun
gary-he said: Our relations with
Austria must soon become either bet
ter or worse-we sincerely desire the
former OF the two alternatives" His
entire policy was directed to driving
Austria out Of Germany and giving to
Prussia the hegemny of the confed.
GRAFTON. In other words. Austria was
to be driven out and Prussia would
eat up what remained To build up
Prussia, King William did not hesitate
to use illegal and arbitrary power
Won Moltke appeared in the military
councils Of Prussia and the country