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The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-08-16

Our relations with France have gen
orally been of such friendly nature
from the founding of the nation until
the present day that most people have
forgotten that we were ever at war
with her But we were, from the
spring Of 1898 to September, 1900
James Monroe was minister to
France in 1896 when the Directory
which had succeeded TO the Terror of
Robespierre" informed him that the
treaty of ITS between France and the
United States was at an end because
America had signed the treaty with
England known as Jays treaty Mr..
Monroe replied that the treaty of ITS
had already been brought to nothing
by the constant capture of American
ships by French men of war. France,
under the Terror, had regarded the
rest Of the world in the same light as
the Russian bolshevists do now. Amer
lean merchant ships were captured and
condemned and sold.
Mr. Monroe was too plant; he was
recalled and Charles Cotesworth
Pinckney was sent over in his place.
The Directory from purely selfish mo-
tives continued the policy of claiming
exemption from international law
which the Terror had begun in the
name of liberty. The French govern
,nent would not receive Pinckney and
ordered him out of the country. Presi-
dent Adams called a special session Of
congress and recommended the prompt
formation of a navy and the permits
sion for merchant ships to arm them
selves.
Extra ENJOYS Named.
Pinckney was in Holland. The pres
ident appointed Elbridge Gerry and
John Marshall as extra ENJOYS to Join
Pinckney, to go to Paris and negoti-
ate. On reaching Paris the commits
sionerS found that Talleyrand was min
lister of foreign affairs Talleyrand
sent go-betweens to the commissioners
telling them that before the Directory
would negotiate they must pay bribe
of $250000. The bride was to be d.
vided among all the directors except
one who, it was explained, was already
making enough money by his rake-off
or the condemnation of American
ships. And there was another little
matter; the United States must make
n loan to the French government of
$2,S00,0O0 These matters being agreed
TO the American claims for damages
would be submitted to arbitration pro-
vided America would advance money
to pay any damages assessed against
the Directory government of France.
The American ENJOYS being some
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-08-16

One poet contends that the free
verse craze has brought about improve
ment of rhymed verse But perhaps
rhyIned verse merely seems better by
contrast.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-08-16

The May record on $4,000 troops
moved to the United States is all
right, but at that none of the soldiers
report injured feelings because they
were rushed home.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-08-16

As we understand the complaint of
the American button manufacturers
against the foreign makers of an in
ferior article, they want them to come
off.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-08-16

Lithuania claims to be the oldest
nation in Europe and doubtless it
would testify that never before with
in it's memory has there been so much
excitement.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-08-16

America is inclined to oppose the
trial Of the eX-kaiser, though he is
the same curious person who once
said he would stand no nonsense from
America.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-08-16

Organized labor says that anarchy
must go. The anarchist is a creature
who feeds on envy of the man who
leads useful and self-respecting life.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-08-16

But how will that minister who is
going TO preach from an airplane, 90
coo feet in the air, know whether it is
coin or q collar button?
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-08-16

The fellow who can't afford an auto
mobile tries TO make himself believe
he is saving his money to be one of
the first to own pleasure airplane.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-08-16

1t was the American expeditionary
army that put democracy Intellectually
on the European map, but 1t was the
Salvation Army that made the world
safe for the great American dough-
nut.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-08-16

With American peasants raking in
1926 bushel on a bilIion-bushel crop,
It's no wonder that they fear the cit
les will turn bolshevik.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-08-16

No, "America is not ready for boil
sheyism.' as the red radicals say. and
IS becoming more hostilely unready all
the time.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-08-16

Street car travel has not yet at
famed a degree of comfort to warrant
Gpprehensions that a luxury tax will
be added to each fare.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-08-16

Girls and women who work have a
right to decent places in which to live.
That is one of the problems involved
in the advancement Of the Y. w. G. A.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-08-16

All things that were said about the
danger and impracticability of the To-
connective soon after its appearance are
now being said about the airship.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-08-16

The rules laid down by bolshevists
make the old tyrants under which Rus
STA labored appear generous and be-
nign.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-08-16

Who can remember when the only
fines farmers ever met were on the
road, at church, and at the corner gro
Gerry?
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-08-16

AT least one of the former emperor's
palaces might be used for storing the
notes written to the peace confer
ence.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-08-16

No one is likely to try a nonstop
flight round the world soon, because
the folk at home would never know
he'd been away.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-08-16

Not having enough cars though, the
war department couldn't give an au-
tomobile and farm to every returned
soldier
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-08-16

Bomb throwers might do well to
take notice that nobody ever prac-
ticed that trade in this country and
succeeded.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-08-16

When a fly gets in the house he
never is able to get out of it, which
is more than can be said about some
traps.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-08-16

About all warship is bailt for is
to be scrapped, either in battle or in
junk yard.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-08-16

Rumors Of the vast sums spent in
bolshevist propaganda indicate that
the proletarians are swimming in cap
ital.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-08-16

The trouble with lot of European
ideals seems to be that they're not
ideals, but merely ideas.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-08-16

The luxury" tax is regarded by the
clerk who collects it as taking the last
trace of luxury out of life.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-08-16

Still a millionaire can afford to get
married more than once as he never
misses the alimony.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-08-16

In other words, Austria is to admit
that times have changed since she sent
the ultimatum to Serbia.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-08-16

A lot of fellows can't decide whether
TO neglect their gardens or their of
fee work.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-08-16

Uncle Sam, with more than 100000
900 children, certainly ought to know
where all the pennies go.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-08-16

Slang has one advantage over legal
ianguage-people know what the slang
words and phrases mean.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-08-16

A bathtub may not provide as much
sport as river or bathing pool, but
the casualties are fewer.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-08-16

All the picayune wars now going on,
however, are of the bush league vari-
ETY..
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-03

and loss, has not been without its
compensations. We have come to
realize the better things of life and
entering upon a new year there will
be general proneness to treat with
much consideration our fellowmen
and to be kinder and more thought
full of others and less concerned with
things purely selfish and individual.
During the reconstruction era
upon which we have entered there
will be calls for high order of pa
tience and we must endeavor to do
our part to alleviate the suffering
and the tribulation which are cer-
tain to follow the shock of war and
the decentralization necessarily en-
suing from the calling of millions of
men from their ordinary employ
ment into the national defense.
Each can contribute his share to
the general welfare. This does not
involve money, but does demand
personal service and personal con-
sideration with which all are pos
sessed and which has no price, but
which has a value higher than any
legal-tender.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-03
Municipal Government
(From the Ohio State Journal1

NFIOIH the OIllO state Journal
Why is it that all the municipali-
ties have deficits and continuously
clamor for carte blanche system
of taxation? The reason is the whole
system of city government is wrong.
1t has been contrived to spend money
and to turn over to politics the duty
to spend the money. The people pay
enough taxes to, make city govern
ment delightful and it turns out so
in nearly every case where the COM
mission form, with the managerial
attachment, has been provided. 1t
is just as sensible to have the con-
glomerated populace run a city as it
would be for a family to call in all
the neighbors to take care of the do
mestic tranquility.
Democracy is not pell-mell mob
with a hurrah and "go-for-' -'em"
spirit. 1t is a quiet, well-regulated
will that turns away from the bran
dished fist and the loud voice and
executes it's judgment as quietly as
the buds burst or the snowflakes fall.
If humanity has any enemy worse
than the Bolsheviki it is the loud
mouth politician whose love of the
people has a string to it. And the
present system of municipal govern
ment is just that kind. 1t was built
out of chaos in the first place and
reveals its origin at every step in
it's career.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-03
BACK TO NORMAL

A WE settle back to normal con-
~ ditions the appreciation during
hostilities of public willingness
to accept unusual war conditions is
evident everywhere. So long as the
restrictions and limitations were on
the people they observed these with
a cheerfulness and willingness that
could not have been imagined be-
fore the war. Now that there is no
longer occasion for these drastic
regulations the people are begin
ming to assume their normal activi-
ties, but there is still a disposition
wise disposition--to continue in
definitely those economics and the
sanity of living which were made
necessary during the struggle.
More and more the practical ma
ture of the self-restraint imposed
upon the people is understood now
that the direct need for such re-
straint has passed. There is also
recognition of the finer attitude
of the average person toward his
neighbor. Less selfishness and more
consideration are observable in the
daily actions of all classes of our
citizenry.
So the war, horrible in all its de-
tail and entailing untold suffering
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-03
LOOK BEFORE YOU LEAP
(From the st. Louis Censor)

There have been leagues of ma
tions before. There was one called
the Holy Alliance. There was q
league of nations to guarantee the
security and independence of Bel
GUM. To say that the nations fought
only because they had conscription
is to deny all the wars which have
been fought by democratic nations
which had no armies when they be-
gan to fight.
A league of nations will operate
within it's limitations. If the United
States does not consider what the
limitations are or what they will be
found to be, it will find that its
whole dependence has been placed
upon thing not wholly dependable.
The British, the French and the
Japanese will not put their whole
dependence upon such international
arrangements as may be made. The
British are absolutely candid in their
reservations. Their big reservation is
that their fleet shall be superior to
any other fieet-or, in fact, to any
probable combination of fleets.
If the United States enters into
new international agreements with
the consciousness that there are pos
sible issues in the future which the
American people will not submit to
the decisions of other nations-no
matter what we at present stipulate
that Americans in the future will do
1t will guard against trouble.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-03
War Insurance

(F'rom the Cleveland Plain Dealer.)
More than 100000 officers and
men in the American Army and Navy
held life insurance with the national
government on December /. The
total of insurance was more than
$36, 100000. In it's present form
this is annual renewable term insur-
ance issued against death and total
permanent disability. Every person
holding this insurance may keep it
in this form even after he leaves the
service for period of five years. Not
later than five years after the official
termination of the war however, this
government insurance must be con-
verted, without medical examination,
into some other form.
The establishment of the war risk
insurance bureau by the national
government was one of the far
sighted acts of Congress at the be-
ginning of hostilities. 1t has con-
ferred a valuable favor upon thou
sands of soldiers and sailors and
upon their dependents. 1t should
prove a safeguard against one of the
evils resultant from some of AM
erica's previous wars.
one Oh tne laSt statements by Sec
retary McAdoo before his retirement
from the Treasury Department was
an appeal to the men of the Army
and Navy not to let their insurance
lapse now that the fighting had
ceased and they were about to return
to civilian status. 1t was a timely
suggestion. Were any considerable
number to surrender their valuable
policies now the loss would be large.
In very few cases will such surrender
be necessary,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-03
From War to Peace
(From the New York Times)

(From the New York Times)
If the transition from war to
peace were a mere matter of beat
ing swords into ploughshares the
,, problem would be a simple one of
the smithy. But that phrase, an
easy symbolism of our language, de-
notes in the case of this war a task
that is complex, immensely difficult,
gigantic. Its difficulties are every
day increased by the unconscion-
able, perhaps inevitable, delay in
beginning the actual formulation of
the terms of peace at Paris. A great
part of the world is in state of
disorganization, without RESPONSE
BILE government, q prey to accumu-
lating. ills and dangerous disorders.
Unrest, and apprehension will grow
until the chaos of armistice gives
place to the positive determination
of peace treaty.
While the war was in progress
mems minds were concentrated
upon ones purpose, the use of force,
always more force, force to the
utmost" Victory was achieved, and
now we are embarked upon the sea
of speculation about peace terms.
A peace that shall be permanent is
the end sought-the nations are
agreed upon that. There is only
general rough agreement as to the
means by which that end is to be
attained; we hope the preliminary
conferences will bring complete
agreement nearer. The chief men
of the great nations are getting
acquainted; that counts for much (;
it is essential to the meeting of
their minds. 1t is most fervently
to be hoped that, without much
further delay, they will feel that
they understand each other we'll
enough to sit down at the table and
begin to put their agreements into
form. The world must know the
conditions of peace before it can in
telligently and with confidence un-
dertake the immense tasks of recon-
struction. Other nations, had beset
and with sufferings incomparably
greater than ours, are weary of war.
In this country, we are becoming
weary of the legal fiction that the
war has not yet ended. 1t is made
the preteXt of ventures and under
takings against which the public
registers its protest but has no
power to inhibit. The sword won
the war, the victory of peace must
be won by brains, by the highest
wisdom, foresight, breadth and So
berness of view. Last year brought
victory, this year puts before us the
tasks of magnitude that makes
them fit to be compared with the
problems of war.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-03
THE SHIPS RETURN
By BRIGGS

(John O'Keefe from the New York
World).
Lights fingers rip the eastern blur
And great, gray shapes reveal,
AS if the Pole a furnace were
That forged it's bergs of steel,
And a white eagle courier
Shrieks Sea room!" to the seal.
Hey, ships! no, ships!
High ships and low ships!
Battle-seeking;
Thunder speaking
When the flaming starts,
Now the eastern sea is won,
Soft for you the western sun,
So to-day you go, ships,
To the Port of Hearts!
In the mirage's mirror glass
Loom phantom twins of you,
AS If your souls desired to pass
To more ethereal blue,
And the high cloud armadas mass
Gray brothers, for review!
Gray ships! gay ships!
Ready-night-and-day ships!
Guns a-crackling
When you're tackling
Anything that rides.
Now to-day your cannon flame,
Aimed in love, as brothers aim
Back from war to play, ships,
On the Yankee tides!
How puny seem the spires of town
AS your squat masts rise DER!
These are new peaks that come to
crown
The sea that they adore,
AS If mountain range stepped
down
In love to guard the shore.
Great ships! fate shipsl
Yet not built in hate, ships!
Gentle warders
At our borders;
Eagle, yea, yet dove
Mastiffs lazy in your lolling
Till you hear your master call.
ing!
Welcome at the gate, ships,
Of the Port of Love!
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-03
(From the Philadelphia Evening
Public Ledger.)

Public Ledger)
OMETH1NG at least of the rea-
sons why the Allies are deter
~ mined to send relentless armies
into Russia is revealed in the NAL
evolent bomb outrages prepetrated
at the homes of Justice Won Mosch-
zisker, Mr.. Trigg and Captain Mills.
The incident is in itself an ironic
answer, complete and overwhelming,
to the pseudo-h
which is still disposed to look upon
Bolsheviki with tolerant pity. Moth
ing could have better illustrated the
causes which make of the anarchist
detested outcast assured always of
the enmity of rational minds and a
laugh or a kick from plain men who
take no trouble to explain instructive
dislike.
Men who gave the world freedom
and those who endured martyrdom
for the sake of humanity did their
fighting decently in the open after a
plain statement of their case. There
is nothing anywhere to show that the
mind and methods of q snake can
ever be applied in the maintenance
or a right principle. And certainly,
in the present state of society, there
is no room for cult that must en-
ploy protling imbeciles to set
bombs at tie homes of sleeping men.
The bomb outrages of Monday
night represent the isolated work of
mental deficients. The problem is
one for the alienists as we'll as for
the police. 1t is chiefly as an illus
tration of the essential difference be-
tween two methods of reasoning now
violently opposed in Europe that the
case commands general interest.
Violent radicalism and anarchy.
expressed actively or as a political
principle. are not unnatural in parts
OF continental Europe. But we have
In America none of the conditions
which inspire general unrest else
where. Abroad millions of people,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-03
PUT THEM UNDER GROUND

~ NE of the tasks to which the
Chamber of Commerce might
address itself in the new year is
the placing under ground of the
wires in the center of the city, es-
pecially those in the Capitol Park
extension area.
President George S. Reinoehl, no
doubt, will be in sympathy with this
movement as he has had a large part
as manager of the Bell Telephone
Company in placing hundreds of
wires in conduits that used to mar
the beauty of some of the downtown
streets.
The policy of progressive public
service corporations is to put their
cross-country lines under ground,
where they are not subject to rapid
deterioration and are safe from
storm damage, and there is much
more reason why they should get
rid of their overhead lines in towns
and cities, especially the crowded
sections.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-03
BOMBS, MADNESS AND
AMERICAN BOLSHEVIKI
Philadelphia Illustration Is
Liberal Hopes

depressed in sodden masses, suffer-
ing from long and tragic negligence
and the hideous errors of govern
ments, have definite Indictment to
violence. Anarchy is the product of
centuries of misrule.
There is nothin in America to JUS
tify any shadow of this sort of thing.
Life here is not fixed in strata. No
one is submerged unless he wishes
to be submerged. We are a nation
of individuals. We are individualists
by preference. There are no old sins
to be wiped out-no fixed traditions
to be broken down by brute force.
1t is for this reason that Socialism
does not and cannot thrive in the
United States. And the effort, there
fore, to transplant from the Russian
slums cult far more radical is not
only peurile attempt to ape woes
which do not exist. 1t is a revela-
tion of criminal perversity which,
when it becomes perilously active,
demands the harshest treatment that
the police power can give it. The
wonder is that a state of mind so
foreign to the atmosphere of AM
erica should be so persistent. And
in this connection it is necessary TO
say that the police direction has not
acted with entire intelligence in
handling the problem.
Every flip soapboxer is, in the
end, an enemy of the cause which
he presumes to represent. Every
petty crime done in the name of
liberalism is an obstacle to the
further progress of liberal ideas.
The country is in no mood to toll
crate unreason and errant madness
under, any name. If the police can
get hold of the bomb makers public
opinion demands that they be treated
in a manner adequate to stun all
those who may have similar aberra-
tions.
No bomb made by man, however
devilishly ingenious, can shake the
foundations of law and order in this
country.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-03
America TOddY

Now that we're happy in victorious
pride
We see another war before us
A war upon ourselves! Not yet
to cry:
"On with the dance-make festal
joy your bride!"
For still each pleasant wish must
be denied
That we send help where they of
hunger die
Where children with gaunt face
and hollow eye
Grow daily weaker by their parents
side.
And we, who never yet have gone
unfed,
Let us give freely and with will
ing heart,
That they, our more than hundred
thousand dead,
May know we honor them, nor
slow to start.
We need but sacrifice till one years
fled
Then go our way and know we've
done our part.
&C. NJ. c., in New York Times.