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New-York tribune., 1919-11-08

torial methods, Augustus E. Wilson,
Republican, was chosen by ma
jority of about $4,000 But before
the end Of his term Kentucky had
lapsed back to normal Democratic
inclinations.
In the last ten years, however,
there has been a steady drift toward
Rcpublicanism-somewhat obscurcd
by the Roosevelt Taft split in 1912.
In 1915 Governor-elect Morrow, Il
nephew Of Governor Bradley, was
beaten for Governor by less than
one thousand votes. The Wilson
administration has never been popu-
lar in Kentucky. The old anti-Re-
publican prejudiccs have been sub
merged. The new Kentucky Is
slowly aligning herself with the Mid
die West instead Of the South, much
as the other Western border state
Of Missouri has been doing.
No factional fight in the Demo
cratic party paved the way for Mr..
Morrow's success. He made a
straight party appeal, and succeeded
because times have changed and the
old Democratic leadership-intel-
lectually and socially potent for
many decades after the war-has
lost it's mastery.
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hand, the majority should want A.
ban'a, 70 inNite the Albanlans to take
possession OF the district. IT is Ger
tam that all the graf powers agreed
'' that plan, with the excel tion of our
american commission.
We are at a loss to understand VIII
our commission. which stands at pari~
IS the Interpreter Of sclf-determina-
tion, should refuse TO solve the Epiro,ic
problem ON tnat basis
We are told that in Xorytsa there IS
an American missionary school. Its
.cunders are excrting their Influence
anon our delegation to transfer Koryt-
sa to Albania without consultation OF
The people
Thus, while the Italians arc helping
the wild Albanian bandits Win Sail
boutka 20 eNtermina.c Vie GreoR ele
mcnt IN the Argyrocastro. Ch.marra
and Premeti, our Amelican miss sn d.
making up lis mind 70 sell the kory.-
sans like so manx head Of cattle e.
ne same Albania against which Tho,
fought in 1914.
God save the EDirotcs, and NAV
American public opinion never {. Ter
ate such an injustice.
GREGORY PETROL.
President Northern Epirotic Society
OF Boston a native Of Korvtsa.
New York, Nov. 5, 1919
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The Lenine Creed
From "The Russian Pendulum" Volume bv ArthW
BuAord. an American Socialist, Who Writes From
Personal Knowledge II Lenine and HIS Doctrines
(Copyright, 1912 bv tho Macmillan Company

The second foundation stone IN his
thinking he has borrowed, with less al
tcration from the French revolutionist
Banqui. In common with some modern
"Syndicalists, Lenine is frankly nnd
outspokenfy anti-democratic. He cannot
be interested in making the world safe
for democracy He has 10 use for the
idea.
In general in our discussion he was
cool and passionlcss, but on this subject
he became heated. He objects TO both
the theory and practice of majority rule
The mass Of the people, he argues, have
been too debased b. capitalist oppres-
sion to know what IS good for them
Bitter long hours of labor have robbed
them of any chance 70 acquire general
culture or to understand their own posi-
ton and needs. And they arc too i'll
nourshed to have the energy TO strug
gle, too terrorized by the fear OF losing
their jobs to revolt He spoke hopeless
~, with marked disda!n, Of the "leth-
argic mass" The capitalists viii always
be able to fool the majority. Hc saw no
hope of progress If one waited for dem
ocratic action by the masses. Toward
democracy in practice he was even more
bitter. What, he demanded vehemently.
has it accomplished for the workers in
France, Britain or America
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ple," as the preamble to the Con-
stitution says, ordain and establish
as Of our own right, and our COM
mands, binding alike on our agents
and on all would-bc dissentients, are
delivered through duly enacted ordi-
nanccs and statutes. Here Is the
law and the prophets.
The Declaration Of independence
epitomizes by certain broad gen.
eralizations the spirit of our insti-
tutions. But the spirit, to function
in a mundane world, must have
body, and this body is in the Con-
stitution, = in the institutions pro-
vided for in it. and in the laws made
in accord with it.. Any one who de-
stroys this body would slay the
spirit resident in it so far as this
world is concerned.
So any immigrant who is Of dif-
ferent opinion, who holds to the
rightfulness of minority rule under
any circumstances, is a dangerous
intruder, and if he gains residence
here will be either an alien enemy
or, IL naturalized, perjurer and a
traitor. He mocks the supreme SOW
ereignty and may properly be ex-
cluded or expelled.
The forefathers assumed that,
given liberty and freedom from the
burdens Of privilege, no one would
be wicked enough or mad enough to
deny the validity of the principles
sketched above. But such have ap
peared-persons who would bring
back the era Of barbarism by sub
stituting the rule Of the minority
for the rule of the majority-per
sons who hold that the organized
few may coerce the unorganlzed
many and subduc them by force to
obedience to the minority's will.
Here is Bolshevism on its political
side, and here is the reason there
can be no parley or compromise with
its advocates. AS a devotee of q
system Of monarchic or aristocratic
privilege cannot be an American, so
dcvotee of such a tyranny as has
been set up in Russia cannot be an
American and cannot safely be al
lowed to bring his poison to our
shores
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crookedness Of it's promoters. 1t
must be thoroughly purified and re-
formed if it is to regain it's due po-
sition with Americans. This job Of
cleaning can best be undertaken
under the leadership Of just such a
club as is now planned. In a larger
way, by its example and influence
and authority, it can aid and advance
and maintain the highest standards
Of all American sport.
The plan is welcome sign Of the
new interest Of the nation in that
physical health and vigor without
which neither material wealth nor
spiritual fneness can develop or en-
durc
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Tests of Americanism

Under the terms of bill amend
ing the immigration laws reported
to the House Of Representatives an
applicant for admission must de-
clare an attachment to the princi-
Piles Of the Constitution Of the
United States"
Aliens who would become citizens
are now required to express svmpa-
thy with our institutions, although
seldom is there personal examina-
tlon to ascertain whether the pledge
Of allegiance is sincerely or under
standingly made. Naturalization
officers seldom attempt to define
particularly the principles whose
acceptance is mandatory But if
the language quoted is inserted in
the immigration laws it will be nee
essary to outline to some degree
what these principles are.
What are the principles of the
Constitution to which there must be
attachment? First, that the gov
ernment is based on the rule of a
majority of the people, and, second,
that what is the will of the people
with respect to any matter is ex-
pressed in the law. eve the peo-
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Frantic Alfonso

'tfom The Charleston NeWs and Courier)
King Alfonso, on the eve of visit
to Paris, permits it to be known that
IN 1914 he was perfectly frantic to go
TO the aid Of France with his whole
army Maybe so, maybe So But the
csnny French will remember that dur
ing the war Alfonso's country seemed
to be more pro- German than pro-Ally
and that there were plenty of store.
about German submarines making use
of Spanish waters without any efYectual
protest from Alfonso's government.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-08
II Drug Clerks Strik =

10 tte EDITOR Of Ihe lr.harc
Sr' Tie pphsc vf NOT suffer a.
2, re-a.t of tae 3ras e'er-.-' s.rsa
IoeafF or 'taig y.a- aro. f.ferr
'he department. 'oses vete e..e n
important factor ami eaea ply
Wrote mono rrc~cr. ..'.ers.
reg -tnrei rharrae SIS mag,
caused serious inconVen euce. A.t
Aosv
To-day ever pissra carrfes v
h.m and has ia Office a sarrte o.
drugs m condensed tab.ef form s
cent 20 ooEer a'y emergency li
not necessary 'o.0r.tc "a rresefia.s
All tic small ~-9ie. ar-. iar n
eroprietor~ Win are ttc.a-
cred pHarmac 81 or otad44tes
pharmacelteal ea''eees d ai
potent 90 compound rr, cf.r,.ars
~henever occssion dena-as
A. FOR toilet articles. rubber raris
pa.ent medicines, etc, they may aii
procured n the .acpar.s..,.t .tor0
Cigars anl -oas se4isr are ea-
'aiaei on nearby .eter. co-aef.
yon are.
Tie .arscr ctain stores may eer
l7e small drneg st who oDr.
aeighborhood store VIII nor You ns.
have 70 wait lt,ie longer .n oris
TO get wha' yoa want. ba. you WIZ
fe' lt eventually. and Sir Corner ursr
sist Will fHd more money in tf-
az the end Of the Week. becausc hs
Will have no sa'anes To pas
Inns is one instance Where .tc u..h.
.ic ~lll 'ot haze - be .aa goa. SSH
somebody else's diHicul-.e- are tsir.
settled ~ np5-c,te-
New York. Nov 6. laie-
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possessing class.
The Only Eood

Lenine repudiated al. allvg g.4ucc 10
what most people ca moral obi pa
tons For him, the only good" is
that which hurries on the emancipa-
tion OF the working ciass. All things
which hinder this liberation are un-
oualiiiedly bad" no matter what fine
names may be given them by the poets
and priests-courtesans OF the ruling
class
think that II Lenine should chance
to read this summary of his views
the bases of his political philosophy
he would agree that il was an accu-
rate report. And then he would boast
Of the consistency with which nc has
strlven to put them in practice. Naae
Of his actions which seem erratie aal
mysterious are quite simple TO one who
mas heard him cNpound the basic ideas
On which he works.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-08
A Long Way After Lincoln
From LffsN

IFr0m Llfe)
The only trouble with democracy is
that it has developed into government
OF the people, at the people, over the
people, under the people around the
people, between the people, into the
people, with the people, without the
people, for the people. beyond the
people, after the people, before the
people, in front of the people, behind
the people. outside the people, inside
the people. Why no. get back to the
original Lincolnian prepositions9
New-York tribune., 1919-11-08
For American Sport

The interesting project of the In
ternational Sporting Club looks be-
yond this city and springs from a
broader base than mere popular in
terest in any one sport. The distin-
gushed names on the general com
mlttee are an indication Of the wider
AIMS Of the hackers. immediately
the object is to provide an arena and
public for clean boxing. There
nfter the club will have as its goal
nothing less than the general i'm
provement and development of sport
In America.
The moment is we'll chosen to in
jtiate the project The statistics of
the physically unfit revealed by the
raft have awakened all Americans
to the bodily shortcomings of the
nation. Individual success. alike
with national safety. demands that
we train our bodies with a fresh de-
termination and a new intelligence.
Every means must be utilized to aid
this movement. Of school, Of club. of
sport.
The force which this proposed club
can bring to bear Is plainly consider
able. Boxing can be and should be
one OF the most valuable Of physical
exercises. 1t has fallen into dis
repute, descrvedly. through the
New-York tribune., 1919-11-08
DHissed .Haytisu


Marx in a youthful outburst of emo
tionalism ended his Communist mani
festo with the phrase. "Workers OF all
nations-Unite. You have nothing to
lose but your chains. You have world
to gain" This slogan has been the raj
lying cry of international labor. But
very few Of the leaders or members Of
the ranks have taken it AS literally as
Leninc. To him it is an axiom to be-
lieVe The contrary would be absurd
that the iaborer has no interest in his
own country, that he is more closely
bound in common interest to the work.
ers of other countries than to any non
proletaran in his own land
New-York tribune., 1919-11-08
Lip-Deep Radicalism

An anomaly of the present period
Of social unrest is that while the
press has blossomed with all manner
of radical publications the stage,
publicity medium Of almost equal
power, has continued staidly un-
changed.
On the East Side the theater has
long been vehicle Of radical propa-
ganda, and the memory of Gals
Worthy's short-lived "Justicc' dimly
fingers on Broadway, but generally
dramatists stick to their old themes.
The commercial manager, a mer-
chant of few prejudices, puts on
anything that satisfies the box Office
but as the radical play does not suit
popular taste he refuses to be mis-
sionary. SO the playwrights 20 on
lnVenting variants of the eternal
triangle, or work up hero or local
color stuff, and the American the
ater continues to be place Of en-
tertainment rather than Of instruc-
ton. SO Longhair with his manu-
script encounters chilly welcome.
SO much for the theater. AS for
the actor, until recently he has
taken on the color of the dye in
which he works. But Equity came
and the actors strike, and the revolt
did not prosper until organized labor
in the mechanical branches of the
theater, by walking out. darkened
practically every "capitalist' thea
ter. SO the artists ceased belong
ing to q profession and became pro-
letarians. The shift paid At
Equity's recent love feast it was
reported that from an organization
Of 2,900 members, with $4,000 in
its treasury, it has leaped into one
with 1000 members, with a banked
surplus of 100000.
But, though rhetorically proe-
tartan, that Equity responds to
bourgeois impulses was attested by
lis action on the day before election
1t voted to indorse Irwin Untermyer
for judge because the elder Unter-
myer had volunteered his services to
the actors during the strike. The
virtues of father-evcn q million
aire onc-descended to the son, even
as capitalistic inheritance. The
sacred doctrine of the oneness of
the human brotherhood was shown
the door, while the principle Of mu-
tual back scratching was Justify
cheered. All very human and also
very ancient, and not at all prole-
tartan monopoly.
The radical, alas, is seldom radi-
cal touching his own affairs. The
trade union in relation to other
workers tends to conduct itself ac-
cording to capitalistic practices.
The skilled artisan sees excellent
reasons for getting more pay than
the laborer, though the latter works
longer hours. The star" feels no
shame when the ghost walks and
drops an envelope with fatter con
tents than falls to the member of
the overworked chorus.
Il can't hear what you say be
cause of the sound Of your acts,
quoted Bainbridge Colby the other
day. so current radicalism, except
as screen for normal selfishness,
makes q noise with its acts that
browns its words, and it is difficult
to regard its manifestations as more
than an eplsode-as born of a spirit
which is only lip deep.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-08
Bolshevism's Second Birthday

Yesterday was the second BIRTH
day Of Bolshevist Russia. 1t is fit
time to sum up.
1t has plunged miserable coun-
try into greater misery. Russia was
hungry; now it starves. Cities are
depopulated and Russian urban
workmen are driven to become
vagrants ceaselessly marching in
search Of food. Unless willing to en-
list as the soldiers Of the tyrant,
who feeds his armed supporters by
the fruits Of seizure as tyrants have
always done, their only resource is
the charity Of the peasants.
Life has become a CHASTITY tragedy.
So extreme an upholder Of Boil
shevism as Don Levine admits that
in September bread in Moscow cost
$3.50 for a pound loaf. Consider
what, this implies. Not sure Of the
fruits of his toll, the peasant has not
planted. Within the confines Of the
court whose central sun IS Lenine
there is plenty and dancing and the
ter-going, even as Versailles pre-
sented a brilliant scene in 1889 while
famished Paris shvered in its gar
rets. But throughout Russia hor-
ror stalks The machine that fed
millions is wrecked and nothing is
substituted to do its work.
Czarism is restored in d form
worse than the original. Nicolai II
has been succeeded by more ruth
less Nicolai III. His lule rests on
bayonets Black Hundred lives
again in the Red Guard. Not more
than 100000 persons hold 100000
900 in subiection More than the
Hohenzollern or the Romanoff, Le-
nine is contemptuous of democracy.
SO far as Bolshcvism ever had
program it is abandoned. The
army is captained by appointed Of
powers even as Korniloff proposed
There is no nationalization Of the
land. The committee management
Of industries has broken down. In
the words of "Bill' Shatotf, the for
mer New Yorker who is now Petro-
grads chief Of police, "Bolshevism
is busted 1t has become a politi-
cal machine that struggles to retain
power on any occasion. 1t hates
socialism even more than it does
capitalism, and the frenzy Of fanati-
cism has developed into the cold
hypocrisy of a self conscious fraud.
No war in history has ever brought
such degradation to any people az
Bolshevism has brought to Russia.
In comparison Germany is q happy
and prosperous land. The expert
ment of what is falsely called social
democracy has been tried and it has
colossally failed. The Bolsheviki
are justly reproached for theiI
many atrocities, but their greatest
atrocity is not against those who
have resisted their will. but against
the helpless Russian masses-the
proletarat whose name has beer
profaned.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-08
4 Desperate Group

But for such slow methods Lenine
had no patience. Il would take too long
II" advocated minority insurrection and
the dictatorship Of the prolctariat. : not
OF all the workers, not even OF ma ajor-
ity Of them. but of his "enMghtened.
militant minority The argument over
tactics" which split the Russian Social
Democrats into two factions" Bolshe-
wiki and "Mcnshiviki'-Naa on tins
point. Plckhanov and the Nenshiyiki
were interested in the democratic hber-
ties. Lenine was for the consultative
organization of a centralized disciplined
desperate group TO start the minor
ity insurrection and proletarian dicta-
torship. And he advocated this policy
IN Russia whore so per cent Of the reo-
pie are peasants and not proleta.ians
at all,
Lenine had borrowed his tard foan-
cation stcne-also as basic assnmp-
iion-from that part Of Nietzsche'.
teaching which is summed ND in the
title of his book beyond Good and
NNll.' The ethical teachings OF the
dag, lenine argued. have been imposed
on us-lihe our property laws -bv tac
possessing class.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-08
The Epirofes

10 the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir; We read in The Tribune of
November i statement made by y
british army officer on conditions in
Albania. We do not wish to make anv
remarks OF his rather unfounded acc,,-
sations against France. As Eprotes
we take issue with the British officer
and protest against being called Al
banans. Northern Epirus * Greek in
sentiment. The majority of the inhaD-
itants, or 10000, want Greece: the
minority, or $4,000, is Moslem. and.
naturally, wish for Moslem Albania.
regime
/, IS 50 unfortunate that in PLAYING
politics nations and individuals IN Eu-
rope are overlooking the voice and ,ho
viii of the small peoples, despite the
eloquent sermons that this war was
fought for the protection of the small
nations.
Our people fought against Alba
nian rule in 1914 and won their au-
tonomy. In 1916 Italy occupied our
territory and promised to evacuate it
as soon as the military needs rendered
I possible.
The military needs have ceased since
19lS. But Italy still holds three-fourths
OF Northern Epirus and France the
rest. The Epirotes are grateful to
france cause she has offered time
and again to apply plebscito to the
eistrlct occupied by her troops (the
district OF korytsaj, and if the major
lily desired union with Greece to ask
the Greek troops 20 relieve France by
entering the district. If, on the other
New-York tribune., 1919-11-08
Rule or Ruin

After visit to the President, Mr..
Hitchcock yesterday repeated his
threat that the Administration Sen
ators would vote to reject the treaty
if the majority reservations were
attached to it. Evidently the Presl-
dent has tentatively indorsed the
Hitchcock program. This is accept
ance Of the Wilson draft or nothing.
Thus coercion raises its head again
in a most obnoxious form.
Mr.. Hitchcock has been playing a
dangerous game. Only the objection
of Republican friend of the treaty
and of the league Of nations pre-
vented rollcall in the Senate on
Thursday, on which majority would
have been shown against the instru-
nent as drawn at Paris. Such a
vote would have been interpreted IN
Europe as the death knell of the
league project. Even here, where
conditions in the Senate are better
understood, it would have indicated
TO the public that the Administration
forces had abandoned hopes and, not
being able to rule, were out to ruin.
.T'Ae power to say whether there
shall be league or not now rests
with the President. That is the con
trolling fact in the Washington stu
alton. A majority in the Senate has
reached a conclusion as to the form
the league ought to take. 1t has
drafted a resolution Of ratification
which can be approved by two
thirds vote if Mr.. Hitchcock and his
followers, guided by the Presidents
advice, also support it. The league
in its original form cannot pass. 1t
cannot command even bare major-
ity In the Senate. 1t is, therefore,
for the President to decide whether
he wants a league or does not.
Mr.. Hitchcock indicates that the
Presidents mind IS not yet fully
made up. Hitherto he has been op-
posed to reservations inserted in the
ratifying resolution. Now, accord
ing to the minority leader, he will not
object to reservations in the resolu-
tion (which do not destroy the cove
nant." 1t is the opinion Of the
trainers Of the reservations that they
do not destroy the covenant, but
save it. In this dispute the judg-
ment Of one party is presumptively.
as good as that of the other.
The fate Of the covenant is in
the Presidents hands. If he wants
to he can undo the work Of the Sen
ate in either of two ways. He can
influence the Hitchcock group to join
the irreconcilables and defeat the
ratification resolution framed by the
reservationist ma jority or he cun al
low them to vote as they please and
then accept sole responsibility for
the covenants failure by pigeon
holing it.
Thus he would slaughter his own
conception because coordinate
branch of the treaty-making power
had ventured to perform its constitu-
tional duty. Here is the issue. Will
the author Of the league strangle if
because he no longer can take an un-
alloyed pride in its authorship? The
prediction may be hazarded that he
will not thus commit infantcidc and
will ultimately abandon the doctrine
that concerning treaty making he is
dictator and that not word or a
comma of his DEGREES can be altered
New-York tribune., 1919-11-08
| fgnoreS Patriotism

Patriotism" does not fit into his
theory. He ignores it In his letters
and manifestos to the workingmen Of
Western countries he does not argue
with them about "patrotism, lie does
not warn them against being tricked by
such fine phrases in the mouth Of CAPT
talist spellbnders. He assumes that
they understand internationalsm Just
as he does and have no preference for
their own country over others. lie
thinks that patriotism" is bad. and so
he shuts his eyes to its existence.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-08
lust His Sort

from The Philadelphia lequrc,3
b'll Haywood takes great satisfaction
IN the contemplation that the country
may be short on coal rations and cxpe-
rience tough winter. but then that j.
JUST ~ the sort of thing in which Bill
haywood would be expected to find
great satisfaction.