Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-03-14

times have changeu, VICE rieoiueh'
Thomas r. Marshall told joint ses-
sion of the Arizona legislature al
Phoenix last Monday. He disclaimed
any Intention to campaign for the
League of Nations, but said America
IL faced with the choice either Of join
ing in some plan to prevent future
wars or of preparing Immediately Tor
tbe next outbreak" while / would
be forever against anything which
would besmirch the honor OF our nag
or lessen the grandness and glory OF
the American people," he added, yet
I am convinced that we are facing a
new era and that things must be dlr-
ferent In the future. We have piled up
an enormous debt, spent billions on
useless engines Of war to Kill our tel-
low men, and for myself l have seen
40 many of our boys come back snat-
tered and know Of so many others
who will not come back, that l would
rather eat little dirt than nave an
other war. On the other hand there
nre certain great questions for which
Il would be better to fight, and II
7 thought there was anything In this
league of nations to lower the self
respect of the United States, then j
would rather fight, but 1 do not THINK
there is"
William Jennings Bryan has issued
a statement from Washington indors-
ing the league of nations, but suggesting
amendments to the proposed consti-
tuition which among other things
would preserve specifically the Mon
roe doctrine, enlarge the proport'ona
voting power Of the United States
and make it clear each member nation
might decided for itself whether II
would support DEGREES OF the leagues
general council. While pointing to inn
perfections Mr.. Bryan urged theF
should not be allowed to lead to re-
lection Of the plan, declaring risks to
be run in accepting the league were
Iess than those involved in rejection
and returning ITO the o'd ways o.
blood and slaughter" Mr.. Bryan die
teted the statement from his sick bee
at the horne Of friends. where he ha'
been confined for nearly three weeks
He said the league Of nations tdea
"the greatest step toward peace IN g
thousand years." was taken from the
80 arbitration treaties NEGOTIATED nv
the United States while he was ser
retarv Of state. It was not to he eS-
pected he said. that so great an ldeH
would be made perfect In so snort p
time and added while President WI
son had done "the best he could ne
would be helped by intellieent ano
friendly criticism from the American
public.
Describing certain court-martial
sentences in the United States crm5
es things that make Bolsheviki OIL
our young men," United states
Senator Chamber ain, chairman Of the
senate committee on military affairs,
sharply criticised courts martial pro-
cedure In an address before the Unit
ed Waist League Of America in New
York lest Monday. "Thcse sentences
are imposed absolutely without any
system in the administration OF the
criminal laws of the land he said,
and they are really imposed ct the
order Of the commanding officer, be-
cause If the court makes a rullng
which is unpopular to the command
ing officer he will order the court re-
convened and in some cases issue In
structions to it." Referring to long
sentences, imposed for slight infrac-
tions of the rules, Senator Chamber
lain said, these boys know an injus-
tice has been done them and it will
not increase their respect to the gov
ernment," T have found boys OF
seventeen and eighteen, not yet ma
ture," he continued, sent away Tor
long terms in prison, some of them
because they were absent without
leave-homesick youths who left to say
goodbye to their mothers or perhaps
a last word to their sweethearts. Five
days away led one OF them to De SEN
fenced for forty years"
There have been terrible times
in Berlin during the past week ano
especially during last Thursday and
Friday. In effect the disturbance was
a square cut contest for supremacy as
between the government and the Spar
ticans. The Sparticans, after dellber-
ate preparations sought to repeat VIVA,
had been done by the Bolshevists OF
Russia. Spartican representatives II
the government gave their assistance
to the main Spartican organization or
the outside. The disturbance began
with a strike that tied up the subWays
and various public utilities. Iher
commenced an effort to seize the ponce
headquarters. The government, talrl!
we'll advised of what was coming mac
on hand a considerable force of troops
II was a part of the Spartican plan t
win these troops over; but that failed
There was a fight for 1t. The Spart
cans had planted heavy artillery In oil
ferent parts of Berlin and had placet
machine guns on the house tops' ant
snipers in windows. The troops use'
machine guns, heavy artillery ana ar
nIanes. and so did the Sparticans; bu
the troops got the best Of it. 1t is estl
mated that between four and five hun
dred people, many OF them lnnocCh
women and children, were kilieo IN III IN
fighting Of Thursday and FRIDAY. IN
fghting continued Friday ana Satur
day and had not entirely supsioeo y, VI
Monday; but 1t appears to De generali:
conceded that the government mas woi so
out, and remains supreme, eAGept ~
one very important compromise ina
had been previously conceded TO tn'
strikers. This was that soldiers ant
worknnens' councils should be recos
nized in the new German constitution
A story of wholesale, cold-bloodec
murders. including the shooting o.
some sixty detectives, by the sparta
cans forces. was told in Berlin Mon
day under oath by government SOL
dier who had been captured py the IN
surgents but managed to escape. NJ
and eighteen other soldiers were takei
into a court back Of group OF bulld-
ings occupied by the Spartacans. Tine
prisoners, the soldier asserts were
compelled one by one to climb into a
wagon where they were shot down pS
the Insurgents. WHICH lhe "oSO4i ~
came full of bodies it was taken away
and another brought forward. While
this was going on a band of Sparta
cans brought in sixty detectives who
had been captured in the attack on
Lichtenberg police station. The de-
tectives were killed with revolver
shots between the eyes at close quar-
ters. Those who resisted were held
by other Spartacans while the execu-
tioner fired the shot. government
bicycle courier who was brought IN
about the same time was held by the
hands and feet and tortured before
being shot The division Of cavalry
rjflemen which is in charge of the
work of clearine the city of Sparta
cans reports further instances of cruel
murders by the insurgents. An auto
mobile with seven soldiers was at,
tackled in warschauer Strasse and an
oh n