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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-02

glass; secondly, IN It's sculptures. and
thirdly, in it's statuary.
"Of the stained glass, nine-tenths
has been saved and brought to Paris.
The remaining tenth can be restored by
specialists, with the aid of much pa
thence and grea. number of colored
photographs we have. As regards the
sculptures, we shall use the numerous
holdings we have of them Many have
hod to be restored. anyway, in the
course of centuries, such, as for in
stance, the large piece representing the
Assumption. That was restored in 1878.
AS for the statuary, we have so
many holdings that it will be easy to
reproduce the damaged parts. The pill
lars, with their ornamented capitals.
have suffered little; only the two side
doorways have been badly damaged by
fire"
"Was there not some talk Of leaving
the cathedral as it was ~ the reporter
asked.
"lf the evidence of Teutonic barbar-
ity have to be preserved let them he
kept in private museum" replied the
Cardinal gravely.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-02
Liberated From
Cruel Domination by the
Central Powers

in rcclaiming this land. wn.ca Wss
once Polish, even against German
Official effort. But agaiust givinp
Danzig to Poland and apainst any
considerable corridor Lloyd George
set his face, contrary to the advice
Of American and british expert.
alike and in his opposition President
Wilson presently, but not al the
outset, joined
Failing this, II seems to ne it
would have been far better 70 have
abandoned all idea Of giving Poland
access to tho sea. rather than 70
have had recourse to a weak com
promise which gives Poland only q
shadow Of what she claimed and
holds out TO the Germans forever
the temptation 10 regain the dis
tricts once annexed by Frederick
the Great, districts which the Poles
alone cannot defend, ard France
and Great Britain, with the United
States, can only keep Polish at the
price Of preserving German hostil
ity and precluding any tolerable sd
justment, tolerable to both Ger
many and her recent enemies, such
as must come. if world peace IS to
be preserved.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-02

mans In the Upper Adige Valley and
an equal number of Slovenians back
of Trieste, but as to the Slovenians
they were subjects of German Aus
trla before the war, and have thus
neither gained nor lost so far as
national aspiration is concerned.
The Tyrolese decision seems to me
a gross and indefensible blunder. ex-
plicable solely as a military measure
to permit Italy to hold her side of
the Alps from Switzerland to the
Adriatic, but against the quarter Of
a million enslaved there is to be set
the million liberated and the final
possession by the Italians of the
sally port into the Pc Valley held
by the Austrians for so long and
constituting SO grave peril to
Italian safety.
AS to the southern Slavs. we have
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-02
The Danzig Compromise

The real argument against the
Danzlg settlement, it seems to me.
is that it is a compromise. Poland
claimed all of Prussia east Of the
frontier Of the province Of West
Prussia Such claim. if honored
would have placed some three mil
lion Germans under Polish rule. but
1t svould have enabled Poland to de-
velop as a really great nation and
would have abolished the situation
which existed when Frederick the
Great engineered the First Parti-
ton. the situation which led him to
plan that crime. AS it is. we have
restored the situation and thrust a
narrow neck Of territory, mainly
inhabited by Poles, straight between
two blocks of German territory.
Had East Prussia been coded to
Poland it would at no distant time
have been Slavicised, since it is oc-
cupled by great Junker estates and
would have been broken up by the
Poles into peasant properties and
divided among Poles, who in recent
decades have made great progress
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-02
French Right TO Scar

1t seems to me this warrants
French possession of the Saar coal
properties and French occupation Of
the district, since in no other way
could the exploitation of the mines
be assured. But it certainly does
not warrant permanent annexation
rand the treaty Of Versailles provides
that the people shall be allowed to
decide their allegiance fifteen years
hence. This Is the sole survival Of
the old French ambition to rebuild
the Rhine barrier against German
aggression. The French and some
Germans believe that after fifteen
years the people of the district will
prefer TO remain French, as the
people of Alsace after less than &
century Of union with France be-
came loyal French subjects.
There is an obvious danger that
unfair methods viii be pursued by
the French to insure favorable
plebiscite, but it seems to me the
real decision will rest upon two fac
tors-the course of the United States
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-02
Expects Trouble II, China

Such, in brief, are the territorial
aspects Of the recent peace settle
ment in Europe, and II is TO the
European phase that I am address
ing the present comment. AS to
Shantung, whatever criticism NAV
be made of it, one may say that II
did not change the condition Of the
people affected. We failed 20 lib
crate some 100000 Of Chinese
we shall have all the old trouble.
again, until this Justice is achieved.
bat this does not in the least change
the fact that we did succeed in
freeing some 100000 Of Euro
peans, mainly Slavs.
In achieving this liberation we
made mistakes, We did Incidental
wrongs, but since falltble human be
ings made the peace, what could
one expect? What we did do, we
the nations allied against Germany.
was to take a long step in the d.
rection of abolishing human slav
cry, political and intellectual slav
cry, military and bureaucratic des
potism, the longest step. IN all h.
man history, IN my judgment.
The real trouble lies not in the
treaty itself but in the things men
claimed for it, and expected Of it.
m advance. Above all it was be
lieved that it would create con
dition making war impossible. But
nothing was more certain than thai
the effort to redraw the map Of
the continent Of Europe would slim
ulate old race rivalries and create
new causes for conflict. Let any
one take an photographic map Of
Europe and study the regions south
Of the old German frontier snd
east Of the Oder River. He viii
see there the hopeless internling1ing
OF races, the inevitable necessity Of
including people of different tribes
under a single rule.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-02

Now, IN all the cases which have
examined it is plain that, despite in
cldental mistakes and injustices, in
the man substantial justice has
been done; a minority which ruled
has been placed under the control
of the majority where the inter-
mingling of races or the character
of the frontiers made absolute sep
aration impossible. And in the
case of all three Slav states and of
Rumania what has been done has
been done not with the idea of ag-
grandizing one of the great now
ers; there has been no repetition of
the division Of the spoils at Vienna
but solely with the idea Of giving
small state, newly liberated or re-
Gently enriched by the addition Of
fractions Of It's own flesh, the chance
to live in safety and prosperity.
The two exceptions to this rule
are IN the case of Italy in the Up
per Adlge and France on the Lower
Sarre. As to the Italian case. |
have said that it seems to me a
gross injustice. AS to the French
it is necessary also to say some
thing. The territory affected has
an area of approximately 1850
square miles and a population of
between five and six hundred thou
sand. There is no French element,
and the French claim does not have
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-02

given them something less than they
were entitled to; we have placed no
alien people under their rule, and the
new gain to liberty is upward Of
eight million. AS to Rumania, the
question is complicated by one of the
most Undesirable tangles of races
to be found in the world No boun-
Diary line that could be drawn which
did anything like justice to Rumania
could fail to include hundreds of
thousands of Magyars, who have
pushed into Latin territory during
a thousand years and exercised the
rights of a conquering race. Yet in
Bessarabia and in PENNSYLVANIA we
have freed some four millions of Ru-
manians, transferred something like
half a million Germans from
Magyar to Rumanian rule, both
equally alien, and at most placed a
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-02

the slightest basis when examined
in the light of the principle of self
determination.
French claim, 50 far as it exists,
must rest upon two things; az to
approximately half the area, 1t was
once French, contentedly French /;
it was French not by right Of con
quest, but by peaceful acquisition
as a result of a bargain with Aus
tria century and a half ago It
was taken by Prussia NJ the end of
the Napoleonic era purely and sim
ply as a prize Of conquest without
regard to the VIII of the people,
who have been, after century. alb
sorbed into the German world. But
this is a mighty poor claim.
The second claim rests upon the
fact that in the recent war the
Germans wilfully and with the d.
rect purpose to paralyze French in
dustry destroyed all the coal dis
tricts in Northern France, which
they had occupied. The thing was
done methodically, according to plan.
and the documents outlining the
method and the purpose are a mat
ter of official record. Unless France
were assured of some other coal sup
ply Germany would realize the gain
she sought and French industry
would be crippled and German in
dustry able to replace it.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-02
Nations Still Quarrel

The inevitable has happened. ths
Poles, the Rumanians. the Jugo-
SlaVs and the Czecho Slovahs are
quarreling to-day over frontiers
and provinces, as the Great Pow
ers quarreled before them; we have
dozen controversies where we had
two or three. because we have mu]
tlphed the number of states. The
disputes may lead to new wars. and
they certainly do not promise to
make world peace secure for many.
many years. But world peace was
not assured before, and meantime
we have the solid gain, the long stem
toward II, which the liberation of
forty millions of men and women
constitutes. While they were en-
shaved war was inevitable. Now
that they are free something great
and permanent has been gained.
Compare the present peace with
that Of Vienna, wherein provinces
were tossed back and forth, Poland
repartitioned. Italy turned back to
It's old tyrants. Belgium bestowed
upon Holland, every national as
pratlon, every democratic and moral
consideration outraged. and it re
veals gain III a century which is
almost incalculable And this Is
the single far comparison. To meas
ure it beside the Impossible sspira
tons, hopes, dreams Of those who
saw the approach Of the millennium
one brief year ago is to subject it
TO an unreasonable test
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SyaGlcAie)
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-02
BY Frank II. Si1nonds

EN- THE six months which have
followed the signing Of the
treaty Of Versailles and the pub
lcation Of the terms, political dis
putes in America and political events
in Europe have so served to turn
attention and discussion from the
document itself that it is perhaps
worth while to return afresh to the
basis of settlement, which is more
often discussed now in detail than
viewed with any historical perspec-
tive as whole.
Thus in the United States the en-
tire discussion has conferred about
the league of nations q circumstance
Of the peace settlement which, for
the great nations of Europe, for
France, Britain and Italy, was rela-
lively minor, while In Great Britain
the attack has been made upon pro-
visions affecting Britain's allies
which, to say the least, are not more
open to criticism than other sections
extremely profitable to the British
themselves.
we may say, with fair accuracy,
that the treaty was q disappoint-
ment to all the nations who fought
together against Germany, but for
diverse reasons. For the French, it
seems q small return for their great
losses and sacrifices: for the British,
something far short Of the settle
rnent which would enable them to re-
urn to measure Of their old isola-
ton, having disposed Of the main
question at issue-namely. the Ger
man challenge and the German men
ace. For the Italians the treaty is
an even greater disappointment, be-
cause, with the subordinate settle
ments with Austria and in the Near
Last, 1t fails to recognize italian
aspirations or honor Italian claims
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-02
Potcer Being abused

Further than this, it is argued,
with no small justice, that the races
newly liberated are displaying an
eagerness to enslave their neigh
bors wholly comparable with the
spirit displayed by their own mas
ters of yesterday. Out of this sit
uation have grown innumerable
disputes, the Poles seek to extend
their frontiers south and east a. the
expense of Lithuanians, White Rus
slams and Ruthenians; the Czecho-
Slovaks seek territories inhabited bv
Poles and by Ruthenians, In Tesch-
en- and at the southwestern end
Of the Carpathians. Thus we have
abolish one set Of war-causing
disputes, only to find that we have
sown new crop, the first harvest
from which is now being gathered.
Yet recognizing the measure of
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-02
Polish Mistake Cited

In liberating twenty millions Of
Poles we have temporarily failed to
separate from the new Poland
Galician districts which were Polish
before the partitions and contain a
Polish minority, along with a
Ruthenian majority, but there has
been no settlement Of this Issue, and
these same Ruthenians were under
ellen Austrian rule before the war.
and they have changed masters but
not their conditions-that is all.
We have given Italy. along with
some million of ltalian-speaking peo-
pie in the Trentino a d Trieste a
quarter of a million of Tyrolese Ger
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-02

million Magyars under Rumanian
control
Much is SAID now about the Ger
man minority in czecho-sIovakia.
1t numbers 100000, but lives
wholly within the only frontiers
which could possibly protect the new
state and is to considerable extent
mingled with the ten million slav
majority, which it has dominated
and oppressed ever since the out
break Of the Thirty Years War
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-02

truth in all these arguments, two
things are still manifest--first, that
1t was not less necessary TO liberate
the forty millions, whether the re.
suit would lead to general peace or
to new rivalries; and, second, if in
justice has been done the aggregate
injustice is far less considerable
than that which has been abolished.
Measured by human beings, the gain
for freedom Is still enormous.
10 take the case Of Germany
alone, we have liberated within her
old frontiers between 100000 and
100000 Of Poles, Alsace-Lorrainers
and Danes. BY contrast we have at
most given half million Germans
to Poland, or placed them outside
the German frontiers and under the
control Of the league Of nations. In
the same way we have placed an
equal number Of Germans under the
temporary control of France, SUBJ
ject to the supervision of the league
of nations with the right to vote to
return TO Germany fifteen years
hence. And if we have thus put
Germans under alien rule against
their Will, we have left almost an
equal number of Poles under Ger
man rule.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-02
Treaty Is Defended

With the American debate over
the league of nations l shall not deal
in this article. What I mean to try
TO set forth is the extent to which
The treaty may be regarded, with all
It's limitations, az the best world set
clement yet known, superior to the
agreements Of Westphalia, of
Utrecht and of Vienna, and to en-
phasize something Of the merits
which are still discoverable in doc
ument which at the present moment
IS the target Of worldwide execra
tlon.
To begin at the beginning 1t
seems to me that the great virtue
Of tho treaty of Versailles is the
degree to which it has recognized
the rights of peoples to dispose Of
sher own allegiance, Roughly speak
ing, there were In Central Europe
at the moment when the world war
broke, forty odd millions Of peo-
pie, living in a condition Of political
and intellectual slavery. Among
these were 100000 Of Jugo-
Slavs, 100000 Of Rumanians,
100000 Alsace-Lorrainers and
100000 Italians In the T'rentino
and Trieste districts.
Without exception, these 100000
900, population much greater
than that Of the North and South
IN the Civil War, longed for liberia
ton, had striven vainly against mil
itary and bureaucratic tyranny, in
the case Of the Poles had fought
against their oppressors and never,
IN q century and half, given up
The hope Of future deltverance.
The last century, which saw the lib
Grafton Of Italy. the unifcation Of
Germany, the partial dellverance Of
the Balkans, had given q vital i'm
pulse to the race consciousness Of
The tribes and peoples still held in
political slavery.
Real Cause Of War
The world war itself was an in
evitable consequence of this STIR
ring of subject races. The success
Of the Balkan states In their war
against Turkey had carried with it
a fatal menace to the Hapsburg
empire, within whose frontiers 25,-
100000 Of enslaved Slavs lived.
The whole hope for survival for
the Hapsburg empire was q sue
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-02

Italy, Britain and France Forced
to Accept Less Than Leaders
Demanded

and seek It with q strength beyond
the power of German and Magyar
in the Dual Monarchy to constrain.
Looking back over two genera
lions Of European history from the
Crimean to the world war, it is
manifest that the condition which
existed as a consequence Of the en-
slavement Of various races was an
unstable one. The italian people
demonstrated this in their noble
struggle for liberty and union. The
little Balkan states proved it again
in a series Of wars, which only
narrowly missed setting all Europe
on fire. The concert Of Europe,
the great powers, selfshly anxious
to preserve their own peace and
prosperity, whatever it cost the sub
Ject races, were never able to COM
pei the subject races to submit con-
certingly to their condition Of servi-
tude.
One may assume It to be axio
matte that peace in Europe, in the
world, was not possible so long as
it was predicated upon injustice,
upon the sacrifice of the right of
millions Of men and women to
liberty. The use Of their own
tongues and the observance Of their
own customs. The proof Of all this
is to be found alike in the LONG
series of alarms which preceded the
coming Of the world war and in
the circumstances of its arrival
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-02
Forty Millions Liberated

The Treaty Of Versailles. of St.
German and the associated docu-
ments have liberated these forty
odd millions. There is Polish
state by virtue Of the treaty which
includes most, if not all, of the
Poles; there is q Czecho- Slovak
state, which includes most of the
Czechs and the Slovaks; the Slo
venians, the Croats and the Haps-
burg Serbs have been set free and
have Joined hands with their Serb
brethren beyond the Danube and
the Save; Alsace-Lorraine is
French. Roughly speaking, we
have set free some forty millions
Of men and women, we have
created new nations and we have
aided In the extension Of the from
tiers or old states to include their
brothers, lately held in servitude.
To me this is the great human
fact about the peace settlement, the
enduring fact. But it Is at once ar
gued that this liberation has not re-
suited in peace, and does not prom
lse immediate peace. Possibly, this
may be true, but peace founded
upon slavery was at once unjust
and impermanent. Again, it is ar
gued that while justice has been
done, injustice also has been SINH
larly done, that we have enslaved
as we'll as liberated, that we have
abolished old slavery to create new.
The basis for this contention NAV
be found in the fact that In many
cases there have been included
within the frontiers of new states
fractions Of the races which were
lately masters. Danzig, which is not
included within Polish frontiers. but
created free city, the German
population in districts assigned to
the Poles, the Austrian-German mi
norities in Bohemia, the Tyrolese
Germans south Of the Alps, in new
italian districts, and with ever
growing insistence, the case of the
Saar Basin. are presented as ex-
amples.
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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-11-17
SHORT SHRIFT
FOR NEGRO |. ".
". IN MISSOURI


A6bsfiys no. Nov. ouid
prevailed today following .ssths
lynchins here yesterday Of . negro,
one Of four alleged I. W. WIS VII,
were under arrest charged with
assault and robbery.
In'the excitement incident to the
.lynching. the other three escaped.
Two were recaptured and police
today expressed the belief the third
was drowned in . lake in the park
where the lynching took place.
The lake is being dragged in an
attempt to find the body.
Police refused to. reveal where
the two are incarcerated and
searching parties visited jails in
adjacent counties to locate the ne
groes with q view Of hanging them.
Police also refused to give the
names Of the negroes under arrest
or OF the one dead.
The lynching occurred early yes
terday after . mob Of about one
hundred masked men spirited the
quartet from the Macon county Jail
after overpowering the sheriff.
In Night Clothingf
The negroes were brought here
clad only in night clothing. The
mob attempted to hang the negro
to a tree, but the limb broke and
he was shot to death Is he At
tempted to run.
The negroes were arrested
Thursday on charges Of having as
saulted and robbed Edward Thomp.
son, q farmer.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-11-17
FRENCH VOTERS
GIVE RADICALS A.
SOUND TROUNCING

Paris, Nov. 17.-(By the Asso-
ciated ress).-Returns from Sun
days elections for the chamber of
deputies thus far received show the
Conservatives, nationalists and
moderates far in the lead, these
parties winning 191 seats in the
206 constituencies for which COM
plete figures have been received.
The extreme Socialists received
a severe setback throughout the
country and in general the Social
lists suffered the defeat of many OF
their leaders. Pierre Renaudel,
leader Of the majority Socialists: (:
Jean Longuet, leader of the minor
ity Socialists; Henry franklin
Bouillon, the radical Socialist,
chairman of the foreign relations
committee Of tho chamber Of dep
uties. who has urged rejection of
the peace treaty and Pierre Brizon
were beaten. The returns show a
gain OF 46 seats for the moderates
and a loss of 16 for the extremists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-11-17
RAILROAD men
'CONS|DER hines
| LATEST OFFER
New Plan Proposes to Remedy n
equities Suffered BY Crews
Of Slow Freighis.

Cleveland, Ohio. Nov. 17.-Heads
Of the four railroad brotherhoods
met here today to consider Direc-
tor General Hines offer Of overtime
on show freight ~sefvicG.
They hope to be able to give an an
swer within . week.
Those attending the conference
included w. G. Lee Of the train
men, Timothy Shea OF the fire.
men and enginemen, Warren s.
Stone Of the engineers and L. E.
Shepard Of the conductors.
Has New Plan.
Director General Hines has Of
fered overtime payment in an m
usual way and the offer requires
consideration for that reason, Mr
Lee said. Railroaders receive a
days pay for each 100 miles they
make within eight hours. Most oi
them complete their runs In that
time, while those completing theil
runs in less time receive full eight
hours pay ],
Where more than eight hours IL
consumed railroaders have only
been paid at the regular rate fol
eight hours and Mr.. Hines view IL
that this should be adjusted in fair.
ness to slow-freight men, Mr.. Lee
declared.