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The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-03-01
TEAR UP AND STEAL

"Tear up the world and then grab" is now the anrounced
policy of the BOlsheviki. In this country where there IS so
much to be grabbed the fellows may be waiting eagerly. The
best way to meet them if they start anything is to do 1t with
enough courage and force and let all those who have come to
this country from foreign ports be deported, as a few OF them
have already been sent back. or are now on their way. If we
could send back fifty or even a hundred thousand of this kind
of human cattle the country would be a great deal better Off.
Let the undesirables who have craWled under the tent be
kicked out and let us close the gates on the floods that may
be ready to come should those revolutionary movements In
Russia and other countries cease to yield more lOotage.
We shall be much better off to provide for our own
people if we have fewer of other countries people here. 1t
may be selfish to think of America for Americans, but 1t is
going to be the only wise policy for the next few years.
And those who have shown the least appreciation of the ben
efits that this country has conferred upon them are the first
who ought to be shut out and their kind shut out. We have
been unselfish in the past, but in the future we shall have to be
more selfish, for it has become a matter of self preservation
and of peace and prosperity. We are not to blame, but thOs&
who have abused our hospitality are to blame.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-03-01

Some times it looks as if it would have been Deuer lor
General Foch to have pressed the war a few days longer as
sured as he was that the whole German army woulu cohapse
and even Won Hindenburg has since admitted that they were
on the verge of that catastrophe, and that 1t was tnt reah-
cation that compelled him to accept the armistice. The Gerv
mans. i'm other words, made the best of the situation ana IN
stead of going ahead until their whole army had Deeh cap
tured. they saved it and did it by the mercies OF General
Foch. who was moved to the act to save useless Dlooosneo.
It comes with poor grace-if grace may be looked o In
those duarters-fOr the Germans to assume ana u q . Ii
their armies had not been beaten and that they are still an
undefeated nation. But what else can be expected o. d ha'ioh
that began the war for loot and that tore treaties into scraps
of paper? -,
The surprising thing in the situation is that there shouio
be any wrangling among the nations that spent so much
blood and treasure to win the victory, and that over a lot OF
idealistic nonsense to which the Germans are as lhsehslDle
as ducks are to water. They encourage others 10 dream
while they continue to play the game OF intrigue. Ihey pre-
sent to President Wilson their abject devotions to fourteen
or more points and, we doubt not, all the time they are laugh
ing in their sleeves about how easy it is to eaten suckers
with chaff and promises and professions and protestatlons.
The world permitted this war to come through softness ana
should not permit this victory to be wasted in the same pro-
cesses. Let's get disillusioned and stay disi1usioned for a
little while at least.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-03-01
ALIENS IN AMERICAN UNIFORMS

According to the statistics 1922 per cent of the drafted
men were classified as aliens. which is the same as saying
that one out of six was not American born. 1t means also
about six hundred thousand men of foreign birth in the draft
ed armies of the United States. But while some are talking
about the DIFFERENTIATION of these men, is it not well to as
sumo that a great deal Of AmericaniZatiOn has resulted from
the processes of the draft? The men who have marched and
drilled and even fought under the American flag are apt to
be more than tainted with Americanism as a result of such
processes.
More startling are the statistics about illiteracy. OF the
men who were drafted during 1917 we are told that 100000
of them signed their names with an Y, that is they were men
who could not do so much as sign their own names. 1t is
said that many of these We're foreign-bOrn men, a larger per
centage of them than of any other class. 1t may also be
presumed that many of them We're Indians and blacks, for
education in the south among the negroes is still very back
ward. But all did not come from such classes. Many were
"puren Americans whose ancestors came from Europe in the
beginnings of our country.
The conclusion that we need more education as well as
more AmericanizatiOn is. in face of such facts, somewhat ire
sistible. But we shall need a great deal of wisdom as well
as patriotism in going about such problems.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-03-01
THE SHOOTING OF CLEMENCEAU

Fortunately the shooting of Clemenceau may not be ser
ious. The fate of France in the peace conference depends
largely upon this aged statesman, who pulled France poIl-
cally through the last hard years of the war. Nor were his
efforts all political. He is a fighting man by instinct and he
did a great deal to inspire the armies of France. He is call
ed the tiger. and he has often been likened to Americas Col
onel Roosevelt. He is a man who never minces matters and
who moves to attain practical results. He is fearless in his
utterances and bold in his actions. No man, not even Cen
eral Foch, has better embodied the spirit of France in the
war.
During the peace negotiations so far Clemenceau has
has had but little sympathy with the so-caled ideahsts who
have imagined that they can shape a peace that will redeem
the world forever. He is not a millenniumist; he has too
much horse sense to be. He knows what Germany has been
and what it still is, and he understands the tasks that are
still before his people of France. He is for a direct and con-
elusive peace and in a recent interview he startled the
world by voicing the Impotence of France with mere quib~
blings. It was that interview that brought about m6difica-
tions of the much talked of league of nations, so that as it
now stands it is more nearly a mere binding together of the
five principal participants in the late war.
We believe that Cemenceau more nearly than any other
member of the peace conference, not excepting our own del
egates there, represents what the average American thinks
about peace. Clemenceau lived for many years in this cOun~
try and he is not without knowledge of American sentiment.
If the question could be submitted to the American voters,
we believe they would vote overwhelmingly for his kind of
a peace.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-03-01
WE HAVE SOME EXPORT PROBLEMS

Japan last year exported %$i3OOO,OOO in goods to the lit
tie Panama country, right at the doorway of the Panama ca
nal, and under the nose of Uncle Sam. Among the exports
were canned goods and cotton goods. in which we ought to
excel. The Japanese are becoming great manufacturers of
such goods, and as they put them up cheaper, with cheaper
labor. she can almost outbid us. The problems of the Unit
ed States as an exporting nation are going to be harder than
some dreamers have as yet dreamed of. We are too apt to
think that we are the people and that we can accomplish all
the wonders of the world. We still have much to learn in
the markets of the world, with our merchant marine COM
posed of ships for which we paid five or even ten prices COM
pared with costs in such countries as Japan.
And all the time with congressional Investigations and
commissions and bureaus we are trying to break down the
organizations that are great and strong enough to compete
i'm the foreign markets. In this country we think it is good
politics, and it is, for the office hunters and vote geHers to
attack all those who succeed in establishing business houses
that are strong enough to buck the competing nations in the
markets of the world.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-03-01
HAS CONGRESS- ADVOCATED ?

Those congressman who are refusing to vote bluff appro-
priatiOns for the navy are acting in entire consonance with
common sense as well as cOmmOn honesty. Whatever the
needs of the navy may be they should be provided for, but it
should be definitely stated what ships are to be built and
what the probable costs are to be. To appropriate hundreds
of milliOns-after all the money we have already spent and
for which we are still borrowing and will have to pay taxes
as long as those now living are able to pay taxes, we should
not enter upon any orgies of expenditures to bluff other ma
tons. We have no interest in spending hundreds of millions
TO Guido England on the seas.
One proposition was to vote to the president the extra
ordinary power to build ships without appropriations and at
his own sweet discretion. Whatever the ships so built might
cost, congress would have to pay the bills by making appro-
priatiOns.
This proposition is the most frightful of the many super
powered authorizations that congress has made in these later
years. This is not a one man government and we should not
make the executive the supreme power in the land, even
down to the spending of money. The constitution still stands
and it makes the congress the coordinate power in the gov
eminent. 1t may not abdicate in favor of the president. We
may have a very foolish congress now and then, but do we
always have a super-man in the presidency?
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-03-01
WASHINGTON ALARMED OVER WHEAT

In Washington they are now trembling over what they
say may be the result of the guaranteed price of 1926 for
wheat. The winter wheat has come through the winter i'll
fine shape and in most of the winter wheat regions the Win
ter is practically over and the wheat is beginning to grow. A
bumper crop of winter wheat is now in sight.
On top of that Washington hears that the farmers of the
spring wheat belts are going to side track everything else and
high price for all that they can produce, while the other GER
eas may drop, for there is no government protection back of
them.
The situation has something of seriousness in it; that
must be admitted by all. There may be not only over produc~
ton of wheat, wheat enough to embarrass the United States
treasury, which must make good all differences between
1928 and the market prices of the world, but there may be
under production of other crops, such as corn, reducing in
its turn the meat supplies of the country. A shortage of meats
is now feared as the corollary of a surplusage of wheat
We have in these matters an illustration of the folly of
governments suspending the natural laws of supply and de-
mand. 1t is the governments first undertaking of the kind,
and it is likely to prove so disastrous that ii will be the last.
Last fell, when the price of winter wheat was fixed and that
properly, it should have been announced that no action would
be taken about spring wheat until the outcome of the war
was determined. There was every reason for so withholding
an announcement of that kind, for the war was then trembling
on its last legs and all sensible men expected it to end dur
ing the winter.
But even with the tentative promise made, it should have
been boldly modified by the government, for the spring wheat
had not yet been planted and the farmers had not been put
to any expense on account of it. 1t should have been treated
as a war contract, conditional upon the continuance of the
war. Thousands of munition and similar contracts have been
cancelled since, and that upon some culpable basis or other:
the contractors for expenses incurred and pros
poets abrogated. But there We're too many voters among the
wheat growers and no such policy was deemed safe for the
government. The experiment in fixing prices is likely to cost
the government a billion dollars and it may cost much more.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-03-01
WILLING TO LET THE OTHER FELLOW A

All over the country they are planning memorial build
ings, but it may be noted that the communities which desire
them are asking either their state or the national government
to furnish the money. They are all willing to erect memoir
ials, provided some one else pays for them, and we suspect
that the word memorial is merely used as a camouflage.
What they want to do is to add to the importance of their
cities. The kind of a memorial that counts is the one that
men go into their own pockets for;it is the offering that hal
lows the purpose, and building them with other peoples
money is not hallOwed in any way.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-03-01
POLITICAL STAGE ACTORS

One German scheme is to turn the government tempo
raIly over to the Spartacans, if the peace terms do not suit
them, and the Spartacans would create havoc and chaos so
that no one could transact business with them. This con-
firms the belief that the Spartacans have been, in part at
least, so many political stage actors for the rest of Germany.
Occasionally they let them loose a bit and then we are flood
ed with reports about Germany being about to go to pieces,
which makes the timid zones among the allies begin to back
water and talk mercy and other pretty things that belong
to sewing circles and pink tea clubs.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-03-01

Some of the professors" in Germany, who were as mad
as the eX-kaiser with military materiaism, seem to be repent
ing. One of them, a Professor Wobbermin, of Heidelberg, has
brought out a new edition of his book on belief in God in OPP
position to the materalism of Netzsche, which befOgged SO
many German minds and brutaliZed their common morality.
There is room in Germany for a great deal of such teaching
1t will take a generation or two to cure them of the insanity
of Nietzche, whose teachings have penetrated the national
character more deeply than they have been willing to admit.
And to think that they should have been so influenced by a
man who died in an insane asylum! No wonder that even
the former crown prince has to confess that Germany is mad,
collectively mad.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-03-01
SHOULD BE NO WAGE REDUCTIONS

For the present at least there should be no general wage
reductions. Prices are still high for food stuffs and it may
we'll be doubted whether so-called common labor can ever
again go back to the old standard. The men who do the or
binary labor cannot live on much less than the men who do
some particular kind of work. The measure of the welfare
of a people may be the measure of the ability of the average
man to live.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-03-01
DOES HE KNOW MUCH MORE?

George Creel, the manager of publicity for the U. S. A.
under Wilson, says that until the Russian revolution he be-
lieved that the Ukraine was a musical instrument instead of
a country. But has George given great evidence that he
has known much more about many things American?
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-03-01

Mr.. McAdOO in his California retreat has concluded he
will not be a candidate for president. He has found work
that is more congenial than politics and office holding and
also more remunerative. He has connected himself in an adj
visory way with a film picture corporation, from which he
receives, it is said, 100000 a year. He is associated with
Douglas Fairbanks, who is a good fellow to be associated
with, if he is in life what he is on the films, and with Mary
Pickford. Charlie Chaplin and d. w. Griffiths, the great pro-
ducer. With such surroundings and so much money on hand
why should Mr.. McAdoo worry about the presidency or even
about who runs the railroads?
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-03-01
LOOKS LIKE PERPETUAL MOTION

The wheels revolve and we get nowhere. Because of
wage increases railroad freights must go up; and when
freights go up the cost Of living increases. Then higher
wages, higher freights, higher wages, higher freights-toot!
foot! we're Off-ecrtainly we're off!
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-03-01

The eX-kaiser has as much right to sue us for losses in
brewery stocks as have certain British investors in such Sc
curties. The man who was emperor had many Investments
in breweries in America, we are told. And that may account
for the fact that some of the brewery men contributed to the
German propaganda funds.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-03-01
GRAVE G BUSY

In Siberia and Russia the grave diggers cannot keep up
with the death rate. But what else do the Russians expect
to get under Bolshevism, and the sooner they get the most
and the worst of it the better it will be for them.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-03-01

Whether the Victory loan may be six or ten billions, it
will have to be subscribed even if it is the last act of pa
triOtism.
Arizona republican., 1919-07-20

price The stock furthermore exempt Federal Normal Income Tax
The Monte Vista journal., 1919-12-27

ne y surprise 'o ms lady ia,~. ,unr
want 10" Wsyn-- To know I an In
f'yinp'"n until after She nnds H."
There wa. trfs .pir- ~ nr,sn,ur
Gus excitement Tor prrity rihci In hrr
devoted lovers unique esp-ri-nc. when
v" f"ci'"d The snin. the ursi morn.
ms. And meantime s.rs-un, Moor.
wns gaining popularity rnd the cum
muni'ys good viii by detailing hi.
heroic nr' which hrd signniired chris,
mns eve In N. Apprehension ~ two
desperate rrimlnrls Nh" but for him.
might have had tho eatlsr town a.
their mercy,
The Monte Vista journal., 1919-12-27

minutes later the captive found him.
self locked into stone cellar, and the
sergeant handed Its key 10 his wife,
saying:
You might pass In a Jug Of water
and q plate of bread to my catch
through the window; It's got no sash
to II. I'll drop around again soon."
The young man In retirement was
pacing about In the dark and anathe-
matizing his Otlicious captor when Mrs.
Moore timldly approached the window.
Here's some water and a little
food" she said. 80 you won't suffer"
and just as she passed the things in
she uttered q shriek and crouched
down trembling. Two men had sud
denly appeared. real burglars this
time.
"Oh. sirI' whispered the woman
through the cellar window. '.they may
Kill the childrenl And then there's all
Tins half yearly pay In the bureau
Please help me. Here's the key to the
cellar door," and something tinkled on
the floor. Something else then tran
spired. The released captive located
and knocked down and tied hand and
foot the prowler within the house.
Then coming unawares upon the armed
bandit outside he toppled him over.
rendered him helpless. and seemed to
enjoy the excitement Of It all.
II am Roscoe Walden and am en-.
gagged to Ethel Wayne" he explained
An hour later to the bewildered ser
geant. after the latter had transferred
the two criminals to limbo. This 10
the tlrst time I have visited their new
nome. and I got In surreptitiOusly to
place 4 prSaspt op the Christmas tree
The Monte Vista journal., 1919-12-27

Tho naptis, church had their
Christmas entertainment on Christ
maa eve and rave tho following In
tcteatlns program;
Invocation by Pastor
SONG by Sehool-Joy 10 the World
Recitation .-.... Cordrlia Chandler
Christmas Welcome. Edward zeigl,r
Six Litils Candles Mfs Reeds claaa
Res How Dosa Santa ciAus
Travel .........-..-..... John uaFp
Song by ars Evans Ciass
Rec My dift -....-...... Nsli Wilson
Rec, .s...s........ nerfia WOODROW
Zee -Talephonink TO Santa
Edward zclEior
Song by Alle, Lllley
The Monte Vista journal., 1919-12-27

song by Fri. caiivoli's eiass
Exercise Tide
Mrs. strains class
nuet- nneN of ACES Nay sistera
song by Mrs strains class
Reading by Deacon Wilson
Duet by Misses Las.lo Potter and
Ruth Caldwell
Song hy Choir
DiEifibaiioa Of TFsst.
The Monte Vista journal., 1919-12-27
no You ENJOY yorR MEALS,

" you do not enjoy your meals
your digestion IL faulty. Eat moder.
a,cly' especially OF meats. masilcate
your food thoroughly. Lot five
hours cla pao hotweou meals and TAX,
ono OF Chamhcrlnin'a Tablets immc-
diatcly after supper and you will
soon lind your meals To be real
pleasure
The Monte Vista journal., 1919-12-27
ECONOMY MEAT MARKET

Fresh fish every day. We
have n special every Saturday.
Veal. beef, pork. mutton and
all kinds of poultry.
The Monte Vista journal., 1919-12-27

Rec, ,.-.....,.........,......,.ii Herald Fisher
paet s.sss-5-.,s.-.sssssss.. Hamilton nisserr
Rec No Room ia the Inn
s...,-srs.....s.,s.....-s. Beatrice Evans
SONG by STR, Aehton'a class.
Rec, .s..--....s.......a.a Ruth Caldwell
Rec. ,...-s.s.... Oral Caldwell
SONG by iiorune. Evan.
Dialogue TO the klhs
b. ,hres sifls
The Monte Vista journal., 1919-12-27
say there's q regular baud Of burglar,

say there's . regular band OF burglars
on the move"
Now two problems OF fate were 10
WORK out q strange series Of circum-
stances. In the Christmas eve events
appertaining to the redoubtabie ser.
Reant. The first wns that the little
town jail had burned down the week
previoua. The second WAS that a new
family had moved to town early In De-
cembef. comprising the wnynes-farh.
er. mother. = charming daughter Of
seventeen and three young children.
A. Moore passed their place he noted
that II was all dark. the family prob
ably absent ~ some local entertain
ment. and he caught the echo OF q
sound resembling the tipping over Of
. piece Of furniture. Then from an
open window . form protruded.
"BurElnrsI" muttered the sergeant.
and made = dash for the presumable
despoilef.
Hold on |" spoke the latter excited.
~. Its all right"
-Oh. II itr' purred Moore derisiveiy.
"Whats thatr" and he made q grab
at the protruding pocket Of the young
man.
"If you'll allow me to exp'nin." be-
gan the latter. II know the people
who live here"
''Oh. yes. very particular friendsi
Cordially invited you to break Into the
house at any hour Of the night! And
this-a new muffier apd pnir Of
gloves. Say. you come with me-" and
the sergeant marched his captive from
the spot.
1T y0u'll only let me explain"
pleaded the young man. but Moore was
deaf. blind to all but duty. Fifteen
The Monte Vista journal., 1919-12-27
Ia VETA HOTEL BLOCK

You know there n be 10 Better Meat produced
than thcrr in the San Luis Valley. and that the San
Luis wonderfully fine. You get a much larger
and Better Piece Of Meat here for the price pay
EXACT WEIGHT
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-07-28

AROUND HERE
New Bogus Five Dollar Bill Is In Cir
cuIation, and Federal Reserve
Bank Warns Against

If anybody in Keokuk has S. bill
after paying his weeks living ex-
penses, he had better see whether it
is one issued by the federal reserve
bank of New York, and then whether
one side Of Lincoln's face is dirty.
Notices have been sent to all Of the
banks in this section by D. w. Dick
son, operative in charge of the Omaha
branch of the United States secret
service, asking them to be On the
lookout for a new series Of counter
felt federal reserve notes in five dol
lar denominations on the Federal Re-
serve bank of New York.
The face plate number Of the bills
is indistinct, as the bills were ap-
parent1y printed from zinc-etched
plates of very poor workmanship, in
a single piece of paper on which red
and blue ink appears as an imitation
of the silk-fiber found in the genuine
notes The counterfeit notes bear a
portrait Of Lincoln with black ink
covering the whole side of the face,
This poor workmanship should rem
der it easy to detect the notes, al
though the numbering is very good.
Keokuk people should be on the
lookout for this bogus currency and
should report any notes which have
any indications of forgery to some
bank teller