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The Irish standard., 1919-10-04

A Great Political Tragedy.
"You have touched on the great
metaphysical tragedy of today. Ny
words have raised hope in the hearts
of millions Of people. It is my wish
The Irish standard., 1919-10-04

that they have that; but could you
imagine that you could revolutionize
the world at once, could you imagine
that these peoples could come into
that at once?
Walsh replied:
!. II can imagine them, If anyone
denied It, struggling to come into
II at once, If 1t were denied in the
place where they expected they were
to have 1t come and to have it settled
definitely once and for ALL
when gave utterance to those.
words" was the Presidents reported
reply, II said them without the knowl-
edge that nationalities existed, which
are coming to us day after day, OF;
course, Ireland's case, from the point
OF view of population, from the point
of view Of the struggle it has made,
from the point of interest that it has
excited in the world, and especially
among our own people, whom I am
anxious to serve, is the outstanding
case of small nationality. =.
"You do not know and cannot an.
preciate the anxieties that have ex-
perienced as the result of these man:
millions Of people having their hopes
raised by what have said. For in
stance, time after time raised ques>
tion here in accordance with these
principles and I am met with the state.
ment that Great Britain or France os
some Of the other countries have en-
tered into solemn treaty obligation
tell them that 1t was not in accorf
with justice and humanity; and thc
tell me that the breaking Of treati
is what has brought on the great
part Of the wars that have been wa
in the world.
mo one knows the feelings t,
are inside me while am meetin
with these people and discussing thes
things and as these things that have
been said here go over and over in my
mind / feel it most profoundly, as you
gentlemen do, in Divine Providence,
and I am in His hands, and don't
care what happens to me individually.
believe these things and know that
countless millions Of other people be-
lieve them"
In ending the conference, the Pres
ident was quoted as saying of his
mission to Paris:
II did not succeed in getting all
came after. I should say that there
was great deal-no, I will put It
this way-there were a lot of things
I hoped for but did not get.''
The Irish standard., 1919-10-04
WHY WAS BR1rA1N's RESERVATION
WITHHELD FROM THE AMERI-
CAN PEOPLE?

When Great Britain signed the armistice terms
sle agreed to President Wilson's principles includ
ing the right OF self-determinaton for small nations
But she did not agree to the application of that prn-
clple to the British Empire" This statement bv Ian
Mac Pherson, British Chief Secretary for Ireland,
true why was this reservation bv Britain withheld
from from the American people? The American Army,
50 per cent OF Irish blood, and the American Navy,
~ per cent of Irish bood-the men who were the
deeslye e, factors in ending the Great WaF-were not
tod ofthis bargain when they were asked to lay
down their arms. What would they have said? Did
they or did they not risk their splendid young lives
IN this war to destroy imperialism and Autocracy"
IN IN the German and Austrian Empires and to confirm
1mperlallsm and Autocracy" in the British Empire?
and Austria and Turkey, why-as Judge Daniel
cohalan demanded at Washington mass-meeting
Tor lreland-"why should America hold the British
Empire sacro-sanct?"
The Irish standard., 1919-10-04
SETTLE IT FOREVER.

There is no doubt England feels bit put out
because there American interest in the Irish ques
ton. So long as we cannot very we'll deny that
interest," in spite of belief that American nation
allsm should be our first thought and duty, there
may as well be full admission Of it. Which leaves
only one knothole of escape-to settle it forever'-
Chicago Tribune:
The Irish standard., 1919-10-04
THAT WILsoN-WALsH
INTERVIEW.
Mr.. Walsh's Memorandum Filed With
the Senate Committee.

"ssoAAAAosOAAs 0SHs. u0 I0pOII
Of the secret interview on the Irish
question, which Edward F. Dunno and
Frank P. Walsh had with President
Wilson in Paris on June II was
filed with the Foreign Relations Com
mittee of the Senate by Mr.. Wa1sh. V y
In his testimony before thss copsfit-
tee last Saturday, Walsh ~ III i rot,
erence to the intslyieas zht waN IA
rected to file with c6nassi u sssl
memorandun Ii q T. Ii1iilll e re:
gasdinfs Whist to s3he dis
cussion viii
{: The rsp 'is h ill ting in show
ing tEst people of Ireland
.hGd III aecspss y President Wilson's
jsta snt Of principles respecting the
srt sof small nationalities they
fouhds him unwilling to speak up for
these principles at the Peace Con-
ference or to do anything to help
them achieve the right of self-deter-
mination.
In the interview as reported by
Walsh, the President refused to do
anything to obtain safe conduct for
De Valera, Plunkett and Grifhths, the
delegates Of the Irish Republic, who
sought to get hearing at the Peace
Conference. The President not only
declined to take up the matter with
Lloyd George, as urged by Walsh and
Dunno, but told them they would have
to discuss the case individually with
the members of the Big Four.
The story of the atrocities upon
the Irish people committed by the
English government was related in
detail by Walsh and Dunno, who de-
scribed also the methods England
was pursuing to starve the people
of Ireland into submission by main
tanning a blockade. They also showed
that the Lloyd George government
had been false to its promises, and
after sanctioning the holding of
convention to organize a new gov.
ernment for Ireland had declined to
recognize the government when
formed.
To all these appeals the President
is recorded in the report as having
turned deaf ear. In return he ac-
cused Walsh, Dunno and Ryan of hav:
ing complicated the situation by max
ing speeches in Ireland which offended
the British government.
Walsh In the interview retorted to
the President that in their speeches
they had confined themselves solely
to the statements made by him in
his own utterances regarding the prin-
ciples upon which the United States
entered the war. Walsh told the Presi-
dent he believed implicitly in what the
President had said, and that the peo-
pie Of Ireland had believed them to
be the sole hope of attaining freedom.
At one point in the interview the
President appeared to be annoyed
by what Walsh said as to his under
standing Of the Irish situation, for he
replied:
snow, Walsh, If it Is your inten.
ton to go hack to America and try
to put me in bad, am going to say
when I 90 back, that we were well on
the way of getting Do Valera and his
-. = -
associates over here: We were well
ON the way. when you made It 80
dimcult BY your speeches in Ireland
that we could not do It; that It was
You gentlemen who kicked over the
apple cart" :"
The Irish standard., 1919-10-04

To me Ireland is litigant with case denied
hearing Senator Johnson of California stated in
the Senate of Ireland barred out from the Peace
Conference at Paris
The Irish standard., 1919-10-04

Others prisoner. But what OF Sergt Bill Donnelly
the lighting !rishman of Company B, 18th Infantry
whose official record shows that he humanely ended
the military career of IS German officers and $50
prlvates, Killing none OF them but capturing all il
Carth,y of the End South Carolina Regiment sur
rounded" and captured without aid whole com:
pa1y of English soldiers in the Revolutionary Wara
The Irish standard., 1919-10-04
AMERICAN LEGION FOR 1RELAND

1t is significant of the sentiment of the men who
have fought in the war that many posts of the
that adopted by Newport Post, No. 2, recently. +
It they extended greetings to Eamonn de Valer-
President of the Irish Republic" and commende>
the at attitude OF Governor Beekman in recognizing
President de Valera "the head of a nation tha
has given her sons to this country in every war r
our history" -,
The Irish standard., 1919-10-04
SERGT. BILL DoNNELLY.

Not long ago America rang with the praises Of
one Sergt. Alvin York, who killed over twenty of
the soldiers fighting against him and made 1872
The Irish standard., 1919-10-04

Senator Walsh echoed the sentiments of the people
OF America in the resolution he introduced recently
in the Senate providing that no further advances Of
the money or credits of the United States should be
made to any foreign government except upon salts
factory evidence that part of such advances shall
be used tor the increase of armament. When great
war was devastating Europe, America humaney
interviewed to end the war, but the people of Amer
lea have no desire to re-equp Europe for further
wars.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1919-01-02

Austin Johnson writes from Grand
Lodge, Michigan, to Director Thomas
Bradlee of the agricultural extension serv-
ice Of the University of Vermont and
state Agricultural College. that
through the reports Of the bureau of last
year he bought 500 bushels of seed beans
produced in Grand Isle county and sold
them to the farmers in Eaton county,
Michigan. AS a result they had the finest
crop of beans they have raised in years.
Mr.. ohnso writes that many of the
Michigan farmers think it will pay to buy
seed beans from Vermont again for the
coming season and he desires to learn
about the prospect. This shows not only
what the university extension service is
doing for the Vermont farming interests.
but also that it pays to produce the best
and to advertise that fact. We congratu-
late Director Bradlee on his excellent
work in this connection.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1919-01-02
New Resolutions

r.. }. BOOTH. President
\. ID. WQRTHEN. TreRsvrsF
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1919-01-02
NOT LIKE CHURCH

On the first Introduction of Tractarian-
ism into Scotland. says Dean Ramsay in
his "reminiscences, the full choir service
was established in an Episcopal Church,
where a noble family who lived in the
neighborhpod had adopted high church
Views and carried them out regardless of
expense. The lady Of the house was
very anxious thai a favorite servant of
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1919-01-02
ECONOMICS OF WORLD TRADE

The chief causes of the growth of inter-
national commerce from less than $780,
OoO.O OO in 1873 to approximately $50, 600. 0oO.-
1000 in 1918 was the subject of a lecture de-
llivered before the class in international
trade and commercial geography in the
educational department of the National
City bank of New York. Growth in popu-
~1ation. cheapening in transportation, and
q division of labor among groups of men
the world over were, in the opinion Of the
lecturer, the chief causes of this growth.
During the century of power transport
tation, 1918 to 1918, the world steamships
grew to about 1900. 900 net tons, with a
value at the beginning Of the recent war
of about 50, 0oO,O OO, 900, n the worlds rail-
roads had grown to 720, 900 miles with a
value of probably 500 oO. 900, 900. With the
rapid increase in gold production in the
last quarter century, the money of the
world had grown from S10,0 600, 900, 900 in 1896
to about SIS, 900, OO, 900 at the beginning of
the European war. Then. with the neces-
sity for ready currency which faced each
of the nations at war, came an enormous
initiation, and the worlds money dnclud-
ing the uncovered paper') Is now about
$50. 900, 0OO, 900. The banking power of the
world, which was estimated by accepted
authorities at less than &c. OO, 900. 900 in 1910.
and SIS, 900, 900. 900 in 1890. was probably $685.
900. 600, 900 in 1914, and has, of course, enor-
mously increased during the war period
and banking power is an extremely impor-
tant factor in world trade and rapidly in
creasing in Importance.
The principal cause of these tremendous
international exchanges which have grown
with such unexampled rapidity within the
last century can be stated in a single and
very brief phrase-a division of labor, the
assignment to certain areas and their
Noeoples of the production of certain ar
ticles for interchange in world commerce.
It was found that certain areas could pro-
duce wheat more successfully than certain
other areas, aand this was true also with
reference 70 the other great requirements
OF men, corn, meats, sugar, tea, co11ee,
wool, silk, iron, copper, tin. lumber, india
rubber and manufactures, and hat the
respective areas especially suited to the
production of these individual articles
could produce them much more read
lily and cheaply han could other
countries requiring them, especial
ly If, by the development of cheap
and plentiful transportation facilities, these
ARTICLES could be readily moved from the
place of production to the places where
required. Cost of transportation has
been so reduced that a British workman
could in 1919 pay with one days labor the
cost Of transporting a years supply OF
bread and meat from the Mississippi val
ley to his own door; and the application
of power to farming had made it pc ssible
, in 1910 to produce "a bushel of wheat with
10 minutes of human labor against three
hours of labor required to produce g
bushei one hundred years earlier.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1919-01-02
WHAT FOLKS NIGHT SAY If THEY
HAD THEIR WAY
(From the Portland Express,

"rm not in the least disappointed
about you, Mrs. Naybor. Everybody
! told me that you ware a regular busy
body"
go on. you old hippopotamus! Can't
you see you are blocking the entrance
for 1000 OO, 1000 people besides me?"
II like your story first rate. Scribbles.
The plot Is rotten n the style would
shame a high school pupil, but otherwise
it's all right"
"Tommy, you may go home and tell
! your mother i slapped you because You
are a regular little nuisance whose pa
| rents don't know how to bring up a
kchild."
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1919-01-02

the family-a Presbyterian woman of tho
old ~school-should hear the new service:
accordingly. she took her down to church
In the carriage, and on returning asked
her what she thought Of the music and
the service in general.
lou. It's vera bonny. vera bonny,'
admitted he old Scotswoman; "but oh,
NV lady, it's an awfu' way of spending
the S.Sbath."
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1919-01-02

1ington that Notwithstanding the nitrate the
70, 8. army took over or Communicated
by the war department when the German
drive began last spring there will be
plenty of nitrate for fertilizer for our far
mars crops the oming season. Importers
who were required to turn over their con-
signments to the government are now
J free to sell nitrate to manufacturers of
! fertilizers.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1919-01-02

Lee C. Abbott Of the class Of 1900, who
has seen service on two front as a rep
resentative of the Y. NJ. c.. A.
Roderic w. Smith of the class OF
1918, who has been at Camp Lee. Va,
was promoted to the rank of first lieu
tenan before his discharge. He is now
at his home In Pittsfeld, Mass.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1919-01-02
ADVANTAGES

Were the Eskimos you saw confort-
able and happy7" Yes" replied tho
explorer. They suffer some physical In
conveniences, But these are compen-
stated by the mental serenity which re-
suits from having no water pipes to freeze
or furnace to go out, '-WashinHton Star,
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1919-01-02

The epidemic of child labor spread
ing at alarming rate should receive I'M
mediate remedial attention, to offset fu-
ture evil.-Schenectady Union SA~.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1919-01-02

Poor old Teddy. All his pet issues
are going by the board. The British al
so, are against conscrtption.-Charles-
I'm NAuza ara C~s.A~~
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1919-01-02
BURLINGTON, VT. JAN. 2, 1918.
WANTED.

When you want anything. advertise In the
new special column Of this paper. Some
bargains are offered there this week which
1t will pay you to read about. See page two.
This paper has more thnn 5000 readers
every week and one cent a word will reach
them all.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1919-01-02

A letter from this side OF the ocean
from a man who tried his best to get to
France but couldn't was received yes
terday.
Although twice rejected as a volun-
teer and drafted and rejected once
more Harry E. Crane Of the class of
1915 tried to get overseas with the
Y. M. c.. A. His age disqualified him
so he was transferred to the Munitions
Y. NJ. c. A. and has served for the past
Ave months as business and education
al secretary of the Haskell Y. NJ. c. A..
which has served $500 employees Of the
DUPONT Munitions works.
In a letter to his father, end Lieu
tenant Clarence H.. Adams of Company
F.. 3O6th Engineers, who was a mem
Der of the class Of 1912 writes: II
have had my desire gratifed for I
wanted to be going forward at the
front when the war closed. Now I am
satisfied and am well and happy"
Lieutenant Adams. who is a Phi Beta
Kappa man. went to Camp Devens
from Rutland about October first and
was there seven months as a first
class private. He was then promoted
to the rank of corporal and sent to
Camp Lee. After being there about
two weeks he was commissioned a
second lieutenant. Then he was sent
to Camp Jackson and then to Camp
Upton and overseas, leaving about the
28th of July. He was near the front
toward the last of the fighting. At
three o'clock the morning of the ninth
OF November he was routed from his
bed to go with hfs company into the
fight along with the infantry, He was
in the fght or repairing roads at the
front until the 'sudden stop of II
o'clock, the 18th of November.
Another boy who did not get across
from no fault of his own was Lieu
tenant Arthur Gustavus Levy of the
class of the 1916. and son of Joseph
Levy of Rutland, formerly of Burling-
ton. Lieut.. Levy Is a member OF the
22nd United State Infantry, stationed
at Fort Jay. N, Y. He enlisted October
rs, 1917. and is a graduate of the army
service at Fort L~eavenworth. Kansas.
In a letter to the war service of
the university he writes: "It is with
indescribable grief that I learn of the
death of 30 many of my friends and
IT is with great pleasure that learn
of the many deeds OF elf-sacrifcing
and acts of bravery" He speaks of
his regret at not having reached the
port of e~mbarkation, saying ITO be
denied the privilege of ones contri-
| DutlOH 10 tHe NictoTy IN the zone OF
the advance Is rather a real cause for
regret, We would all have been a part
of that army OF triumph II we were
permitted to-"
Recent news of university graduates
show that Samuel c. Munro of the class
of 1911 and one-time instructor In ny
giene and physical director of the
university, has been promoted to the
rank of captain in the field artillery.
He is now stationed at Camp Custer.
d. N. Bartlett of the class of 19l
also has been promoted to the rank
Of captain. He Is a member of the
4S7th Aero construction squad, Amer.
lean expeditionary forces.
DR.. J. ID. Dewey of Montpelier and
of the class Of 1904 Is in the medica'
section of the ard Battalion. a30th In,
fantry. American expeditionary forces
lA~AsA 1AoAAtiH .-AsAivAA . letter from
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The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-07-19
SHEEP DROWNED IN FLOOD
100000 Cattle Also Lost in Argentina
Many Regions Isolated for
More Than Week.

Buenos Aires, Argentina, July TO-
Government reports show that 1,000-
600 sheep and 100000 cattle have been
drowned in foods in the southern part
of Buenos Aires province. The rail-
way and telegraphic communication
have been interrupted and several sec
lions in that region have been COM
pletely isolated for more than a week
from this cause. The foods were due
to a month of the heaviest rainfall
ever recorded here. Over on the
Chilean side of Argentina there have
been further heavy snowfalls along
the Trans-Andean railway, causing
much new damage to the line. At
one point the debris on the tracks has
accumulated to a depth of 100 feet.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-07-19
MEANS ACCUSES LAWYER
Gets North Carolina Warrant for W.
w. Miller Of Northern Trust
Bank of Chicago.

Concord, N. c., July 16.-Charging
conspiracy in the prosecution Of Gas
ton B. Means for the alleged murder
of Mrs. Maude A. King and suborna-
ton of perjury in connection with the
trial of Means in 1917, warrants have
been issued here for John T. Dooling,
assistant district attorney of New
York, and William S. Miller, attorney
for the Northern Trust company Of
Chicago.
Dooing assisted Solicitor Hayden
Clement in the prosecution of Means
in December, 1917, and representa-
tives of the Northern Trust company
were Witnesses for the state. Means
was acquitted at the conclusion of a
sensational trial lasting three weeks