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The One Flag
By Wilbur Nesbit

By Wilbur Nesbit
YOUR flag and my fog'
l. And hoao 1t flies to-day
In your land and my land
And half a 1corld d1Uny!
Rose red and blood red
The stripes forever gleam;
S7aoav achite and soul aohite-
The good torefathers' dream.
SKY blue and true blue, aoith stars
to CLEAN aright-
The glorious guidon BY day; a shell
ter through the night.
Your flag and my flag!
To euer star and stripe
The drums beat as hearts beat,
And pipers shrillcy pipe!
Your flag and nay flag
A blessing IN the sky;
Your hope and my hope
1t neuer hid a lie!
Homeland and far land and halt the
1uorId around,
Old Glory hears our glad salute and
'-ipples to the sound!'
Your flag and my fog'
And, oh, hoav much it holds
Your land and my land
Secure acithin its folds!
Your heart and my heart
Beat quicker at the sight;
Sun kissed and 1oind tossed
Red and blue and ,Uhite.
The one flag, the great flag, the fog
for me and you,
Glorifies all else besido-the red and
,chite and blue'
Quoted in the House by
Hon. Marion E. Rhodes ""*-
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trating ability for leadership il
finance.

Since 1909 Mr.. Vanderlip has been
president Of the National City Bank.
Prior to that for eight years he was
its vice-president. Before that he
had been assistant to Lyman J.
Gage. Secretary Of the Treasury
during the Spanish War. At that
time young Vanderlip had success
fully floated a $20O,0O0,OOO war bond
issue, and James Stillman, president
Of the National City Bank, wanted
him. He got him. Wall Street
waited to see what Vanderlip would
do, and it saw the golden touch of
success in everything he did.
In 1914 he began specializing in
branch banking, until the National
City Bank had forty-nine branches
in twenty-five countries. Then he
became a "dollar a year" man in
government service, and rendered
his government all the benefit of his
vast experience.
When he resigned the other day
Mr.. Vanderlip said:
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Elisabeth}Curley Flynn

A fTER a T,eriod of comparative
quiet Elizabeth Gurley Flynn,
last week, again came before the
public. or that part of the public
which reads newspapers or attends
Circle No. of the Young Peoples
Socialist League.
Miss Flynn told the young Social
lists what a terrible state this coun-
try was in and how those who were
de ported objected only TO the length
OF time they were held on Ellis
island, forced to eat poor food and
gaze on the Stars and Stripes.
Miss Flynn's record of l. W. W.
and other ism activities is long.
At fifteen she preached Socialism
OF the. more radical kind, then
espoused |. w. w. doctrines. She
was indicted by a grand jury in
Paterson for her work there during
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tions -o or those that have their
genesis in the north - is to put
Juarez out of business, thus closing
the port Of entry" capture the
city of Chihuahua, which is the
capital of the state of that name.
and then proceed over a southernly
course to Mexico City, where, if the
lnsurrecto movement is successful,
the president is unseated.
Villa has covered this route more
than once, as Madero and Huerta
could tell. At other times-when
he was being urgently sought by the
United States government and
others-he has hid in the hills Now
he has General Angeles as a CO.
operator in the newest revolution
against Carranza. General Garcia
who is guarding Chihuahua, saws
he is waiting and ready for the at
tack. 1t will be Villas last one, he
indicates.
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Elizabeth Gurley Flynn

strike, was released when the jury
failed to agree, prohibited from
speaking there and two years after
ward said she would speak in Pat
erson, the chief of police, the
police and the fire departments to
the contrary Notwithstanding"
She has been identified with I.
W. w. movements in many states
and wept when the Mormons of
Utah treated them so summarily
several years ago. Now she is at
it again, this time wholly and solely
for the Bolsheviki ct al.
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government were sincere. He could
project smoothness more than con-
viction.
This judgment was we'll founded.
A letter written by Erzberger in
April has recently been discovered
by the Paris correspondent of The
New York Tribune. In that letter
to German Observation-Disclosures is
optimistic, even enthusiastic, over
the future of Germany.
For haven't Lithuania and
ekrainia been raised up to keep
Poland feeble? And isn't the road
to Russia left open to Germany?
The great future which Germany
will find in Russia means that in ten
or fifteen years more the German
nation will wax so formidable
that It can again resume the march
to Paris
Then again will come the day
When the Teuton will challenge the
Anglo-Saxon-meaning Great Brit
an and America-and a great day
Ut Will be for Germany, too, accord
ing to Erzherger. And so on and
50 on.
hrzberger is president of the
herman armistice commission and
was reported to have been the head
Of the German spy system in
switzerland and altogether is
two-handed dissembler who will
bear watching.
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British Empire is there repre-
sented not alone by the ablest and
most brilliant officials of the home
government, but by the most astute
and talented statesmen of England, all
for Britain, and all with an eye single
to Britain's power and greatness For
France, her grand old Premier and her
most famous citizens stand there ever
alive to Frances interest, demanding
Frances rights and fighting for
Frances aggrandizement Italy, from
her various parties, has sent her best,
skilled and learned in statecraft, Ital-
ians all, for Italy and Italy's future.
Japan's cunning and illustrious sons
fight Japan's battles for Japan's ex-
pansion and Japan's increase in terri
tory and wealth. Every small nation
on earth and every one that hopes to
be a small nation have sent Of their
very best and very highest, each intent
upon his own nation, it's progress and
Its happiness, it's future and it's pros
perity. There is just one nation un-
represented, perhaps included in a
nebulous vision Of internationalsm
but not otherwise, and that Is the
ta6 Cfafo ~
The position originally assumed by
our country Of idealism and altrusm
struck responsive chord in the gener-
GUS hearts of Americans, but, unfortu
natcly, we have seen our idealism
abandoned, our altruism forgotten.
We have observed with astonishment
and indignation our country incxtric-
ably bound in the sordid, cunning.
secret and crafty designs Of European
and Asatic governments. We would
wish, II we could not stem the tide Of
greed and avarice, selfshness and sor-
dldncss and stop the secret plotting
and plunder, at least to be no part of
1T; to be Ourselves again, with our
ideals untarnishcd, to bo Just Amer
leans.
We fought righteous war and won.
With our might and our treasure we
determined TO destroy a ruthless mill
tarism and 1t Is done. In the peace we
would mako 1t impossible for this
monster ever again TO threaten the
world.
The victory for tho United States
means neither territory nor repAra-
tions. " should mean the triumph Of
our loud trumpeted ideals for civIli-
zstion, tor tho rights Of small nations,
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StilIn1a,, Succeeds

JAMES A. STILLMAN, who sue
. ceeds Mr.. Vanderlip as presi
dent of the National City Bank, is
the son Of Mr.. Vanderlip's prede
cessor and "chip of the old block
He represents, in some respects
the business man antithetical tt
Mr.. Vanderlip.
Mr.. Vanderlip welcomed report
ers; indeed, was a Chicago financia
editor himself earlier in his career
Mr.. Stillman shuns publicity. But
he likes golf and sailing.
He has been president of the
board of directors of the National
City Bank until Mr.. Vanderlip's
resignation left untitled the shoes
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Il Toast

Here's our loue to you foo Of
the free,
And flag of the tried and true.
Here's our loOe to you' strea,a-
ing stripes
And your stars in field of
blue;
Here's oar love to your silken
folds
Wherever they wave on high,
F'or you are the flag of land
for a0h1ch 1t aoerc s,ecet for q
man to die.
From a poem by d. F. MCCARTHY.
quoted in the House by the Hon.
Thomas Gallagher.
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Lord RibbLcsdole

T ORD RIBBLESDALE has had q
popularity in British society
by reason of his personal bearing,
rank and sporting proclivities, as
great as that possessed by the for
mer Mrs. Astor in America. Long
known as "the handsomest peer in
Parliament Lord Ribblesdale is
an imposing figure and has long
been famous in many walks Of life.
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General Francisco Villa

an achievement worth dwelling
upon"
1t is a far cry from the head of a
Wall Street bank which this week
will be 107 years old-the National
City Bank--to the cornfelds Of Illi-
nois, but Frank A. Vanderlip was
destined to hear that cry and bring
from the farm democratic, pene-
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ment made bomb throwingsa logical

ment made bomb throwingra logical
result, he said.
Berger was convicted and SEN
fenced by Judge Lands in the Fed
eral Court, Chicago. At the time he
was Congressman-elect from Wis
consin and the House of Represen-
tatives placed his case in the hands
of the Committee on Elections to
prevent Berger from taking his
seat-an action still pending.
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Berger and the
Bombs

CONGRESSMAN VICTOR l.
BERGER, Milwaukee Socialist,
VINO faces twenty years imprison-
ment IN Federal prison for violation
" the espionage act, was the only
member Of Congress last week who
found any confinement for the re-
cent bomb throwing outrages.
lne capitalistic form Of govern
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statement concerning Italy's demands
in substance denouncing secret trea.
ties. During all these wretched months
of secret intrigue it was the one clear
note which struck a esponsive chord
with many of US. Some of US mme-
diately indorsed his stand on secret
treaties, assuming, Of course, that
when he took that stand in the doubt
full case of Italy he would take it in
the clear and unambiguous case of
Japan But hardly had his words
ceased to ring in denunciaton of Sc
cret treaties when he accepted, with
out demur Or objection, the worst of
all the secret treaties presented, that
between England, France, and Italy on
the one hand and Japan upon the
other.
We were not party to the secret
made, but in the settlement of the
peace we have become party to them
Of our own choice, after the war is
over, We join in the crime against
China. 1t is concerning the secret
treaties in their relation to the league
that l speak. In disposing of Chinese
territory we were dealing not with an
enemy but with an ally. We we're de-
spelling not Germany, our enemy, but
China, our friend. And we who know
something Of the Oriental character
can understand the fate of China and
how Japan bided her time at the peace
conference until the exact moment for
success came, and then demanded and
successfully demanded. Just as Japan
did with her secret treaties and China
just so will she do with her secret
treaties and what she calls race dis
elimination. When the time seems to
her propitious-and it will not be long
she will bring to the league of ma
tions our yet unsettled dispute over our
alien land law and her pending con-
troversy respecting immigration end
her assertion Of race discrimination by
US. And when this is done the league
will take charge of these momentous
questions and will decide them. i.
1t is not league Of nations to pre-
vent war. 1t is league of armed ma
tions in gigantic war trust. In it's
very creation it has been stripped of
every idealistic purpose it ever had.
1t contains within itself the germs of
many wars. and worse than that it
rivets, as in the Shantung decision, the
chains OF tyranny upon millions of peo-
pie and cements, for ell time, unjust
and wicked annexations. 1t is a great
world economic trust, wherein few
men sitting secret may control the
economic destinies Of peoples
1t is not a league of peoples, nor
does it anywhere concern itself with
peoples whose past wrongs and future
rights were SO eloquenty portrayed by
the President. 1t is trust Of existing
present power. 1t will never prevent
war; it will sanctify power in new,
a terrible, and sinister sense.
In a word, Mr.. President, this league
means that American boys shall police
the world; that all the tottering ma
tions Of the earth shall be upheld
by our blood and our bone; that Eu-
rope, Asia and Africa may draw upon
US in their every dispute and quarrel;
that our nation will be at tho mercy
Of European and Japanese diplomats
who never had and never will have
any sympathy with our aspirations or
our ideals; that wo with our glorious
past shall guarantee the territorial
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Villa Again

I mike the little girl with a curl
Francisco C"Pancho") Villa is
ordinarily very, very bad. That he
has broken loose again in northern
Mexico with a threat to storm the
city of Chihuahua will surprise no
one who has studied the history of
Mexican revolutions.
The formula for Mexican revolu-
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for self-determination, for democracy
1t means for England, France. Italv
and Japan huge territories, vast mum.
bers of people, immense national gain
The burden must be borne Of protect
ing and safeguarding these enormous
allied gains. The question is, and the
league Of nations squarely presents it.
Who shall bear the burden?
ohall the burden rest upon the gain
ers, those who made a mock Of self
determination, of the rights of weak
people, of all our high sounding ideal
ism, or shall tho burden, at the COM
mand Of one who was party to the
mockery, be thrust upon the only non
profting nation, the United States?
Tho sole reason, whispered in fear.
or ominously hissed to create fear in
the rest OF US, why the United States
should become tho worlds guarantor
and underwritc the rape of China and
the partition Of hundreds of thousands
OF square miles of territory and the
transfer Of millions 6f human beings
to England, France, Italy and Japan
Is that by doing 30 the possibility Of
future wars will be minimizcd and
there may be n greater sense Of Sc
curity in the possession by England,
France, Italy and Japan of their newly
acquired peoples and territories. E.
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rIRAM JOHNSON, Senator
from California, character
l. Il ICES the league of nations
as Coordination Of armed
movers into a gigantic war trust"
"Where are the agreements
sopenly arrived at'?" asks Senator
Johnson. What about self-deter-
m;nation and the rights of small
peoples?''
And there you are. Senator
Johnson, always known as an
aggressive public Hgure, believes
that President Wilson has had the
doubtful distinction of being the
first to violate his own precious
fourteen points.
This is not league to promote
peace, but to protect power. Those
who advocate it dare not amend it
50 that the question Of war shall be
decided by the men and women who
must fight and die for it.
Senator Capper, of Kansas, occu-
pied the chair while Senator John
son was making his speech and he
became so interested in the Cali
fornian's oratory that he evidently
was unmindful of the House rule
against applause in the Senate, for
applause there was both from the
floor and the galleries.
His speech was another big
moment in Senator Johnson's dis
tinguished public career.
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Senators Lodge and Borah who launched the Whereis.th
treaty?"

ut feels good to be free .man
again."
He will devote himself toshis pri-
vate interests and to the broader
issues Of mankind-for he feels the
time is coming when he may help.
Mr.. Vanderlip is fifty-one Fyears
old.
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ErSberger Defes World

MATTHIAS ERZBERGER will be
~ remembered as the former
leader of the Centrist party in the
Reichstag who never could convince
any one of the Allied nations
1at his criticisms of the German
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The Golden Book Of CONGRESS-

/ league of nations, and willing and
anxious because of the same spirit
which has ruled them in the peace
conference.
The one going solvent concern ma
tlonally is about to enter into part
nership with certain national bank
rupts. We give of our assets, both
moral and material, and assume a
part of their liabilities. We do not
need them as partners. They require
us. They yield to us nothing; they
can yield to us nothing. We give to
them everything.
We can protect our borders for
centuries to come, just as we have
in the century past. The Lord has
gwen us our geographical isolation.
and the Lord has denied just that
thing to the different races of Europe.
And, while our intcrnationalists in
behalf of the league of nations pirate
OF the fact that we can not remain
longer isolated, they forget that the
geography OF the situation remains
immutable. Isolation otherwise, ex-
ccpt to refrain from European entan-
clements or to indulge in European
controversies and wars, has never ex-
listed, and, of course, never will exist.
But, when distinguished gentlemen say
that we can no longer remain in a
position of splendid isolation and play
i,o ri
get ali the events of the past CEN
tury. We are in constant touch with
all the world. We can, whenever we
think it in consonancc with humanity,
60 wherever we will and do whatever
duty demands.
Our position has been, and ought
to be, the commanding one in all the
world. And it is unnecessary, in or
der that We preserve this position and
maintain ourselves, in order that we
may succor the weak or rescue human
ity, to tie ourselves irrevocably to the
bankrupt nations of the earth or to
enter into a confederation for the pro-
lection of their boundaries and the
preservation Of their territories.
We have been told by the President
that we must now by this league of
nations make the supreme sacrifice
and throw in our fortunes with the
rest of the world. Why? The very
query evokcs from the league cnthu-
siasts immediate and angry rctort,
and, while they will not enlighten
us, they hint darkly at our motives
and deny even our good faith. Occa-
sionally we hear that we have at last
entered upon world career, that we
have become part Of world politics,
and that we cannot now either with
draw from the course into whch
tho war drew us or desert the world
which so needs US. In the language
of famous editor of the West, "All
Of this is partly true" but it by no
means establishes that we must sur
render our cherished position or our
loved idcnls by becoming IL party to
tho sordid quarrcls and the diplo-
matte duplici'y of Europe and Asia.
The United States will play hcr
proud part in tho world in the future
as she has done in tho pasta part
proudcr because based upon American
principles and American idcnls. It did
not require secret treaties and stcalthy
barterng Of unwilling peoples to make
our nation play her part in the war;
1t docs not require the guarantee of
secret treaties and bargaining and bar
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VGnderIip Ret;res

HTT is not enough to say that
Il Frank A. Vanderlip brought
vision to Wall Street twenty years
ago-a large, fine Western vision,"
said The New York Tribune edi-
torially the other day. "Other men
have done that. He did not lose
his vision in Wall Street, and that is
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that Stillman's fathershad worn be.
fore him.
Mr.. Stillman is interested in a
large number of corporations and
is Wall Street business man who
will needyno acclwnatization. 81
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Our Plight

After six months of meddling and
muddlng in European and Asiatic con-
trovcrsics and contests over territory,
tho end Of the peace conference finds
Italy dctcsting US, France secretly de-
spising us, England using us, and
Japan bluffing us. They eare all willing
and anxious that We should have our
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Secret Treaties

The sordid bargaining, selfish in
tcrcst and secret diplomacy which
produced tho league of nations Is best
illustrated in the decision Of tho peace
conference relating to China and
Japan. At one time during tho &C.
libcrations tho President issued q
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| tering of unwilling peoples to have the
nation play it's world part after the
war. Throwing in our fortune with the
fortunes of the rest of the world
means, with our altruistic brethren,
throwing our fortunes to the rest of
the world, that the rest of the world
may do with our donation as it sees fit.
Gladly will we do what duty COM
inands and humanity and civilization
may require, but that duty can be bet
ter done, our obligations to humanity
and civilization better fulfilled in the
high position of the worlds greatest
democracy than in the subordinate
position Of the least consequential of
a quintuple alliance, or as one of many
bound irrevocably to the guarantee of
the many's power and territories.
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Whot Kind Of Peace?

American fathers and American
mothers want peace, and they want q
league of nations which will give them
peace. Ask any American mother in
Kansas or Illinois or California if
she is for peace. She will say yes
with all her heart. Ask her if she is
willing that her son and her grand
sons shall go to the Balkans, to China,
, to Corea, to Siberia to Arabia, to the
Dalmation coast, to Poland, to compel
peace. She will answer just as
promptly "No."
This league of nations, with the men
who really wrote it, was meant to
obtain peace only in so far as peace
maintained forever inviolate their ter
ritories and their subject peoples, and
il was meant that this kind of peace
should be obtained by the exercise of
the power and the force of the United
States.
Another common expression at pres
ent is, Half loaf is better than
none" But half loaf poisoned is
worse than none at all, and this half
loaf, as some of it's protagonists de-
scribe it, that has been given us is
poisoned in it's very creation by wrong,
injustice, duplcity and broken faith.
1t was neither fair nor just nor hu-
name, when the world wanted peace, to
delay that peace until the territorial
acquisitions, like those Of Japan,
should be for all time guaranteed.
When the peoples Of every country,
staggering under the terrible effects
of war, were longing and praying for
its end by the treaty, we're begging
and pleading that they might resume
as best they could their normal lives,
it was the worst sort of duplicity to
irtertwine and intermingle with the
treaty Of peace a document for the
maintenance Of existing governments
and newly acquired boundaries. Some
day some one must answer to the SOL
diers who have been kept abroad, to
those who will be sent abroad to the
mothers and tho fathers at home, for
seven months of intermeddling that an
English document guaranteeing the
British and Japanese empires and the
Kingdom Of Italy might be fastened
upon tho American people.
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United States Senator johnson
Flags the League of
Nations

4 WISH that l could adequately
picture the situation at Paris in
n the peace conference. The great
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me OF the People You Read About Last Week

TIRAM JOHNSON, Senator
from California, character
Il Il ICES the league of nations