The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1919-08-07
Wrath Hits Them.


of legislation and of government gen.
orally.
Wrath Hits Them.
There are in the gallery day by day
many men and women whose minds
already are made up. They are the
ones whose enthusiasms get away from
them once in a while, and who by
their demonstrations call down upon
their heads the wrath Of the vice pres
ident, or the president pro tempore,
whichever happens to be presiding.
1t is against the rules of the senate
to evidence vocally or by hand clap
ping or foot-stamping, approval or dis
approval of anything which is said
or the floor. once in a while the gal
leries are cleared by order of the vice
president because of these demonstra-
lions.
"Day of Glory" for France.
1.-THE day of glory has arrived" 1t
was with these words that a dispatch
describing the Bastile day celebration
in Paris began.
Washington. 1t quickened the beating
of the pulses of all the soldiers here,
the ablebodied and those others in the
hospitals who, with their comrades
sound of body and of limb, helped to
make possible the day of glory in
Paris.
The French know how to keep fete
days They have a genius for such
things 1t is innate with them. They
do not have to study to produce
effects, because every Frenchman per-
sonaliy is an effect-producing factory.
On Bastile day soldiers of every one
of the allied and the associate nations
In the war against Germany appeared
in the parade which was what the
French planned t. make tia pageant
of glory and yet a pageant of sim
plcity. The Arc de Triomphe, as usual,
was made the apex of the triumphant
demonstration. Immediately after the
entry of the Germans into Paris in
1871 the French drew chains across
what may be called the gateways of
the Arc de Triomphe. Those chains
never were to be taken down until
French armies could pass through
them returning triumphant from the
fields where victorious battle had
been waged in behalf of free France,
Chains Come Down.
On Bastile day the chains were
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umphant armies of France, Great
Britain, Belgium, Italy, Serbia and the
United States passed through, Every
American soldier who saw Paris saw
the Are de Triomphe. Their footsteps
passed along the wonderful avenue Of
the Elysees to the point where the
avenue radiated from the Arc to make
the star. The lesson of the Arc de
Triomphe was borne in upon every
American soldier who stood under its
shadow.
When the treaty of peace was
signed In the Hall of Mirrors in the
palace of Versailles the French Off
Gals, with that keen perception of the
to be present delegations of enlisted
men of all the allied nations. 1t was
a peculiarly French conception. To
be present there were the dignitaries
of the great nations, but the French
with that keenness of perception
which is their own saw that the bull
warks of freedom, the plain manhood
of the countries, must be represented
to make the occasion logical, complete
and, yes dramatic.
1t was in this spirit that Bastile day
was celebrated. 1t was celebration
not In honor of the president Of
France, nor even in honor of the
great generals who commanded the
armies of the allies, nor yet even In
special honor of the pollus and the
doughboys and Tommies who had
made victory certain, but in honor Of
world freed from the peril of milf
.,Jatfo domination and of freedom