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New-York tribune., 1920-08-15
British Bolshevism

The resolutions passed in London
BY a body Of men who claimed TO
speak for the formidable organized
labor forces of Great Britain arc
startling in their menace. In effect
they declare opposition to all democ-
racy and free representative govern
ment and seek to place in small and
secretly acting body supreme auto
cratic authority.
The bold threat is foreshadowed in
a possible attempt to seek to do in
London and Great Britain what was
done in Petrograd and Russia when
an insignificant minority seized a
power by force and superior organi-
zation. But few will believe that
this utterance is backed by ma
jority of the people of Great Brit
ain, or by majority of the labor
ing men and women of Great Brit
ain, or even by British organized
labor. A few voluble, trouble-mak
ing intellectuals and agitators, who
have never been workers and never
intend to become such, have tempo
rarily duped. in the manner of
Ponzi, the credulous and the suspi-
clous. The masses of the British peo
pie have too much informa ton. in
telligence and common sense to be
long caught in the Bolshevist net.
The British Prime Minister.
practitioner and defender of oppor
tunlsm IS politics, has bent in some
degree before the storm raging
about him. But he has shown on
many occasions that he will surren-
der essentials. He is skillful in Civ
ing unreasonable malcontents oppor-
tunlty to reveal their purposes, and
1t may be surmised that in the pres
ent instance it will do good to per-
NIT British Bolshevism to come into
the open. Its agents have been sub
slstlng on the proceeds of stolen
jewels smuggled in from Russia, just
as American Bolshevists are SINH
larly subsisting. But it is another
matter to corrupt millions into ac
ceptlng philosophy whose first eff
feet IS to impoverish and starve the
many while the few fare sumptu
ously.
New-York tribune., 1920-08-15
A Friend Of Children

After a long, useful and happy
life Jesse Armour Crandall has died
in Brooklyn at the age Of eighty
six. Thus passes a man whose in
ventive genius and understanding
Of childhood's heart created toys
which have brought happiness to
millions of little folk throughout the
world.
1t is, perhaps, noteworthy that he
was born in small village in that
New England which has produced
so many inventors. But he came to
New York when only seven years
old, and here, or near by the great
city, were most of his toys con-
ceived and perfected; among them
the blockhouse, various types of We,
locipedes and swings, and that be-
loved spring hobby-horse of mottled
body, with real horsehair name
and tail, seated upon which genera
tions of boys-who are now men of
staid MISUNDERSTANDING galloped
against imaginary Indians and
bands of robbers. Mr.. Crandall sent
one of his first hobby horses to
England, as present to the Prince
of Wales who later became King Ed
ward VII, so delighting him that his
mother, Queen Victoria, wrote let
ter to the inventor, saying that the
little prince "insisted upon riding
the horse in the main halls of Wind
sor Castle" !"
A modest man, whose own heart
was filled with love and sympathy
for children, Mr.. Crandall came little
into public notice. He dreamed, and
made his dreams into realities. And
now at the age of fourscore and
six, he has rounded out his earthly
career. A sense of loss will be felt
by multitude who owe to his genius
and understanding some of their
happiest hours.
New-York tribune., 1920-08-15
The Story Of Zinc

In 1909 Candidate Cox declared in
favor Of free zinc and opposed the
tariff act Of 1909, which levied duties
up to 25 per cent on the metallic
content of zinc ores. In 1913 he
supported the Underwood tariff
which reduced the duty to 10 per
cent. not sufficient to hold the mar
ket for domestic producers. This
year, in his acceptance speech, he
approved the San Francisco plat
form which eulogizes the Under
wood tariff and declares for tariff
for revenue only.
What is the status of the zinc
mining industry, partially developed
in eight states, with the principal
mines about Joplin, Mo-? Under the
Underwood act imports jumped from
$1,000 tons annually to $4,000 tons
in 1916. But with extra war de-
mands and Mexico, a large source of
supply, disturbed, the industry kept
at work. With peace the mines be-
gane to shut down In Webb City,
near Joplin, which had population
Of $4,000, the closing has already re-
Guced the population to 10000. In
the Joplin district 225.oO0 people
depend on the zinc industry, and the
people there face hard winter.
Candidate Cox is losing popular
ity in Missouri, particularly in and
about Joplin. There is strong
prejudice in favor Of having an op-
portunity to make living-and
knowledge that if he is elected the
zinc mining industry must continue
doa6
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present my solution as being perfect.
The Lodge reservations are no reve-
'atlon from heaven. Perhaps there
are better things. Moreover. COM
mon sense demands leaving some
thing to future consideration. The
result Of President Wilson's attempt
TO permit no departure from his ex-
act program has not persuaded me
to be similarly positive and uncom-
promising. To say that the Senate
must do exactly as / say, adding
nothing and subtracting nothing
would probably defeat ratification
on any terms or entrance into any
league. Furthermore, | may not
arrogate to myself powers not, con-
ferred by the Constitution, Consti-
tuition which joins the Senate with
the Presidency in treaty-making."
We are loath to believe that those
who assume that the Wilson league
is the only possible league or who
contend that the attachment of
reservations which other league
members have indicated willing
ness to accept shows hostility to
league essentials really mean what
'they say. Their constant attempt to
shift the discussion from the ger
name to the ron-gcrmane suggests
minds which are uneasy. We would
not accuse excellent persons of dc
lIberate purpose to mislead, but it
is human nature to side-step. Every
one OF us knows what one is likely
to do when an argument does not
develop to ones satisfaction. If
there is weak place in a character
a temporary moral collapse occurs
and there is frenzied effort to
escape being logically encircled.
New-York tribune., 1920-08-15
Quoting From Cox

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: May l confess myself unable
to follow the editorial comments on
Governor Cox's speech of acceptance
in your issue Of this date. observe
that you do not quote a single SEN
tence, even to illustrate the point 1t
almost suggests the intensity of de-
nunciation from beginning to erd and
the continuity of mere assertion. and
that you somewhat questioned the in
tegrity of mind of your readers by not
giving them the words from the speech
which were the basis of your conclu-
sions respecting the position of Gov
ernor.CoX. For instance, it seems diff
ticult to fit in with any part of your
editorial these two sentences: "Sena-
tor Harding, as the Republican candi-
date for the Presidency, proposes that
we remain out of it" (the League of
Nations). GAS the Democratic candi-
date | favor going in" To some of
your readers, as l know, this seems as
far as possible from facing two ways.
Might | suggest that it would per-
haps help some of your readers if you
should print IN parallel columns all
that Senator Harding has said respect
ing his position on the League of Ma
tions and all that Governor Cox has
said, thus complimenting the intelli-f
gence of your readers by the essump-
ton that in reading the words them
selves they would reach the conclu-
sions of your editorial. I confess, how
ever, that do not reach such conclu-
sions.
GEORGE FOSTER PEABODY.
Saratoga Springs, N. Y, Aug. 8, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-08-15
The Widening Margin

The housewives are again being
exhorted to buy chuck and to ignore
sirloin. 1t is said once more that
dealers lose money on the rough
cuts, and thus the public is to blame
for the price of the finer.
Appeals to invest in briskets and
shanks have been heard before
Housewives have gone in quest of
the alleged cheap cuts, but have not
found them. Butchers, as soon as
they learn the demand is coming,
mark up the unpreferred meat and
forget to lower the prices Of the
other. Much similar good advice as
to eating fish and vegetables has
likewise paid negative dividends.
The Department Of Justice in
dulges in self-eulogy, and then
comes new advance in food prices.
Nothing in a constructive way is
done. Cattle raisers have SEEM
ingly established that last springs
prices for animals on the hoof did
not pay production costs. This is
to be believed, not because the cat
tlemen say SO, but because of their
acts-because they rushed cattle to
market to stop feed bills. On the
other hand, consumers find prices
increasingly intolerable. The mar
gin between what the producer gets
and the buyer pays grows wider.
Nothing has been done to narrow
the chasm. The big packers have
been attacked, though it is ad-
mitteds +hat~pf al1a4Ae husiuessaa-nf
New-York tribune., 1920-08-15
The Dodging Of Cox

In another column is letter from
george Foster Peabody, who IN
dulges in the summer sport of ham,
merlng the editor. He complains be-
cause The Tribune did not quote
more when discussing the Cox ac-
ceptance speech.
AS The Tribune's readers had the
oeneht of the speech in full, why
lumber up the discussion with un
necessary quotations? What good
purpose would have been served by
repeating, for example, the two Cox
sentences Mr.. Peabody refers to? At
10 time or place has Senator Har>
oing said this country should ere
main out of it" THE leaguel. He
'o'ed twice to go in, and has not
condemned his own action. The Cox
paraphrase plainly misrepresented.
NOR did the Governor say any
.nlng pertinent when he exclaimed.
! favor going in" Favors going in
Nhat! He does not state. He
Judges. Senator Harding has indi-
Gated the conditions on which he
would have this country join. Cover
nor Cox has not. Isn't this two
ways? Is Mr.. Peabody able to saw
whether Governor Cox is with the
"at ratlticationists or with the Dem
vcratlc reservationists? If so he
Aas information kept from the rest
Of US.
IS 1t necessary to point out again
mat the issue is not between Joining
snd not joining, but between Joining
WIN reservations or without? Some.
'ines Governor Cox talks as a fiat
ra'iflcationist and implies that the
resident was right in preferring to
"'n ssss league rather than to accept
= form of ratification voted for by
.wenty-three Democratic Senators.
:, uaen ne holds open door to reserva-
''0h' But whichever side of his
,1oaen he speaks from hais cautious
" ambiguous.
- senator Harding is more candid.
-'e says, in effect: 81 voted twice for
,Asiucatlon on terms frankly exposed.
would do the same again under
u'lsr CIRCUMSTANCES But ] dospot
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the country the packing industry
makes the smallest turnover charge
Il to 2 per cent on it's volume
of business. The extra profit taking
of other middlemcn has not been
intcrfercd with--apparentlv be-
cause they are numerous and polit-
ically influential. The War Depart
ment openly took their side against
the public by fighting the demand
for sales of surplus government
supplies. The whole course of the
Administration since Mr.. Hoover
quit has been negative and p~ohib-
itory, never positive and creative.
No serious attempt has been
made to improve the country's dis
tributing system, thus lesscning the
difference between prices on the
farm and in the shop. Yet only by
providing for doing his work for
less can the profiteer be effectively
subdued. AS things are, he charges
up fines to his operating costs and
passes the bill on to the consumer.
The housewife looks on the ballot
end in her quick way does some in
tuitional thinking, the result Of
which is to say to herself: "Was
there ever such an administration
Is it mans idea to have a govern
ment a wind iamming affair which
merely talks and talks? This is not
wO,nan's idea
New-York tribune., 1920-08-15
An Unnatural Quiet
From The To,ed, p,o,

From The Toledo Bladey
Two or three months ago Attorney
General Palmer was a busy little bee.
He buzzed, buzzed, buzzed all day long
and far into the night, and there was an
impression in some circles that even in
sleep his subconscious mind worked right
along figuring out ways of keeping busy
during waking hours.
Palmer's activity was prodigious
Nothing like it was ever seen before in
Washington. He concerned himself with
the high cost of living, he went bush
whacking after meat packers, he dabbled
IN the sugar situation, he scurried
around after bootleggers, he trailed
anarchists and he ran down revolution
lists. Besides all this he managed to find
time to conduct campaign for the
Democratic nomination for President.
Folks who limited that all Palmer's other
activities were side lines and that the
real task to which he gave his heart
and soul was the job of getting nomi
mated were looked upon as malicious
gossipers.
But it does beat all how Milt has lost
his pep since the San Francisco conven-
ton, doesn't it?
New-York tribune., 1920-08-15

ern part of Ireland-broadly speaking,
the province Of Ulster-are mostly of
Lowland Scotch, and therefore Anglo
Saxon origin, the migration into Ulster
having taken place after the population
of England and the lowlands of Scot
land had become more or less homogene-
GUS; their occupations are industrial,
shipbuilding and the manufacture of
linen being among the leading indus
tries; they are Industrious and thrifty,
have higher standard of living than
their Celtic neighbors, and their re-
ligion tends toward that pole of Protes-
tantism furthest from Roman Catholi-
cism, namely, Presbyterianism.
The y Western Isle
England and Scotland, with three
times the area of Ireland, have a COM
bincd population ten times as great.
which is overwhelmingly Anglo-Saxon
in origin and Protestant in religion. 1t
is noticeable that in all the successive
invasions of the British Isles by races of
L,
Saxon--while the invaders in many cases
settled permanently in England and be-
came completely intermingled with the
local tribes, no one of the impulses eff
fected lasting racial penetration of more
than the eastern fringe of Ireland. Even
in more modern times when Cromwell
led some of the already homogeneous
inhabitants of England to conquest of
the western isle, he only superimposed
a thin layer of land owners upon the
Celtic population already existing there.
The three million odd inhabitants Of
the south and west of Ireland, there
fore, have since Neolthic times con-
tinued to be, and still are, of almost
pure Celtic stock. The Celtic race is a
part of the Mediterranean" division of
the human race, which formerly ex-
tended south of the Himalayas and west
ward in a narrow belt to the Atlantic,
on both sides of the Inland Sea, and over
most of England and Ireland. The cul-
tural development of this Celtic race has
continually remained a stage, or rather
several stages, behind that reached IN
England under the successive waves OF
Nordic invasion from northern Europe.
In its aspirations, its view of life, its
principles of civilization, it is as dlf-
ferent from the races of Nordic origin
which inhabit England and the eastern
part of Ireland, as a Spaniard from
Dane. And herein lies the great and
fundamental difficulty! Everything else
differences of religious faith, the bit
terness caused by the Cromwellian
usurpations of land in the seventeenth
century a fresh and open sore to peo-
ple among whom tradition is handed
down by word of mouth from parent to
child, the commercial restraints imposed
by England upon Ireland in the eigh-
teenth-are but aggravatIons of the
great underlying cause of division
There is no common meeting ground for
the minds of Anglo-Saxon and Celt; nc
common basis for argument Of right and
New-York tribune., 1920-08-15
Race War in Ireland
An Attempt to Apply History and Biology
TO The Peoples of Britain's Other Island

10 the Editor OF The Tribune
Sir: Four months ago in crowde ed
thoroughfare in Dublin a city magis-
trate, seventy years Of age, was taken
from streetcar in which he was rid
ing and murdered in broad daylight
Last week we read of fourteen armed
men breaking into the Country Club
at Cork, openly seeking their victim,
an inspector of the Royal Irish Con-
stabulary, and, after killing him with
volleys from their revolvers, departing
unchecked to their homes.
These are merely two isolated cases
out of some seventy murders of police
and other government officials in Ire
land which have taken place under
more or less similar circums stances in
the course of the last two years. Ger
tain features have been common to
practically all these outrages-in near
ly every case the victim has been q
man who in the course Of his work has
performed some act or uttered some
words directed against those who have
pledged themselves to eliminate the
British government from Ireland at
any cost and by any means, or has been
known by his enemies to have come
into possession of information danger
Gus to their cause; and, furth ermore it
has nearly always been impossible to
bring to justice those directly con-
cerned in the outrage.
From the very nature of these acts
and their continual recurrence it is
becoming abundantly clear that they
are not mere outbursts Of lawlessness
or hooliganism. They are the acts of
men who feel very real sense of in
justice, And the protection which the
population has been affordng to the
perpetrators shows, even making al
lowance for the probability that a GER
tain number of people have been ter
rorized into secrecy, how widespread
this feeling has become.
Racial Facts
Let us go beyond criticism, and
consider the reason why no satisfactory
and lasting solution of this problem has
yet been reached Let US examine the
facts, and see if we can find in them
what it is that has made the problem SO
perplexing to English statesmen. ever
since the end of the eighteenth century
when the principles of self-determination
first began to challenge successfully the
doctrine of might is right in the
councils of the world.
The south and west of Ireland con-
tain some three million inhabitants
who, with the exception of thin, su-
perhcial layer Of land owners whose
estates have been greatly reduced in
recent years, are practically all of Gel
tic origin. Their main occupation is
agriculture; their religion overwhelm
ingly Roman Catholic (the land owning
class, however, being mostly Protes-
tant); their literature beautiful, but
scanty, and their traditions mostly oral
On the other hand, the one millior
and odd people Uying-iu tha northeast
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wrong; no common goal to give to each
an incentive for cooperat ton.
10 what conclusion does this lead us j.?
The Irish of the south and west of
Ireland are surely entitled to "life,
liberty and the pursuit of happiness" :"
In what respects are they debarred from
this under present conditions? Of the
conditions making for human happi-
ness four, at least, are said to be
essential-health, security abundance
and the opportunity for self-expression
Under the British government as it is
now an 1rishman has certainly the op
portunity to obtain three out Of these
four. He can have both health and Sc
curity and a reasonable measure of
abundance if he works, but what he
will always lack, so long as he is sub
Ject to Nordic institutions, is that part
OF happiness which comes from self
expression in its widest sense. AS long
as there is a British government in
Ireland the Irshman will never feel
entirely free from the sense that his
are under restraint, however just that
government is (and no one with knowl-
edge of the facts could, unless he be
blinded by partisan feeling, deny that
since 1850 the government of Ireland
by England has been Just in the
sense that it has held all men equal
before the law and denied freedom to
no one who has obeyed the law, and
while this feeling endures his discon-
tent will continue to shoulder and will
burst forth into fame every time that,
through vacillation in England's policy,
he catches a glimpse of the prize for
which he yearns, only to suffer the bit
ter disappointment of having it
snatched away just when he thought
it within his grasp.
NOrdic POtCer
Whether or no it can be justified on
ethical grounds, it is fact beyond
question that the 43,00O,0 900 Anglo-Sax-
ons who inhabit England and the north
eastern part Of Ireland have the actual
power to grant or withhold the eman-
cipation which the 100000 Celts of
southern and western Ireland are seek
ing. Their decision in this matter is
OF interest to the whole Nordic race
of which America is part-whose civ
ilization now dominates the entire
world, with the exception of Japan and
Central Asia. And the dilemma that
confronts the Anglo-Saxon is simply
this-whether, on the one hand, to ad-
nit In full the doctrine of self-de-
termination and grant this little shoot
of Mediterranean" civilization the op-'
portunity to flourish and grow almost
among the very roots of present-day Nor
die civilization, or, on the other hand,
to seek a permanent solution in accord
with the teaching of history and BIZ
ology, and suffer the relentless force of
economic development to take its way
as gently as may be-in other words,
to permit continuance of the state of
affairs under which in the last seventy
! ~
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William Marion Reedv

Heedy's Mirror, dated august S, 1900
William Marion Reedy
HE SITS before you silent as Buddha.
And then you say
This man II Rabelais.
And while you wonder what his stock is,
English or Irish, you behold his eyes
AS big and brown as those desirable
crockies
With which as boys we used to play.
And then you see the spherical light
that lies
Just under the iris coloring,
Before which everything
Becomes as plain as day.
If you have noticed the rolling jowls
And the face that speaks its chief
Delight in beer and roast beef
Before you have seen his eyes, you see
A man of fieshy jolity,
Like the friars of old in gowns and cowls
To make show of scowls.
And when he speaks. from an orotund
depth that growls
In humorous way, like Fielding or
Smollett,
That turns in trice to Robert La
Toilette,
Or retraces to Thales of Crete.
And fnpcbcc
Through the intellectual Zodiac,
That's something of feat.
| And you see that the eyes are really the
man.
For the thought of him proliferates
This way over to Hindostan,
And that way descanting on Yeats.
With word on Platos symposium,
And little glimpse of Theocritus,
Or something of Bruno's martyrdom.
Or what st. Thomas Aquinas meant
By certain line obscure to US.
: And then he'll take up Horace's odes
Or the Roman civilization;
Or few of the Iliad's episodes,
Or the Greek deterioration.
Or skip to word on the plasmic jelly,
Which Benjamin Moore and others think
Is the origin of life. Then Shelley
Comes in for look of understanding.
Or he'll tell you about the orientation
Of the ancient dream of Zion.
Or what's the matter with Bryan.
And while the porter is bringing drink
Something into his fancy skips,
And he talks about the Apocalypse,
Or a painter or writer now unknown
In France or Germany who will soon
Have fame of him through the whole
earth blown.
It's not so hard thing to be wise
In the lore of books.
It's different thing to be all eyes,
Like a lighthouse which revolves and
looks
Over the land and out to sea;
And lighthouse is what he seems to me!
Sitting like Buddha spiritually cool.
Young as the light of the sun is young,
And taking the even with the odd
AS matter of course, and the path mes
trod
AS path that was good enough.
With a sort of transcendental sense
Whose hatred is less than Indifference,
And a gift of wisdom in love.
And who can say, as he classifes
Men and ages with his eyes
With cool detachment: this is dung,
And that poor fellow is just fool.
And say what you will death is rod.
But I see a light that shines and shines
And | rather think it's God.
From Songs and Satires)
EDGAR LEE MASTERS.
New-York tribune., 1920-08-15
A Centipede
from The chicaao pnilu

From The Chicago Dolly Ne,es)
If Villa is really going to quiet down
the world will be able to get accurate
information as to how many legs he lost
during the unpleasantness. Statistics
vary from pne 70 eight