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New-York tribune., 1920-09-13
The Impossible Term
(From The Toledo Blade,

(From The Toledo B!dde)
The third proposition made to the
Russian Soviet government in the
Poland matter contains the condition
that the Bolshevists "refrain from
propaganda" This is to hit the gentle
men at Moscow where they live. They
have climbed to their high estate by
ladder Of propaganda. They have
continued to exist with the help OF
propaganda. 1t Is not only necessity
Of their peculiar form of government
but II is their own meat and drink
the thing they love above all Others
We do not wonder they rejected che
terms proposed. Requiring them 70
refrain from propaganda" was like
asking the average American politician
to adopt the word-stif,ing habit OK
Colonel House. We question IL the
Belshsviki, even IL they sincerely a.
tempted IL, eeuld abide by rule .
&aESh and unnatuR8ss 49, .
New-York tribune., 1920-09-13
Fleeing the Helpless

Governor Cox and his personal
representative, Mr.. Moore, have been
complaining that too many people
are willing to contribute to the Re-
publican campaign fund. They have
denounced as immoral the solicita-
ton Of funds by paid experts, using
Y. M. C. A. drive methods. But
these agents have used only literary
Establishments. They haven't terror
lied anybody into parting with his
money.
Testimony at Chicago on Saturday
revealed the old scandal of contribu-
tions extorted from Federal Office
holders. A Democratic collector de-
scended on the Internal Revenue Of
flee at Aberdeen, S. D., and levied
on the salaries of women employed
there at $120 month. He suggest
ed $40 as a proper tribute to the ma
tional committee, and many of the
employees paid it after they had been
served with notices to appear at the
Collectors hotel headquarters within
three days.
The levy Of political contributions
on Federal oficeholders is one Of the
evil inheritances Of the old spoils
system. Legislation has been passed
to stop it. No Federal officeholder is
permitted to ask another Federal Of
ficeholder for funds. But the law is
evaded. The Democratic National
Committee, which makes such pre-
tense of squeamishness about volun-
tary contributions to the Republi-
can fund, has been caught pinching
the salaries Of Sl,440-a-year women
clerks. It is an appropriate anti
climax to the efforts Of Governor Cox
and Mr.. Moore to impeach Republi-
can collection methods. Few will be-
lieve that these poor clerks would
have contributed il they had not
been pursued and coerced by the
committees agents.
Senator Reed spoke with restraint
when he said: II agree with you,
Senator IMr. Kenyonl that to levy
in any way an assessment on a girl
working for the government is abso-
lutely inexcusable." The Cox Moore
brand of political virtue has been
disporting in the limelight before the
Kenyon committee. The testimony
from Aberdeen shows what it has
also been doing behind the scenes.
New-York tribune., 1920-09-13
Pussyfooting i'm Dryland

When he was discussing the size
of the Republican campaign fund
and accusing the Republican Ma
tional Committee Of plotting to "buy
the Presidency" Governor Cox made
point of being ponderously specific
He erred, in fact, in being much too
specific, for he has been utterly un-
able to produce proofs Of his main
charges.
When the Democratic "dry'' can
didate for Senator in the "dry" State
of Washington implored him to take
notice of the circular Of a New Jer-
sey liquor dealers association, de-
claring that Cox's nomination was
"a big victory for our interests" his
talent for specification suddenly for
sock him. All that could be
squeezed out Of him was this: "As
progressive in government I know
when an event has passed by and be-
come part of yesterday. The re-
dictionary rarely does. The friends
Of world peace and the friends Of
progress will win this election, and
an attempt to divide them on any
question not at issue will be unavail-
ing"
The Democratic "dry" candidate
for Senator in Washington and the
combination of "wet" bosses which
stood behind Mr.. Cox at San Fran
cisco are perhaps at liberty to inter-
pret this dark saying as they please.
Does it mean that Messrs. Murphy,
Edwards, Taggart, Moore and Roger
Sullivan's successor in Illinois, Bren-
nan, are "reactionaries," who don't
know when an event "has become a
part of yesterday? Or does it
mean that the Volstead law and the
Supreme Courts Interpretation of it
are not "events" of the sort to en-
gage truly progressive mind and
may be dismissed as trivialities i'm
potent to divide the friends of prog
ress or disturb the peace of mind of
a Presidential candidate?
Governor Cox's remarks at Leeds.
N. d., were received with chilled sur
prise when read to the New Jersey
Liquor Dealers Convention at At
lantic City. What emotion will his
oracular Seattle utterance stir in the
breasts Of his Eastern "wet" sup
porters-up to now one Of the most
active and powerful interests behind
his candidacy? Does he really mean
what he obscurely hints at, or is he
only "dry" or "near dry" when talk
ing in the militant "dry" area west
Of the Mississippi?
New-York tribune., 1920-09-13
The Language Barrier

Belgium was unified by the war.
Internal dissensions were forgotten
in the universal detestation of the
German invader. The Germans art
fully tried to take advantage of the
old schism between the Walloon and
Flemish elements Of the population
over the language question. Won
Bissing and Won Falkenhausen
worked assiduously to capture
the Flamingants-advocates Of a
larger recognition Of the Flemish
tongue and of Flemish separatism.
The Germans finally divided Bel
gium into two independent admins
trative sections-one Walloon and
one Flemish. But the barbarity of
their rule turned all but a few de-
PRAYED and purchasable Flemines
against them. Belgium wanted,
above all other things, to be rid Of
the German oppressor and to regain
unity and nationality.
Since the armistice, however, the
old language dispute has been re-
newed. The lower house of Parlia-
ment' before adjourning last month,
passed bill regulating the use Of
the Flemish tongue in the public
services. This bill has given great
ofsense to the French-speaking ele-
ment, which is protesting against
what 1t considers an attempt to ex-
clude the French language from the
Flemish provinces. The government
is accused Of following German tac-
ties and opening the way to the divi-
sion of the country into two separate
administrative sections with hostile
cultural and political interests.
Diversity in language 10 always
an obstacle to political solidarity.
The English-speaking and French-
speaking portions Of Canada have
difficulties which are notorious,
Prejudice against q strange idiou ID
obstinate. The claims Of a mother
tongue are urgent and exacting. The
Belgian government owes considcra-.
ton to beth the warning elements
and as trying 10 strike compromise
bstwsen them. But y satisfactory
sesutsen pTebsbly viii be isng In
eondng.
Knscpe's sh%f hsnAsesp is I'm hsrI
m I'm no aa.. .
New-York tribune., 1920-09-13

when he refused to accept the Sem
ate's reservations, although the
whole world except himself consent
ed to them; and, fourthly and final
ly, he drove his knife completely
home when, having rejected the Sem
ate's plan, he refused to submit
counter proposal, saying he had no
adjustment plan to suggest.
Had President Wilson pursued the
policy to which Senator Harding is
committed this country long ago
would have been a member Of the
League of Nations. The President
was not willing. to follow uniform
practice. He arrogantly assumed he
could establish one-man power.
AS seasoned friend Of the league
idea and a steady advocate Of rati-
fication Of the covenant without the
impairment of the good that is in it,
The Tribune thinks it knows whence
came the brick that wrecked the
league project. His was the propel-
ling hand. Senator Harding, by q
better spirit and wiser leadership,
may be able to resuscitate the SUBJ
stance of the project. Governor Cox
neither can nor will.
BY following President Wilson he
has injected partisanship into the
consideration of a particular plan
which makes ratification by two
thirds Of the Senate humanity i'm
possible. President Wilson kept us
not only out of peace but out of the
league, and no imitator or echoer Of
him will succeed where he failed.
New-York tribune., 1920-09-13
The eConning 7 ower
SUNDAY

SUNDAY
Parson, pardon, if to-day
You are counting noses,
Pardon me that Pm away
I'm watering my roses.
Lady Stanley, Mistress Ward,
Lovely in their places,
Here come forth to praise the Lord :
Without airs or graces.
One has not to smile at them
For their idle pluming;
They poiss not on jealous stem,
Posing and assuming.
"sisters," whispers every one,
With touch Of sorrow,
"Though to-day we have the sun,
Well be cut tomorrow"
Parson, pardon, if to-day
You are counting noses;
Pardon me that I'm away
I'm watering my roses.
G. s. B.
New-York tribune., 1920-09-13
Lou Prices That Spell Ruin
(From The Manufacturers Record)

but is the art Of 30 apportioning pro-
duction and creating wealth that the
cost which q high standard Of living
connotes can be met. The average
American does not care 90 much about
how many dollars living costs as to
how to get enough dollars to live in the
style he wishes. Cheap living too often
means cheap country. The harder the
times the cheaper the living. but we
have not heard Of any political party in
recent years arguing for hard times as
a great desideratum.
1t Is pure buncombe when men at
tempt to make the American people be-
lieve that they can have without pay
ing. 1t is suicidal to beat down prices
arbitrarily to the point where proAt ia
not sufficient to satisfy rsquirements.
High wages and low prices are not
mates. They do not travel on the same
road. You cannot bring nitrases from
Chile to be poured onto American lands
and sell the resulting product at price
to compete with copra, which costs little
or nothing to produce. You cannot sell
the farm products Of America below cost
of, production and have farm products
long. You cannot arbitrarily best down
prices without beating down prosperity.
There has been no wild effort by the
government to lower the cost Of trans
portation or cost Of public-utility
service or cost Of insurance--and very
wisely-but the same government
shows signs of real energy in devising
means and methods Of beating down
the price of farm products to ruinous
limits.
1t is then called lowering the cost
Of living, and it is a program which,
strangely enough, is never very
strenuously carried out until the har-
vest period Of the year. And while
the farmer is being cajoled with po-
lit{eal promises on the one hand, the
politicians are moving heaven and
earth to pauperize him on the other
hand. They tell him that commodi-
ties are being "liquidated." He would
understand it better if they told him
that he was to be "busted."
1t is almost time for a sensible re-
consideration of this whole movement
that is so eloquently characterized as
program for reducing the cost of liv-
ing. 1t is about time for farmers to
ask if the profiteers cannot be cor
nered without the farmers first being
driven to the wall. II is time to ask
if reducing the cost Of living is not
first and foremost a scheme To make
the farmer sell his property for less
than it is worth. Instead of being
praised some of the worthless in Wash
ington who are pinning medals on
themselves for their success in depress-
ing prices and the national spirit
should be called before a high court
Of justice to answer charges of trea-
sonable conspiracy against the prop
erty and wellbeing of some millions
of their fellow citizens whom they
were supposed to represent.
New-York tribune., 1920-09-13

ly realize how unyielding and pro-
vocative of quarrels these obstacles
to neighborly understanding are.
We don't sufficiently appreciate our
own good fortune in the New World
of having only one tongue spoken
practically north Of the Mexican
border, and only one other (practi-
cally) south of it. Europe has her
twenty-odd tongues and distinctive
dialects-all hindrances to the
spread Of good will. And even the
tiny kingdom Of Belgium is split
over the question Of the public use
Of Flemish in one region and French
in the other.
New-York tribune., 1920-09-13

For months the responsible officers
Of the government have been engaged
in q persistent and consistent effort to
break down prices. They have taken
it for granted, and the country has
seemed to take it for granted, that the
supreme goal Of statesmanship was to
lower ultimate costs.
The success Of the movement was
certain to mean ruin for thousands and
severe hardship for millions Of Ameri.
cans. Indeed. the very bounty OF
Providence, as witnessed in the promise
Of abundant crops, has meant woe and
anguish for those who by the sweat
Of their brow brought these crops to
harvest. The fruit Of their labor is
being taken from them. What profiteth
man 80 produce in abundance II
abundance means for him poverty
while scarcity is che forerunner Of his
wellbeing and prosperity?
We have no tolerance for the
prohtesr. He is the deyil's emissary
criminal and a. thief at heart. But
1t does not appear that it is against
protiteers as such that the government
has been working. 1t has not sought
by any statement of facts to show
that the prices prevalent for this
product or for that product were not
justified by the cost of production. It
has simply driven promiscuously
against ultimate costs in general, with
the products of the farm as the chief
object of assault.
ihe citrus growers say that it is
foreign fruit dumped into American
ports that is running them. The wool
growers say that government sales and
British government sales in America
nave driven the price Of native wool
to far below the cost of production,
The peanut growers point out that thev
had never expected to be brought into
competition with Oriental labor, But
the government answers that prices are
gong down, and rejoices.
Yes, prices are going down, driven
down by the aggregate policy Of num-
Der of government agencies, controlling
credit and transportation and imports.
but what shall be said Of a government
which deliberately adopts a program de-
vlsed to force its own citizens to sell
their products at less than cost, depriy-
ing them not only of their legitimate
profit but subjectine them also to ac-
tual loss? 1t is for the good of the
worker in the city, it is said, and
cheaper living is pleasing to voters, but
no man ever heard of q prosperous
America unless the farmers were pros
porous. There is work for city people
when there are farmers able to buy the
things the cities make, and not other
wise.
If cheapness Of living is real object
Of statesmanship let our leaders visit
Serbia or other of the Balkan coun-
tries, or China, where cheapness of liy-
ing is usual and entirely common. They
may learn that civilization is not the
art of keeping soul and body together,
New-York tribune., 1920-09-13

In the case of any aggression or
threat or danger Of such aggression
by a member or non-m ember of the
League against a member, the coun-
Gil shall advise upon the means BY
which this aggression shall be met,
but this advice is subject to the con-
stltutional authority Of each nation
for enactment"
Put in this form it is a pledge of
honor from one member nation not to
be an aggressor against another. To
break this pledge would make that ma
tlon an outlaw among nations and its
fellow members will treat it accord
lnGly. All nations will be glad to Join
such an honorable league. The ad-
v:sory clause simply states necessary
fact that nations existing under q con-
must accept the advice sub
]ect to the limitations of that docu-
nent. H p
New York, Sept 6, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-09-13
Prophetic Words
The Conservatism of abraham
Lincoln

Lincoln
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Because Senator Harding make 8
strong appeal to Americans for the
upholding of the Constitution and the
defense Of those institutions upon
which our liberties rest he is declared
by his Presidential opponent to be a
reactionary and an effort is made to
contrast him unfavorably with some
OF the worlds greatest men Of prog
sess; Mr.. Cox refers to Lincoln.
Well, let US see what Lincoln says on
the subject, "The perpetuation Of our
American political institutions" Hear
him:
"They are legacy bequeathed US
by once hardy, brave and patriotic,
but now. lamented and departed, race
OF ancestors. Theirs was the task (and
nobly they performed it) to possess
themselves, and through themselves US,
of this goodly land and to uprear
upon its hills and its valleys a politi-
cal edifice Of liberty and equal rights;
it is ours only to transmit these-the
former unprofaned by the foot Of an
invader, the latter undecayed by the
lapse of time and untorn by usurpation
to the latest generation that fate
shall permit the world to know This
task gratitude to our fathers, justice
to ourselves. duty to posterity and
love for our species in general all i'm
peratively require us faithfully to per-
FORM
Lincoln then proceeds to show that
dangers will arise, not from foreign
aggression or invasion, but from in
ternal dssensions. "A nation of free
men we must live through all time or
die by suicide" The mobocratic spirit
is unsparingly denounced as para
mount evil:
"When men take it in their heads
to-day to hang gamblers or burn mur-
derers they should recollect that in
the confusion attending such trans
actions they will be as likely to hang
or burn some one who is neither a
gambler nor murderer as one who
is, and that, acting upon the example
they set, the mob of tomorrow may,
and probably will, hang or burn some
Of them by the very same mistake
. Whenever the vicious portion
Of population shall be permitted to
gather in bands of hundreds and thou
sands and burn churches, ravage and
mob provision stores, throw printing
presses into rivers, shoot editors and
hang and burn obnoxious persons at
pleasure and with impunity, depend
upon it, this government cannot last"
Mr.. Lincoln then points out another
danger which we seem but lately
though happily to have passed, thanks
to the United States Senate, namely,
the danger of the qualification of
ruling passion for distinction.
In the present circumstances these
seem like prophetic words.
j. r. M'LAUGHLIN.
Cleveland, Ohio, Sept 7, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-09-13
Calvin Coolidge Saws

(From his address at the home of
Augustus P. Gardner, Hamilton,
September, 1867
I agree that partisanship should stop
at the boundary line, but assert that
patriotism should begin there.
T. d
We need more Of the Office Desk
and less of the Show Window in pol
itics. Let men in Office substitute the
midnight oil for the limelight.
New-York tribune., 1920-09-13
a Strong Indoxaenent

from The Cleveland Plotn DeoleY>
The Socialist party in Spain is wag-
ing war against bullfighting. This is
the first thing in favor Of that sport
that one remembers having heard,
New-York tribune., 1920-09-13
Works Both Ways

tFrom The Retroit Free press>
Many a candidate who was never a
prohibitionist is glad that he does not
have to put bill on the bar in this
campaign and see 1t melt.
New-York tribune., 1920-09-13
Gotham Gleanings

Lots of news this WIZ

Lots of news this wk.
Ali eyes look toward Maine TO-
day.
Miss Lola Fisher is back from
abroad.
Harold Bell Wright of Calf. is
in our midst.
To-day is Betty Glass's BIRTH
day, she being 4.
Lew Gensler laid a good cigar
on our desk Wednes. Come again
Lew.
--lrv Paris is engaged to be mar
ried to girl whose first name is
Barbara.
MIR. and Mrs. Joseph Edgar
Chamberlin of Boston Fridayed in
Gotham.
Geo. Crcel lost a bet t. Joe
Wise last Mon, Geo. betting on
Bill Johnston.
Ted Madill, of here, Ogdensburg
and Yale, is engaged to Miss Kath-
'rine Brown, of Ogdensburg
Herb Swopc and Grant Rice are
moving back to their town places
this wk from Plandome.
Mrs. Rupert Hughes was in to
the theater Tues. eve'g to sec Miss
Anglin's show.
The smiling face of Harriette
UnderEill again is seen in this Office
and pleasant sight it is is our
opinion. Welcome back Hattie say
we.
Doug Moore of Cutchogue, N,
Y. and Paris, FIR. is going to be
married next Thurs. at Vineyard
Haven, Mass, to Miss Emily Bailey,
Of Harrisburg, Pa. Doug will wear
the conventional blue coat and white
flannel trousers. The y. c. will sail
for Paris Sept. Is.
1t is fair enough name-Mother
Hubbard-that the Ward Baking Co. has
devised for it's bread. Why not the Sim
pie Simon Pie? The Jack Horner Plum
Pudding? The Tom-To Pork Sausage?
The Little-Boy-Blue Klaxon?
II the moving-day conveyances refuse
to bulge on October /, Prof. Haywood
Broun, who enters a new apartment on
that day, says he will commander the
services Of Wagenhals & Kemper, Trux-
tun Beale and Billy Van.
Print paper is costly, yet tennis re-
porters still add "on points" when
they say "4o-16," and "on games"
when they say "5--1." And even The
Weekly Review speaks Of 80 little
booklet"
Sing hey! for the rhythmic loom!
Featuring. introducing, and announc-
ing--as the advertising writer's nut It
The Lyric Silk Co. and the Metric
Shirt Co., both OF Paterson, N. J.
Happy New Year! The world ia sea1
years old to-day.
Beginning TO show ito ago. too.
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New-York tribune., 1920-09-13

Wee can purchase merchandise advertised In TINE
TRIBUNE with absolute ssfeey-fef u dIssatsfae-
tea Tssufts 10 any case THE TRIBUNE guarantees
fe cay your money 3aek upon request. No red tape
Ne sutbbiIng. We make good promptly II the
advertiser does not.
New-York tribune., 1920-09-13

a century-long application of the
theory Of John Quincy Adams and
Monroe.
New-York tribune., 1920-09-13

The Question for MIR. Baker
To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: Your question to Mr.. Baker in
reference to Bergdoll should be printed
on your front page In big letters every
day until It is answered.
JAMES Il. FRAZER,
New Yogh. geTb, 10, 1890. .-........
New-York tribune., 1920-09-13
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New-York tribune., 1920-09-13

Happy New Year! The world ia B.sa1
years old to-day.
New-York tribune., 1920-09-13

Beginning TO show ita ago, too,
r...- .., n. p A.
New-York tribune., 1920-09-13

The Stockyards Cure
tFrom The Chicago Dassv Nsps>
Speaking Of rent hogs, Chicago lonR
has been famous 3os knowing whas 20
do with hega.
New-York tribune., 1920-09-13

Sing hey! for the rhythmic loom!
Featuring, introducing, and announc-
ing-as the advertising writer's put 1t
The Lyric Silk Co. and the Metric
Shirt Co., both OF Paterson, N. J.