The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1920-03-25

Common Sense Returning
Never XIII Hope.
The Muff Man.
Observe the Lion.
BY ARTHUR BRISBANE.

N~Shyfiohhs As-St
The allies permitting German
troops to enter the occupied zone
and keep order indicates that rea-
son is returning after the war.
Every Frenchman or English
man knows that 1t would be i'm
possible for German soldiers to
Keep order on French or English
soil. 1t Is also impossible for any
but German soldiers to maintain
permanent order on German soil.
You can shoot men easily, but you
cannot shoot ideas or kill them,
especially the idea that each
should rule in his own little cor
nsr Of the world.
Nitti, for Italy, reveals the re-
turn Of common sense in his state
ment that the other nations OF
Europe must begin to treat the
vanquished as though they were
human beings, IL only to get in
IDENTITIES hoped for.
1t would be foolish to throw a
man on the ground, sit on his
chest, and urge him to go to work
AOI yOuS az tnc odIlC lliiiC iSieoi'e
to move from his chest.
If you kill hope and ambition in
human beings, you kill everything
else. A religious body discovered
that, in "model colony" in South
America.
The natives were made Chris
tians and slaves simultaneously.
The treatment was kind, consid-
ering the times and the rulers.
They had good barracks, etc,
worked and slept regularly. But
the land was not theirs, freedom
was not theirs, hope was gone.
The natives simply stopped
breeding. Not by any /. w. W.
arrangement, but simply through
distaste for life, the natives let
themselves die out, and the colony
was q failure.
The hope that they might be
eternally happy after death was
not enough, they wanted excite
ment, freedom and HOPE on earth.
Senator Borah renders public
service raising the question about
rich mems money for rich mems
candidates.
The prosperous have been play
ing with this nation and the
United States Treasury long
enough.
Naturally, they would be willing
to pay we'll for continuation OF the
good times that began with the
war. 1t is pleasant to pull the
strings of taxation and patriotism
and put the result in your own
pocket. But the people have been
watching the process long enough.
They want to know who the men
are that enable Presidential candi-
dates, without private fortune. to
spend hundreds of thousands be-
fore a nominating convention.
The kind of American that will
advance one or five hundred dol
lars to his pet candidate does it be-
cause he hopes to pick the peoples
pocket for the next four years
and for no other reason.
The lesson taught in Michigan
ought to persuade certain gentle
men that for the present. buying
government must be done dis
creetly. =,
If big financiers want to use the
Presidency, let them run on their
own names and take their chances.
The time for sending your lackey
to the Senate or White House Is
past for the present.
1t would not take much OF a
popular outburst to land in Jail
some eminent gentlemen who have
thought that jails were built only
for others.
Two little news items interest
the thoughtful student OF historys
small type, which is the daily
newspaper.
A gentleman was observed at
Atlantic City carrying a muff.
A criminal in Texas committed
murder, was caught, indicted,
tried, convicted, sentenced and pub
licly hanged, all within twenty
four hours.
The man with the muff is called
foolishness, without meaning; the
second is labelled swift justice"
The swift justice" catching,
trying and hanging in twenty-four
hours would be more impressive If
the man hanged were not a negro.
In such swift justice" there is as
much race prejudice as justice.
Justice is never swift, and never
slow. When it is either, it is not
justice.
The man with his muff is by no
means a foolish thing without
meaning, but an interesting rever-
sion to old days and old types.
It is only few tens OF thousands
OF years-not long in history
of a world that will last millions
of years-since man was the
fancy, ornamental half Of the hu-
man race. Reclus's writings ex-
plain the muff man plainly.
Nature in the beginning delib-
erately put the heavy load on the
female and the fancy clothing and
charms on the male.
Observe the male lions name,