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Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1920-03-04
PUNGEMT PARAGRAPHS.

Political parties are looking for a
aonskid paramount issue.-Toledo
Blade.
If the Kaiser wants to avoid trial
he should disguise himself as an
American sugar profteer.-Cincin-
natl Post.
Eventually we shall get the gov
ernment back into the hands OF the
people, acknowledgements Star.
The match manufacturers have
just about evolved the non-striking
match.-Columbia Record.
The demand of railroad labor did
not work so well this time as it did
with the Adamson act. Clubs were
not trumps.-Minneapolis Tribrne.
We knew something would hap
pen after sending over the ark
with its precious cargo Of bolshevjst
freight. No wonder Russia wants
peace.-Worcester Gazette.
The country seems we'll equipped
in leaders. What appears to be
needed is a body of citizens Of ster-
ling voting strength TO go with
them.-Seattle Post Intelligencer.
With the former Kaiser safe and
comfortable in Holland and the
Turks again in control of CONSTANT
nople, the question, Who won the
war. anyhow, is in order.--Colun-
bus Dispatch.
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1920-03-04
LODGES TREATY
KILLING METHOD

Nothing could be more simple
than Senator Lodges method of in.
surfing the defeat of the treaty of
peace. The Republican senator's
who profess TO favor the treaty
with reservations are to cooperate
with the Battalion-o Death Sena.
tors in making the reservations
wholly unacceptable to the Demo
Gratis. Then the Battalion-of-Death
Senator's are to vote with the Dem.
ocrats in rejecting the treaty as
changed and modified by the reser.
yations.
BY that process. wholly worthy Of
the Lodge leadership, the dozen or
fifteen senators who are determined
to destroy the treaty become for all
practical purposes the United
States Senate. In that way Senate.
Lodge can have the treaty killed
without assuming direct RESPONSE
hility"--New York World (Dem3
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1920-03-04
THE TREATYS
DOOM

What amounts TO an agreement
among the senators that the
peace" treaty will not receive rat
itication approaches conclusion
which observers on the outside
reached SOME time ago.
If the treaty is thrown into the
national campaign about TO open
for referendum decision, that will
not Gully be what many anticipate.
ed froTO the beginning, but what
many others hoped for, and what
still others consider is the propes
way to have the difference of opin
ion adjusted.
What the people Of the United
States want is what the president
should have brought home from
Versailles and what the senate
should ratify.
If there Is now a common agree
ment that the treaty will not be
ratified and that any movement
appearing to look to that end in
the senate IS mere maneuverins
and pretense, the air seems to be
ggtting just that much clearer.
The time has passed, evidently.
when men in high official places
are afraid to express their real
judgments lest their conclusions
run counter to popular conceptions
Of loyalty to government and the
country.
The wave OF criticism which
swept over the little band of r..
pub!icans who dared to oppose ths
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1920-03-04
A "STRONG TURKEY" NEEDED
TO GUARANTEE PEACE

If Turkey consisted only of Turks
it would be natural that Great Brit
ain, having overcome the mighty
German power and now dominating
all nations, great and little, should
be satisfied with any disposition OF
the Turkish question whatever. But
the Turkish question concerns the
whole Orient and the whole world
of Islam. All musulmans feel 50
strongly about the question of the
sea of the Caliphate than any in
justice against Turkey would shake
the whole world
The Turks have no desire to min
gle in world politics. We mean. that
England must open up new era of
peace in the Near East. If Eng
land thinks her own safety depends
on running Turkey. she is wrong.
The Turks, since the armistice have
not followed an anti-English policy.
The Times has written some VOL
ent articles against us, But on the
other hand the only means Of pre-
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treaty and the openly expressed
wishes Of President Wilson has not
simply subsided-it has rolled
over the space intervening be-
tween the genuine American posi-
ton and that commanded by Mr..
Wilson.
The criticism is now directed
against him and his errors instead
Of the loyal Americans who sub
jected themselves to unjust criti-
cism for antagonizing his work.
If the proposed ratification Of
the treaty would be non-partisan
the defeat also will be non-partisau.
Mr. Wilson cannot claim that sup
port for his work is confined to
the senators Of his own party, for
there is serious division among
them.
Nor, on the other hand, can he
claim that the opposition to the
treaty is partisan from the Repub-
lican side, for the division in his
own party also extends there. The
original breach still exists and ap-
parently cannot be bridged by any
suggestion so far presented from
either side.
Senator Hitchcock is reported In
a new position widch indicates that
he is rather disguised with the only
prospects offered to him as NJ
Wilson's floor representatives He
has gone TO the lengths it is said
now of refusing even to go along
with any further fights for the
treaty unless existing conditions
can be substantially modified. The
pact will be doomed at the POLLS
Pittsburg Leader Prog. Rep)
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whatever to their request for
peace negotiations" The Albany
Argus (Ind. DEM likewise finds
the peace offer unacceptable
When Lenin has actually called
constituent assembly, and has
signed the ordinance for the recog.
milton Of Russia's foreign debt, then
it will be time to consider the par.
Ieys with Russia"
The New York Times (nd Dem)
significantly declares that "a gov
rrnment which can talk OF paying
billions OF debt ought to be able to
"cturn at once the stolen Rouman-
an gold before there Is talk OF
aging cash" for its foreign pur-
bases. Neither the United States
or any other civilized authority"
avs the Springfield (Ohio) News
Dem) "has any business temper
.zing with bad government" and
the Albany Journal (Rep) states
fatty that recognition by the Unit
ed States Of any alleged govern
ment headed by Lenin and Trot-
zky is out Of the question" The
Providence Journal Qnd) says it
even more forcefully:
Notwithstanding their profession
Of reform and good will, the Soviet
leaders are aiming a deadly blow
at the civilization of the world We
cannot recognize them in the poll
tic1l sense; but we owe it to our
selves to recognize the hideous
danger that turks within their
treacherous offer of peace"
Suicidal plan" is what the Wash
ington Post (Ind.0 calls the evident
intention of the Allies to recognize
the soviets; FOR the death of their
governments is ordained by the
communists, and will be accomplish
ed If in the power of the bolshe,
Wiki" The Fort Wayne Journal
Gazettee (Dem,) foresees that "if
indications do no fail, within six
months Lenin and Trotzky will be
the most powerful rulers n the
world-and after us the deluge. ="
America will eventually recog-
nize the new Russia" declares the
Nashville Tennessean, but It will
be a country which has no faint of
socialism in its government"
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1920-03-04
DEPORTATION AND
AM ORGANIZATION

1t IS unfortunate that the Amer
icanizing movement should have
been synchronous In its develon-
ment with the anti-red campaign. 1t
was perhaps unavoidable; but i
has introduced an element into the
problem which is to be regretted.
Deportation is familiar to the alien,
but to him it is familiar as the
method Of autoeracy Kidding itself
OF undesirables. 1t suggests car,
ism and Siberia-ideals more alien
to the American spirit than he is
himself. We can Justify to our.
selves the deportation of the red
in a democracy and reconcile Il
with the sympathy we felt for the
Siberian eXiles. But this involves
fundamental reasoning. The alien
sees the thing in its surface aspect
and on the surface it looks very
much like the thing from which he
fled.
The ugliness of it is increased
when. as amateurs in deportation,
We blunder, as we seem to have
Numbered, in carrying out our new
policy. Nobody in the government
seems to have reflected that the
men who were being summarily
seized, locked up, examined, and
ticketed for free passage to re-
mote parts were, in many instances
husbands and fathers-fathers e
American-born children. Their SUI.
sen separation from those depend.
ent upon them was made without
concern for the consequences. The
families they We're forced to aban.
don became Immediately suspects
Evictions followed by landlords
who We're afraid to harbor against
whom the anger of the government
had been shown. Women were de-
MED employment when they
sought to substitute for the bread
winner We are told of great hard.
ships and suffering inflicted upon
these innoesnt victims, No provis-
ion has been made 10 send these
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1920-03-04
NOMINATE CUMISkEY
FOR COMMISSIONER

The municipal primary yesterday
resulted in the nomination of May
or Thomas w. Koon,. who had no
opposition, and three of the four in
cumbent commissioners T. A.
K. hummelshine,, C. Frank Keyser
and Harry L. Smith. There were
10 candidates for the eight nominal
tons for commissiers and Charles
j. Cumiskey, formerly of this city,
received 1913 votes for commission
err the second highest OF any re-
ceived by the ten candidates. The
election will be held March Is when
four commissioners will be chosen
from the eight nominated yester-
day.
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1920-03-04
SAYS WILSON WAS POISONED
BY GERMAN AGENT

Gabriel de PArnet, in the Eclair,
eur De Nice, declares that the
truth about President Wilson's i'll.
ness is that he was poisoned" by
those whom he opposed at the
peace conference. The agent en-
ployed," says the article was a
memger of the Balkan black hand,
probably a Bulgarian and a secret
agent of Germany"
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1920-03-04
RECOGNITION OF
RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT

The announcement OF the Allied
Supreme Council that it would send
a commission TO investigate condi-
tons In Russia and the offer OF lie
min to make peace with America
and Europe on the basis of import
ant concessions, have brought forth
many opinions favorable TO recos-
milton Of the Soviet government.
IF the Allies are satisfied" says
the Rochester Democrat and Chron-
tele (Rep) that this latter offer SIS
made in good faith, the sooner it is
accepted the better. 1t is bo.
coming more and more apparent
that peace in Europe is an impossi-
bility SO long as 1t does not include
Russia within its terms. The BAL
las News Qnd. Dem) declares that
the good to be accomplished by
making peace with Russia is I'M
measurable" and the New York
Mail dnd) asserts that the new
est offer from Moscow should be
taken up with the least possible
delay by the State Department. "
The Mail points out that the Rus
sian offer promises.
!. Establishment Of democratic
principles in Russia by the calling
Of a constituent assemly.
>. Withdrawal of the decree an
nulltnS RusSia's foreign debt and a
pledge to pay arrears of interest. to
the extent of go per cent of the
Czarist liabilities
I'VE do hope comments the
Youngstown Nindicator (Dem)
that now that Russia has appealed
to US for peace, President Wilson
will deal with the Russian question
himself. 1t needs him"
The announcement of the SD
preme Council contained the FOL
lowing statement:
The allies cannot enter into dip.
lomatic relations with the Soviet
government in view Of their past
experiences until they have srriv-
ed at the conviction tha. the Dol
shevist horrors nave come to an
end and that government at Mos
COW is ready 70 conform its meta
eds and diplomatic conduct to those
Of all civilized governments.
AS the Springfield Republican
dnd0 points out, there 5 nothine
TO hinder the Allies from arriving
overnninght at any conviction
they please about the Bolshevisl
horrors Or about the orthodoxy OF
the Moscow governments diplomat.
&c methods and the Republican
therefore regards the statement as
essentially decision FOR peace
with Soviet Russia" And the com
mission Of inquiry which the Coun-
Gil is sending To Russia. says thu
Philadelphia Inquirer (Repl may
he expected to report mat every
thing IS lovely now, and Forthwith
the preparation az po1rpar'ers vii
begin" The Boston Transcript Gnd
RepD agrees that no doubt in due
season this commission will Ind
that the 'bolsheyist horrors hav9
ceased and with the receipt .of This
news will be removed the sole ae-
naming factor thar seems IN ais.
turb the coRsc!epces Of the Al.iel
statesmer The surrender 10 sovie,
ism will &c a fait accompN" Econ
omic necessity" adds the Rocky
Mountain News Gnd0 has do.
sreed the recognition Of Lentn. The
Europear war last too Ions. Too
often '.o icnr iF almost ind'stin.
~ ah.e taon the loser" The
tHgr'esta0 Nrvs and Courier
theul IS also 1c-sua6ed tina, "tra
announcement Eff sis program is
lne'es' n"*tt f"' ralu5a 70 the
fasFs g.5t#4
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abandoned families after their hus-
bands except the provision Of ce:-
tain philanthropic American WON
en-. which is of no avail without
government cooperation. So far
there has been no cooperation.
1t would be difficult to exagger-
ate the effect of this sort of thing
upon efforts to win the confidence
and loyalty of the alien. This larg-
er aspect Of the question is the
more important aspect. There IS
reason to fear that We are making
ten enemies Of Americanism at
home where We are deporting ona,
Deportation may be wise, but this
crude method Of praticing it is a
cruel wrong to the real spirit OF
America.-Chicago Post Qnd)
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1920-03-04
SECOND BIGGEST FIRE
WAS IN CHICAGO, 1871

People have inquired as to the
date and nature of the great Chi.
cago fire. For their information
the following facts are published:
The Chicago fire occurred on Sun
day and Monday, October 8 and g.,
1871, destroying 1850 buildings.
Two hundred persons We're killed.
1t ranks second to the San Francis
co calamity, which occurred on
April IS. 1906, which made 100000
homeless. The loss of the Chicago
fire was $2OO0O0,000 and the San
Francisco fire damage totaled $780,
000.0 GOO.
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1920-03-04
BELGIAN RAILWAY RATES
up ION PER CENT

The new Belgian railway law,
effective February l, increases
passenger and freight tariffs 100 per
cent over pre-war tariffs. This law
superseded a previous law which
increased the rates 40 per cent
dating from January ], 1919.
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1920-03-04
ITALIAN PAPER PUBLISHES
PLAN FOR REVOLUTION

The Avanti Of Milan, Socialist
publishes the scheme prepared bJ
the Secretary Of the Socialist Fed
Grafton for an Italian Soviet reg
ime.' One of its provisions de-
clares. The Italian Socialist Par
ty will be the initiator and inspire,
Of the soyiets, as we'll as their po-
litical and revolutionary guide
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venting the descent of the Bolshe-
yiks on the Black Sea and of estab.
fishing lasting pe2c2 in the Orient
seems to be the maintenance of q
strong Turkey.-TasYiri Efkair,
Constantinople.
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1920-03-04
GRAFTON BANKER DEAD.

George W. White, vice president
of the Merchants and Mechanics
Bank of Grafton died Tuesday
evening after several weeks i'll.
ness from a complication of dis
eases. Mr.. White was approaching
his seventeen year and was well
known throughout northern West
Virginia. He was a pioneer in the
cigar making industry in this state.
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1920-03-04

| HI position of the Topeka Capital
(Rep.) is that mo nation has a right
to oppose any sort of government of
Russia that meets the wishes of the
! Russian people. provided it is able
and willing in good faith TO meet its
international obligations. and ON the
same theme the Wichita Eagle
Qnd0 says:
1T already IS evident that the
Russians will starve to the last
man bebore they will submit to
foreign Dictatorship. In this the
Russians are altogether right.
They should be permitted to settle
their own difficulties in their own
way, without foreign interference.
We did not interfere when the Car
governed with the knout and the
knife. We must not interfere
when what we believe to be N2n.
GRITTY of the Russian people gov
erns."
Once it was Russia that wanted
peace-now it is Europe" declares
the Boston Globe Qnd9, and the
Salt Lake Deseret News GndD saws
Please note spelling OF DESERET
lit has ceased to be a question of
preferences and predilections-it is
a condition Of accomplished facts
which cannot be argued away by
sentimental appeals or demolished
by a bombardment Of diplomatic
phrases"
Yet there are many opinions in
Ginning to the view of the Wichita
Eagle Ind), that "the recognition
Of the Soviet government means a
submission 10 autocracy and an in
vitation to an abysmal and name
less disaster" since the Soviet
lists propose and intend to destroy
all the other governments on earth
and extend their own to all ma.
tons - As the New York Tribune
CRep1 points OUT
"Our government was the first
70 denounce the bolsheyists as in
ternational outlaws, and as they
were they except that they
have added hypocrisy to their
vices, The world cannot be
expected to believe in professions
OF reform from offenders so hard
ened as the men who accepted from
Germany the Job OF putting Russia
out OF the war, and who since, to
perpetuate themselves in power
have piled crime on crime
1--WE can no more make peace
with them" declares the Salt Lake
Herald tRep4, than We can COM
promise titles to property stolen
by burglars" and the Idaho States
man (Repl finds It difficult to be-
lieye that President Wilson will
grant such recognition, and still
mo.e difficult To believe that after
his denu2ciatou Of Lcnn and Trot-
Ky he will pay any attention
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1920-03-04

W. D. Howells. at the age of SO,
celebrated his birthday Monday at
Savannah, Ga. AS he is just reoov-
ering from the infuenza, the cele-
bration was a quiet one.
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Daily
Editorial
Digest

(Title Appld for L. s. Pat Off
Edited by the Washington
Feature Service
DAVID LAWRENCE, Prest.
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the soviet gOVerDment-dn out
come which for some time has been
inevitable and which should have
been recognized as inevitable even
by those to whom the thought of K
was most repugnant." And while
the st. Louis Post-Dispateh OndD
reminds us that resumption of trade
may not mean diplomatic recogni
ton. yet that attitude Of snobbish
ness will pass, too. A half-hearted
peace with Russia would be as fool.
ish and futile as a half-hearted wa,
has proved"
As for the "bolsheyist horrors
referred to in the Allied communl
cation, the Philadelphia Pres
tRep) says these apparently con
sist in the abuse of privileges bt
Soviet unofficial representatives
Britain and Switzerland, Will
the New York Call (Soc,) declaro
that "the larger past Of these
horrors are proaucf Of Entente
propaganda" At any rate. the New
York Globe Hnd.) holds that there
is no question but Russia today
Hill b. round to be land of peace
md order"
There was Red Terror in Rus
sia it was more horrible than i'm.
aginatiou can picture. but it ne
longer exists today While no
one can condone the Russian bru.
talitles. We must do what the SUI
preme Co3ncf is doing face the
facts as they are, and guide our.
selves by what is, not what has
been"
1t is a source of regret TO the
Brooklyn Eagle (nd. Dem.) that
I'm all of this momentous business
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WEDNESDAY,, MARCH 3, 1920
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-02-28
Other Live Stock

CINCINNATI, sFeb. 2S--Hogs-
ceipts, 5000; mostly direct and through ;
market, heavies slow. others 25c higher ;
heavy, $14.25@15; mixed, $l2,2o4l5:5Q ;
rouRhs, s11.75; stays. $S75. Cattle-Re-
ceipts, 500: market slow; bulls steady :
calves, $50. Sheep-Market steady.
CLEVELAND. Feb. 2s Hogs Re
ceipts. 1900 market SLOW; workers, $3.50 /;
mixed. $11.T5: medium. S1425; pjgs, $3.50
GllJ.75: rough Sl2 %; stays, $3.50 Cattle
= Receipts. 200; market steady. Sheep
and lambs Receipts. 500; market slow I;
top, $50 Receipts, 20O; market
steady; top, $22.
CHICAGO Feb. 81. Receipts,
1900; market higher; bulk, $1435d15.1O;
1880; light. S14.95@15.75; pigs. $13.25@
1915; roughs, $12.400l2.75. Cattle-Re-
ceipts, 5000; market slow; beeves, $100
10; butchers, S6.50Q 12.Jo; Gamers and
$675@11 so; cows S6.75@9; calves, S1525
016.50. Sheep Receipts, 5000. market
steady; lambs, $1IJ0Q2030; ewes, SIPS
014.30.
EAST ST. LOUIS. Ill. Feb. 27.-Cattle
Receipts. 1000; market steady; native
steers and heifers. $1O@13.50; cows, S9.75
@10; stockers and feeders, $9Q10,50;
calves, $16q17.75; Gamers and cutters,
$475@6.85 Hogs-Receipts, $500; mar
DlXGu anu DuLCneIbs plt.tOWl
1925; good heavies, $1365d1465; rough
heavies, S1t .50@12.75 light $1510@1525 {;
pigs, $11.75@1525; bulk of sales, $14.65@
1925. Sheep Receipts, 400: market
steady; ewes, S12@13.25 lambs, $z0Q
20.J0: cnnners and cutters, $5.5006
PITTSBURG, Pa. Feb. 81 Cattle-Re-
ceipts, light; market steady; choice,
$137501425: good, S12m1275; fair, $3.50
oil; veal calves, $2O621.50 Sheep and
lambs-Receipts, light; market, steady !;
prime weathers, $15@155O; good $13@14 !;
fair mixed S1O@12; spring lambs, $50
20.50. Hogs-Receipts, 10 doubles mar
ket, higher; prime heav1es, $15@15.25 !;
mediums, SIT; heavy workers., $17; light
workers., S16@1625; pigs, $1500@15.75 !;
roughs, $12@14.25; stays, $950@1O50.
EAST BUFFALO, Feb. 27.-Cattle
Receipts, 400; market. active, easy
shipping steers. $13.5061450; butcher
grades, $1o@1275; cows, $5@1G. Calves
Receipts. 1000: market 81 higher; culls
to choice $6@25 Sheep and 4ambs-Re-
ceipts, 1900 market active, $3.50 lower
choice lambs, $2O,5OQ2O.S5; culls to fair.
$1,000; yearlings S16@1S.50 sheep. So
@16. Hogs Receipts. 1000; market,
heavies, slow; lights, steady; Workers,
$18@I6.25; pigs. I $t575016.25; mixed,
$15.75@16.25; heavies. $1450Q15; roughs,
$12@1s; stays. $o@AQ
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-02-28
SHORTS COVER;
GRAINS GO UP
Market Dull and Listless Up
to Last Hour.

CHICAGO, Feb. 2s.-Short covering by
early sellers caused a sharp rally in
grain futures at the close on the Chicago
Board of Trade today. There was little
trading until the last hour, when buy
ers became active.
Weakness in the security market
caused quotations to drop at the open
ing. The statement by Bernard NJ.
Baruch that prices would drop shortly
also caused all futures to sag at the
opening, but the loss was more than re-
covered. Provisions closed higher.
February corn closed at S1.44h after
opening at $1.42l5, down &c.
March corn was up 212c at the close
after opening of 1Ac at $1.42.
May corn opened up 1sc at S1.35h and
later advanced Mc.
July corn was unchanged at the open
ing Of S1.29%. and was lie higher at
close.
May oats. down NC at the opening,
7915c, closed 15c higher. July oats
opened Ac lower at re and cuosed 1c
higher