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New-York tribune., 1920-09-26
The Betrayal of China
Hope Expressed for Day o.
Justice
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: I have just read from your
paper Senator Harding's speech in which
he charges the present Administration
with betrayal of Chins's confidence in
agreeing to the award of Shantung to
Japan at the peace conference. In
making such utterance l believe the
Senator voices not only the real senti-
ment Of every true American, but that
of every Chinese patriot.
That the Shantung settlement was a
fragrant injustice done to China no
fair-minded person would deny. The
Senator is right when he declares that
in the peace conference China had no
voice in a question concerning her own
national interest, and INSTEAD of being
awarded the freedom of her own peo-
pie under the gospel OF self-determina-
ton for which America spoke, several
millions of her people were delivered
over to rival nation with the consent
and approval of those who spoke for
America in Paris"
This emphatic statement reminds us
CT the inconsistency of Wisconsin. With
the noble principles enunciated in his
fourteen points President Wilson
gallantly took up the responsibility Of
making the world peace. But why would
he not apply these principles to settling
China's case? Allowing secret in
trigues of Japan and other European
countries to master the decision Of
Shantung, where was the principle Of
open diplomacy? Taking arbitrarily the
sovereign rights of one allied power as
a price to bribe another, where was the
guaranty of integrity and independ-
ence? Making the small and weak q
victim to crafty the avaricious desires
OF the unscrupulous strong, where was
the principle of justice? Ignoring
Chinas repeated appeals and granting
everything demanded by her opponent
at the expense of the former, where was
the principle Of equality? Robbing a
nation of her rightful possession
against the will of her 40O,O00,0 900 peo-
pie, where was the principle of self
determination
Being betrayed by her once believed
to be faithful friends, China to-day is
left alone to face her own fate. In
spite of all her incapability she must
! fight for her own existence against her
aggressive enemies. OF course, she has
not been encouraged. to believe that
there could be sympathetic friend whe
might proffer her assistance, yet in the
hight OF the Senator's statement may I
venture to assume that the Americans
Will not fail to see their moral RESPONSE
bility for China's international commit
cations? YE YOUNG CHAN.
Columbia University, New York, Sept.
%, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-09-26

:, The World, after announcing with
aneonscious humor that the men who
ass cunning Mr.. Cox's campaign are
SonArmed optimists, continues:
"Discouraging as have been half
- dozen recent developments in the
Presidential campaign-which they
admit-the combined effect of these
'unfavorable straws' has served as q
ssimulant to 8 greater determina-
ton to win a battle that now seems
! lest to them"
This is optimism maintained de-
pite prolonged distressing circum-
@snees. These straws began blow
iag the minute Mr.. Cox, after con-
fhsence with Mr.. Wilson, announced
saat il elected he would carry out
he Wilson program.
:. They filed the air Immediately
inter- the returns from Maine. They
have whirled and eddied in Mr.. Cox 8
wake wherever he has carried his
eampaign.
And not even 'he efforts of his
managers to raise $2,000,0O0 cam
psigp fund, and The Worlds en-
a,ragina report that this money is
thinning % come in, have cleared
He air Of them.
The cold truth is that "the battle
new seems lost" to Mr.. Cox's man
sgers because they have been talk
ing to the voters and understand
how the voters feel about Mr.. Cox.
No amount Of optimism can send
,aCox manager away from a conver-
sation with an ordinary citizen with
ess feeling Of deep detection. Mr..
Cox has not appealed to the people
Nfsonally, and the policies that he
sdvocates, SO far as he advocates
any, they have rejected fatty.
Kg. Cox has little to offer that the
vsssrs want. He has no program
Ms Wilson'S program, and they have
Asd more than enough Of that. He
aas been ineffective on the stump,
snd the people naturally feel that he
would be equally ineffective in The
White House.
They not only feel it, but they say
= Listen to any street conversation
aad you will hear them say it.
IL Mr.. Cox's managers can be op-
uznastic in the face of the over
lanelm1ng opinion against their can
udase they have attained the alb
sesute heights Of optimism. Mr..
Vox, who is actually among the peo-
pA, has become testy and irritable,
sno every one knows what this i'm
plies.
New-York tribune., 1920-09-26
Wrangel's Successes

General Wrangel has reported
the capture of 10000 Bolshevist
prisoners in an operation on the
front north of the Crimea. A Mos
cow wireless also admits that
WrangePs troops have occupied
Alexandrovsk, on the Dnieper River.
Wrangel has now cleared the
whole province Of Taurida, of which
the Crimean Peninsula constitutes
the lower half. He has also entered
the Province of Ekaterinoslav and
is pushing his lines eastward toward
the Don Cossack province and the
Donetz coal basin.
Wrangel has been making steady
progress for the last two months.
He appears to have a we'll organ
lied army, capable of maneuvering
as we'll as fighting. And in mill
tary capacity he seems to outclass
most Of Trotzky's generals.
Trotzky's boast that he will launch
new offensive against Poland
doesn't impress his enemies. Since
he made it the Poles have cleared
Eastern Galicia and invaded VOL
hynia, capturing the three fortresses
Of the famous Lutsk- -Dubno- Rovno
triangle. Wrangel has also replied
by strengthening his grip on the
territory on the east bank of the
Lower Dnieper. If Trotzky has
anything in reserve he hasn't shown
it. Nor is it easy for him to re-
organize a military establishment
which since the middle of August
has lost about 100000 of it's effec-
tives.
France recognized Wrangel's gov
ernment because it seemed to rest
on solid basis, in political as
we'll as military sense. 1t is no
mushroom growth, like Denikine's
i'll organized structure. 1t offers to-
day the best hope of a restoration
of order in Russia, if such a resto-
ration is to be effected by armed
force and doesn't come sooner
through a revolt against Lenine's
bloody despotism.
New-York tribune., 1920-09-26
NV Own

(Fron, Contemporary Verse>
On, ! must answer to q name
And live upon g certain street,
And stairs within dingy house
Must bear the burden of my feet.
Still, when the night is dim and sweet
In dreams / roam the silent hills;
Wbere aisles of shadow, vague with
light,
Are petaled soft with dafYodiIs,
I foot it through the silver dark,
I shout aloud to field and tree;
And all this gypsy heart Of me
IL longing, longing to be free.
Oh, / must answer to a name
And live upon certain street;
But who shall take my dreams from
Or keep my life frons being sweet
HAROLD YlNAIA
New-York tribune., 1920-09-26

%s. Inc return on any per cent loan
S1e, 600, when the lenders income
exempt from taxation, is, of course,
soo". But when the lender pays a
sarsax his return, if he is of the
Np'oOo class, is 1884; if of the
$s"0oo class, his return is s5O4; if
the 100000 class, s474; if of the
sss"oo class, $444; if of the $780,
20 class, s414; if the s1oo 900 class,
ssoA; If of the 100000 class, STA.
iheSe ngures, compiled by the metal
ss@ manufacturers, show how men
g 'asge Ipcomes are driven to invest
e tax-exempt securities.
.ne clutch of the surtaxes is not
oa'y on the throat Of builders, but on
gs throat Of all business. Two
'hion Of profits which normally
ssaid be reinvestcd in improvements
general benefit is grabbed by the
sesnnent, and even more pours
70 exempt, non-business, public
oe securities. Is it strange there
shortage of capital available for
assiness use?
!. ans authors Of the graduated scale
A we Income tax thought they were
sng the very rich. At first they
~ and still do 30 to the degree that
80 very rich have not readjugted
s Investments. But month by
40 there is a sliding from under
= !, means Of the exemption laws.
20 New York it Is proposed to
3 ps Zeal estate mortgages from
- ssass income tax, and thus 10
s smother class Of tax-exenyt
mites. This would tend to make
ps1 TOW 10 real estate mort.
90 IL ROW dess to naunicapsls.
New-York tribune., 1920-09-26
Scandalous Exaggerations
Ireland


10 the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Kindly allow me to point out
that the citation adduced by Mr. Fox
to prove the persecution and SLAUGHTER
of 100000 'Protestants in Ireland in the
Rebellion of 1641 is a bit of legend.
devoid of historical fovndation, but
which has been revived in recent wears
by certain bigoted propagandists who
opposed all Ireland's claims-even to
her former request for partial self
government. The following excerpt
from the History of the Civil Wars of
ireland, by an acknowledged Protes-
tent authority, Mr.. W. C. Taylor, of
Trinity College, Dublin, sets forth the
view of the 1641 troubles now ac-
cepted by historians:
The war commenced in the North.
The peasantry that had been so cruelty
driven from their lands rushed down
from their mountains and swept over
'he English plantations. There waa
little or no resistance made. The as
tonished settlers fled everywhere be-
fore the original proprietors. .
At first the Irish were contented with
merely expelling the intruders; but a
mob soon adds cruelty to violence, and,
IN several instances, the English were
| injured, aid even murdered.
The English and Scotch settlers re-
tcrted these outrages; and whenever
they had an opportunity massacred
the Irish without mercy or distinction
of sex or age. These crue3ties, how
ever, have been scandalously exagger-
ated by the writer's on both sides.
After very careful examination Of all
the statements the present writer be-
lleves that the number of persons killed
by the insurgents was less than 5000;
and that about an equal number were
slain by their opponents. The great
majority Of the Irish gentry invariably
made every exertion to restain the
ferecity of their followers, but the
officers of the government, both by
precept and example, xecomm ended
cruelty and EXTERN ination (of the
lrish). Later the lolds- JUS
tices transmitted to the king and to the
English Parliament an account of the
dangerous insurrection which had taken
place, and furthermore, in a proclama-
tion, exonerated the Catholic i0rds OF
English extraction from the accusation
Of completely in the rebellion. 1t is
remarkable that neither in their proc
lamations nor in the dispatches sent
over to the King and Parliament do the
lords-justices say one word about, the
horrible massacres which subsequent
authors have detailed; 3 clear proof
that meme such had taken place" (vol
I. pages 263-s).
! May your readers, including Mr.. Fox
recall his proof when the legend turns
up again, and not forget which party
officially stood for cruelty and ma.
eaere.
ANDREW A. MAC ERLEAN.
l New York, Sept. a2, 1890.
New-York tribune., 1920-09-26
Kindergarten
tFrom The Togrhsto,se)

tFron The Togcbsfoise)
\ WATCHED the children, to-day
n Fitting blocks together
In simple patterns
had set for them.
And as l leaned above
The small, restless bodies,
And saw the flushed faces
Drawn into serious, unaccustomed lines.
longed to set the patterns right
For them myself
With few deft touches,
And send the babies out to play
In the orchard,
To shout and dance
And catch the falling petals
In their soft, rosy palms.
Oh God,
Do you never long
To set the patterns right
For stumbling fingers,
And send your children
To play on the hills
Before the day is done?
ANNA SPENCER TwITCHELYA
New-York tribune., 1920-09-26
The Latest Cox ''Issue'

Governor Cox repeaes against our
neighbors The World ann The Times
and the Democratic press generally
the charge that Indignantly burst
from him while in California.
The accusation is that the news of
the Cox stumping tour is suppressed.
The people are thus left to sit in
darkness, their minds unillumined
by knowledge of his momentous dis
courses. It appears that two per-
sons, called by him "Hog Scouts" ="
sit among his hearers, and by hellish
arts Of some sort induce the report
ers present to be false to their duty.
The World and The Times, not to
speak Of other Democratic organs,
are newspapers Of general circula-
ton; they have correspondents with
Mr.. Cox on his tour, and there is no
report Of a closing Of telegraph
Offices. The conspiracy Of which Mr..
Cox complains must thus be par
ticipated in by the Democratic press,
for it's reports agree with those Of
the Republican press.
With an assiduity worthy Of
Marrayat's Japhet when in pursuit
of father, Mr.. Cox struggles TO run
down and capture an tissue" The
slippery thing eludes him. He
reaches and reaches, but clutches
nothing. We trust our neighborA
Will not Judge Mr. Cox too harshly
New-York tribune., 1920-09-26
4 Pilgrimage to Marion
By William Peter Reeves, of Gambler, Ohio

1t was Constitution Day. Five Ohio
counties had arranged to send delega-
tions to Marion to be presented to the
Republican candidate for President, to
see and appraise the man and to hear
his address on the significance of the
Constitution of the United States for
us to-day.
generous neighbor offered to make
up party to join the Knox County
delegation at Marion. There was a
stock man, familiar with cattle and the
fatigue of Pittsburgh and Cleveland
stockyards. There was visitor from
New York City, eager to get at the
heart of things; shopkeeper, a me-
chanic, given a holiday from his fac
tory. We were FIVE plain voters.
On the Road
In silent machine that did the 120
miles over good and bad roads, hills
and valleys without change of gear;
with the roadside fringed with purple
fronweed, goldenrod, Bouncing Betsy
bitter sweet and nameless masses of
color and form; under a high sky,
where fat-bottomed clouds were fixed
in token of good weather, we followed
other pilgrims. All showed our colors;
flags tapped from front and rear, where
portrait of Warren G. Harding Cigars
of country or city brand were offered
or declined, upon simple inspection.
None too loquacious, let loose for day
the luxury of idle impressions.
Farmhouses showed Harding and Cox
pictures. The obvious thing was to
count them, and had the country been
more thinly settled there would have
followed bets on the approaching pic
lures from the character of the farms
So we counted in the run from Mount
| Vernon to the city limits of Marion 1T
! Hardings and q Coxes. Our automo-
bile at Mount Vernon had been visited
by purvyors of a screed pretending
to prove that Harding had thought dol
lar wheat good enough for the farmers
The pictures showed that those farmers
had not been deceived by the silly
argument.
Close to- the Soil
There Is homely and enduring
satisfaction in living in a country viii
lage. Part Of the satisfaction in 'liv-
ing close to the soil is that YOU don't
easily get jolted off. Ideas and points
of view that you slowly adopt have ele-
ments Of weather and seasons and time
and some Of the eternities. You see
backward and forward. You have time
to think. Familiar faces of Washing
ton and Lincoln look down from the
walls along with grandfather and
Uncle Ben. The commission, signed in
1852. has kept the paper behind It
| from fading. and the sword. carefully
New-York tribune., 1920-09-26
The Furrow End

tFroms The Chopbook, Lewdom)
THE plow stands idle at the furrow
end.
Where Mullard left 1t but six days
ago;
And half s stubble field lies waiting
him
Who nevermore will either .plow or
SOW &.
The meadowsweet along the bank,
The honeysuckle in the lane,
May bloom and scent a thousand times
And he shall never come again.
The sun which glinted on the harness
brass,
AS with his plow the autumn land
he broke,
To-day comes stealing through his
damson trees
And catches brass on well-planed
joiner's oak.
Where lavender and thyme perfume,
And bees go needless through the
phlox,
Thereon the cleanly red-briek path
Efes Mullard in his tapered box.
And green-black coats and collars
strangely white,
Drawn from the ancient dresser and
the chest,
Move in that apple-seented garden
place
Which of all earth old Mullard loved
the best.
And now they bear him shoulder high
To where in quiet lies his wife.
Dead kings with equal words are
I am the Resurreetion and the Life.
C. w. SHEPHERD.
New-York tribune., 1920-09-26
The New Rent Laws

The Legislature has done little to
alleviate the housing shortage. Per-
haps this was only to be expected in
a brief and hurried session, with the
eviction emergency to arise on Octo-
ber l shutting practically everything
else out of view. Two minor laws
with a constructive trend were
passed. One permits cities of the
first or second class to suspend taxes
on new housing, except hotels, until
1882. The other makes bonds of the
State Land Bank legal investment
for state and local sinking funds.
1t is evident that the housing
shortage cannot be remedied through
new construction for a considerable
time to come-probably nearer ten
years than five. There are many
serious obstacles to building on an
adequate scale. Sufficient housing
cannot be obtained until the city
really wants it and is willing to-face
and overcome the difficulties iii the
way. There are few signs as yet of
any such coordination of >effort as
will be needed. We have, therefore,
the prospect of slow approxima-
tion to community understanding,
accompanied by much obstructive
talk and action, both here and in
Albany.
The eviction emergency, therefore,
remains, and must be met. This is
an emergency in which the police
power of the state can be legitimate
ly employed. The Legislature is
now applying it for a term of two
years. But there is every probabil-
ity that the term will be extended by
succeeding legislatures.
The logical aim of emergency rent
legislation is to stabilize occupation
to reduce evictions to minimum.
If all the landlords had co0perated
intelligently the emergency could
have been easily tided over. But
there is minority Of landlords here
whose rapacity is unbounded. They
couldn't read the writing on the wall
when the mild renting laws of last
spring were passed. They defied the
spirit of those laws and did their
best to nullify them. Now they have
compelled the passage of far more
drastic laws, intended to make them
involuntary contributors to system
of stable occupancy.
Nobody can sympathize with the
lamentations of these extortioners.
The more they are displeased the
better satisfied will the rest of the
people be. Yet the new rent laws
were put through in a hurry. There
is a suspicion that they may contain
jokers. What is desired is as COM
plete stoppage as possible of dis
possession due to clashes over rent
increases. According to the intent
of the new bills, every increase re-
fusal to accept which is based on a
complaint of unreasonableness must
be justified by the landlord. The
latter must be fair, whether he
wants to be or not.
If this principle can be established
as an emergency rule the emergency
will lose its terrors and the city can
then turn with an eased mind to the
underlying problem Of new construc-
ton.
New-York tribune., 1920-09-26
Calvin Coolidge Says

(From his address to the Mdssachu-
sets Senate on being elected its
president, January 7, 1914.)
= The welfare of the weakest and the
welfare Of the most powerful are in
separately bound together. Industry
cannot flourish if labor languish. Trans
portation cannot prosper if manufact-
ures decline. The general welfare cam
not be provided for in any one act, but
it is we'll to remember that the benefit
Of one is the benefit of all, and the
neglect Of one is the neglect Of all. Tho
suspension Of ones mans dividends is
the suspension Of another mans pay
envelope.
New-York tribune., 1920-09-26

Constitution. He may be dull, or Pc
dantic, or affecting originality and cev-
erness. Senator Harding was none of
these. His address was carefully pre-
pared, as beftted the occasion. Those
farmers had not come to be amused or
diverted; they expected more than
partisan appeal.
The Center OF Crafty
They were not disappointed. Their
bonds of faith in the Constitution, in
oaths of Office, in law and order, were
reconsecrated. The impersonal demand
of the Constitution transcends gossip
and contentious of the hour; it is yes
terday, to-day and tomorrow. If, in
listening to his speech, we were re-
minded by Senator Harding of the cross
currents of the last seven years, it was
only to realize, each in his own way,
that our center of gravity is, after all,
at home. We are, we must be, wholly
competent to manage our own affairs.
We fought common enemy once in our
own way; we cannot control the world,
and if any part of it threaten, we must
be free to grapple with it, again in our
own way.
Such ideas occurred in listening to
! the address. The imagination ran
ahead of his appeal to stand by the
Constitution. Are not Europe's prob
law int L.; .
May We honoraby interfere? Our ad-
vice is free for the asking; our ex-
ample is the common knowledge of
every intelligent schoo!boy. Respect
and consideration arc now the due of
every European power competent to
speak for its own people. No power
less than that may invoke our CO.
operation without danger to both; no
power greater than that may excite sus-
picion Of others without danger. When
nations are truly representative then
and then only shall we be warranted in
altering one jot or title of our repre-
sentative character under the Constitu-
ton, and considering, in its own sea-
son, what profit may accrue to the
world and to US from such change.
See Harding
Patience, sobriety, lawn Senator
Harding's presence these virtues be-
come fact. AS the crowd dispersed il
was cheerful and confident. Some of
our ills are behind US; with the courage
Of our convictions, the future looks
bright.
After hearing President Mckinley
speak at the Buffalo Exposition plain.
ly dressed woman saM to her COM
panion: II just love that mani" A
similar homely, confident regard fou
Senator Harding was unrnistakable. He
looks and acts and speaks like q Presi-
dent of the United States. Republi-
cans in doubt, timid, puaillanimous
politically immature; doctsinaires, revo.
lutionists, social reformegs and well
meaning visionaries would do we'll Ss
see and hear SenateS Harding, 20 take
New-York tribune., 1920-09-26
A Week of Verse
Priest or Poet

(Fro,n The Chopbook. Lomdom)
n LORD, why must Thy posts peak
and pine,
Why fall Thy singers into fate?
When all Thy Priests do sup on amber
wine
And walk in puppies delicate?
Thy Prophets in the desert honey sip
And safe their soul with loneliness,
Yet breakest Thou Thy Aama upon
their lip
And givest camel's hair for dress.
To poets, Lord, Thou givest neither
drink
Nor raiment, fire nor peace nor food;
Endangered, thirsting do they daily
sink
Beneath the trampling multitude.
SHANE LESLIE.
New-York tribune., 1920-09-26
Mood

(From Poeery) - - : -
"A SKY filing with shadow as, O fewer
with rain
A wind gray with the secret moods Of
the sea
And the old singing comes back again,
The old aching perplexity.
The old questioning comes back once
more
Asking the little shadows hiding In
tears,
Why love cries in the rain outside the
door,
And beauty blunders forever down the
years.
OSCAR WILLIAMS,
New-York tribune., 1920-09-26
Prirneval Practice

tFrom The Chicago Daily Nera)
When paleolithic man scurried back TO
his cozy c'vern and laughed defiance to
the saber toothcd tiger that had leaped
for him and missed he was acquiring
agility that proves invaluable to his de-
scendants of to-day who have to step
lively across boulsvards infested with
speeding motor cara.
New-York tribune., 1920-09-26

his measure as q man, as representa-
tive of citizens who will not consent to
any abrogation of the sovereignty of
the United States, and who will protect
it from the obscure complexities and
rivalries of foreign politics.
New-York tribune., 1920-09-26
Scrub

(Fvons vomsty Pasr>
EF l grow bitterly,
Like gnarled and stunted tree,
Bearing harshly Of my youth
Puckered fruit that sears the u,eutAs
If make Of my drawn boughs
An inhospitabie house,
Out Of which I never pry
Toward the water aud the sky.
Under which ! stand and hide
And hear the day 60 by outside
It is that wind too strong
Bent my back when was yeaag,
IL is that fear the rsin
Lest it blister me agaia.
EDNA sT. VINCENT NgIsxAY.