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The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1921-06-15
Hitting ole Nail on 0be Head
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ruary 9th, 1918, nine months before
the armistiee was signed, the follow
ing editorial:
Tremendous injury has been done
to the American cause in this war by
misstatements of American justifica-
ton for participation in it. Both
by seditious agitators and by vain
glorious politicians and press agents
We have been told that we are in the
war to force certain academic, politi-
ca land economic theories on the rest
of the world by force of arms, as Ma
homet thrust his religion on Asia by
the sword.
No government worthy of being
considered civilized would send its
sons to the firing line to vindicate
the mere political or economic opin-
ions of any man; party or faction.
The only cause for which any nation
has any moral right to go to war is
the necessary defense of the peoples
fundamental rights of person and
property against foreign or domestic
aggression. Any nation worthy of
the peoples protection must protect
it's people. 1t must make not only
their own country but the world in
general safe for them, so long as
they are proceeding within theil
rights under treaties and information
al law.
We are in this war for one cause
and one cause only, and that is tt
make the world safe for America ant
Americans; to make the whole worlt
understand that the nation which
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1921-06-15
A VICTORY FOR CONSTRUCTIVE
POLICY

(From the Chicago Tribune)
Brands decisive victory over the
extremists in the chamber Of depu-
ties and his firm assertion of policy
are welcome signs that influences of
moderation are prevailing in France.
The European situation will be very
much relieved if French policy will
rely more confidently on the will of
friendly powers to protect her real in
terests and conform more nearly to
economic requirements of European
sterilization. The Polish crisis has
been perilous in the extreme to the
cause Of peace, and nothing involved
in it, so far as we in America can
see, would justify either from the
viewpoint of the world or from the
exclusive viewpoint of France, a
breach among the associated nations
with the disastrous consequences
which would emerge.
Certainly France cannot wish to
alarm American opinion for the sake
of a very dubious military balance in
central Europe. But it will be alarm
ed unless French policy shows a clear
tendency to conform itself practical
ly and sincerely to the urgent need
for the economies restoration of GEN.
trail Europe. We sympathize whole.
heartedly with the French determin-
alton to protect itself, and our firm
conviction is that the salvation of
France as well as of Europe depends
upon the earliest and fullest possible
cooperation among all European
governments and peoples TOR the res.
tOration of central Europe.
1t is to be devOutedly hoped thai
Premier Brand will be supported BY
the French chamber and the Frencl
= public in the attitude he took in hi
address of Thursday. 1t was a sigl
| of hope appearing in a very dral
sky.
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1921-06-15


flag, or those entitled TO it's protec-
ton, must suffer the consequences
which in a century and a third Of
American history always befell those
who attacked every American by at
lacking every Americans flag. We
are in a war of national defense, and
not of international propaganda; the
claims set up to the contrary are mere
matters of opinion, unauthorized by
any public decision, unjustified by
public opinion, and vastly harmful to
the American cause.
To insure, hereafter, that respect
for American rights always firmly
enforced by this government prior to
that abandonment of national duty
and responsibility in Mexico which
gave Europe mistakenly to under
stand that anyone could spit on the
American flag who cared TO do so
and would find us "too proud to
fight" we must fight the central en-
pires to a decisive conclusion. No
mere agreement to respect these
rights hereafter would now be suffi-
cient. We must make our adversar-
les understand that the American
eagle still has a beak and talons.
We must not only force Germany to
pull the fangs which sze repeatedly
sunk into US while we were neutral.
We are not animated by racial or
dynastic hatred, by trade rivalry or
territorial greed. We are out for the
plain, old fashioned cause of Ameri-
can safety on sea and land which sent
Decatur againsthe Barbary pirates
We do not aspire to historic immor-
tality as arbiters of the worlds des-
tiny; our job is to work out our own
high destiny, and big enough job il
is. We are not in the war to estab-
lish world wide socialism, commun
ism, free trade or internationalism
we are in the war to beat and dis
arm the bully we are fighting and tt
make it impossible for this or an!
other thug hereafter to swisha cluI
around our ears with the command t,
stand and deliver.
If we could only dam the flood o
drivel that has been let loose in thi
country to drown out good old fash
Toned American patriotism, and clea
the whole atmosphere by a plai
statement of what every SINGER
American understands we are reall
in the war for, the effect would b
electrical The people have show
their devotion to the republic; the
will continue to do so; but if appea
q ed to in the name of national, ratl
er than Of international and acad,
q mic ideals which are bothering IL
E brains only of the world artists al
millennium makers and which no ci
ilized government would send it's SO
diers to fight and die for, the un
fled and stimulated efforts of Anne
leans will be irresistible.
This motto is enough: Our eau
M is our flag!
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1921-06-15
HARDING UNLIKE WILSON.
(From Montana Record-Herald)

(From Montana Record-Herald)
President Harding is unlike for
mer President Wilson in respect to
his distribution of patronage. In his
appointments to the shipping board,
three of the six appointees are gen.
uine democrats, not the imitation
kind, and two of the three republi-
cans supported Hiram Johnson for
the republican nomination for presi-
dent. In these nominations Mr..
Harding went directly contrary to
the habit of Mr.. Wilson, who filled
places in bipartisan boards with Will
sonian democrats and near republi-
cans only.
In a recent caterwaul against Mr..
Harding in democratic propaganda
sent out to the dear people, Presi-
dent Harding is condemned on two
Numerically opposed grounds. The
democrats object to him because he
is "too amiable and kind" and also
because Daugherty, his attorney gen.
eral, is not sufficiently amiable and
kind. In other words, Harding can
not possibly do rightin democratic
opinion. He is all wrong all the
time. If he is complacent he is
wrong, and if he is dominant he is
equally wrong.
AS amatter of fact, President
Harding is the sort of man who, like
men, defers to them where it is evil
dent that their policies are superior to
MS own, but inevitably imposes his
own will where it is wise to do so.
No wonder such man is distasteful
to the democrats, after their abject
worship of that super-egotist VIII
son, who surrounded himself with
messenger boys and one-track minds
and fellows whose ideas ran along
with his, and who took the device
of nobody.
Another laughable thing about the
attacks upon President Harding is
based upon the ground that he has
not, IN three months time, been able
to reduce or eliminate government
bureaus and government extrava
gance that it took Woodrow Wilson
eight years to create. Take the bis
navy that. congress is working on. L
was Josephus Daniels that began t,
insist, as soon as the world war wa:
over, that the United States mus
have the greatest navy in the world
Mr.. Wilson having set up a leagu
that was to run the earth in peace
it Immediately became necessary il
the eyes of Josephus that the Unite,
States should lead all the nation
with its fleet--for what p1rpose?-
probably TO lend to the league.
This big navy of Wilson'S ma
Daniels seems to 1--we become S,
deeply fixed in the IAinds of the SCI
. ators at Washin ION, they they al
trying to put It over, and in tn
! meantime the democratic propagar
dists are complaining because Nj
! Harding Doesn't do something"
Give him eight years-like Woo
row Wilson-and then sum up. W
: will be that, let him do his ven
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1921-06-15
THE HERALD'S TABLE NO. ONE,

"In series of articles published
by the New York Herald congress
is taken severely to task for what is
alleged to be it's failure to practice
needed economies in appropriations"
says the Republican Publicity asso-
citation, through its president, Hon. |
Jonathan Bourne, Jr. elaborate sta
tistical stables have been presented,
tending to prove that while the re-
publicSns in control of both houses
at Washington were advertising the
fact that tremendous savings to the
taxpayers were being made, in real
ity nothing of the kind has occurred
and the peoples money is being spent
more prodigally than ever. AT the
the time the appropriation bills were
passed. says the Herald. referring
to the bills for the fiscal year end
ing June 80, 1921, much credit was
taken by congress for cutting the es-
Inmates, but no actual savings result
ed If that be true, it is a reflec-
ton not upon the republican cong
ress, but upon the democratic Wilson
administration, which determined the
scope of government expenditures
for the year ending June 80, 1921.
''The first article of the Herald
series has accompanying it Table No.
l. which purpOrts to show that the
estimates of federal expenditures for
the fiscal year 1921 were $1,000, $780,
1913; that Of that sum congress ap-
propriated only $3,717, AL ,4S4; but
that the actual expenditures for the
war, as estimated by Secretary Mel
Ion, will amount to $5.602, 024,861.
The charge is made that while the
republicans were gloating over the
apparent saving Of many millions Of
dollars under the democratic esti-
mates, as matter of fact they fail
ed to provide money for the actual
government needs, which will be
spent anyway, and might as we'll have
been appropriated in the beginning.
What are the facts? In June of
last year, after all the appropriation
= lis for 1921 had been. enacted into
", the committees of the senate
d house issued a financial state
MT based on the figures actually
omitted to them by the executive
! 1.epartment and the amounts actually
9 lowed in the appropriation bills
he statement shows that the exc
crtive estimates totalled $6,171,271,-
1 259, of which s4,859 ,89O,927 was ap-
propriated, demonstrating a saving
O. STAT, 422, SOP.
ut its extraordinary Table No. l.
the Herald charges that congress
made no provision for railroad and
public debt payments, but that those
expenditures will amount to about
! 81 ,880,000,000 before the fircal year
ends. AS matter of fact, congress
did appropriate $725,OOO,0O0 for the
/ railroads and 81 100000 for inter
est and sinking fund payments OF
the national debt, in providing fol
: the expenditures for 1921.
2 mo one will assert that the re
: publican congress appropriated witt
:. strict accuracy for the necessary. ex
penditures Of the year ending Jun
: 3, 1921. There may have been som
e unavoidable deficits this year as i
y other years. The fact IS, neverthe
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1921-06-15

of the Wilson administration, which
was in power for the first eight
months Of the present fiscal year, set
set a pace in expenditure and con-
tracted obligations which resulted in
huge and indefensible deficits which
the republicans must appropriate
money to pay.
"The republican party must as
assume responsibility for the expen-
ditures it makes after July 1, next.
Upon its record it will be judged at
the election of 1922"
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1921-06-15
WHY THE UNITED STATES EN-
TERED THE WORLD WAR
(From the National Republican,

(From the National Republican,
A widespread cry of protest has
been raised against the statement OF
Ambassador George Harvey, in his
Pilgrim dinner speeach, that the
United States went to war, not as
crusader for democracy or IN behalf
of any other nation or set Of nations,
but in self-defense." Either our dec
laration of war was a falsehood or
the statement of Colonel Harvey is
true. for that war declaration, ap-
proved by President Wilson, stated
as our reason for going to war that
the German imperial government had
attacked us. Of course if we went
to war in defense of Belgium, Eng
land. France and Italy, or for the
cause in behalf of which these ma
lions went to war, our failure to de-
clare war just when these nations did
was criminal; yet two years after
the European war began President
Wilson made his campaign for re-
election on the ground that he had
kept this country out of a war into
which our entry, he alleged, would
have been unjustifiable. So much
hypocritical Chunk" has been writ
ten and spoken on this question of
our cause of war by partisans and
dupes of the Wilson administration
that it seems worth while to reprint
from the National Republican of Feb
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1921-06-15

ward at the Murray hospital, where
he has been confined during the last
few weeks.
Although Colonel Bartlett was un-
able to leave the cot, he enjoyed
fairly hearty dinner. During the day
many of his old friends called on
him to extend their congratulations
and leave small tokens in honor of
the occasion.
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1921-06-15

country will be better off than VIII
son left it, and we are of this opin-
ion because we believe that the state
of the government at present shows
conclnsively that there isn't anoth-
er man in the world who would have
so utterly ruined the taxpayers
pockets and so absolutely wrecked
affairs of the people of the United
States as did Woodrow Wilson.
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1921-06-15
BUTTE'S OLDEST MAN
CELEBRATES 9STH BIRTHDAY

Butte.-Colonel William Bartlett,
Butte's most aged resident, and said
to be the oldest in Montana, celebrat-
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-08-04
RAIL SETTLEMENT
ONLY TEMPORARY,
ASSERTS HAPG00D
Government Help, Mere Pal
liative, With Experts Gloomy
as to Future, He Declares.
BY NORMAN HAPGOOD.

The railroad settlement may turn
out to be good or bad. In any case
1t is temporary. 1t Is mere pallia-
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Paris next week. but the official
view here is that Russian relief is
q question for private action ard
not for governments.
starvation Area Spreads.
The area of starvation, is increasing
I'm Russia. 1t is now defined as
stretching from Mini Novgorod down
the entire valley Of the Volga, the
chief food-producing district OF Rus
STA.
Walter l.. Brown, director In Eu-
rope of American relief administra'
ton, will sail for Riga on saturday
reaching the Latvian city son Tues
day. Lenin has asked him to come to
Moscow.
M. Kamineff. in behalf Of the Soviet
government, has sent the following
communication to Director Brown re-
garding the relief measures and con-
ditions submitted through the Rus
sian relief committee headed by
Maxim Gorky:
"The Russian government has &C.
auainted itself with the proposals of
Secretary Hoover and 1t finds that
the proposals are acceptable as q basis
of relief, including the release OF
American citizens. The Russian gov
eminent considers 1t desirable to fix
the precise conditions Of relief as soon
as possible so that the relief organi
xation can quickly begin feeding and
giving medical treatment, and clothing
I 900. 900 Russian children, as 1t has
promised to do. For this purpose the
Soviet government considers IL wist
for Mr.. Brown to come Immediately
to Riga, Reveal and MOSCOW. Tht
Soviet government awaits a speedy
reply as to the date and place Of tn,
negotiations"
Mr.. Brown sent the following reply
THE release of the American citi
zens detained In Russia must be eff
fected before there are any actual ne
gotiations. Some have already beef
released. I shall be In Riga on mex
Tuesday. At that time, providing tn,
Americans have been liberated. shall
he In position to arrange details TO
immediate relief measures. We hav,
large supplies Of food In the Baltic re
gion which can be moved at once. w,
can arrange quick additions Of food
stuffs from the United States"
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coming, for elimination OF some I'M
profitable roads, for more concen-
trated management, and at the same
time for the maintenance OF GER
tain amount of competition.
A movement that Is in its infancy,
but that is likely to grow, looks to
the appointment of a Cabinet mem"
Der called a secretary of transporta-
ton. The deeper the Government gets
into the railroad predicament the
more Impetus this idea will have.
The Interstate Commerce Commits
ion, in it's early history, was the rep
preventative of the shipper. Recently
1t has rapidly become the representa-
tive of the railroads. II there were a
secretary of transportation. the com
mission would be stripped to judicial
and quasi-judicial functions.
Higher Rates Not Cure.
1t would no longer fix rates. al
though It would hear cases Of discrini-
nation. The changed attitude Of the
commission has had one decidedly
useful result. 1t has indirectly bro
ken down the faNorite abb OF the
roads.
They used to say that they would
he swimming in prosperity II they
were allowed to make their own rates
For a year the commission has been
giving them all the raises they asked
and the roads have demonstrated that
higher rates certainly were not the
cure.
The so-called settlement Of the Gov
eminent with the roads is unfortu-
notely not a settlement For the enor-
nous help brought by the Govern
ment, with the money of the tax
payers. the roads in return gave
nothing.
They nofnot even abandon their
preposterous claims about labor inef-
ficiency. They hang onto them all,
with the announcement that their
kindly acceptance OF the Government
money is without prejudice" to their
right to come into court with all their
claims later II they choose.
Next to the failure to force the
roads to make the settlement final,
tho most hilarious feature of the ar
rangement was the contention that
that the advance to the roads con-
stituted no drain on the Treasury;
that 1t was not an appropriation.
That argument was knocked to
pieces In the Senate. and, indeed, 1t
is scarcely one that grown-up men
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HATFIELD BURIED
AS SILENT CLANS
BREATHE PRAYERS
Mountain Cunman Laid In Hills
Where as Youth He Ter
rorized Enemies.

WILLIAMSON. w. Va. Aug. A.
With banks Of fleecy clouds hanging
low over the Cumberland Mountains
and the Tug river valley, Sid Hat
field, of the clan of Devil" Anse
Hatfield, hardy mountain gunman.
and his right bower, Ed" Cham
bers, were buried in Kentucky soil
yesterday within gunshot of their old
stamping ground In Mango county.
Hatfields funeral was attended by
hundreds Of mountaineers. who came
down from their Businesses to pay
their last respects to sid" as they
knew him, their friend, and the
enemy Of all who sought 10 encroach
on the rights of the natives of Mingo
county. Sid had met his end. gun in
hand, and died as his clansmen be-
fore him passed out. To Lively, the
KILLER" some of those present today
paid their respects In no uncertain
language.
The funeral services for the for
mer Matewan chief of police were
held in his Matewan home, the sec
and floor of the FISHERMAN building,
where Hatfield has conducted a rug
store since the death of Mayor Cabel
A. FISHERMAN, on that memorable
day in 1920. when the latter and
nine Baldwin-Felts detectives lost
their lives In the streets Of Matewan.
The funeral service for Chambers
was held at his home in Matewan.
The bodies of both Chambers and
Hatfield were taken to Bushkirk,
KY, directly across the Tug river,
where they were buried with simple
services.
A special detail of State police was
on hand in Matewan to guard against
any demonstration during the two
funerals. With the exception Of NUT
tered threats and frequent prophecies
that 'scores will be evened up" there
was no untoward incident during the
services.
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can be expected to treat In a serious
manner. Nevertheless, It was put
out with all due solemnity and has
been safely planted all over the
country.
AS a matter of fact, the advance
to the roads costs more to the Gov
eminent through this device OF the
War Finance Corporation than IL
bonds had been issued directly by
the Government to make up the
amount. Ed,
A higher rate of interest will have
to be paid to get the public to take
War Corporation bonds. vaguely
backed by the Government, than
bonds issued directly by the Treas
ury.
When I first heard of the contcm-
plated settlement / understood that
the big loan of the peoples money
to the roads was to be offset by a
definite abandonment of the claims
of the roads as based on the alleged
labor inefficiency.
That was the very least that ought
to have been insisted on. Good bar
gaining by the Government would
have gone much further, and forced
a settlement of all the claims before
II advanced penny. That is the
method taken by the British govern
ment. which objects to being cheated
Senator Lodge said in the Senate
the other day:
THE United States In sure to
run a business badly. II has wreck
ed the railroads"
That is the fable on which the
railroad advocates proceed. The
essential fact is that the Govern
ment gave the roads back probably
In as good shape on the whole as
II took them. and, at any rate, the
taking over of the roads saved them
from bankruptcy.
In December, 1917. their break
down was fragrant. 1t was prepos-
ferrous.
BY taking them and carrying them
over an unheard-of crisis, the Gov
eminent simply saved their lives.
Now the railroad officials, and states
men like Lodge, repay the people
by charging all the failures of the
railroads to few months of brill
liantly successful Government opera
ton.