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THE VICTORY OP PEACE
, "hi these days' of mighty conflict be
tween the nations of Europe there is
being promulgated in the city of
Washington the greatest plans ever
undertaken by men in the direction
of permanent peace between the na
tions. During the past year Secretary
Bryan has signed peaco treaties with
tweritjr-two nations, lucgo and small,
and only yesterday ho signed four
more. These peace treaties provide
that all nations submit their griev
ances to ah arbitration "court, and
shall not declare wax against each
other until the arbitration court shall
hae . passed upon the trouble be
tween any two nations. These trea
ties; are particularly the fruit of the
peace labors of Secretary Bryan. For
many years ho advocated t;he prin
ciple which he has now engrafted in
the. treaties with the nations, and
through all the years the world will
give him the credit for paving the
way for that permanent peace which
must prevail among the nations
wlilcli, have signed the. Bryan peace
treaties. The treaties signed. yester
day by Secretary Bryan Were with
England, Spain, .China, and France.
Those four nations' govern 900 mil
lions of people, and with the twenty
tw.o treaties heretofore negotiated,
more than two-thirds of all the peo-pfe-in
the world will now bo under
permanent peace treaties.
While the old world is today ap
plauding as its heroes the army gen
erals who can destroy the most hu
man lives in one day, the thoughtful
American citizens are lifting their
hats in loyalty to this masterful ge
nius of peace this quiet man from
Nebraska. And in the day when real
peace shall be established between
the nations now al war in Europe,
this Nebraskan will be hailed in every
country and in every clime as the
greatest human proclaimer of. honor
able peace that the warring world
has1. 'known. Columbus (Neb.); Telegram.
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' NO "POWER ON A MOAN"
The New York Horald warns re
nublicans acainst the "crooked road
called Calamity " This doctrine we
have been preaching. Tho republi
can is too great a party to bo creep
ing into power on a moan. Ohio
State Journal.
As our Ohio contemporary sees it,
the real objection to this kind of war
faro is that it make z men who use
"calamity" for political ends wish it
we're true, and that of itself helps to
make it tru2. "A resort to pessim
ism," the Journal adds, "is not patri
otic." New York Herald.
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TAUTFJj AND- TRADE BALANCES
Representative Humphrey, of
Washington belongs to the buzzard
wins- of the renublican party. Mr.
Humphrey is one, you know, who
says President Wilson costs the na
tion $1,000,000 a day or is it an
hour? The one statement is about
as true as the other. ' Here is another
sample of his March-hare figuring.
"Last April the balance1 of trade
against us was $10,000,000 the first
time it has been against us since the
Gorman-Wilson law went off the stat
uto hooks."
That must mean 1897. Well, there
was no yearly balance of trade
against the United States under that
tariff, 'and since then, under a re
publican high tariff, the three sum
mer months of 1-909 -gave an adverse
trade balance of almost $18,000,000.
The New York World is authority
for other adverse balances under the
republican protective -tariff system:
February, 1910: $4,300,000; -March,
1910, $19,200,000.: April, 1910, near
ly $1,000,000; July, 1910, three
times that; August, .1910, $3,500,
000. The' "question -that in
terests us at the present moment is
this: Does Mr. Humphrey know bet
ter or Is ignorance an insufficient ex
cuse for an abusive congressman,
even when he happens to be a re
publican? Collier's Weekly- v'-
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this effect, the big crops are blowing
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