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Graceful Retreat
ting to ratify the Colombian treaty yester-
eant a severe intellectual and moral strain
any Republican senators. They hail to ap-
what they had vehemently and virtuously
mned four years ago. And they had to
arguments for their change of front. This
some ways harder than the change itself.
s nocessary to make a nice discrimination
en what was vicious and abhorrent, when
by President "Wilson and what is wise and
lie when the same thing is advocated by
ent Harding. There was also the questiou
ty consistency to be got round. All told,
a good example of the art of graceful
al retreat, 'well worth study by those inter
in the grand tactics.
tftor Lodge was, of course, the chief com
er who fell back as triumphantly as tho
an General Staff to positions prepared in
ce. What he had really prepared in ad-
was the report against the treaty which he
in 1917. It is a terrible document to bo
a his face today as it was read repeatedly
ator Johnson and others. The Washing-
Sprrespondents say that he fled from the
e chamber when the most damaging ex-
irom his own report were produced. But
kwas only a part of his able reteat along the
i line.
certainly would seem that Mr. Lodge had
17 pecupied ground from which he could
Withdraw his troops without exposing them
tstruction. He had delivered liimself against
Colombian treaty with great moral earnest-
"Any friendship," he said, "which is
t is worthless." This is especially the
hen it is' "under threats which, "when suc-
1, breed contempt in the mind of, the sell-
a sense of outer disiiKe ana Humiliation
t of the buyer." And the Massachusetts
made short work of the plea that the
it of $26,000,000 to Colombia would be
g but a plea of guilty." "No other con-
on can or will be placed by the world on
tion." "We cannot afford to answer a
mail demand." But a masterly leader to
'ear like Mr. Lodge had little difficulty in
irig away from all this. He invited the Sen-
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of the question." All of these could riot
en four years ago. There were consideja-
'; there was the matter of trade, to which
could not be blind, and had senators duly
hed the vital necessity of oil and were they
that Colombia contained -vast and unex-
d deposits to which Americans held claims
concessions only waiting on the ratification
e treaty? Moreover, Colombia was the "only
JrAmerican state which has both an Atlantic
V Pacific, coast, and on those coast's are good
tb capable, of large development." Thus
drums beating and flags flying did Senator
; conduct his victorious retreat.
Nras a fine manoeuvre, and practice in it
jprove of great advantage to the Republican
ktors later. When the time comes for them
engage under the existing treaty" that is,
itify in some form the treaty of Versailles
ley may profit by the skill which they have
Lviired in reversing themselves on the Colom-
treaty. Senator Lodge will then feel no
arrassment whatever in. coming forward as
f administration leader backward. He will
ready for the "large" view of the Versailles
l,ty, tpo,'and for the long look ahead. He will
iBtrate perfectly Franklin's definition of the
jpnable man as one who can always find
ions for what he wants to do.
r
1 this is apart from the true causes of sat-
tion that the Colombian treaty is finally
fled. It disposes of an unsettled question
ich had no pity for the repose of his nation,
utsthe United States level with its"oppor-
ties and its duties m Soutn America as they
fist today, without regard to what they may
e been in 1903. The personal bitterness and
partisan animosities of the hour will .soon
e away, and before long all Americans will
.hinking of the ratification of the Colombian
ty and foreign nations will so think, of it
s a signal act of good-will and justice New
k Times.
pound, or a total of 77 cents for it. Tho freight
was 59 cents and the drayage 25 cents to tho
buyers warehouse. By return ma'l tho pur
chaser sent the farmer a bill for 7 cents, the-difference
between the price of the hide and tho
freight and drayage. In other words, the farm- ,
er woud have been 7 cents ahead, if ho had
taken the hide out behind the barn and buried it.
--Cifeleville, Ohio, Democrat and Watchman.
MEAT RETAILERS LABELED WORST
OF PROFITEERS
" Washington, D. C, special correspondent to
the Chicago Tribune, under date of May 5, says:
The national live stock exchange declared war
today on the retail meat dealers.
Everett C. Brown of Chicago, pres'dent of
the exchange, appearing before the house agri
culture committee in opposition to packer leg
islation, characterized the moat retailers as
"the greatest profiteers this country has ever
known." He urged the committee " to desist
trying to regulate the packers and to concentrate
efforts on breaking up the profiteering by the'
retail dealer.
Mr. Brown furnished the committee with a
resume of a survey which he made recently of
retail prices in Chicago. These prices, he de
clared, often showed a Jump of 100 per cent
from the wholesaler to the consumer.
"I read nothing In the proposed legislation
that tries to control what every boy in this room
knows to be the greatest profiteers not only
during the war but at the present time that
this country has even known," said Mr. Brown.
"Why does not congress try to control these peo
ple who by their retail butchers associations in
the large distributing cities have a closer or
ganization than any of the big trade union or
ganizations in America?
"A recent survey of wholesale and retail
meat prices in Chicago disclosed startling com
parisons. Only last week I checked up on prices
in two shops located directly across the street
from each other.
"Meat obtained from the same packer was
being sold in one shop at from 10 to 18 cents
a pound more than the same brand and cuts
were bringing across the street. In anothershop
I found a popular brand of sausage retailing
at the same price it was bringing during the
period of high prices of last fall and winter, al
though I happen .to know that the maker of the
. sausage has reduced his price to less than the
pre--war basis.
"I was offered lard of a well known brand at
exactly two and one-half times the price that
brand was wholesaling for on that day. Bacon
costing wholesale ,30 to 35 cents was offered at
55 to 65 cents a pound, the buyer paying for
full weight, and no trimmings deducted. Hams
which were wholesaling at 28 to 32 cents were
being sold at prices of 50 to 65 cents for cen
ter slices."
fro WONDER THE FARMER KICKS,
SOMETIMES , .
p in Minnesota a farmer-Tolled a'fat'eow.
I nine weignea jjl pounas wnicn -ne sentto
nneapolis for sale.' ' 'He" received 2 ijerits a
BATTLE SEEN IN SENATE ON NAVY
DISARMAMENT
A Washington dispatch, dated May 5, says: A
fight for naval disarmament proposals at an early
date in the Senate in opposition to the adminis
tration program was accepted as a foregone
conclusion today.
The naval appropriation bill was to be re
ported from the committee today stripped of all
such features at the request of President Hard
ing because of the international situation; but
both Senators Borah (Rep., Idaho) and Pom
erene, (Dem., Ohio), announced that they would
fight from the floor for a disarmament confer
ence oi Great Britain, Japan and the United
States.
The bill is expected to come up for debate
next week after disposal of the emergency tarnf
and anti-dumping measures.
In opposing any such conference at this time,
President Harding has made clear that he stands
ready to urge an international agreement limit
ing armaments at the first practical moment.
The Borah proposals, however, would urge him
to call a conference of the three powers here to
discuss a reduction in naval programs and Sena
tor Pomerene would delay the building program
for six months pending efforts to gain the assent
of Great Britain and Japan to join in conference.
The appropriation bill to be reported in the
Senate carries $100,000,000 more than was
voted by the House, and is practically identical
with the measure which failed of passage in the
Senate last March.
The principal increase Is for a personnel 20,
000 greater than the 100,000 provided for by
the House, for enlarged aviation programs, de
velopment of fleet bases on the Pacific coast and
for speeding up capital ship construction.
DON'T MURDER FAITH
"I regard tho belief in God as fundamental,"
said William Jennings Bryan in his powerful
lecture last night.
The great commoner declares that tho preval
ence of Darwinism is undormining Christian
training. The Darwinism theory it will bo held
by universities is rather a non-essential. They
do, lay stress however upon evolution. But Mr.
Bryan's new crusade takes modern education
along these lines scathingly to task. It will not
be denied that ho is now In a work for which
he will be more lastingly loved than for anything
he has yetdone, and Jio has achieved some greit
things.
A discussion of the Darwinism theory aside,
certainly religion in any form must be conceded
even by the coldest non-sentimentalist to be the
very life channels of civilization. If you mur
der faith you mangle civilization.
' Without a lively Interest in tho higher things,
in the spiritual if you please, to most of tho hu
man family life would no longer matter.
Take the churches out of the world and you
take away tho sweetest and most sustaining
prop of society.' Take away a belief of immor
tality and you tear tho heart from the mother
hopes to join again somewhere her little chil
dren and their father. Rob the hope of that
great solace and grief can never again bp gilded
into joy, for there is no other power to promise
the good that must triumph over evil.
It is not difficult to see that if the fostering
flag df religious hope fell from the hands of
the masses, society would bo at an end. Take
the man findingit hard to got on and who knows
no strength but the phys.cal and tell him that
there is not a bettor world to come, all restraint
falls from him and ther'j will be a viciousness
in tho way he will snarl, "Well I'm going to got
mine." Banks and businesses could not get iron
and granito enough to keep out the fury,
Ther.e are infinitely more sorrows than pleas
ures in life. Say to the average man that death
ends all, a.nd suicides will be more frequent
than divorces. If tho murderer feels that to
be hanged means simply a matter of going to
bed for an eternal sleep, then crime has no stay
a that end. Take prayer away from the trust
ing,chlld, and from the loving lips of the pious,
and all that fills the homo with warmth and
the heart with happiness vanishes.
It has influenced sculptors, painters, musicians
and poets. It has inspired orators and actors.
It has made sympathy a divinity and made love
more. the source of living. Brother is breathed
from above. Brute is bred from below. And
yet it strangely seizes the humble lowly more
than it does tho higher ups. '
So whatever part Darwinism plays, Mr.
Bryan in the main is right and will be generally
applauded. It is a hearkening back to the old
reliable religion. Any man who knows the
world knows that now more than ever, civiliza
tion stunned by the war needs the chastening,
vivifying spirit of religion. Any man who has
a comprehension of economics knows that until
social conditions confer a better measure of
equal and exact justice, if for no other reason
religion as we know it must be pressed to our
soul.
Every individual to his own way of thinking;
that is God given freedom; that is a prIncipk,
to be preserved, but at this stage of human ad
vancement it is religion that holds the- light as
progress passes on. Bloomington, 111,, Bulletin.
X CHANGED BRYAN
The other day William J.' Bryan said: I'm
just a political gardener watering flowers
whereverl think it will do the most good." This
expression indicates that with age Mr. Bryan is
becoming mellowed and looks on life with kind
lier feel'ngs than when he traveled the country
preaching his "cross of gold." It, denotes the
man who finds things in pretty good shape with
only a touch needed here and there, a drop of
water placed on a drooping plant, but the garden
in fair condition. The agitator, the crusader,
could hardly drop into such a form of expres
sion, but one who had come to the conclusion
that the world is a rather good place in which
to live, that most people are pretty decent and
want "to do the right thing, might put it thus.
Of course his reference to water is not inappro
priate. He has long been devoted to water and
in many cases uses it when others wouldn't, If
he does not take grape juice. He is firm on
morals. Bryan is no longer feared as a dis
turber except by those who oppose the principle
of prohibition. Pittsburgh Gazette Times:
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