THE BEE; OMAHA, TUESDAY, JUNE 12, 1917.
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uara. Addreee coaaiad aa anas aa rseneetad.
Cheer up this if what the corn needs.
Not yet too late to register your money for a
Liberty bond.
Closing Drivs (or Liberty Bonds.
Secretary McAdoo furnishes figures regarding
subscriptions for the Liberty loan that tell a story
of American indifference and apathy. The loan
is not over-subscribed, and unless great efforts
are made, it will not be fully taken by Friday. In
this great district into which wealth has poured
in an overwhelming stream for the last few years,
less than one-third of the alloted amount has been
asked for by purchasers. This can only be as
cribed to over-confidence on part of the men who
ought to be the most interested.
This loan is vital to all. It is bonds or bond
age, and cannot be read into anything else. This
message has been carried to all, and none can
plead misunderstanding. The man who thinks the
United States can now evade the issue is not only
cheating himself, but all his generation so far as
he can.
The popular feature of the appeal has had full
effect, and the poorer people have done their
share. It is the men of means who are holding
back. The supreme test of the loyalty of wealth
is at hand. America is in a war where stupend
ous sums of money will be required. The man-
hood of the country already is under requisition,
and unless money volunteers for the service, it;
too, will be drafted.
The closing drive for the sale of the Liberty
bonds will provide a test as to what must be done
to provide money with which to carry on the war.
War and the Alien
By Fredenc J. Haskin
Here, you bachelors, come across with the
baby Liberty bonds!
Oh, Com Down to Earth I
While due allowance must be made for the ex
aggerations of a fevered mind bewildered by the
stupendous statistics of the world war, still there
must be limits to imaginative wanderings. Mere
draft! on the dictionary to extract high-sounding
words of dubious application might pass in a
pinch, but when an amiable contemporary pen
pictures the exclamation from t "myraid million
of throats" following a dream-book assassination
of Emperor William, we feel it our duty to pro
test. A myriad million, translated into numer-
Enthusiasm for the Red Cross is at whit, heat ' 10,000,000,000 and where are those 10,000.-
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all through the country, but will it melt the bands "" snroaiar ine latest worm Almanac gives
Omaha will be noisy enough on the Fourth
and a great deal aafer with explosive fireworks
prohibited.
Police permits for street parades is a new fea
ture of life in Omaha, but not an unwise one un
der conditions. '
off the "tight wads?"
Band concerta on the court house plaza now
and again add a touch of gayety that might be
said to meet a long-felt want.
The German mark has fallen below all the
money tokena of the entente allies. , Exchange
Broken rarely miss the direction of the wind.
Glad hands and cheers greet General Pershing
and his staff in London. John's love for Jonathan
as too deep for words and glowa as never before.
An Iowa court has juat ruled a Sunday news
paper to be a necessity, thus showing how civile
aation inevitably triumphs over the "blue law."
' F Circulating malicious war rumors will become
nseless job if the people place full confidence
in reliable sources of news. The Bee's first aim
is reliability.
Bulgaria's premier announcea that his king
will not carry the war into Greece, a conclusion
he haa been assisted in reaching by the immediate
presence of a considerable force of the allied
armies. - t
Just to show how solidly the United kingdom
if growing together these days, a Liverpool paper
advocates the adoption of kilts in lien of pantt.
Add the brogans and the topper and you'll have
the costume complete and unique.
Great Britain and Italy picked up a few strins
of adjacent territory recently, the first in Meso
potamia, the other in Macedonia. It it understood
tha allies care little for the land, merely taking it
over because they beat the other fellow to It.
Secretary Daniels' semi-weekly lament on
"leaks" which give "aid and cofnfort to the
enemy, serve to center attention on the depart
ment Aa the department supervises all tourcet
of outgoing news, the admission of leaks Is self-
accusing, .
One by one tha hoary traditions of parliament
yield to the pressure of war. It it now proposed
to remove the grille which screened women vis
itors in the gallery back of the apeaker'a ehair. A
grant of partial suffrage doubtless relieves the
danger of dropping hat pins on the speaker's wig.
The coming , Belgian mission appeals to
American hearts as no other foreign body. Rep
resenting the tout of a betrayed and crushed na
tion, whose sufferings and sacrifices cry for ven
geance, the mission is assured a warmth of wel
come and helpfulness as sincere as it is deep and
abiding. , . .
the population of all the countriea on the face of
tha earth at 1,691,000,000, the Daily News Year
Book at 1,823,000,000, and the latest supplement
to MulhaU'e Hand Book, the standard authority,
at 1,610,000,000. All the human throats in the
world do not number, at the highest estimate.
more than one-aixth of the "myriad million." To
count up 10,000,000,000 throats would necessitate
going out and taking in birds of the forest and
beasts of the fields or some of tha fish under the
sea. But then, it is a pretty figure of speech, any
way I
"Status Quo Ante" and tha Future
President Wilson't address to the Russian Uto
pia atates a fact that has been in evidence since
August, 1914. The "status quo ante" cannot be
re-established. Physical and geographical chames
wrought and lo be wrought are, the least of the
results of the war ao far as directly affecting the
destiny of mankind, The conflict already has de
stroyed s large part of the old social and political
system and haa brought such sweeping modifica
tion of economics as amounts to a revolution.
Manifestations of this are becoming noticeable in
America, which, as it did not immediately respond
to the battle call, has likewise but slowly received
the impressions of tha exact influence of the
mighty upheaval.
This may not be immediately appreciated, but
the processes of readjustment that must follow
the war will make clear what a great steo for
ward mankind haa taken. The democratization of
the world la accompanied by a new social order
that will be felt most of all in industrial life. Rule
of the people ia to take on a broader and deeper
meaning, artecttng processes of production and
distribution in ways not now fully understood by
tnose who ara comfortably entrenched in the
methoda that are being worked over or discarded.
It it not within the power of man to set up the
world's housekeeping again as it was before the
war, Certain of the old conventions have been
wiped out in the flames of tocial conflict, just as
villages hava disappeared in the fires of battle.
These will be restored, but not on the old lines.
The wise man will make his plans to meet the
new conditions aa they arise. The one who de
ludes himself with the thought that he is to be
left undisturbed by the upheaval is heading for a
terrific jolt. Wa are at the beginning of a new
era, and should be resdy cheerfully to face new
conditions. .
Alcohol for Laboratory Uses.
Attorney General Reed has given a reasonable
construction to the Nebraska prohibition law on
tne point of the laboratory use of Brain alcohol.
He interpreti the law to permit the use of the ar.
tides by practicing physicians and surgeons in
their offices, holding that to be clearly within the
meaning of tha term "laboratory." He is not
dined to accept aa the intent of the law-makers
Washington, June 9. This war has brought
lorth convincing and even spectacular evidence
that among the aliens who live in the United
States there is a surprisingly large amount of the
kind of patriotism that leads a man to offer his
life for his country. And back of these ('mon
strations of loyalty lies the large fact that
naturalization in mis country is proceeding aoout
three times more rapidly than it ever did before;
while immigration is almost nil, and will probably
remain so for some years after the war. Mean
time, citizenshio schools have been established in
1,700 communities and the Department of Labor
is getting ready to publish a free text book for
the use of aliens who want to learn to speak
English and become citizens.
In the last year, the number of declarations
made monthly has increased from 19,451 (average
for three months of 1916) to 59,011 (average for
tnree months of this year), there are some 12,
000,000 aliens in the United States, and Raymond
F. Crist, deputy commissioner of naturalization,
estimates tnat these will soon be making them
seives citizens at tne rate ot a million a year.
Incidentally, they will be learning to read, find
ing out about the resources and opportunities of
mis country, getting out ol their foreign quarters
and sections, weaving themselves into the fabric
ot tne nation s social and industrial life.
This sudden boom in the naturalization busi
ness only started last February. In January there
were 14,151 declarations of the intention to be
come citizens, and in February there were 43.-
58J. The rate took a new impulse from the dec
laration of war, and has steadily increased. Of
course, there is a good deal of compulsion back
ot tne movement, some employers are threaten
ing their alien employes with discharge unless
they become citizens. Others are paying them
half time in some cases full time for attending
the classes in citizenship. Others are motivated
by the consideration that aliens may not live
within half a mile of arsenals, and various other
government works. Then. too. the situation of
an enemy alien is unpleasant wherever he lives.
But more potent than any of these seems to
be the desire of the intelligent alien to demon
strate hia loyalty to his adopted country to
identify himself with its interests. The natural-
born American is nearly always croud to call
himself patriotic. But the chances are that no
man knows better what Patria means that the
poor peasant who leaves the land where he was
born a land which holds him by a thousand
bonds and goes out to seek a land of greater op
portunity, ft is no visit or excursion. He sinks
his all and knows he is going never to return.
For years he struggles along in poverty, unable
even to learn the language of the great new
country. For yeara he is literally a man without
a country. Whatever fatherland may mean to a
man he learns by the bitter experience of having
lacked it.
And when the American words bea-in to come
and the American dollars and he sees his children
growing up as Americans this man has a great
and earnest desire to become an American, to
prove, with his blood if need be. that he is n
American. He is far less apt to question the
cause or argue the ethics of war than the natural
born citizen. For him war is the chance to prove
himself.
Mr. Crist, who has helned thousands of aliens
to become citizens, firmly believes that to the
more intelligent of the foreign born the irleala of
citizenship and patriotism are real and vivid emo
tions. He cites as proof a city election in Pitts
burgh, wheh was analyzed to determine whether
or not the foreitrn born voted. It was found thai
97 per cent of them did so and in fact they were
a deciding factor in the election. Seven promi
nent busine a- men were asked how they had voted.
none ot tnem nad voted at all. Next eighty of
me city a preacners were canvassed, it was tound
that but twelve of them had registered and only
six of these had voted..
Proverb for the Day.
Coming events cast their shadows
before.
One Year Ago Today In the War.
Italian counter offensive began In
the larftarlna valley and on the Po-alno-Aatloo
front In tha Trentlno.
With 1,000 mora pruonera taken by
tne Russians, Austrian! retreated on
Kovel road to the westward ot the
Dniester line.
In Omaha Thirty Years Ago.
The following gentlemen have left
by special car for Idaho, where they
win remain ior a weex: u. w. Hol-
arege, u H. Tower, D. J. O Donahoe
R. C. Cushlng, J. B. Kitchen, P. E.
uer, r. B. jonnson and J, G. Taylor.
Krus'a handsome team of brown
colts, which draw the big beer wagon,
became frightened and ran from tha
corner or sixteenth and Cuming to
Webster street, where they collided
wun n express wagon, amaehlng it.
'
The street, for the two blocks covered,
was filled with beer kecrs which
bounced off the wagon every five feet
and there was a general mix-up of
KicKing norsea at Webster street.
The marriage of Joseph D. Llovd
and Miss Jessie A. Miller occurred at
tne residence of Mrs. Elizabeth Bell
on Cuming street.
Mr. and Mrs. Guy C. Barton. Mr.
Charles Barton and Mint Bertha Yost
have sailed for Queenstown on the
Umhria.
Mrs. T. C. Bruner and daughter.
Mlaa Laura, have returned from the
east.
Madame ModJeska and her husband
have rented a house on North Twenty-third
near Burt, where, after her
return from a short western tour, she
will spend . the greater part of the
aummer.
Harry S. Mole and Miss Rhoda B.
Brooka were married at the realdenna
of Mr. Henry Bt. John on Sherman
avenue.
Mr. Crist has taken occasion to catechise
many aliens of all nationalities as to their rea
sons for desiring citizenship. If the subject has
property he nearly always gives that as a reason
for wishing citizenship. To get the alien onto
the land is surest way to make an American of
him.
'My children are growing un Americans, aro-
ing to American schools." is nearly alwava an
other reason. Give a man any creative interest
in the new country and he craves to call it his
own. Many are denied the creative interest of
property, however amall, but children fill the
need of most of these.
If there were war between this country and
the land where you were born, are you ready to
fight for the' United States?" is one of the ques
tions that was out to thousands. And almost
always the answer was a convincing affirmative.
Our Fighting Men
Injunctions under the anti-trust law can be
secured only by the government and not hv Inrfl.
viduals, sayt the supreme court to the employers tllee hoM be excluded and the use of al
who sought the proceedings sgainst the carpen- cono! e8nfind to the-Jarger and more elaborately
ters in New York. This gives a new and interest- PPointed workrooml of the big schools and man-
ing tarn to the fight of the "open shop" sgainst UUctores. The question of the value of alcohol
the trades unions.
Another Nebraska flouring mill wat burned
last week, the fire said to be of incendiary origin.
It matters not how the blase started, the primal
cause is the lack of proper vigilance ia watching.
Ths Bee has repeatedly sounded warnings on this
point. Mill and elevator owners must guard their
property closer than ever before.
in medicine it yet to be determined. Many doc
tor! nold it haa no remedial value, while others
use it extensively in practice, giving it a high place
for its service. In certain laboratory processes
it is indispensible, and it is well to know that
those who require it for use in professional or ex
perimental ways can obtain it within the law. Pro
hibition may yet bt robbed of tome of its terrors
if itt final application be made altogether on the
basis of reason.
The Advertising Tax
New York Times
Another Hero Shows His Mettle.
Great emergencies try the quality of man.
whether it be of the real stuff lr rmi and , vf
There are one or two tsnects of the
L&ll!SF& himself " Th A" Butt, i, no
William H. Bixby.
brigadier General William H. Bixby, U. S. A..
retired, who has been recalled to active service,
is a former chief of engineers of the United States
army. Oeneral Bixby is a native of Massachusetts
and was graduated from West Point in 1873. In
1879 he was sent to trance, where 'he took a
course of instruction in the French National
School of Bridges and Highways. He was the
United States government representative at the
French army maneuvers in 1880; reported on the
iron fortifications of Europe in 1882; inspected
European rivers and harbors in 1899, and at other
fieriods of his active career had charge of many
arge government engineering projects of water
ways improvements and lighthouse construction.
He became chief engineer in 1910 and was re
tired from active service three years later.
Joseph K. Taussig.
Commander Joseph K. Taussig, who, accord
ing to newspaper accounts, is in command of
the America flotilla of destroyers now m Euro
pean waters, is a son of rear Admiral Edward D,
Taussig, U. S. N., retired. The younger Taussig
nas made rapid advancement since his graduation
from Annapolis in 1898. In the Spanish war he
served with Admiral Sampson on the New York.
In 1900 he volunteered to take command of the
American bluejackets and marines in the allied
expedition for the relief of Pekin. Commander
Taussig has also seen service in the Philippines
and has spent much time in the Orient. Last
year he was awarded the annual prize of the
Naval institute for the best paper on a naval
subject. The title of his paper was, "The Person
nel of the Navy."
This Day In History.
1609 Nine vessels, with mora thaa
S00 emigrants, sailed from Enzland
for Virginia.
1672 The great Conde was wound
ed in the invasion of Holland.
1776 First naval engagement of
the revolution occurred at Machiaa,
Maine.
1776 Board of war and ordnance
appointed by the continental congress.
1848 Public funeral ceremonies in
New York In memory of officers lost In
the Mexican war.
1861 Governor of Missouri called
for 60.000 state militia to renal In
vasion.
1864 Armv of Genera.1 firant with.
drew across the James river.
1872 Bicentenary of the birth of
Peter the Great celebrated in Russia.
1892 The United Statea armv
for Cuba in thirty-two transports.
1899 Two hundred and fifty per
sons killed in a tornado at New Rlch-
190l King Edward distributed
South African war medals to 3,000 of-
ncera ana men, tne nt to receive
medal being Lord Roberts.
sideration of the finance committee of the aenate
Newspapers will be subject in more ways than
one to the excess profits tsx when it is imposed.
They already pay a tlx of 2 per cent upon their
corporation income. It is now proposed that
another tax of 2 per cent shall be laid upon the
gross income from one of their chief sources of
exception to this rule, and has added another to
the list of those whose names deserve to be re
membered. Manut Duggan, a boy of 20, is credit
ed with having taved th lives of twenty-seven
men, and probably hat lost hit own. When these
older and more experienced men were dumb.
revenue. We are not aware that this kind of founded and bewildered oy the disaster that had
double tax is contemplated in respect to any other
kind of business.
It is an accepted principle of taxation that
taxet should bear equally upon subjects of taxa
tion belonging to the same class. This principle
seems to be violated in the advertising tax. An
exception in made of newspapers whose annual
pronta ao not exceed This was intended
overwhelmed them, with death alongside and es
cape shut off, thu boy with less of fear and more
of resource showed them the way, and by his own
enthusiasm and daring brought them safely
through. While they came safely out from the
dreadful ordeal, he is lost in the awful depths of
Charles H. Lauchheimer.
Brigadier General Charles H. Lauchheimer.
who holds the post of adjutant and inspector of
the United States marine corps, is one of the most
prominent officers of this independent branch of
the military service of the United States. Gen
eral Lauchheimer is a native of Baltimore and
graduated from Baltimore City college before en
tering the United States Naval academy in 1877.
He has seen nearty thirty-five years of active
service as an officer of the marine corps and dur
ing this time has established a brilliant record.'
He has made a special study of military law and
regulations and is ree-arded as a his-h aurhnrirv
on the subject.
. . nvvw fuw. 4 11,0 W.S IIILCUUCU I . , I , .
to exempt small newspapers, but in this country w Durl"nJ m"". but his name belongs with those
not a few newspapers doing s large annual busi- of the immortals whose courage has been proved
..v yuuuuncu i ioaa, xiaving no pronta, i unaer test.
they would escape the advertising tax altogether,
although their gross revenue from advertising
might run into millions. They would escape also
u, vuiiuitiun income tax ana tne excess profits
tax. Manifestly this would put them in a posi
tion of measurable advantage in their competition
iiu ncwapapcra paying a tax. we do not tup
pose the proposers of this tax intended to set
op s discrimination of that kind. It would be a
Three years ago the Great Western Beet Su
gar company hobbled along with povertv snaw-
ing its vitals and stock going begging around $80
a share. Today the company is smothering in
sweetness, stock soaring around $375. and ex-
dividenda
Charles A. Doyen. '
Colonel Charles A. Doyen, who has been des
ignated to command the regiment of marines to
accompany the first expeditionary force to France,
was born in New Hampshire in 1859 and grad
uated from the United" States Naval academy in
1881. His service in the marine corpt extends
over a period of thirty-four years. Since attain
ing field rank he has served in command of vari.
our marine field posts and in the Philippines. In 1914
he was in command of the expeditionary regiment
of marines on the Hancock, stationed in Santo
Uomingo waters. Since January, 1915. Colonel
Doyen has been stationed m Washington, being
The Day We Celebrate.
Dr. A. F. Jonas, chief surgeon for
ine union racinc, was born June 12,
1868, at Arlington. Wis. Ha arrarlii.
ated from the Bennett Medical college
in imcago ana later studied In Mu
nlch. Vienna. Berlin and PariH.
Charles L. McNary, the New United
States aenator from Oregon, born near
Baiem, ure., lorty-three yeara ago to
Captain George T. Bowman. TT. s
who has been appointed to the gen
eral staff corps, born in New York forty-eight
years ago todav.
Senator Thomas J. Walsh of Mon-
rana, wno directed the western end
of the 1916 democratic national cam
paign, norn at Two Rivers, Wis., fifty
eight years ago today.
1'rank- M. Chapman, ornithologist
"i ui American Museum or Natural
.History, Dorn at Englewod, N. J., fifty-three
years ago today.
Rt. Rev. Charles E. WnnAmi.
Episcopal bishop of Louisville, born
at New Britain, Conn., sixty-three
j Hiro loaay.
Jimmy Duffv. noted llchfureWht
gillst, born at Lockport, N. Y twenty-
oia ycaia ago toaay.
Timely Jottings and Reminders.
The Railway Sis-nal Rfwnrintinn h.
gins its annual convention today in
New York City.
The National Association of Sheet
meiai i;oniractors meet, in nnnvon
tlon today at Cleveland.
Dean Charles A. Huston of Leland
Bianiora, jr., .university Is to be the
oramr toaay at tne 103d convocation
oi tne university of Chicago.
The annual convention of the In
ternational Circulation Managers' as
aorlation. to have met tnrinv .t a.
lanta, has been called oft on account
of the war.
Secretary of the Treasury MoAdoo
ia to conclude nis second tour in be
half of the Liberty loan with an ad-
ureoa to De delivered today In Pitts
burgh. The government commute, nn
tlons and standards is to open a pub
lic hearing in Chicago today on tenta
tive standards for milk and milk prod-
Governor Harrington has called i
special session of the Mi
lature to meet today to adopt measures
iu enaoie tne state to meet conditions
arising irom tne war.
Storyette of the Day.
King George was once enjoying the
hospitality of a prominent peer at his
country seat near the scene of one of
womwein nistoric hattles. Strolling
out one day by himself the king met
the village blacksmith returning from
a shoeing expedition.
"I say, my good fellow." said his
majesty, genially, "I understand there
was a big battle fought somewhere
about here."
"Well-er," stammered the black
smith, recognizing and saluting the
'J dld 'ava a found or two with
Bill, the potman,, but 1 didn't know
your majesty had heard of It." Lon
don Tlt-Blta.
tra dividenda as common a. mnnirinn mtnn.
1 inevitably resulting 1 Moreover the extract of beet sugar impartially 2 ..ToTs .S K I " ,?lS2 1 a' XTJV
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"- m wm, -am mm a, rcriag ooara, . rrau.
from the operation oi ths new law
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MIRTHFUL REMARKS.
"Jabbtri navar l a- mm.. i. ....
hou.a without ktialnc his wlfa thraa or four
tlmfa.
Doaa aha aparaclata thla ifraMlai, i,.
proper worth?"
"Fully. 8he'a ant Sltfva a hi.
Baltimora American.
"Do iron bailer In conacrlptlon T
NO. I'va no fatth In Kn.. -
alaaya use all of the old faahloned ram
edlea.1' DtrAit as... t,
Plrkantnar t want aome 'laaaaa.
Aunt Dinah (reprovingly) To' ortuh ha
lo srammatle. chile. Doa't aay 'laaaea: aay
lolaaaea.
Plckantnnir Wnw'a T .in. .
Ueaea when I lan't had none a-tall yt7
Boeton Tranacrlpt.
'Hava you aver had mi ril.,in..i.k..
Tieltora In this town?"
"I ahould aay ao. alrana.r nnlv ,h. !..
day the aherltf of tha nel-hborlna- county
eta way to tha atata
e moat nnterlnm aafa.
la tha country." Detroit Free
Matter of Consistency.
Omaha, June . To the Editor of
The Bee: Believing that the recent
act of our legislature giving Nebraska
women partial suffrage does not rep
resent the true sentiment of the state.
we ara au omitting the matter to
referendum vote.
We had expected aome oposltlon to
our action rrom tne woman sunragists.
lm it is natural they ahould prefer to
rest on their laurels, but we were
surprised at the tenor of the article
recently appearing over the algnature
or Jerry Howard. In It he suggests
that the names ot all signers to these
referendum petitions be made public,
as It some odium wers attached and
he would take this means of punishing
the offenders!
As I have said, we had not expected
Mr. Howard would take this attitude,
silica the dominant note of his previ
ous utterances haa been. "Let the people-
rule."
Consistency, thou art Indeed a
Jewel! AN ANTI-SUFFRAGIST.
Jerry Calls for Publicity.
Omaha, June 8. To the Editor of
The Bee: I desire apace for a few pert
remarks In reply to the Business Men's
proclamation in this morning's issue,
headed, "Omaha's Labor Strike.
Why?" Any person conversant with
the situatior knows that the word
"strike" is a misnomer. It is a lockout.
Referring to the Question. "Whv?"
The answer to that question Is that
the teamsters demanded a "living
wage" and that is the motive for the
lockout.
History ought to be keDt straight.
hut tradition is more reliable than his
tory. Therefore. I shall believe the oral
version of this labor quarrel, that it is
a lockout.
The last paragraph In this carefullv
prepared manifesto of the Business
Men's association states that the atorv
of the labor dispute "will be told from
day to day." I shall "watch for it."
Wake up, fellow citizens. Can I arouse
the stagnant blood in your veins?
men and women of noble asDlra-
tlons, arise, the time is rine for action.
to do some thinking. You have a great
weapon to adjust your wrongs free
dom of speech and freedom of the
press. Why don't you make your
grievance known? Publish It to the
world; the people will hearken.
JERRY HOWARD.
lest We Forget to Be Sane.
Omaha. June S. To the Editor of
The Bee: In the otherwise excellent
letter of my friend Morrow, he makea
one statement that is hardlv accurate.
He refers to what purports to be a
statement of mine several years ago,
in wnicn ne claims that I alluded to
our soldiers aa "hired assassins." On
the occasion to which he refers what I
did waa to quote the poet Shelley
with approval, when he refers to war
as "the hired assassins' trade."
I have alwavs said, however, that
there was one thing more infamous
than war, and that was submission to
tyranny. "Resistance to tyrants is
obedience to God." The Chancellor.
which I edited for eight years, will
prove this. ',
Morrow seems to gloat over the Idea
that had Roosevelt had hie wav we
would at once have been equipped
with every conceivable form of fight
ing apparatus and in the thick of the
world war at the start Roosevelt him-
seir says so, but I am not yet con
vinced that such a course would hnvn
Deen right. I think Wilson s course in
such grave business is Infinitely wiser.
We see today that even with his in-
nnite patience in waiting until wait.
ing almost ceased to be a virtue, the
country Is not as unanimous as it
should be. Now the truth Is dawning
tnat tne real contest is wnether upon
this planet autocracy or democracy
nuaii Liiuiuiui wnetner tyranny oi
liberty shall be the rule of tha world
No man does me Justice to question
wnere i wouia stana in sucn a contest,
either now or at any other time. In
max l nave never changed.
One of the things the thona-htfnl
American must dread Is the possibility
that hotheads may gain supremacy
and sanity cease to rule the course ot
American statesmanship. Further,
that in paying for the war, we follow
the president's advice to pay as we
go, as far as possible, and not an rnn.
duct ourselves that the poor fellows-J
wno risk tneir lives must return to
take up the burden of paying the ex
penses in addition.
Let us amputate an arm when the
disease becomes incurable and In dan
ger of undermining the system, but
let us not go Into the buslenss of cut
ting off all our arms.
Let us sea to it that one of the fruits
of this war shall be world disarma
ment that another such crime against
mankind ahall never again occur.
' L. J. QUINBY.
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