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Riches tltsapiicar much more quickly than
poverty.
Precaution Hun Mad
A NERVOUS contemporary fcara greatly
that tho city will bo deprived of homo
rulo by tho constitutional amendment per
mitting tho increase of tho city's borrowing
capacity to 10 per cent, of tho assessed val
uation, Tho point raised 1h that funds bor
rowed under this authority will bo avnllablo
only for rapid transit aud port Improvement.
It seems unnecessary to point out that tho
city need not borrow tho money unless It
wants to. It Is clothed with absolute power
Jn that respect. It will voto for transit and
port what It thinks transit and port ought
to havo. If the combined amounts do not uso
nil of tho additional borrowing capacity, so
much tho bettor. If they do. It means that
tho money would have been used for theso
two purposes anyhow, Irrespective of any
limitation of availability.
It Is Quito truo that In tho event of a sur
plus It would bo well If tho money could be
applied to other Improvements. To hold
bnck transit two years, however, to securo
this additional udvantngo would bo precau
tion run mad. Tho most exigent needs Just
now nro transit and port. When they aro
provided for, there will be no insurmountable
dlfllculty in eliminating restrictions on tho
borrowing capacity of tho city, If such cllml-,
nation appears to be wise.
Lies A Chief Munition of War
IIES constitute one of tho most Important
J munitions of war. They nurturo hale.
Each national must bo mndo to bellovo that
his adversaries are Inhuman, barbarous,
murderous wretches. How otherwise could
the Governments keep their pawns In tho
flold and recruit now sacrifices for machlno
guns? Misunderstandings nro tho things
wars are mudo of and tho means by which
they aro continued. So all the wells of in
formation nro poisoned and lies uro pyra
mided on lies to aggrnvnto theso misunder
standings and keep them vitalized. Great
facts stand out liko generals, but they nro
surrounded with myriad ranks of lies, sol
diers of hates, truo emissaries of Mars.
Truth would empty many trenches that
machine guns cannot clear.
Dodging Political Eclipse in Chicago
MORE rising political suns havo gono
down In ecllpso because of rum than
for any other reason. When a man de
sirous of making and keeping friends was
asked to have a drink he was afraid to re
fuse, and pretty soon drink had him.
The new Mayor of Chicago has apparently
decided to profit by the mistakes of others,
for he has announced that ho will not at
tempt to run the business of the city with
tho aid of alcoholic stimulants. Soft drinks
nnd hard sense mako up his program. Tho
cty will be better governed on grnpo Juice
thnn on cocktails.
The man who uses alcohol to excess can
not hold his own either In business or In
polities'. Affalts move so swiftly that It is
Imperative that a man have his wits about
him all the time if ho is to keep up with
tho procession. Monday spent In sobering
up from a Saturday night and Sunday de
bauch Is a day wasted. A bracer in tho
morning, after hearty drinking at night, will
not restore tho stamina lost through exces
sive, stimulation. Tho fittest survive, and
tho sober man Is fitter than tho drunkard.
He may not bo so brilliant, but ho Is more
dependable, nnd It Is tho dependable man
who holds up tho fabric of business and
society. Tho operation of economic laws,
which discard tho drunkard. Is making tem
perance a necessity.
A Bale a Shot
WHEN the Queen Elizabeth shoots one of
her big guns 400 pounds of cotton dis
appear from tho face of tho earth. A bale a
shot is approximately the rule. This has not
yet exerted any very great effect on the cot
ton market; but the cheapness of the stnplo
has resulted in an extension of its use. It is
quite probable, therefore, that beforo tho war
is over, cotton, too, will respond to the situa
tion and yield a fair profit to the producer.
The United States can never expect to get
full profit from this grent crop until its own
factories use most of tho raw material. There
Is not, however, anything hopeless about the
cotton market, which has been gradually Im
proving and Is likely to continue to Improve.
Crooked Politics in Court
IF COLONEL ROOSEVELT libeled William
Barnes when he called him a bipartisan
boss. Joined In an alliance between crooked
business and crooked politics fighting to
maintain corrupt and machine govern
ment, then tho Colonel is not the only man
In New York who has libeled Barnes, nnd ho
4a nut the nnlv man in the Union who has
I been BUtlty of libeling political bosses In
otUer States.
, nn- "Roosevelt's defense, so far as it has
Psr made known, Is Justification and priv
et jfeLjL w. inil.l. that Tinmen hnn been re-
"tnonsibla for crooked government In tha
State, and that the crookedness has run
ftrftggh both parties by mutual agreement
, arlfiltton division and silence. There Is a
4,'iwWespread impression that this condition
lit, nrovnilivl for vears. Independent Re-
puWJcans and Independent Democrats have
tiolled. with indignation wnenever iney nave
Ithought of it-
Mr Barnes sues to vindicate his personal
. .! tnulnta thnt thern has been noth-
It is corrupt In his political career. He lays
ft-tress on the woru -corrupt ana vruviveui
ard n wishes tV prove that he la honest and
straight. If ho can prove It to the Satisfac
tion of a Jury of plain eltlxcn of Onondaga
County, tho nation at largo will bo delighted
to learn that the grandson of Thurlow Weed
Is nn angel of light nnd not an expert in tho
gamo of politic)? ns It Is played In Albany
and In Now York In theso exceedingly do
genernto days. Rut tho country does not
really expect Mr. Barnes to bo ablo to satisfy
tho Jury that ho Is belter than his party, or
that ho has used his great Influence to
cteanso It of tho corruption which has
stained Its record. Tho verdict will prob
ably depend on what the Jurors think "cor
rupt" and "crooked" mean when applied to
politicians and politics.
Party or Barrel 7
CERTAIN Republican leaders sold out to
tho liquor Industry ' Inst full. They
promised It Immunity and a clear field In
return for money and support nt the polls.
Of all the Important Republican candidates
tho Governor alono repudiated this Infamous
alliance, refused to proilt from tho transac
tion, declared boldly for local option and
offered In his own porson tho means where
by tho oleutornto could volo tho contract and
rescue tho party from tho mornss Into which
Its ostensible friends wcro seeking to
plunge It.
Tho volo tomorrow will show whether tho
parly Is n chattel to bo sold, or a living,
breathing organism, susceptlblo to stntes
manllko and horolo leadership. It will show
whether tho Republican party belongs to
tho peoplo or to tho liquor ring. If It be
longs to tho latter nnd that fact Is estab
lished tomorrow, tliero Is n rovolt blowing
which will topplo tho wholo party structuro
Into promiscuous ruin and niennco tho eco
nomlo rehabilitation of tho nation, which
Is bo earnestly hoped for In 1B1C.
Female Suffrage n Safety Valve
CONVERSATIONS on trolley cars aro for
all ears1. "When tho war Is over," re
maikcd a local politician, "theio will bo an
Influx of foreigners to tills country nnd wo'll
havo thorn till voting tho strnlght ticket
within a year." Tho law Is against such
procedure, but practice favors It. So much
for practical politics.
Two million votcis can assimilate 1000 raw
citizens better than 1,000,000 can nsslmllato
600. If thero Is going to bo nn inrush of for
eigners, who will bo voted by wrac trick or
other, a good way in which to counteract tho
menace Is to double our present olectorato
by tho simple moans of extending tho fran
chise to women. They would bo n very ex
cellent safety valve during tho period of con
verting foreigners "Into good American citi
zens. "Come Over, 'Hilly' Sunday, and Help Us I"
FROM England comes tho Macedonian cry,
"Como over, Billy' Sunday, and help
us." Yet thero aro men who say that tho
glory of oratory has departed and tho power
of it is no more.
Baseball slang Is unknown In England, nnd
the vernacular of London Is its own, not
ousily acquired. That tho aptness and foico
of tho evangelist would suffer ns n result Is
clear, yet It by no means follows that a
campaign tliero would be a failure. Death
has reaped a harvest In tho Island. There Is
mennco In tho clouds and England Is cov
ered with a pall such as no living men before
have witnessed. It Is a period In which unite
all conditions that mako for .a revival of
religion and drive humanity, terrorized nnd
stricken, in supplication to tho Supreme.
Tho flold Is ripe for a harvest nnd thero
nro myriads waiting to hit the trail.
Thero is, too, a subtlo compliment to
America in tho summons, which will not
diminish good wishes for England In this
country, for "Billy" Sunday has won a placo
In tho hearts of thousands of Americans who
delight to see him honored.
Common Sense on the Full Crow Question
THE overwhelming majority by which tho
House passed tho full crew repeal bill
does credit to the bound senso of the legisla
tors on this economic proposition. Tho bill,
Instead of ordering the railroad companies
to employ n specific number of men on each
trnln, empowers the Public Service Commis
sion to regulate the number of men to bo
employed.
The bill that was passed Iti sound In
theory and In practice If wo aro to rogulato
tho railroads by Public Commissions. Tho
conditions of railroad operation vary from
time to time, so it is impossible for any leg
islature, however well meaning, to lay down
a hard and fast rulo regulating the number
of men to be put on every train. Tho ex
perience of the railroad companies them
selves Is a safer guide In such matters than
tho opinion of tho law makers In Harrlsburg.
And If It Is thought necessary to induce tho
railroads to profH by their experience tho
Public Service Commission IS tho proper
body to bo commissioned with persuasive
powers.
Tho situation In Mexico seems to ho that
when one army Is destroyed 20 bands of
bandits spring into hclng.
Roosevelt wants tho Jury in Syracuse to
understand thnt when it comes to denounc
ing Barnes, ho Is u standpatter.
So far as the Frank case la concerned, tho
Governor of Georgia Is very likely to over
rule tho United States Supreme Court.
"Billy" Sunday thinks that It should read,
"A minister, a dog, a chestnut tree, tho
more you beat them, the better they be."
Recent athletic history may have nothing
to do with It, but it is Interesting to know
that entrance to Yalo will be a little easier
hereafter.
Mr. Roosevelt may not be able to prove
what he said about Mr. Barnes. The public
knows a lot of things nbout Mr. Murphy
that the laws of evidence would never let
Into court.
The rapid transit company would not have
got one-half of the nickels spent for Jitney
rides on Broad street Sunday. Tho new
enterprise has created new business out of
nothing, and it is misleading to say that
every nickel paid to a Jitney driver cornea
out of the pockets of the street car owners.
One of the finest tributes paid to the late
Colonel Nelson, of the Kansas City Star,
appeared In a proposition used by a young
reporter In describing his relations with his
employer. He wrote, "It is a privilege to
have served beside him.'' He might have
written "under him," but what a world of
difference there would have ben in the
mtanlng and In the revelation of the spirit
in which a ere at editor did his work I '
TT
GRANT'S POLICY SEEN
IN ALLIES' CAMPAIGN
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Battles in Western Theatre of War
Indicate Intention of Wearing
Down Germany by "Attrition,"
Expert Declares.
By FRANK H. S1MONDS
EARLY In tho wnr thero was attributed
to General Joffro a statement which
caught tho fancy of tho world, but at tho
llmo carried very little enlightenment.
Asked If tho French offensive had begun
seriously ho had replied, "No, I nm Just
nibbling." But In March and April tho word
camo to havo a far moro serious and sin
ister connotation thnn nt first. Indeed, It
seems now, to the European critics, to mean
precisely what Grant described an "attri
tion." Grant's policy had been from 18S4
to tho end, ns ho described It, "to hammer
continuously against tho armed force of tho
enemy nnd his resources until by moro at
trition, If In no other way," tho South
should bo subdued.
An examination of tho actions In tho
Champagne, nt Ncuvo Chapello, has satis
fied Hllalro Bolloe, Urn most eminent of
British war critics, that nllled strategy In
tho west Is now undertaking n policy of at
trition, which every Amorlcnn must neces
sarily nssoclato with tho methods of tho
greatest of tho generals of tho North.
To bo successful a policy of attrition pro
supposes a superiority of numbers with tho
general Inking the offensive. This tho
French, with their British and Belgian al
lies, have. French ofllclal reports continue
.to placo tho German strength In tho west
at 47 corps, or substantially 2,000,000 men.
But tho strength of tho French, Belgian rtnd
British, with the rcsorvo formations nnd
troops In tho depots, cannot bo less than
4,000,000, nnd Is bound to grow ns tho Brit
ish contingents arrive.
(tormnns Lack Numbers
Tho theory of Bolloe, sustained by much
evidence, Is Hint tho Germans now lack tho
numbers sullirlent to malnlnln n reserve
equal to that pt tho Allies at nil points.
Thus, when tho Fioneh made their great
attack In tho Champagne In February and
March, German troops wcro presently found
hero which had been beforo tho British
nbout La Bassoo n fow days earlier. On tho
theory that tho Germans had weakened their
lino in Flnndors to Mipport their troops in
Champngno, tho British attacked at Ncuvo
Chapello and won a considerable victory,
despite mismnungemont.
Again, nnd later, a violent French offen
sive having developed about tho St. Mihlel
salient nnd German reserves having been
called up, now French offensives In Alsaco
nnd nbout Atras won material successes.
All this tends to support tho Bolloe theory,
the theory of British nnd French observers
generally, that German reserves arc inferior
In number to tho French and British, and
to meet a local attack tho Germans aro thus
compelled to weaken their wholo battlo
front,
Tho theory of attrition, of .Toffrc's "nib
bling," is disclosed to Bolloe in tho opera
tions nt Ncuvo Chapello. First, thero is un
enormous and measurably secret concentra
tion of artillery nt tho point selected for
attack. Then a tremendous bombardment,
which siionces tho opposing artillery and
destroys tho enemy's trenches. Under cover
of this artillery and beforo tho enemy has
recovered from tho storm thoro Is a general
advance, and the enemy's trenches nro oc
cupied nnd organized to resist a counter
attack. Counter-attacks Costly
So far tho losses may bo held to bo fairly
equal. But now tho enemy, bringing up
his reserves, endeavors to retako his old
positions under fire of nn artillery still su
perior and an Infantry occupying his old
trenches. Hero ho suffers very great losses,
and his casualty list at tho end of tho fight
exceeds that of tho Allies. This was tho
case at Ncuvo Chnpelle, If tho British fig
ures for German losses bo accepted; that Is,
If It bo believed, ns Flold Marshal Sir John
French Insists, Hint tho German loss was
nearly 20,000. Tho British was 13,000. But
tho German claim is that their own loss
was but G000. To support tho British (Iguro
is the "eyewitness" nssertlon that nearly
3000 Germans wcro burled on tho field nftor
tho fight.
At St. Mihlel, if tho French bulletins aro
accepted, and thoy havo tho air of accuracy
lacking In tho German, becauso they glvo
in detail tho ground captured and tho time
of taking with circumstantial particulars,
while tho German statement Is merely a
general denial, the proceduro was tho samo.
Tho Fronch seized tho heights of Los
Kpnrges nftor sharp fighting and then beat
off a long scries of counter-attacks which
cost tho Germans a terrlblo loss. This Is
again confirmatory of Belloc's theory and
an example of Joffre's "nibbling."
Now, In tho Civil Wnr, Grant's policy of
nttrltlon in Virginia was supplemented after
his army went south of tho James by a
second method. Week by week ho stretched
his lines eastward ns his reinforcements
came up. Lee, compelled to extend his lines
AN INDIAN HOLDS
WHO Is the oldest living person In the world?
A possible answer was given two years ago
in the annual report of the American Scenlo
and Historic Preservation Society. At that
tlmo Wnh-ha-gun-ta, Chief Flremaker of the
Blackfeet Indians, was reputed to be 131 years
old. Since then the Bureau ot Indian Affairs
has been endeavoring to learn more about this
Interesting human landmark. Walter F. Dick
ens, an ofllclal of tho Indian Service, last sum
mer made a trip to Ball Club, Minn., the home
of this Indian, for the special purpose of inter
viewing Wah-ha-gun-ta. While he did not ab
eolutely establish the exact age of the object
of his Journey to Ball Club, ho did bring back
nn Interesting picture of the closing days of a
person who Is certainly to be numbered among
the most ancient of men.
He found the old man, who alo Is known as
Ke-we-tnh.gU-shlg, and more prosaically as
John Smith, lying on a bunch of hay piled on
(he ground In a small birch bark house at the
north end of Mud Lake, about 10 or 15 mlUs
southwest of Ball Club. Ball Club Is a Bmall
station on the Great Northern Railroad, about
30 miles east of Cass Lake. Mud Lake, which
Is three or four miles long and about one and
a half miles wide, Is, as Its name suggests,
especially adapted to the growing Of rice. As a
matter of fact, it Is practically pne great rice
field. Mr. Pickens, accompanied by an Inter-1
preter, Qroitsed the lake In a canoe, reaching I
t)ie camp about o clock in the evening. There
were several families of Indian rice gatherers
at the oamp. The birch bark hovel In which
Wab.ha.sun-ta was living was about IS by
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lit, S J44rwrt -Jiff 1
In tho samo way, finally stretched them un
til, as ho had long expected, they boramo
too thin, and In tho last days of March
Grant broko them In threo plnccs nnd opened
tho drive to Appomattox. Unless tho Ger
mans can presently bring forward now re
servos It must bo clcur that Joffro's tac
tics will havo a similar result.
At Ncuvo Chapello the Biltlsh actually
penetrated tho German lines. Conceivably,
to Judge from British reports, had the re
serves been well handled moro than local
advantages might havo been gained. French
success In tho last fow days In Alsaco Is
another Indication of tho weakening of Gor
mnn resistance. But nbovo all the failure
of the Germans to tnko tho offensive nny
uheio In tho west In recent weoks seems
to demonstrate that thoy lack, tho num
bers for anything but dcfonslvo fighting,
and even hero nro hard put to It, as all tho
recent struggles would Indicate, to hold
their own.
No General Offensive
If this Interpretation of nllled strategy
bo true, If tho Germans in Franco are.
actually and permanently to remain Inferior
In numbers, then instead of any general
allied offensive nil along the lino, tho
"spring drive" so much advertised, what
Is to bo expected Is a long series of "nib
bles," of operations wholly similar to thoso
In Champngno, In Flanders. In Lorraine nnd
In Alsace. So long ns allied losses do not
oM'ocd Gorman, tho cost to tho Germans will
bo greater proportionately, and the time
must come when they will have to retlio to
shorter lines, presumably behind the Meuso
nnd the Scheldt.
Meantime tho immedlato effect of this
strategy Is to pin down in their positions
nil tho German troops In France, savo tho
smnll reserves which arc hurried from dan
ger point to danger point, and thero can
bo no shifting of army corps east and west
in Franco or from Franco to tho Russian
front, as In thn post. This, so far as it is
possible to Judge, has already happened.
In sum, recent events seem to confirm tho
views of nlllclal nnd unofficial observers
that tho Germans have been put on tho de
fensive permanently In France, nnd tho
ablest British critic, Belloc, finds warrant
for tho belief that tho strategy of Joffro Is
really an Imitation of Grant's method, -which
ultimately disposed of Lee, a policy of at
trition, for which "nibbling" Is but a euphe
mism, ns tho casualty lists disclose.
THE SOUL OF THE CITY
From Ilia Ohio Stato Journal.
Cities have souls, says a well-known writer
thnt Is, cities that amount to much havo nnd
thus tho writer goes on to say:
What Is tho Rrent essential of a city with a
soul? It Is a citizen with a soul hundreds ot
thousands of lilm-a soul nbovo mere receptivity,
self-seeking nnd accumulation; a citizen who
reflects upon what ho can put Into his city,
not upon what he can get out of It.
If a city has not a soul It Is becauso there Is
nono In the city thnt havo. It Is tho soulless
peoplo who make a soulless city. But nolo
what Is required to make a city with a soul
citizens who rellect upon whnt they can put
Into their city, not upon what they can get out
of It. Let every man ho bis own judgo how
nuuli soul he Is putting into his city.
THE AGE RECORD
11 feet In size. It had evidently been con
structed for temporary occupancy while gath
ering rice. Wah-ha-gun-ta was asleep, hud
dled up on his little heap of hay. Over hl9
resting place, in the form of a canopy, had
been hung some sheets.
Ills appearance was that of an extremely
aged man. Ills frame was wasted, his face
deeply wrinkled and his bliort hair white. While
he responded in his native tongue to the ques
tions put to him, he evidently understood Eng
lish. He said that a number of years before
he hod been able to speak English fluently, but
that his memory was failing and he had for
gotten a crest deal of his English. He de
clared that he remembered distinctly, how
ever, the shower of stars, paid to have occurred
about 103 years ago. As Wah-ha-gunta asserts
that upon good evidence he was S years old at
that time, he Is certainly not less than 110
years of age.
He added; "I wsb born and raised over by
Pay-kay-ga-mah, south of Grand Rapids, I
have lived here upon tha Leech Lako Reserva
tion for about 40 years. I was down In south
ern Minnesota during the Sioux massacre, when
the Sioux killed moro than 400 Chlppewas,
being about 3 years old at that time. I can
remember It well. There was no St. Paul or
Minneapolis, but a little settlement of about
five or six buildings below the falls. The lead'
lng man's name was Pah-de.gree. His mission
was to get the Sioux and Chlppewas to agree,
but It turned into a massacre. The steamboat
landed Just below the falls wi(h a lot of soU
dUrs."
NECES&TYi NOT A LUXUR'
"WATCHFUL WAITING" IN APRIL, 1915-
Startling Facts From Riddled
Famine and Pestilence Likely to Be Added to Chaos
and Anarchy in the Bankrupt Country.
t Tills la tho nrt of tun rttllorlal nrtlcl'a
written by nn llvcsivo I.inni.n atnft corro
epondent, who wn pout to tho Mexican border
to ettidy conditions.)
ACLOSIMtAXai'!, unprejudiced view of
tho Mexican situation can lend to hut
ono conclusion that Is, that every hour of
postponement of Intervention means an ad
ditional hour of cumulntlvo horrors and tor
tures for the Mexican people. By tho Mox
lcan peoplo wo mean tho submerged SB per
cent., In whoso behalf, It hns been pro
claimed, tho Administration's policy ot
watchful waiting was framed.
Llvo along tho Mexican border for a fow
mouths nowadays and your blood will boll
nt tho very mention of wiitiiitul waiting.
Cross over Into tho fostering and rovolu-tlou-lillghtcd
provinces and you will seo and
hour things thnt will mako you yearn for
tho mailed might of ;i Kaiser. You will
seo tho widely prcss-ngented liberators,
Villa, Carrnnza, Xnpnla and all tho rest of
them In their truo light, as so many All
Babns scourging the country with unor
ganized and unrestrained bands of ma
rauders, burning nnd pillaging and looting,
and exchanging this loot and plllngo for
Amciican-nmdo shot and' shell. You will
hoar of monasteries nnd nunneries sacked
and outraged, of scores of villages razed
to tho ground, or transformed into tem
porary intronchments for tho sort of bor
der warfare that was characteristic of tho
Dark Ages.
Refugees in Texas
You will learn of tens of thousands of
tho submerged 85 per cent, who havo been
driven Into tho wilderness llko so many
bands of nomad Indians. Texas has given
shelter to nt least 100,000 refugees, and
every llttlo group of theso that has crossed
tho Bio Grnndo lind n tale of wantonness
and barbarity to toll that should shock tho
sensibilities of the most cjnso-hardencd
watchful waiter In tho universe.
It Is not worth tho toll of American lives
it might tako to intervene, is one of tho
patent nrguments of tho watchful waiters.
What about tho toll of lives that is being
taken with Amcrlcan-mnda ammunition that
our Government facilitates in Its passago
over the metals to Brownsville, to Laredo
and to El Paso, permitting tho agents of our
manufacturers to sell to tho highest bandit
bidder for cash. Thero Is a smug answer
to this. Oh, let the gangs shoot each other
up, and wo will soon bo rid of them. On
tho samo complacent theory, Mayor Mitchel.
of New York, might open up u llttlo am
munition bazaar and invito tho gunmen of
tho East Sldo to como and arm themselves
with tho latest styles in automatics, so that
they might all tho moro swiftly destroy ono
another, or ho might dlstrlbuto sticks of
dynamlto to tho children on tho playgrounds
of New York to play pitch and toss with.
Lessons in Killinp;
The warring factions in Mexico havo only
n, comparatively small nuclous of bad men
in their ranks. The bulk ot theso so-called
armies have been recruited with peons nnd
tho sons of peons, who in tho beginning were
herded like goats. Deadly weapons were
placed In their hands and they were In
structed how to kill. It Is a primitive Im
pulse to kill as It Is a primitive impulse to
pillage and destroy. There is n joy and ex
altation and romantic fascination in rob
bery and piracy. Every man who has been
a hoy realizes this, and if it were u custom
under our modern processes of so-called
civilization to provide our children with
lethal weapons we would soon arrive at the
same cond(tions of chaos, anarchy and
bloodshed that now obtain pretty generally
throughout Mexico.
Our press dispatches are constantly re
porting revolutionary battles of one sort or
another. The majority of these dispatches
come out of Washington, and Washington
gets them from the press agents of the vari
ous factions or from the scattered remnants
of our consular service In Mexico, and these
dispatches are censored over the wire by
the leaders and. officers of whatever particu
lar band of marauders happens to be n
command of that particular locality at tho
time. In the course of one day we will have
three versions, each one contradictory pf the
other, of a single alleged engagement.
Of qourse, there Is a vast amount of di
vergent testimony coming out of Mexico
every day. You will nnd In all tha border
town fugitive Mexicans who favor one fac
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Mexico for Complacent America.
tion Or another for selfish reasons. You rtin
unci innumerable exiles with a griovanco that
has naturally watped their Judgment. A
few years ago these exiles wcro In tha great
majority of instances bitterly opposed ta
American intervention. They believed that
some strong man would niiso and restore
order, or at least a semblance of order that
would permit of n concentrated effort to-j,.-
waiu reconstruction. But this idea has
dwindled and vanished until it Is now tha
earnest dcslro of many of thoso who were
formerly most bitterly opposed to lntcrveni
Hon that this Government should at lcut
adopt n strong moral policy of polico Inter
vention. Bullets C. 0. D.
Wo have had It dinned in our ears that S
tho Mexican peoplo would Use as one man,:
that nil the warring bands and factions '
would unlto for national defense tho moment
a bquadron of American troops ciossed the
border. Thero nro few apologists for watch
ful waiting who still entertain this notion. ,
Thero would hnvo to bo strong leaders anfl
capable leadership for national defense even
In a far moro highly tiUlized country than 2
Mexico. There would have to be available
largo resources in munitions of war for de
fense. Of this resource there Is a hopeless
scarcity today. Even with all the leniency
wo havo exercised In tho matter of allowing
arms to bo shipped in, tho magazines of theffl'
revolutionists nro virtunllv emntv. Only 3
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nnd hi nrdnr In nhtntn Miosn f? H TV shin xm
f T 1-. I -nt nn rm vaIbos .. iU ltAJsl
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ments somo scouting party must raw a iew m
moro cattio l.nncnes and sacK a few mores
iiiicicnuas. ino iriouio inai is oeing levieu jm
upon towns nnd cities Is being paid nowa-,'5S
nays lor mo most part witii promises to paj(, -Tho
feeding and clothing of the bandit'
armies has Rapped available cash resource!
ptolty well down to tho anlshlng point
Tho United States Threatened
Thero Is a deeply rooted impression amoaj
exiled Mexicans nowadays that thero Is "j
deadlock In our cabinet over the Villi'
Carranza row. Tho VUllstas aro confident
that tho President favors tho "liberator" and
his nnnounced socialistic sympathy for the
submerged S5 per cent. The CarranzisU
aver for their part that they havo won our
Premier, William Jennings Bryan, to their!
moro respectnblo cause. Now that Hueru
has como back to our shores, there Is some
trepidation in both camps for fear that li
may oxplaln away tho slaying of MaiM'
and obtain somo sort of sovereign abso)utWn.
Tho entire situation is a dreadful muddle.
. ....... . . ... .-. t... Alt, 1
xno noiocausi or war m curoim n j
traded our attention from it with tne reu
that tho majority of Americans have en
tlrelv neclccted to consider the sufferinJ1
nnd atrocities that aro continuously being
inflicted upon a neighboring nation of I6,w.
000 people. They aro menaced this yt"
with nn unnrcccdentcd corn shortM
Famine and pestilence may stalk aownir
them as an additional affliction, ana if "
find tiipm in n. Htutn of anarchy and chat
with nothing that really resembles ,
o.imant n tnkA measures for reiiet
safety. And pestilence is also likely to l'
rnnnnfi nni rtvn linrdnrs and CttUS6 US '.
erect a quarantlno barrier against nt',
nr.,1 dranlnlA nnd hnndlt-haiTled ie'US"
To meet all this wo have only the one 'J"?'j4
official solution to offer Watchful wain" -
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Make the best of everything. thloK w ' "
of every one. hope the best for youref, m w
I have done-persevere.-George Stephen"'"
EATtiV SPRING IN IRELAND
Here's the lodge woman In her great cloak o?
lng,
And her white cap. What Joy h .,
Has touohed the ash-man? On my wfa' "
humming
A boy's song, like a boy! -,,
He quite forgets his cart. His donkey '"
Just where It likes the grass.
The red-coat soldier, with his medal. rn"
His hat to all who pass; ... ,,
And the blue-Jacket sailor-hear him wMw
Fprgettlng Ireland's ills; tba.
O, pleasant land-fwbo thinks of thorn Pf "
USTJ
Upon your happy hills.
The world Is out! ....
Believe me, Ufa csn be a merry matr.
And common folk polite, ..,n,.r.
And a) the birds of heaven on of a xtaiow.
Ann an wieir voice mrm. toMtb?
They sing their merry songs, like one. tl v
In I'rlmrojs time. ..,.
.-Sarah. ?wlv
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