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rillMDELriltA, Wr.llMWDAY, AUGUST II, 1913.
The mammoth pumpkin, the charlatan, tho
iuoatcr, the clever ttctmllcrj the mlrpt in
high finance, it ill attract ami hold the
- croicd and ttllt collect toll from tliclr
j- cmtulttu, just as then always did;
and the rfcmapuyUc, who loves tho '
people for what he can pet out
of them, is still lalklnu with
unction just as he always did.
1916 Calls For 'a Protective Tariff
THIS "war prosperity" Isn't all beer mid
skittles. Tho traders who find South
America openlnK up to them, the manufac
turers who are fretting fnt munition orders,
the workmen who nro winning higher pay
And an eight-hour day, tho financiers who
Bee tho United States paying off billions of
debt to England with tho salo of war ma
terial at a good big profit, every citizen who
thinks ho finds n silver lining in the black
cloud of world-war, ought to begin thinking
Of the future. Will "war prosperity" keep
up till war is over? And what then?
' Frank Harris, distinguished Journalist, dis
cerning critic and expatriate from England
to America, points out In his new book,
'England or Germany ?" the ciiestlonnblo
effect of tho wnr on American Industry. We
ftro paying oft our debts to Europe nt 60
, cents on tho dollar; that Is good business,
and It means moro wealth. Hut how about
' foreign competition when the war Is over?
Mr. Harris writes:
The war has Inflateil prices lu many de
partments of industry in AmcrlA. nnl this
Inflation of prices Is .contagious Prices In
America nfter the whr will rule high. On
Mho other haml, European countries, having
lost h.tir or moro than half of their savings,
will feel poor and bo poor: consequently
prices there will rule very low European
countries wlt export Roods heavily to tho
onlv market open to them, which will have
gold to give, namely, America. According
ly tho trade of America after tho war will
; have to bear tlfe severe competition of
cheup European products.
There Is no answer to Mr. Harris' argument-
There Is only one answer to tho facts
he presents. It Is a protective tariff. After
tho wnr America will need .such a tariff ns
it never needecj It before. And it will need a
iicpuuilcnn victory in 191C to jqc that such
a tariff Is drawn and drawn properly.
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: got out Philadelphia' ontiro vote on the
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Lrwuuvrui or an tnaepenuent matters not. It
Is not only your privilege hut your tlntv in
qualify for the November election.
Generally speaking, all of Philadelphia's
municipal Ills may be traced to the Indiffer
ence of the Independent citizens. ThertJ
never was a time when the majority of our
Citizens would voluntarily put Into office a
gang of political corruptlonlsts. Hut there
have been plenty of times when these soma
citizens have been too Indifferent, too smugly
complacent, to tako the trouble to vole.
Most cities deserve about the sort of mu
nicipal government they! get. If the mass of
yoters nro unintelligent enough after putting
In office an honest and competent Mayor to
tio his hands with a reactionary or corrupt
Councils, they can easily determine where tho
blame rests Tho -law rciiulrcs that a citizen
shall register In order to vote. To register
then, becomes as much his duty ob to vote, '
Tho character of government Philadelphia
.gets this fall will be determined quite as
much by the percentage of voters who qual
. Ify on registration day as by how they vote
. on Election Day. Your side may not win,
.but in any event, don't let vmip . .i
.vt hiuuii ineretore. determlnn tn m.
Tlain Talk From Truthful James
, Damn British opinion, sir: damn the vain.
"-rwnPtacent lingllah smugness and
,-, English arrogance!
hlllE writer of these words is not a Ger
X man swearing a new hymn of hate. He Is
an Englishman praying soberly and seriously
that something may come from high Heaven
to save England from herself. Nor Is he a
political agitator, nor a self-seeking; Ilttera-
l?Ur H te nslther Prnarl Shaw nor Lord
2,orthciiffe He is flu officer In a Lancashire
JBWI?"1 who Has sen. as he ay, "trenches
toaiUtnved to Imll by hundred nt nu .,
tg imoke., dust, blood and noise." and has
He gone across "to tako those game bat
wed lines, only to he ran by a hail 0f bul-
lets, to return luulnn ....- -.. .
lying dead outside." HI eyM have looked
,,. v, ,n,nsg, ana lie i3 calling utwn
ffegland to look. too.
What this BnglWhroa,, yanU jjj-
Is, in one word. wmBcriptJon. Tfcat b U
hfceU to get But beoud aomeHptU,R hs
!! England to .harp aceeurU, asking hw
1 tube stock of hreh!, damning .
, national acritlmtimnllt., . , ,,. .? I
t ,.... :..t.:. ' r -". wrwmy i
. r wiuatuwiuiB. iiu r luiniii'H nil n a.i- . ... r
whltb altother have made him "one o the
WWHt ardent pro-German of Burop
! Wat 4 tumrtv Ennlaml una. ...,r . .
iW' Whjt h rtgure before her M.mii
p$mi England u ..stea her ideal, scorning
ipp u, ,m ui ij uii oe huea cheer -fwttj.
nd spofttdfle, ul K.. tt liji.-.n eo.
n CMWu, i-a in suw.iujb m
vmmrmy tWMM tth bad OMstMn 4t
m9tmm auUuu ammmi trMir
EVENING LEPGEBPniT;AT)ELPHIA-t WEDNESDAY
given (0 tho chimera ot Ideals. The mask
fell Inst January when Kitchener's Army of
four millions, who. were to be hurled In tho
great spring drive, dribbled down to 100,000
men In the field, without a pionnry munition
supply, Bcnrcely nble to hold a mlperabia 40
mile front. And behind tho maBk of Eng
land's Idealism showed the ugly face of sloth,
Indifference and cowardice. "Of course,"
writes (he Inneahtre olllcer, "one volunteer
Is equal to four pressed men. Our copybook
says sTo. therefore It must bo truel" And ho
goes on to quote the rcmnrk of a British
soldier: "Anyhow, 1 hope I never meet a
German voluntcerl"
Tlnnlly, this bitter draught for English
lirlde: "When you think of tho aermans,
their wonderful self-sacrifices, their wonder
ful fortitude and courage and unanimity,
doesn't It nmko you blush for your own coun
try? lteali?e that tlio Ocrmnni nro a
better and a more virile ruco than wr are,
nun try to tench your vnst muss of n-ltlsh
opinion to stirpnss them at their own B.mte."
So writes a man who may not see another
year. Under Hid naming shells of the Ger
man Invaders he stops to give this valedic
tory to the KiiRland he onco loved. What will
KiiRlnnd's answer be?
Time for Action in Mexico
THE Mexican slluatlon calls for action,
action from tho I.utln-Alilcrlcan con
ferees, then ncllon from Washington. Per
manent pence must ho brought out of Mexico
at any price short of the long-drawn-out
war that tho nttempt of an American army
to hike Mexico City would entail.
Eortuiuitcly, no stirh expedition will be nec
essary, The rest or tlio western ucinispnuiu
Is lined up solidly behind President Wilson
on a policy of pacification, mid will back
tho lmttleshlps now speeding to Vera Cruz.
Tho expulsion of tho Guatemalan Minister
and tho hurried departure of Senor Cflrdora,
Brazilian representative, nro regrettable
enough; but they undoubtedly put tho two
aggrieved countries nnd their Central nnd
South Amcrlcnn neighbors In entire sym
pathy with the United States. When Mexl
enn "self-government" acts thus, no nation
can license America of Interested motives
or too great precipitancy In urging pence.
Liquor Lcndership Liquor's Worst Enemy
THE greatest enemy of drink Is tho typo
of leadership now represented in liquor's
fight against local option. In the rally
ing cry of tho National Herald, a liquor
organ, vituperation of tho "Anti-Saloon
League, Prohibitionists and other reformers
for office only" Is characteristically combined
with blackjack thrrnts for the saloon owners
nnd liquor men who are willing to lot tho
legislators express tho real sentiment of tho
ppoplo on local option. Crying "get to
gether" In the tone of men with their backs
to 'tho wall, the National Herald urges that
recalcitrants bo "ostracised," "driven out of
business," "banished from tho trade," treated
"as the governments treat traitors."
This sort of talk does nothing but react In
favor of tho tempernto elements of tho com
munity. Ignoring tho posslblo arguments
that might be profitably advanced against
wholesale prohibition, It puts the opponents
of liquor In an Ideal position to use such
statistics as West Virginia furnished yester
day, In which n decrease of CO per cent, in
crime and C6 per cent. In drunkenness was
shown In tho first year of prohibition. When
liquor "getB together" nnd Invades politics to
elect the typo of legislator that It wants,
such figures take on a now nttractlvcness.
Michigan Copies Pennsylvania
DESPITE every effort to democratlzo un
dergraduate life, our unlvorslties nre
still faced with the. problem of eliminating
the artificial barriers which It Is tho ten
dency of fraternities nnd clubs to erect. Tho
University of Michigan has tackled tho prob
lem with characteristic energy, and Its
ulumnt now proposes to provide a $1,000,000
home for the Michigan Union. It is to bo
tlio crucible In which Michigan's 6800 stu
dents may mix, whero they may give nnd re
ceive the Ideas and culturo which they bring
to Ann Arbor from all over tho world.
Tho experiment is not new, for Upth plan
and building are patterned nfter tho Howard
Houston Hall, of tho University of Pennsyl
vania, which slnco 1896 has been serving tho
same purpose for Pennsylvania's even moro
cosmopolitan body of 7000 students. To the
extent that Michigan hopes to supply a sub
stitute for fraternities, societies and clubs It
will not succeed any more thnn Pennsyl
vania hnu succeeded. But if tho Western
university can provide an undergraduato
home that will mean .as much to its students
as Houston Hall does to Pennsylvania men
It will find It one of tho best Investments
it has ever made.
Uncle Sam Is oiling up his steam roller and
heading it for tho Rio Grande.
"Suffragists to glvo Doctor Shaw bigger
auto." Has her tax bill grown?
We cannot help wondering if tho man who
sank the Lusitanln sleeps o' nights.
Carranza doesn't seem to understand tho
Wllsonlnn principle of "accommodation."
Talking of a "mlno barrier protected by our
fleet," suggests the well-known Interchange
of equine and vehicle.
London thinks It a bally deprivation for
frozen beef to advance 74 per cent,, while
fresh beef goes up only 43,
This is a good year for big crops. Mora
bushels to send to battling Europe mean more
bushels for home consumption.
It la a little hard to discover whv an
American should want to claim the inven
tion of the Germans' liquid fire.
The labors of a million men and expenses
of f2.OQO.000 a day more than In peace times
la a protty big bill for ruling the waves.
Bulgaria and the other small fry 0f Europe
seam able to take the centre of the etage
from the warriors at any time they pjease,
J ..i, ... i , , .
There is a swap famine In Austria, s the,
dispatcbea tell um. We know some small toys
twtw wouldn't ben U a slrolWr ealamity right
here-
The arrt step m airing up the case of
UanHre Qulgley. wfee w burwid by a gas
espkMl m Cbiwtgo. should. b tp determine
Jotoimy gvew whereabouts that day.
Germany is examining every scrap of paper
to Belgium's pillaged capital for some in
crtujloating (i4iu.e that the Belgians de
.rvt4 their present fate Fertwps the
Kajsr 4Hty, tytruui wUI nbl ar.
emmm lmmt twtt Belgium rally
tan4 tfet&
THE COST OP A
SEPARATE PEACE
Czftr Cannot Afford to Break Faith
With Allies Germany's Plight
Worse Than Russia's An Exam
ination of Facts and Figures.
By FRANK H. SIMONDS
IT IS only by breaking faith with her Allies
that nussla can now obtain penco from
Germany. To obtain this pence sho must
sncrlfico certain territories, all hope of an
exit to wnrm walor by tho Dardanelles, sho
must abandon her ago long clnlm to Balkan
influence. Sho must confess a defeat greater
thnn that of .Manchuria. She must abandon
coreligionists to tho Mohammedan nnd tho
Itomnn Catholic Powers. She must confess
herself bankrupt 'n honor ns In prestlgo.
Now if Ittissla Is In fact bankrupt In ma
terial nnd mllltnry resources, If her army Is
destroyed. If the German attack has suc
ceeded In Poland In accomplishing what It
failed to qompnss In France a year ngo If
the Grand Duke's armies nro destroyed, or
about to be destroyed 11 Is conceivable that
nussla might yield; but on no other set of
facts can such n conclusion be expected.
The Threat of Revolution
Husilan surrender now would Infallibly
Rlmko tlio lidmanoff dynasty to tho. ground.
The religious and tho political questions are
cleurly Joined In the present crisis. If the
ruling aristocracy In nussla should mako
peace now It would stand helpless and hope
less before the anger nnd the passions of the
millions of Slavs. Itusslan Internal revolu
tion would be almost Inevitable.
But for the rulers, apart from tlio problems
of Internal Rtrlfe, there Is still to bo faced
thoso having an International bearing. Peace
now would make nussla n mcro crcnturo of
German diplomacy nnd German ambition.
Tho wnr broko out because Russia rofusod
to retire before Austrian menaces, becauso
nho declined to surrender Scrvln to tho
Hiipshurgs. Before It was a French or a
British war It was a Russian war. Frnnco
Is fighting bt cause she was Russia's ally.
England entered the war nfter France, and
If Franco had remained neutral no question
of Belglnn or British participation would
havo been raised.
Comparatively, Russia is fighting for big
ger stnkoi than any nation save Germany.
If Germany Is beaten Russian supremncy on
the Continent will ho assured. Sho has now
the assurance of her Allies that. If they can
capture Constantinople, nnd they nro doing
their best, It will go to the Cnr. But If
Russia betrays them now, Is it conceivable
Hint Great Britain will ever again Join Rus
sia on tho question of tho Straits?
Allies Stand by Russia
In point of fact there is nothing yet to
show that there is nny Russian reason for
pence. A great deal of foolish talk and pur
poseful talk has been heard of late about tho
fashion in which England nnd Frnnco havo
"deserted" Russia. This is merest moon
shine Whatever Russia's allies may have
failed to do they havo expended not less
thnn 2,000,000 In killed, wounded nnd captured
In a wnr which Is first of all Russia's war.
Whatever disappointment thcro may bo in
Petrograd tho main fact Is not mistaken.
The Romanoffs nro not moro eager to bow
to tho Hohenzollcrns nnd tho Hapsburgs
now thnn they were In July, 1914. If Rus
sia Is utterly crushed then sho has no
choice. But when Napoleon was in Moscow
Russia received offers which would have
enabled tho Russian Czar to divide the world
with the Frcncli Emperor, and they wcro
rejected.
It Is Germany and not Russia that must
have peace. It Is Germany and not Russia
that faces destruction If the work of another
year of carnage continues. Bernhardi him
self wrote long before the present wnr that
Germnny would be beaten In tho great con
flict ho foresaw unless sho was ablo to dis
pose of one foe before tho other came on
tho field.
Patiently, unmistakably, Germany Is bleed
ing to death. Sho struck France nnd Franco
parried the blow. Tho western cnmpalgn
cost not less than 2,000,000 casualties to tho
Germans and an equal number tp tho
Anglo-French-Belglnn armies. Her eastern
campaigns have cost 2.000.000 more, Ger
mnny so far as man power Is concerned
Is moro thnn half done, and not one of her
foes has yet been crushed, unless Russia
Is now nt the point of yielding.
Only Peace Can Save Germany
Peace nlono can save Germany peaco
with one of her enemies, peace with Russia
or with France. Combined France, England,
Russia and Italy will defeat Germany as
tho North defeated tho South for precisely
tho same reasons. But at the end of the first
year of tho Civil War the Bhowlng of the
South was far moro Impresslvo than Is that
of tho Germans now. What Americans
should never mistake Is tho fact that the
British, French, Russian and Italian mili
tary lenders know this. The peoples of
these countries may have doubts and fears,
tho military chiefs know the mortality sta
tistics. Germany cannot be defeated until upward
of 8,000,000 Germans have been removed
from the battle line, by death, capture or
disability. It will mean a casualty list as
largo or larger for the Allies to accomplish
this. But their work is half done. rw.
many has spent 4,0po,000 men and has not
won a decision.. A similar loss with a similar
failure will not mean defeat, It will mean
ruin.
The first crisis in the War was in tho
daya when the Germans approached Paris.
It was met by the tripartite agreement, If
Russia fallows the French example now, the
second crisis will have ended in a new Ger
man disaster, which wtll not for long be
conaealed from the German people them
selves. If nussla yields, we Bhall then have
the problem as to whether German losses In
carrying JluBslan Poland have left her
permanently Inferior in numbers to France
England and Italy.
There never was anything more certain
than that Germany would lose as Napoleon
lost tf she were faced with Napoleonic con.
dltlons. She has been faced by them. She
has won triumphs wholly comparable with
xam of Napoleon, but his peril remains
here. His efforts In 1814 to detach nations
from the ranks of his enemies represented
hla Jost bid for existence. The German
tactlas areinot different It remains tp be
seen whethey they will succeed; but If they
fall, the end Is assured.
WHY THE POUBTST
It is estimated tbat tbwr are tt,0W mscKs of
Ch n the wmM, but report froTMMmmSj
rort Indies, that great daqbU as to e
veracity of Uda statement elt. - Cleveland
U Dealer, vvsna
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SILK SHIRTS AND A BASS VOICE
A Modern Parable of Poverty and Opportunity, Introducing the
Old, Old Question, "Why Are the Poor Poor?" and
Containing an Answer.
By B. K. LITTLE
WOULDN'T it surprise you to hear a
bass volcTon a baby? But thcro are
other surprises oven greater. For Instance,
why nro tho poor poor? By what effort of
genius does nny person remain poor In n
country where rail-spllttcrs become titans of
history, where newsboys become magnates
nnd butchers' clerks crowd tho reputation of
the Medlcls as patrons of art? Poverty is
the greatest of nil stimulants to ambition.
Scarcely a multimillionaire of today would
havo been what ho is but for a tcrrlblo pov
orty in his youth, that mado him from boy
hood a warm friend of riches and a sworn
enemy of poverty. How then, In defiance
of this stimulant, deaf to the numborloss
siren calls of Opportunity, In a country
whero tho man or woman risen from the
least promising level Is tho admired of all
admirers, does any ono of our millions of
poor remain poor! It Is as surprising as a
bass volco on a baby.
To say that It .isjust as abnormal is not
to tako an extreme view, either.
The Big Basa Voice
Why nro the poor poor? was answered
the other day, very definitely, in a houso in
Gormantown. A certain young schoolgirl
there is employed to keep an eye on a flve-ycar-old
child every afternoon. Tho other
day sho appeared on the Job in a neat, new
silk blouso. which the mother who employs
her took pains to admire as nn encourage
ment to her budding good taste albeit the
mother had her misgivings over tho good
senso of tho waist, with Its evident cost bal-
nnceii against Its owner's weekly wage.
Marking these misgivings in her employer's
fnco, tho young nurso was moved to explain,
"I mado it myself," she said, "out of a silk
shirt of my brother's that ho didn't llko very
much."
Tho brother Is paid $8 n week to drive tho
delivery wagon of a grocer. Yet he buys silk
shirts, and, at $8 a week, is sufficiently su
perior to silk shirts to toss one away to his
sister.
That boy Is, you might say, tho bass voice
on tho baby. His ear rings not with tho cnll
of Opportunity, but with tho cnll of tho silk
shirt. Ho Is a proof of tho fact that overy
American is a potential millionaire. But he
is also proof of the disaster that follows when
you let tho millionaire In you spealt, out too
soon. He Is one reason, and tho chief reason,
why the poor remain poor.
Most Employes Incompetent
It is a difficult feat to remain poor, yet
these people have a marvelous facility for
doing so. And every employer of labor knows
how numerous these people are. When
Charles S. Mellen was president of tho New
Haven Railroad he one time said, In the
course of a speech, that, In his experience,
and he thought tho experience held true In
ull branches of Industry, easily sixty per
cent, of all employes were incompetent.
Every employer, every employer of only so
much as a kitchen maid, knows that this is
deadly true, Every faithful worker in an
office or a factory knows out of hla own ex
perience how many others ho has to carry
round on hla back. Ho knows how much
tninKing ne nas to do for the other fellow.
now wny snouid this be?
Just now In England business conditions
resultant from war have enormously en
larged the average return of the faithful
worker. Even the unskilled workers In the
coal mines ave had their wages Increased
several times over the average of peaceful
times. The skilled mechanic Is not merely
paid doublo his ordinary wage, he Is petted as
a patriot. Such are the unusual demands of
the situation that the commonest ability
commands returns that are totally uncom.
mon. And what Is the result?
What prudent use are these workers mak
Ing of their sudden prosperity? Are they
salting It down In canny real estate ven
tures? Are they saving It any one of the
thousand and one ways opened to them?
Unfortunately not. They are treating them
selves to oysters before 4nner. They hear
th, oall, not of Opportunity, but of the silk
shirt.
Rich in Taste, poor in Backbone
la a way they oannet be UUnwd. Even
In America they should not be blamed u
te Mt tvuilr their fault. Tk Xle truth
ef the matter i that the p,r arTS
wsh because thy baVe been utt J In
AuatraT 11. iQifo
THINK WE'RE DOING
Is rich in tnstc but poor in backbone. Even
that Is loss his fault than his misfortune.
Consider the times In which ho lives.
Every dny ho sees hundreds of people, whoso
circumstances lie knows to bo only mod
erate, not vastly abovo his own, pass him
in their automobiles. Every dny a thousand
Interests and amusements bent upon his
hungry tasto and intelligence. What won
der that ho should break down, at tho very
time when Ho should not? Ho has never
been taught to wait his chanco at these com
mon pleasures, nnd ho buys them too soon.
Do you know tho real sorrow In tho life
of tho poor in thoso days? It Is boredom.
Wo make everything by machinery now.
And theoretically that Is a good thing.
Theoretically it makes everything cheaper
cheaper for tho workman. And It leaves him
tlmo to himself. Wo make his work easier,
we glvo him his eight-hour day, wo see to
It that ho hnslcnty of tlmo to himself.
Tho one thing hat has not been given to
tho workman is instruction in thb uso of
himself in this extra time. In sheer bore
dom ho strikes, ho shirks, ho spends his
money on silk shlrts-and rcmnlns poor.
Wise and kindly pcoplo aro doing their ut
most to remedy thh. There never was a
tlmo In history when what is known as so
cial Improvement was so widely attempted.
Wo have clubs for workmen, for working
girls, rest rooms, playgrounds for poor chil
dren nnd n thousand other efforts to
brighten tho poor man's Ilfo. Tot after all
If we renlly wont to work rightly tho poor
man would look nfter nil these things for
""""" -nu no need never bo poor, or at
least remain poor, at all.
There never was n tlmo of greater need
In educntlon-not education In algebra or bl-
"."h., uUl tuueauon m character. At tho
very tlmo when wo tempt chnractor with the
most alluring tastes and desires, wo havo
left character tlio least strengthened. At
the very time Its foundations havo been the
most weakened, wo tempt It tho most.
Fooling Public Opinion
Fifty years ago tho pulpit was tho school
of character. Golf is its substitute today.
In fifty years tho whole code of conduct has
been shifted from a religious to an ethical
basis Wo used to be taught to fear hell.
The hlng wo fear now is public opinion.
And by common consent public opinion is
tho easier to fool. Tho tendency today Is to
do not what wo ought to do. but what wo
can get away with. We've put conscience to
sleep, wakened every desire and thrown the
whole outcome on character. Tho strain is
immense. i8 ,, . a ,vomer that
often breaks down and buys silk shirts?
Tho real wonder 1, that It doesn't L them
more frequently Instead.
Is It impossible to get the worker stnrtlnu
from the bottom to wait a while for h", sUk
shirts? Henry Ford doesn't think so
Ne ,he, -does the employer of that nSse W
out In Germantown. Nor the nurse gin her.
THE ROMANCE OP GARIBALDI
His Wife Anita Accompanied Him Into
iiiany uattle3
Ami ZSfZl towaar,ait,Ta h!S e
with an hereditary hate nn,!'1..8?1!18 m,ed
Three generation, ot aSbaidi. h irtd;
Austria, and these four of h Johavo twBht
ftlon. Pepplno. Bsl "nie?iom".SlVIfwt.wn,r
Ibaldl, have tet Vut to IZ Z Stai1,0"1 Uar'
and to fight whem ih.i. 'he Italian army
and herf their rfcVndmth?n1ththei; tovgt
Anita, pursued by the Austrlans b$i 5e"utlfu'
TS f buried in a swamp' dled ,n hls
In all the history of war nmi h .
man toward freedom thara i ?' 8,ru'e
tlon, there Is nothlni , Qt, wowan's devo-
'Young Italians" in a evolution ?w,th h
the Government But the movlment fanthrow
with a wla on his head, he iiL !d'oMd
Amerlea and joined i the t Ji to So"th
republic of Uruguay ssahTn'ffif "a' of tbe "er
tator Hmb,. " r 8ant the Argentine die.
There he met Anita. wiiin k
Wrt B the bank of XtrZ8 L1"'
girt gbwe.4 up toto the tlTt SU,JMW
young man on horseback- hJ Sii W""
and tbey'r',0 m behlad tomi
vor, ,nd no weddlni bu r, e w -Mtitury
.he njmr,,,, ',' I. "" quarter of a
- was JJ S, -J,
IR? Ml mi f fly 11
THISFOR PLEASURE!"
r . iMi s
Tho honeymoon was spent on tho flgntlng jS
In TTrilirltm nn,l ohn tnnrlA.4 (hn ..... J .
baltll ns ho fought. Onco In that tlmn n k.i
pcrato fighting they todo together on horietaciti
iw nines wiiHinu iuuu ur real, xneir Ilfgt ioii
Mcnottl, was born in those days of wfia mJ
rllla fighting, nnd 12 days after his birth ,s,t
strapped her baby upon her back, mounted it
refuge In n denro tropical forest. 'J
When the fiamo of i evolution began burnltrl
again In Italy, Garibaldi, with his wife m'
baby, returned. Garibaldi headed a corps oil
volunteers and Anita went with him, Thiji
were defeated nnd Garibaldi and Anita ficdinl
a fisherman's boat, hoping to reach Venice,1)
stoim drove them nshoro nnd they hid (nl'l
swamp, nnd hero Anita died In his arms. Hi?
Austrian were hunting them. So GartMMl
dug a shallow gravo and hastily covcrM'tki?
body of the faithful Anita nnd lied. Hi Airi;
refused to leave the grave nnd nawed ttu4
earth from the body, thus discovering Iti'j'j
""" "ui"""i' oiviuuinm:iB wnu uumu Wlav ttIJW
iiicy am; up ine oouy nna mutilated It, MM
this Garibaldi nover forgave, and he passed m
ino legacy or nate or Austrinns to Mcnottl M
Blcclottl, his two sons, and that hatred bu
descended to tho four grnndsonB 'who batfl
Just gone to war. Kansas City Star.
SUPERSENSITIVENESS :
Another pnthotlc llttlo feature or evcry-cty.
life Is tho way an editor will lay down a few
abstract moral principles and every candldttt,
in mo nciu win ininic it's a personal attack Mil
liim nilln Ktnin Tnit.nn 4H
USEFULNESS OF EDUCATION
"Education," said Uncle Ebcn, "onalilei manr
a man to cxnrcss hlssolf In n. wnv lnt tirvnli
mm mm conceann" nis rooiisnncss," waewnM
ton Star. , .a
I NATIONAL POINT OF VIEW "I
Sure, we'll gunrnntee Haiti's Integrity-It thfi
got any. Washington Post. i
Tho common-sense American coursa .plifcij
Is to forget the war's horrors, grasp all mfl
business opportunities It otters and push asMi
ior prosperity. uiucago Herald. W,
The Haytlnn Minister nt Washington ltt3j
not no gravely npprehPnslve. No ono In tI
United Stntea lleBlrna tlm nnnnnlliMi nt Tt.tlti
Certainly Its soveielgnty may be preservt;iL-I
fcprlngfleld Republican. -M
A young mnn doesn't havo to own the '
ness or to bo tho highest salaried man In HI
order to succeed. Any man who is earnlngj
good living honestly, renrlncr his family tfc
spectably and makinc himself a factor ftt
good In the community Is a success. Kansai
v;iiy mar.
In connection with ,tho Eastland dlsaSUT.i
Secretary Redfleld explains that the FedtrUI
oteamsnip inspection Service has no power m
pass on the construction of vessels. Obvloiieljl
In this respect the United States laws arsjuj
rauity as tho boat that turned turtle vwa u4
seawortuy. New York World.
After all. what irood r&ison Ih there for 111
sumlnir that the Japanese designs on Chin
cither more or less worthy than our designs ml
-uran-ur ijus tne united States a monopwj'
of national altruism nnd cood faith? Aro w
as n nation really more holy than other w
iiuim , Voiron irrce t'resa,
Tho Navy League does well to recommend ,
council of national defense, "first, to ew
oiucini ana authoritative Information for cw
grcss: second, to formnintn nn,i tn rcpommeW
to Congress naval and military policies n
oimiuHriis, inaing into consideration nauoojjj
defense, American policies nnd the naval pto
gram and military strength of possible oppoj
nents."-Chlcago Tribune, ;
A. WUWW.K.NOWN MAN J
He's weary to distraction o'er the evils of tMm
town: g
From dawn to dark he's bulging with dlsyM
Ho thinks the average bluecoat Is no betttrj
man a clown
And the Btreets to him are ankle deep J
dust.
He's sore at all officials, be they high crB
iwj iuw;
He's labeled pvnrv miu.h .mnt.
You ask me who this person Is? Why, Hi
itmi man you Know r
Who thinks it isn't worth hla while to votes'
iimi man wno says that government Is e"L
. .
an to seed,
WhO'S ready with n nUnltiia nt nrnnf:
Who calls the people laxy and declares tMl
won't take heed
Of the crimes that happen 'neath their Wlm
Oh, his ire is tremendous and his rage ! reH;
deep.
An thn nlinla fx 1.1. .... j ..m
Hes that man who's so disgusted that
thirty cents he'd wr '
O'er the town wherein he boasts he nwtjf
votes, "s:irv
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