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Germany will noto that Congrcsi
was not called to meet on April Fools'
"Sixteen generals press Carranza,"
declares a headline. No wonder he Is cut
ting such a flat figure in the world's
Urdus news today!
. "Somewhere In AmSrlca" are the
boys of tho Philadelphia regiments wo
would not say whero If wo knew. But
food luck to them!
It can be no harder for us to foreaco
the day' when America will bo applauded
In the Itclchstag of a liberated Germany
than It was for Patrick Henry ever to
Imagine that his country would be
hecred In the Houso of Commons.
Western pacifists who have been
lightly ignoring perils beneath the waves
must liavo suffered a rudo shock when
the excursion steamship St. Paul went
ground on a submerged cornfield two
B)lle3 below nvansvlllc, Ind.
Tho sinking of tho Aztec on tho
veiy day that President Wilson pub
licly formulated his indictment against
Gcrmuny Intimidates us in about tho
amo way ns tho Zeppelins tamed Lon
don, and hai very much the same value
u a recruiting argument.
Senator Lodge acted with com
mendablo patriotic spirit In refusing to
prosecute tho pacifist -who attacked him.
Wo must bo very kind to tho pacifists.
They make such good fighters, and pres
ently nine-tenths of them will bo In army
r navy. '
"Proof sufficient to satisfy the coun
try that Congress would not tako too
much time about passing the war resolu
tion was found In this Item frbm the news
from Washington: "The 'President played
Bolf and registered an unusually good
core."
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tfrtt .Deinaiu aiiiiw Buys no was kuict m
the front than In London after nightfall,
'Where tho "llghtsout" protection ngalnst
r-t ZennpHnn has caused more deaths bv ac
cidents than tho Zeppelins caused. At
Sjj, the present rate of killings by motor In
nj& Philadelphia It would certainly bo safer
M :to enlist.
The nas3age by the Phlllpplno Leg
islature of a compulsory training bill 11-
lustrates the prevailing: colonial faculty of
j reading salutary lessons to "motner coun-
il ifinm " Altstrnlln 1r wilt Via fnrn1ln,1 f-n.r.
fSr the same sort of a tip to England by in
dorsing universal service several yeara
la before the war opened
its:. - k
Hlndenburgs lnslstenco that thero
Was method In his retreat need not greatly
worry tho Entente if St. Quentln Is cap-
'X ' tureu. aucn a victory, wnicn now seems
3 Immlnnnl will unntipfitlnnnrtltr nrm-n tVin
.Whatever tho plan was. It has failed. A
5r J; surprise which Is 'never sprung Is about
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f bus evening U9 . uauijj skj'ioviwi.
Senator Gore, talking reul progres-
fiatvlsm in 1912, before tho presidential
P laminations, had a stock speech in which
? 'Jt-0 BUIU limb .1 IftlSUli WCiU IHU AJVll.U-
prattc candidate and La Follette the Re-
publican candidate the country could feel
.' tMife no matter who won, because 'either
trbuld be a worthy representative of
American sentiment 4n any democratic
usw. xne senator gues-joa wrong, to-
ay, 'La Follette 'is the one prominent
emerican who could least bo 'trusted to
wide our destinies.
?f Our Immediate need for tho present
a., large najvy. ii we win neea in
linear future Is a large navy. And
t,wo wiu.renu.re in we uisiani ruture
. targe navy. This Is the first and last
t,atr ne4s. . If It is true, as America,
' DetytyM, mat. mis nation is me guar-
1 e -permanent, peace, tne only way
I jixanteeinai peace is by having
Ay the' greatest navy In the
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W. thatjJeague of honor
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the , now is tho time td start building
the ships that will make us that cham
pion, whether we aro to do much fighting
at sea In this war or not. "Mils Is In
surance for tho future. Wo can afford
to keep tho greatost navy afloat .better
than Great Britain Is or will bo ablo to
afford It. Wo owo It to tho safety of
small nations and to our honor In making
good our high promises of safeguarding
frco peoples everywhere, to prcparo this
naval arm which will be no drain on our
resources, tho nbsenco of which would bo
a constant menace to out resources.
HARD-HITTING VIHILITY IN
WILSON POLICY
R2
IS Instinct in tho American people to
vlow of our duty Is tho essential virility
of typical American manhood.
Tho Iloosovelt rnodo Is, "Never hit
soft." Until now tho only blow that
America was In a position to strlko was
a soft blow. If Mr. Wilson hod been tho
Colonel's own brother ho could not have
felt this spirit of "all or none" moro
strenuously or expressed It moio force
fully. The country sees now that It would
havo been In a sorry plight if It had lot
Itself bo pussy-footed along Into a half
Impotent, llttle-by-little scries of defensive
steps continuing until tho final pcaco
negotiations had been started. Wo would
then literally have had not n ft lend In
tho world. Tho German Government
would have nursed an nge-long deslro
for vengeance upon us. The Allies would
liavo been contemptuous toward us. Tho
neutrals would have seen no leadership
In America, no guarantee In the Monroe
Doctrine.
But our record li clean. Our Govern
ment observed "with proud punctilio" lis
friendly relations with tho GerniatUjCov
ernment until It recalled Its Aniba-udor.
In the Interval between then and now It
was not an enemy to the German Govern
ment. But when finally the dlo was cast,
our Government beenmo it 100 per cent
enemy of tho German Government. Thero
was to bo no halt measure of aimed neu
trality, which would hit soft. Thero is
to bo tho full mcasurfllf war to tho limit
to end tho war as sooa ns possible.
"Wo aro now about to accept tho gage
of battle with this natural foo of liberty,
and shall. If necessary, spend the rtholo
force of the nation to check and nullity
its pretensions and power."
ThK from tho President's- address. Is
the guarantee to the world that wo mean
business. Let those who liavo no stomach
for this fight stay nt homo. No doubt
many of them can claim exemption from
a man's work: so much tho moro honor
for those who go. What wo loso wo lose
outright; tho gain It to ho tho whole
world's, not ours, except as wo have tho
world's good In our hearts for our reward.
Let America bo represented by real men
In this final championship of decent,
clean, manly' living among tho nations.
Tho stakes are too great to bo shared In
tilt winning by cowards or faint-hearts
who would bo content with half a loaf of
freedom.
NO PEACE WITH KAISERS
Till- Inevitable tnlk of lcnowed nffcra
of pcaco comes from Berlin and Vienna,
and there Is every reason to bellevo that
It Is well founded. But thero can bo no
peaco between tho Kaiser and tho democ
racies arrayed against him until thero is
a complete backdown by his autocratic
Government. Tho only Central Powers
thnt can properly guarantee a lasting
peaco will bo tho peoplo of those nations,
nnd only when those peoplo govern them
selves. NOT
FIGHTING BY THE
OF ARITHMETIC"
"HOOK
TII15 widespread and deep satisfaction
thnt President Wilson has based his
plea for war not solely on tho mero eye-for-an-eyo
accounting for submarine out
rages, bMt also on tho larger and moro
spiritual principles of our democracy, Is
striking proof of tho unshakable Idealism
that abides In American hearts. Deiplto
tho frcntrent strictures on our "greedy
commercialism," on our cold-blooded,
self-secktng Interest in the main business
chance, so often voiced by unthinking
critics, this nation has over detested fight
ing by what Mcrcutlo calls "tho book of
arithmetic."
All our history attests this. Perhaps
tho solo blot on a record of wars, uncom
monly largo for a republic whose ab
horrence of blatant militarism has been
repeatedly expressed by all her great
statesmen, is tho conflict with Mexico In
1840. A fair-minded retrospect shows a
leading cause of that strugglo to havo
been tho southern deslro for an extension
of slave territory. But as a result of
this knowledge thero has always been less
public pride over the really superb ac
complishments of Generals Scott nnd Tay.
lor against Santa Ana's armies than of
any other brilliant military achievements
in the life o tho nation.
Surely It was glowing Idealism that
misrepresented quality whoso mighty
forco Is so continually discounted by
tyranny which inspired us to tako up
arms for freedom in 1775, for Interna.
tlonal justice in 1812, for tho suppression
of Slavery by tho North in 1861 and tho
spiritual vision of State rights by tho
Confederacy, and for tho liberation of an
oppressed people in 1898.
It is sometimes said that tho sinking
of tho Maine provoked the Spanish War.
True, It was tho immedlato cause of In
tensifying the strain of our relations with
Madrid. But tho loss of our battleship
alone, especially in view of the fact that
responsibility for the disaster was never
convincingly fixed, could never havo mado
us Interfere in tho West Indies. Free Cuba
was the shining Ideal which the men of
nineteen years ago espoused. And is
there any page in history mora re
splendent with disinterested endeavor
than that which tells how Cuba was un
chained? The arguments of opponents of war to
day, that the loss of a few American
lives at sea may not be worth the death of
perhaps many thousands of our country
men, Indicate a complete mlsconceptlpn
of consistent national purpose.
fluch observations are culled from thn
lnUter'"boIi'Jof arithmetic" on which
Outecraejr and German "Kultur'
M m -Tiw-rretifwni p .eloquently
iiicp ium,,Tvimanh . t ig
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MOBILIZATION
OF AMERICA
H9W Arthur Bullnrd,. Who Has
Studied the European Mis
takes, Thinks Wc Can
Avoid Them
W.L
lIAVll been waiting for a brief and
lucid summary of llio blunders made
by llio Kntcnto Allies hi order that when
wo were drawn Into tlio war wo might
profit by what had been learned nt bitter
cost In tho expensive school of experience.
This summary has been supplied by Arthur
Bullnrd, who hns been on tlio ground In
both Franco nnd llnglatid, In a little book
called ".Mobilizing America," published to
day by tho Stncmlllan Company, New York.
Mr. llullnrd mado extensive notes for tho
preparation of a largo book describing tho
way democracies get ready for war, but tho
national emergency Is ni pressing that ho
1ms condensed tlio main points of the unfin
ished greater uoik Into 129 Mnall pages.
Tho first nnd mo.st disastrous blunder
which Mr. llutlaia notes was tho assump
tion that It was to bo n short war. Nobody
bcllced Kitchener when ho said that tho
war would last three jears Both In Franco
and In Bngland It was believed that this es
tlmato was the camml 1 emails of a profes
sional soldier. "Wo know better." was tho
thought of the average citizen Uccauso of
this fundamental blunder no adequate
prcpaiatluu was mado for munitions. It
was assumed that the greatest need was for
men at the front, and oveiy 0110 forgot that
men engaged In woik at home were seising
their country as genuinely us those in the
trenches, anil no one lcmemlieieil that un
less hundreds of thousands were at .voile
providing the 111 my with what It needed to
do effective work the army might as well
not he In tlio field. Kkllled mechanics hao
been weeded out of tho aimles. coal miners
have been called back to tho mines and
hotel managers h.nn been put In rhaigc of
the domestic affairs of the hospitals In
stead of being asslKiied to digging trendies..
Tlio great scrvlco thnt can ho rendered by
tho hotel manageru in shown by the expeil
nice of the expert suigeona from the Itoek
efeiler Institute, who were put In ch.irgo of
a hospital in Coinplcgne which had been a
hotel. Tho surgeons had had no expeilence
In dlrodltig the details of hospital house
keeping, nnd things weic going wiling until
the decided to In Ing li.uU ftoui the front
tho man who had managed the hotel in time
of peace. Within twenty-four liouis after
his leturii ever) thing was iiinnlng
smoothly.
Blunders About Conscription
Another blunder was the falluio of the
Ooeimnent.s to make it clear to the people
that they weic asking rnr this or thai
foim of re-enforcements for the fighting men
b(eaue they weic absolutely necessaiv for
the prosecution of the war. Ueciti'-e of this
failure there was a wldespiead suspicion
that the politicians weio playing politics
and asked for u conscription nieasme In
Bnglund, for example, In older to sae the
Liberal p.nty lather than to servo tho
c.iuso of the nation. Akin to this was a
scattering of elfo! t In mailing clear the
great issues at stake. The woiUlngnicn
and the capitalists both showed a splendid
willingness to make any ran lfh.es ncces
saiy If they were made for the temporal y
emergency of war. The Welsh coal Illinois
would eijlvt for the wage of a shilling a
day, but they would strike ngalnst 11 le
diictlnn of six penco a day in their wages,
especially when they discovered that their
employers were reaping great ptoflls fiom
the increased pi ice of coal.
Another mistake was tho attempt of
propagandists to make peiiiianent (ettle
meiits of controversial questions under
piessure of thn needs of thn crisis. Mr.
Bull.ud believes that If the piohlbltlon of
tho manufacture and mlo of liquor In
Bngl.ind had been proposed as a war expe
dient tho manuliuluio could havo been
stopped. Hut tlio prohibitionists thought the
oppoitunlty was ilpo for wiping out tho
business eutiiely, and they met with the
bitter opposition of tho hi ewers and (lis
tillers. Opponents of labor oiganiationi
thought they could kill the unions, and they
failed as tlio prohibitionists failed.
America Warned
Mr Bullnrd wains us against tlio danger
of similar attempts heie. It will bo neces
sary to do many 1adlc.1l things If wo are
to make tho full power of tho nation felt
In tho war. but If tho advocates of gov
ernment ownership, 11 sound congressional
budget system, the icfoim of the labor
unions and what not seize upon tho occasion
to engage in propaganda, they will obstruct
rather than accelerate preparation lor wnai
Is to come. Tho lesson that Lurope has
for us Is that all propaganda for tills or
that social or economic lcform should bo
abandoned and that tho nation should con
centrate Itself on tho single Issue of mobiliz
ing Its wealth, its men and lis industiies
for tho solo purposo of winning an honor
able peaco and bilnglng about a tilumpli
for denioeiacy. When demon ncy lias tri
umphed, the eontrocr.slal Issues caq again
tako their place In popular discussion and
be settled in their own goon time.
Mr. Dullard's book Is of Immense laluo
in tho present national crisis. It is in
spired by tlio pplilt of tho President's nd
dres.s to Congress at tlio opening of the
extraordinary session, nnd It supplements
that splendid declaration of tho allegiance
of America to tho causo of humanity by a
multitude of suggestions of ways nnd means
for making that allegiance eucciive.
G. W. D.
SHIPS, NOT HEROICS, NEEDED
Mr. Itoosevelt's warning that we must not
fight 11 "dollar war" needs to bo supple
mented by warning that we must not light
a sentimental war nor a superfluous war
nor a catch-phraso war nor 11 war of empty
gestures. Tho first business befom us is so
clear that It Is mere confusion of thought
to labol It with some moralist's pluase. The
United States must insuro tho communica
tions to Franco and England. If they aro
cut wo aro Impotent. We can raise nnnlcs
and make munitions without end if tlicy
cannot bo transported to Europe they aro a
dead loss. This Is what Germany la count
ing upon. Sho believes qulto correctly that
If sho can destroy tho world's shipping
faster than it can bo built, It doesn't matter
how many new enemies there aro overseas.
Germany could ask nothing better of us
than that wo shouiu turn our attention
from the shipping question on tho theoret
ical ground that It wasn't heroic. "Wo
couldn't mako 11 worse exhibition of our
selves than to forget tho slmplo common
sense of tho situation nnd loso Interest In
the Intensely prosaic but absolutely funda
mental need for a vast supply of ships.
Only If the submarine Is checked can
America's power bo used. If tho Atlantic's
highway Is blockaded the Allies aro cut oft
from their ultimate babo of supplies. With
that highway open tho chances of German
victory are ended. Tho New Itepubllc.
JULY 1, 1916 '
Wo wem" unprepared,
Wo wero most unwlso ;
Ve havo been like that
For centuries
But we've taught ourselves a thing or two,
And we're muddling through.
Twenty-three months I
Twenty-three menl
Oh. the muddle
And muddle ngaln I
Ono can't deny it, becauso it's true
But we'ro muddling through.
Shells and "soldiers,
Piles and files;
The roar goes up
On seventy miles:
We know now what we always knew
We shall muddle through I
.oh Banner of our.
hhA ghlnea in the wars,
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Tom Daly a Column
O.V FAR FttOXTWRB
lie dreamed the tuHUght that woutd vale
his closing,
Would loiter o'er the green and mhtu
miles,
In hte own Irish Isle with kin reposing,
In peaceful flics, '
Hut 1'atc had marked him for a splendid
ending,
On far frontiers of tchlch he never
dreamed;
The uorld's most righteous cause with
life defending,
Where shiapncl streamed,
T. J. JWIWAY.
IN THH TBAIN tho other morning wo
noticed a pair of broad, young, khaki-clad
shoulders a few scats ahead of us. Tho
scrvlco hat topping tho head well polsod
above tho shoulders was cncltcled by a
silk cord of rod rind bluo intertwined.
Ono of tho V. of P. lads. A brown string
was knotted under his ccicbcllum. To
hold on his hat In windy weather, wo
thought. But a moment later ho turned
his head nnd wo saw that tho string was
a hawser for his largo tortol.sc-rimmed
young-litcrary-man spectacles. Over
trained! Our thoughts hopped to nn
other fcmlle-provoklng thing which is not
as Irrelevant ns It would seem:
Athylcno Ilndlsh Is making a visit at
tho homo of Cliatles R Brasurc.
Jlllfanl (D-l ) Chronicle.
What impulse Is it that piompts us
when our name Is lladish to call our
daughter Athylcno?
A conttlb. m Switzerland gets this
ncio.ss to us qulto uuronsoied. It Is ic-
layed by W. t Hammer, of tho Itu.ssl.m
Import Company: In a roadside Inn m-ir
Frutlgen, Switzerland, which makes a
specialty of trout cooked to tho touilst's
order, these two slgns nic displayed:
llirmln I'nrrllrn Tremors field wlnl kc-
liominrii
Trultei Minnie1 (In prenil do l.i iiinnn.ilc
or.ini:rre
iroiui ,11110 sirniiKc 111011M
ruvn Moons
Your vionite arc Hlc the April dam
When cloutli mo hloirn across the hluc.
Tho shine and iihadaics golds anil grays
Arc In the changeful heart of you.
1 know too well your fickle nays.
Your moods arc llkn the Apitl days.
Jtul though your constant shier May
Is ever faithful, kind and true,
1 still must kneel to you and pray
You listen while J plead and icoo.
1'or though your ioiI I with mine for toy
(As pleases most your fancy) plays.
I still muit seek the pain, the Joy
Your moods aro like the April days.
YAimnY.
Till; LADS of Campion College, which
Is tho town of I'l-alrlc-du-Chicn, Wiscon
sin, conducted Bert Taylor's column in
tho Chicago Tribune on Monday. It was
a good job. Tako this for a sample:
"A classical education," hays Bill
Byrne, Jr., "is llko a suit of evening
clothes. You may never uso it csccpt to
bo a waiter or to mako n fool of your
self. But it will keep a fellow fiom hang
ing around tlio livery ntablc."
And nt tlio end of their day's work
thero was Just space enough for Bert to
say: "Very good, boys. You havo con
trived to concoct a column of foolery
without introducing lho topic which
makes up nlnc-tcntlis of tho average col
lcgo publication Girl."
WHICH Naturally Introduces This:
I havo lately made my semiannual de
scent into that abyss of desolation, the
examination period. And. after tho nlllelal
wasto of three houis in the examination
loom as "pioctor," I hac spent ono hour
with tho written 1 en mils of my villgance.
Wordsworth," T rcail, "exalted
In tho beauties of nature." Addlslon and
.Steele, I find myself coiroborated, taught
their age ninnneis "and this was done not
In a preaching way, but In bomeletle fash
ion " "llelcnlxm" fJieek Is a very dead
Jnngungo nowadays "1'clenlsm Is immoral
beauty." C.u this bo tlio wander echo of
my attempt to analyzo that temper which
fondly Imagines Itself "unmoral"?
Hut I prefer originality such originality
ns that of tho youth who assures mn iim't
Franklin was tho ilit great American man
of letters bccaUFc "he Invented tho postal
system." Wo ask: "What was
Swift 'besides a man of letters?" Tho an
swer' '-Swift, besides a man of letters, was
a lunatic."
1 am not asking Just now what these
fairly lepresentativo Joltings prove. They
may proo that I havo dono my teaching
badly, or that the American collcgo Is a
bluff, or that tho modem young man has
only contempt for tho cultivation of tho
mind, or that tho English classics ought to
no considered ns dead to all but pedants,
or that leal education is an Impossibility in
a social order founded on nnd dedicated to
commerce, or that tho preparatory schools
do not know what they are about, or that
the undergraduate will take his academic
Instruction from only ono man tho athletic
coach, tho man who teaches hint to play.
I promise myself a terrlblo day of reckoning
up theso issues and the relation of my own
consclenco to them.
But for tho moment I only ask: What
can bo. dono about It? What 011 earth can
bo dono about It?
Atlantic Monthly.
Sir You know there Is always a lato
photographer. I've never known all of
them to bo on time. On Saturday when
all tho distinguished ones In tlio front row
of tho btand in Independenca Square had
posed for tho movies and still plctuies and
everything, tho belated ono rushed up nnd,
addressing Tom Smith, Implored-
"Mr. Mayor, won't you plenso shako hands
with Senator Johnson again; I didn't get
you."
It seemed to me that the Mayor was
torn between conflicting desires. Ho wanted
that picture to appear in tho paper and
ho wanted to rebuko tho phoHographer for
being lato. Ho thought quickly, which, for
soma folks, Is not always safe.
"This Is becoming painful," he said. I
mentioned this to my friend Carl, and ho
said: "Oosh! And Hughes didn't shako
hands with Johnson even once nnd seo how
painful that was!" F. 13. B.
Wo took tha scalp of C. Syk(5s on the
eighteenth hole at Stenton yesterday, and
dragging his bag behind him ho followed
us into tho clubhouse. Whllo ho was
washing up ho rubbered about a bit, for
now that he's president of Bala Golf Club
he's constantly on tho lookout for now
ideas. Tho prospectus of our greens com
mittee, setting forth propose;! improve
ments, caught his eye. Ho snorted nnd
laid a demonstrative finger upon a para
graph written Just this way:
"No. IS Damn creek and make small
basin, etc."
"Tho first part of that," said he, "has
already been attended to."
And now, friends and fellow-citizens,
if thero be "among us any of the tribe of
William Henry Matier, whom $t. John'
a'KrvinrJr iChangln Wln4,'ttlecribfe
la, iaBVaam ' aaaak m -... mi -j- . - '
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THE ART OFINSURGENCY
The Lady From Montana Sets an Example of Regularity to the
Gentlemen From Massachusetts Representative Moore
Writes of the Organization of the House
fipeclnt Correspondence i;icnlnp Ledger
WASHINGTON. April 4.
CO.NGIIESS lias Just bad an Interesting
lesson hi tlio art of insurgency, for In
surgency in politics and statesmanship has
come to bo something of a finn art. Tho
two Instructors most conspicuous on this
occasion were the Beprcsentatlvo from
Massachusetts, Mr. Gardner, who Is a fore
most advocate of war, which calls for or
ganization, nnd Miss Jeanetto Rankin, the
new member of Congress from Montana,
who has come to Washington ns tho first
congressional member with a strong pro
pensity for woman suffrage. Mr. Gardner
held up tho Ilcpubilcan caucus for more
than an hour and a quarter, Insisting that
ho would not bo bound by Its action, whllo
Miss Ilnnkln, who was not nt the confer
ence, declared that as sho was "elected on
tho Itrpublk.au ticket" sho would "abide
by tho action of tho Republican caucus."
Tlio difference between the two was this:
that lho gentleman from Massachusetts
proclaimed his unwillingness to go along
with tho Republican organization, though
It presaged defeat of tlio army to which
ho was attached, whllo lho lady from Mon
tana, who, llko many women, is supposed
to bo unable to understand a contract.
stood up "manfully" to tlio organization
which had gicn her its support. The
"lesson" taught by Miss Rankin, concerning
whose views and whoso usefulness In Con
gress thero has been so much doubt, was
not without meaning to tlio vast body of
regular Republicans who have been hesi
tating about woman suffrage. It was a
lesson In stability and in adherence to fixed
principles which gave immediate character
and standing to tho lady from Montana.
House Insurgency Not New
Insurgency is not new In the House of
Representatives nor in tlio Senate. Nor
did Insurgency begin with the so-called
Cannon regime. It is as old as time Itself.
Its advocates In and out of Washington
Insist upon freo speech, i. frco press nnd
tho right of individual expression, no mat
ter whether a monkey-wrench Is thrown Into
tho machinery of progress and discipline or
not.
Tho American Revolution was the
first great Insurgent moemnt In tho
United States. It was a very commendable
and patriotic movement and has not been
seriously questioned by any real American
patriot down to the present day, Tho In
dependence Hall meeting of Saturday last,
with so conspicuous an Insurgent as Hiram
Johnson, of California, proclaiming for tho
fixed institutions of thd Revolution, wit
nesses that fact. But thcra aro a great
many Insurgents In local ns well as in
State bodies who mistake their own cause
for tho Revolution or other great movements
of secondary Importance. The overthrow of
tho Cannon rules was a legislative revolu
tion. Tha men who participated ln It have
since striven for power on their own nc
count. Some of them in the Senate nnd
In tha House have become as strong advo
cates of closure rule, previous-question mo
tions which shut oft debate and other arbi
trary measures as the followers of. Reed
and Cannon ever dared to be. If this Is
tho kind of reform tho people want, they
are getting It In copious doses, particularly
when debate upon war questions Involving
the lives and liberties of the peoplo la lim
ited to a few hours or when so Important
a problem as prohibition, tho honest en
forcement of which would deprlvu tha Gov
ernment of more than one-third of Ita
normal revenues, may be passed under a
rule limiting debate to thirty minutes on
tha propriety of the rule, with no discus
sion of tho merits whatever. Old-timers In
Congress have been watching the curves
of tha quondam defenders o'f tha right of
free speech with more than ordinary in
terest, even unto the last of them; tin dls
tln4ttfeHd ; gaaajor .frow .Wisconsin, 'whose
LiHtema
ty.ywft
tWTVTi
motUes that actuate film. It is not nlwajs
tlio man who cairles the banner in tho
parade who enlists for the -real service.
Human interest is strong in Washington, as
it is elsewhere. Insurgent movements aic
there:oro charged with a certain degree of
suspicion until tho promoters of them be
como known and understood. Such agita
tions as liavo recently btlrrcd tho country
beget a vailety of new movements, tome of
them seilous and many of them fioaky.
Announcement of lho formation In Jeru
salem of "a Universal Tlrotherhood" sounds
llko a big proposition and worthy of con
sideration until it develops that all the
printed matter and nil the blank applica
tions for membership spring from the mind
and tlio activities of ono remote individual
who is jet unknown to fame. Legislators,
representing diverse Interests, who pledge
themselves to theso freak movements In
advance, would occupy a peculiar position
heforo their constituents once It was known
.n,C.ri ','s?lcas5'-" " Is exrggeratlon
to say that tho amount of printed matter
wh eh comes to the average Congressman,
and which must necessarily bo thiown In
tie waste basket. If collected and turned Into
h in rlllrt.hell '"aerially reduce the
In ,n? .' 5 f ppr' A CJiigicssman liis a
nirtn?"1 aUvl,ss Pn every phase of im
portant questions, and It is not to be ex
pected that he can or will please everybody
should Vi' ?alUro ot iM"e &t &
should, but if ho does not please everybody
It does not Indicate that he lacks patriotism
Insurgency Threatens Both Parties
But wo werA rilstitcdn, 1
far shall Insurgency go within the ranks
acfZWin'?htoc? w,.thout bcl to
account. In the Senate recently insureencv
n war matters was not confined to either
Democratic or Republican parties Ne er
Hon ebTh0enClUSlV6 ,t0 ,elt'ier ""I '
,i" 1 Democrats havo frequently In-
fn H,ed,1U.CaUC,,1'i n,,a on tlle no"-. although
n the last analysis they havo usually voted
together, under tho Wilson Admlnlsfration
Thero aro still evidences of Democratfc l
w- rgenCroh.h.r,arlUS l,nM' BUCh a3 e
war, prohibition and woman suffrage but
ho patronage of tho Administration has
o,T !rffUi ln traBhtenIng these things
out- T"? Republicans have no patronage
so that insurgents are freer to go on in!
ZBnf;, iT!10 exlllbln of insurgenev when
tho Republicans undertook to organize on
Saturday last, however, fell so flat a, to
discourage future efforts of the kind, unless
they develop more strength and are be te?
organized, for, paradoxical at it may seem
even insurgency cannot succeed or last
very long unless thero is somo cohcslvcness
Saturday did not Impress the new members
of Congress favorably. The Massachusetts
?rS?iber S led the oPPWlMon and who
finally withdrew from tho conference be.
cause he did not want to be bound to
thhaif rf,erence m 2as followed from
the hall by two memhoiV .. . ...i m
camo back. And this after every opior-Jn,t-
""a been offered to the leader of
the "bolt." If such it might be caUed to
make any motion ho saw fit to obtain an
expression of opinion. The general feeling
at the wind-up was that several gentlemen
who could not have their way decllneTtS
S55W,i.tr.Mrt f lnSUrsency not
Republican Organization Lost
The organization of the Housa on Mondav
demonstrated tha value of a single S
Sd?t,th" beK""nB of the donten each
Bide Was Tir,nm.,l (,,., n, , . ."' cicn
Clark had nn.,.j ... ,W8-. -Mr,
electa fi.v" T... i"t:..,l. would
be
not cone "f,".?" "" iPUW.cam had
the otnerm.8t .t an? tta.
m'"e? tne contest. The rumors of r..,i
gency agatnat Mr. Mann ,.. ??ur'
the Republican organization. The r WiM
crats polled everv on. nf !..? Dem'
J"J !""-captur.d 'enoufc-h PwtrW1vl1"
n tiA.pn ' 'vBRy
V J "--'ViWtHJL.
a nialor Ity. Tlio total vote was 421. 1
majority of which would ba.e been Ml
so that, even with tho defections note!
Clark had a majority of only two. It wu
Interesting to noto that whllo Mr. Cardan
and the handful of followeis went aBallat
Mann, nnd tho blind Progressive, SchtU
nominated Clark, the new lady member, who
was "willing to amue ny tne action 01 1&
Republican caucus," stood squaicly for U
Republican candidate. v'.
t Ufa
AujiHsrx&&iGi
What Do You Know?
Queries of general interest u-lll lie ansvirtt
(it this column. Ten questions, the ansiftn ll
uilch every u-fll-fiiormed person should ktn.
arc asked ilallu.
fl
QUIZ
.3.1
1. Ulmt U Hie Illmlenhnrc line? )
2. What Important position U held by SentU
.stone In the senatr'."
.1. Wlint l n "penultimate" wamlns?
4. Nlint Is I lie difTerrneri between an Am I
plillo and nn Anslophobe?
S. What iloex finod I'riilny commemorate?
(1. Vtho Is SnrnUer of the House of RtWM
sentnthes? .
7. Nume the lurcext continent.
K. Where ore the White Mountains?
I). U'hn un Kir hniiA Veutnti?
111. What U a cheetah? ,i
' 't
Answers to Yesterday's Quiz '5
1. Invents moilnc In aeven-leaiue boots nsaal
events moilnr: rapidly. -
:. Georen W. Whkersliam was Attorney Off
frill or the United .States In the Taft AJ
mlnlhtratioii. ) '
3. Conntnntln Ilrun Is the Danish Minister)!
the United Mate", who represented Ds
nmrb In (ti msiIh nf IIih llnntall nm
lntlleH to this count rj. '!
4, A ciit-diwatio hi a place with inly one Mi
le!. The literal 1 tench mennlni Is'-nte
torn of the hag." r
S. it Is estimated that the earth has ,bM
Inhabited by human belncs for at lesH'
250,000 j ears. .
0, Herbert Spencer was a dlstlnnnlslied EM;
Huh philosopher und scientist, who (UN
In lDOU. ri
7. The smoke screen, first used In the AnjJ
Iran navy. Is effected by destroyers, waljj
emit heavy smoke between the enemr, ass
the lane ships of their own fleet. -
R. Vlv.flfilitni- la fl.hln- ullh nrdHrlnl fllsl'sl'
bait. I
0. Gemini, n constellation marked by t"J
bright stars, Castor nnd I'ollus ("taj
......a , ..to V.V. ...17 ...W . ""-
Orion, ,
10, Walking- the plank was a pirate """j!'
folded, his arms wero bound and ne ,i!
forced to uulk off u nlunk Into the sasl
V1
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71
Moncv to Holland
M. H. M.Tho Belgian Relief Com'mli-.jl
slon, 1521 Walnut Btrcet, advises senainajj
money to Holland or Belgium by banKa
draft, which Insures it against loss. Tiieffl
la norlnln rluV nllarhad In tl.A aAnrtlnfi SRS!
lolfru iiatinltt. r a Halov.H I., it If thlSS.
precautlon is taken the sender unI"'!P,S
no loss. Mall goes by way of England. Th J
letter from the Belgian soldier, fcrnoyj
Konen, Interned in a lamp at Zeist, IIol!n.j
was printed on tho editorial page Mrcni
27, It stated that he had certain artlew
for sale rings, brooches, etc. to support
nis motner. v.
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Bull Run
W. n. T. -The first battle of .Bull fli
was fought July 21, 1861. The eteotmi
battlo of Bull nun was fought. August In
3Q. is63. Both, wore wpu by tr.e uw
leueraics, n
, ,
Naval Yeoman
S. K. II. .Yeoman In tha navv nr
vlded Into classes. A recruit receives C17
a montn; tiura-ciass yeoman, SZ3; dccoh
ciass, ss.bo; nrst-ciass, 54H ; chief yoon
with acting appointment, ?eS; ohlf-t ycoa
with permanent aDnoliitmant.SH.A !::
edge of shorthand Is no'a, lequlrcioont
uumunns; pormar.r.r, ,, appoin;m(;i-.c. j '
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