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, ',.. LET THE LINE BE DRAWN
'"'l TN HI8 letter to Max Eastman, editor
J, ., ',;' of a radical publication which had been
" 'r'krred from the malls, President Wilson,
'r . referring to free speech, said:
- ' I think that a time of war must be
C regarded as wholly exceptional and that
R la legitimate to regard things which
would in ordinary circumstances be In
nocent as very dangerous to the public
welfare; but the line Is manifestly exceed
: lng hard to draw, and I cannot nay that I
' . have any confidence that I know how to
draw It. I can only say that a line must
be dfawn and that we are trying, It may
,i be clumsily, but genuinely, to draw It
without fear or favor or prejudice.
Thcro Is now a proposal before tho
V Senate" to deprive La Follctte and other
V" '-'members of their seats on the ground
, ." that their utterances are seditious and
" C their propaganda a menace to the suo-
Mssful prosecution of the war. The at-
'-") tltude of these persons is, In effect, that
' tree speech Is guaranteed by the Con-
. atltutlon, that they cannot be restrained
,;''""' legally In any manner whatsoever and
h" that It Is not within the province of the
Senate or any other body to examine
"i ' s Into the effect of their utterances or tho
wisdom of them.
- ' In March, 1861, Jesse D. Bright, thrice
Senator from Indiana, wrote to "His Ex-
' ',' eellency, Jefferson Davis, President of
'', the Confederate States," a letter Intro-
,",-' uclng an Inventor who wished to dls-
','., pose of an Improved firearm. The afore-
"-'' ' said Bright was handled with gloves by
'-the Judiciary Committed of the Senate;
-, J' but Charles Sumner finally forced a vote,
and Bright, In February, 1862, was for-
hally expelled. The Senate, If two-thirds
f'vi, e-f the membership will It, can expel a
.' ; nember without giving any reason what-
' ver. It can expel him for genoral "cus-
",. " aedness," The power Is unquestioned.
Sut In the case of La Follette and his
' ' associate agitators, Is It expedient and
do he and they deserve the humiliation?
, As to the expediency of it, there is a
Sfsowerful pacifist element In the North-
: iwest, a deluded element, and undoubtedly
' .. V.tho Wisconsin Senator has relied for sup-
iert on lhIs home sentiment. He is
i" , making political capital by taking issue
' ', ' with national policies because he believes
' that those national policies are not local
- w policies. Popularity in his territory, ,he
$, concludes, Is on the other side of tho
fence. He Is probably wrong; but whether
he Is wrong or right, expediency should
not govern the Sonata's action. When
you get hold of a traitor, skin him. There
'in nothing else to do.
We are for free speech. America
'lauds Harden because he tells the truth
el'il-.: 1? Germany and fears no man. Patrick
pjafSj Henry was. not afraid of treason. For
SiXirSP.'hlirt there was only one treason, and that
was; treason to his own people and his
wn country America. But a war of
the character of that in which we are
engaged makes new rules. Traitors could
run wild and trouble-makers talk their
heads off until war was declared. Then,
fey all the precedents set, there could be
?.V but one Americanism, and that the Amer-
"&$ ' icahlsm of co-operation. But under tho
jR&sk of free speech certain of our pub
lic men are engaged In a slimy, reptllloila
tnOycment. They do not demand that
the war end. They attempt rather to
- ' 4oHipel the adoption of policies which
..-''' ... . A. . i . . . .
weuld assure the defeat of our troops In
.he field. They want to bring it about
Hbt failure Will rest everywhere on our
.sines' and we be 'forced to acceptance ot
i?Jrman terms, They siek to create class
,,i teanIon and dissipate the energies of
jitfc natlob. They are not truly paclAsts;
'. i ..--
xne president, witn his accustomed
tact, has stated the case In a nutshell.
Xtotraordlnary occasions require extraor-
V-j0tiftry treatment- Ha dislikes to draw
11b t fill; but he cannot prosecute
war successfully unless he does and
its gelnf o see that this country is sue-
lid matter1 how many La Fol-
there are. Every cltlsen Is at llb-
- be an Ainerlcan. but no citizen la
ItMtr t it . traitor.
JTMIAniUKt NAVAL ETIQUETTE
$? ' jsMsne war has fostered uhma rnr(nti
AHfet..W newt more curious than
fet of sWitasy .14 SAltora atrplllnsf with
nrifesri isnmi Mam tVowt street The
riwo's eye AC MMjM, k
, t '..ft
m MH4 th "iKlr ot ,tha . But,
till the, vrkt came and broke traditions',
right and left, such an Informal state
of affairs was unthinkable.
Class, caste, call It what you will, was
rigidly observed In all branches of tho
service. Army mn, while conceding
politely the worth of rival organltatlons,
till felt the army to be distinctly the top
of the heap. The sailor walked, talked,
ate and slept with his "buddle." The
tnarlpe didn't know any friends but tho
marines.
Pro-Germans nnd pacifists, who say
over and over that this Is not a war of
and for democracy, can And their silent
answer on Broad street. When an Inter
national struggle shatters naval etiquette
and pairs up the blue ot the sailor with
tho buff of tho marine, It must have Borne
big democratic thought behind It. For
beating Germany Is almost an easy Job
compared to beating old, unwritten cus
tom into Insensibility.
A GIANT FOR A GIANT'S TASK
WE HAVE repeatedly pointed out In
theso columns that price-Axing Is a
dangerous and difficult adventure and
only undertaken because the ordinary
laws of supply and demand have fatted
to function.
The appointment of William Potter as
fuel administrator for Pennsylvania
catapults him into one of the most Im
portant positions under tho Government.
It Is not too much to say that the coal
supply of this Stato will virtually bo a
decisive factor in the conduct of the war.
It is an Industrial war and fuel is the
vitals of Industry. In view, too, of tho
many abusos practiced In the handling of
coat, frequently resulting in scandal, none
but a man of the highest character,
trusted both as to his integrity and his
ability, could hope to nil successfully the
office to which Mr. Potter has been as
signed. Ho should have the active co-operation
and support of citizens generally, par
ticularly of men engaged In the coal in
dustry, and we trust that he will have it.
"WITH COMPOUND INTEREST"
LLOYD GEORGE has at last come to a
1 decision about reprisals, and It Is
typical of him that when he onco decides
a question he chooses no half-way meas
ure. "We will not enly bomb Germany, but
will give thorn compound Interest."
This Is the Premier's terse reply to the
maiming of London school children. It
Is not the reply that dno would make to
an enemy with a normal mind. But the
Allies are not dealing with normality.
The German ruling-class mind is per
verted. It has actually counted upon
English humanity not to rotallate for air
raids upon noncombatants. There seems
to be no way to bring such savagery to
terms other than by using the
'
only
methods which it can understand.
LAND OF THE FREE PLOTTER
AMASS of evidence has been unearthed
by the Federal authorities to prove
that the Eddystone munitions explosion
was tho result of a plot. This announce
ment was foreshadowed In the Evening
LGDaun's accounts of the Oleaster at the
time. But It seems to be an Inveterate
American habit to think no evil of spies
and to be kind to traitors. A'8"" every
one of the many outrages committed on
our toll since August, 1814, there was
always a large number of persons ready
to say "It was an accident" even before
all the surface facts in the case were
reported.
Nowhere else In the world do traitors
and spies have so free a foot as here. A
pro-German newspaper printed In Eng
land or France at this tlmo would be In
conceivable. A shower of paving stones
would stop such a thing before it was
fairly started. It Is not an overAne sense
of Justice that permits pro-Gormanlsm
to Aourlsh; a nation that is easy on
lynchers cannot boast of that. A
perverse sense of humor which Insists on
treating serious matters lightly has
given plotters the idea that they can
go very far without paying the penalty.
I. W. W. plotters and other tools of
the Kaiser must be taught a lesson. And
that lesson Is one which an easy-going
people needs as much as the plotters do.
THE LOCAL APPLICATION
THE Evening Ledger recently printed
a Kipling poem, written when the poet
was at the height of his power. The
poem did not At the facts which formed
Its theme, but It was In many respects
an exact picture of the situation in Phila
delphia. An explanation relative to Kip
ling and Pamell we print elsewhere In a
letter to the editor, but there Is, no ex.
planatton, we bellevi, of the application
to present conditions of the line, "We
are not ruled by murderers, but only
by their friends." The truth of It Is
evident to everybody. Nor, had tho poet
composed his verse in this city last week,
could ho have expressed the truth moro
eloquently and succinctly than In the
lines:
They only said "Intimidate," and talked
and went away.
By God, the boys that did the work were
braver men than theyl
Curleyl Thompson!! Smith!!! Who's
Mayor of St. Louis?
Maybo the Vares were misinformed
when they said that Moloney sent the
thousand-dollar bill to himself.
The Vare camp 1b said to be dazed
somewhat as the result ot recent revela
tions. Maybe, the murder fitM a "plant"
to dUcredlt the Mayor.
It must be confessed that the
Giants enter the world series with con
siderable' conAdence in view of the fact
that Philadelphia- la not their opponent.
Maybe It will he discovered by the
factions that Eppley conspired with him
self to get himself murdered for political
reasons. The whitewashes are making
ready for another killing.
It It Is anyworse for the Kaiser to
seize Belgium than it is for the Varcs
and MoNlchol to parcel put the wards
of Philadelphia, we cannot see It. The
chief difference appears that one set of
tfeuM Debt vw4r national tok whll
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OTDQ-BlM
XX S. HAS CORNER
ON WORLD'S GOLD
But Financiers Arc Watching
Anxiously for Now Develop
ments of Situation
By WILLIAM ATHERTON DU PUY
WASHINGTON, Oct. 2.
AMERICA has a corner on the gold of
tJ- the world. She has Ave times as much
of it as any nation In the world ever had
since time began. SHe has drained the
surplus gold from nil the earth since the
war broke out and now sits In an embar
rASsment of wealth and wonders what she
Is to id with It,
It Is a problem whether the United States
should let this golden hoard flow away
or hold to It. There have boen of late cer
tain tendencies for gold to go to-Japan and
to Spain. Uncle Sam has watched these
nations reach Into his storchoue and take
out little packages of ten or twenty mil
lions at a time, golden loads for half a
dozen automobile trucks, nnd walk away
with them. To be sure, there Is the ex
planation tnat the balance ot trade Is In
favor of those nations and that the gold Is
taken to adjust thoe balances. But Uncle
Sam has the gold and he Is chary rif let
ting It go merely for the sake of a re
adjustment that might be made In some
other way.
So on September 7 the President Issued
a proclamation, which stated that gold
might In future be exported only under
certain conditions. It was put under an
embargo, as have been somo other com
modities. If the Federal Reserve Board
passed the Shipment and Its action was ap
proved by the Secretary of the Treasury
the gold might be shipped. Otherwise It
must remain where It Is.
Gold Supply Has Doubled
In the world today there Is $9,000,000,000
worth of gold. There Is 13, 000,000.000 tied
up In Jewels, ornaments, Industries and
private hoards. There Is nnother $3,000,
000,000 In the treasuries of nations exclu
sive of the United States. There Is $3,000.
000,000 In the treasuries of the United
States.
Of the gold of the world that Is used
as money and held as a basis for the cir
culation or paper monoy nnd other credits
that Is. of the gold that is publicly owned
the United States possesses one-half. The
United States Government has as much
gold as have the Governments of all of
Kurope and Asia and tho rest of tho Amer
icas and an Incidental Africa and Oceania
combined. On September 1 It possessed
$3,060,991,900 worth of It.
This Is virtually twice as much gold ae
we had when the great war broke out. At
that time the United States had $1,300,
000.000. Then, when the war broke, for six months
Europe made great demands upon our gold.
This was because Europe was Helling to us
more than wo were selling to her and the
balance had to bo paid In gold. What
Europe was selling was American securities
In which she had Invested. For six months
every ship that left this country for Europe
carried a few tons of gold. Europe drow
$175,000,000 out of this country In the Arst
six months of war. This was a little mat
ter of 33 S tons of gold as much of It as
might be hauled on 200 big drays.
American Annnclers were becoming much
alarmed about this outflow of gold when
tho tide turned. Europe had liquidated
as far as she could nnd was forced to be
gin heavy buying over here. Soon Europe
was buying more from us than she was
selling to us. and so the gold started back
In paying her balances.
This process has been going on steadily
for two years and a half. Everv day of
that period has witnessed the landing of
on average of B000 pounds of pure gold on
the docks of America. Now the hoard has
reached $3,000,000,000. It has stopped
since this country has extended vast credits
to Its allies abroad. We are now allowing
them to pay their balances In theso credits
Instead of In gold. So the gold Is no longer
coming. It Is even showing a tendency to
steal away. ,
Two Hundred Millions Here
Most of this gold Is In the subtreasurles.
Before the war came tho mint nt Denver
had the greatest store of gold In America,
There was halt a billion stored there. In
those days only a hundred million or so was
kept In New York and Philadelphia. But
gold has flowed Into New York so fast that
there has been difficulty In hauling It away.
So great sums have accumulated there. To
day there Is some $700,000,000 In the New
York Subtreasury, which Is the largest sum
of gold at any one place In all the world.
Denver still has Its $500,000,000. San Fran
Cisco Its $300,000,000, Philadelphia Its $200,
000.000 and other points lesser amounts
The possession of this vast hoard ot gold
raises many questions that are In the realm
of political economy, Gold Is the basis of
the currency of the world and therefore of
the monotary systems of nations upon which
Is founded their credit. The United States,
possessing this gold, possetses boundless
credit and power of commercial expansion.
But the United States does not need credit.
Instead of getting credit her province now
Is to extend it. It Is the nations abroad
that need the credit and will need It after
the war. Those nations have become poor
In gold, the basis for credit. Is It, there
fore, in the Interest of the United States to
retain all this gold or should It allow it to
flow back to the nations that need to
borrow?
This Is a question that Is Just now being
given very intensive study by the Federal
Reserve Board and the Secretary of the
Treasury. The proclamation of the Preil
dent does not necessarily stop the flow of
gold to other countries. It places the con-
irui ai mai now in me nanos of itho Treas
ury Department Thus would It seem that
the United States occupied a nosltlnn ,,.
It could allow those nations whom It chose
to recoup their gold supply and prevent
those It chose from doing so. In other
words, this Government would seem to Be
In control of the gold situation of the
world.
Golden Flood From Africa
England Is In a position of greater free
dom from a gold standpoint from, the In
fluence of the United States than Is any
other nation. Great Britain produces moro
gold than does any other nation, not ex
cepting the United States. South Africa
Is now pouring out a golden flood that sur
passes the production of any other region
The world now produces about $470,000 -000
in gold annually. For a decade the
production has approximated that figure
For twentyflve years the gold produotlon
has been very rapidly on the Increase. The
uutpuumiK ui sum ueHaii wnn me develoD
ment of the cyanide method of refinement
Under Its Influence annual production
quickly became ten times what it had been
before, a hundred times the value of the
output of Afty years earlier. The lresur!ea
ot the world all went On the gold basis and a
world price for gold was established. All
nations bought whatever gold was offered
at $20.T an ounce. There was the great
reservoir of empty treasuries to be filled
and the gold tide was without let or hln.
drance.
Last yar there was a falling oft of
$8,000,000 In the world output This year
there promises to be a still further de
dine. This Is due to the fact that the
price of gold Is fixed. It remains at $10 67
an ounce. The cost of production has n
creised and ,the profits are correspondingly
There Is a theory quits generally accepted
that the trend of prices upward dunno- h.
last twenty years has been due to the cheap
ening of gold. Gold, as the basis of cur
reney, has been getting cheap because of
the Increased supply. Therefore all money
is Cheap and It will npt buy the quantity
of merchandise It formerly did,
If this theory of the cheapness nt i.
is correct it Is probable that the United
States will And Itself igaln In the lap r
good fortune, It has cornered the sum-
of gold while it Is at the very bottom ot the
price list Now that production Is to fall
esT. the vilun ot n-oM will lnrr.. h-t'
Unto Mates has unlimited QUMlits of
i.
VDELrtlTAV
Tom Daly's Column
BALLADE OV A BTIlAmE -Y0RD
October datiB,
ll'Acrt sklct ate Hue,
I yearn for way
Mv youth once knew;
When cares were few,
And never great,
I'd nothing do
But "aprlcate."
Today mv gate
Dtrected to
What Webiter tavt
Bow language grtnot
I come unto
That viord ornatt.
Don't "tuts" or "stew,"'
But "aprlcate."
' BmaU good Ufa pays v
To me or you,
When worry twayt
The health askew.
To rclmiue
Wtth "pep" our state,
We shouldn't "rue,"
But "aprlcate.''
Envoy.
Ye gods I Wc sue
From morn till late:
Let's nothing do
But "aprlcate."
For the beneflt of one who may happen
to read this Almsy column while riding in
a street car (and more than once we have
caught folks doing It), nnd who would,
therefore, not be within easy reach of
Webster's Unabridged, we would say that
"aprlcalo" In the nbove ballado means
"to bask In the sun."
What greater proof could there be of
the damnable character of this war than
the righteous uprising of so many mild
mannered men to tho apex of pointed
language. Saying which we Introduco
the Rovercnd J. Richard Blcklng, of
Rldgely, Md who In turn presents:
The Declining Kaiser
Past Bill
Present Ill
Future -....., L
Or If a double portion seem deserved,
make the Future Double Ell.
Somo day we mean to get 'round to a
review of Kit Morlcy's "Parnassus on
AVheels," but here while we're loafing on
the Job the Hosklns Shop seems to have
token n leaf from that Inspiring little
tale, advertising a "unique book wagon,
mahogany, rubber tired."
THE WEDDJXG AXXIVER8ARY
Eel, mebbe so, you gotta wife
Dat's good as inlnc to me.
You wccll be glad for mak' her life
So happy as can be.
Las' fall Carlotta tak' my han'
An' maka mo so happy man;
Wan year today she ces my mate.
An' so tonight we celebrate.
You theenk I would forgot da day
Dot pour sooch sunshlna on my wayf
Ah I no, I gona lat her see
How kinda husban' I can be;
IIoiv glad I am she ccs so true,
lloio proud for all da tcork she do.
An' so for mak' her work for me
More easy dan cet use" for be,
An' show how mooch otj 7iearf ces stir1
I buy a lectla geeft for her.
Carlotta got so pretta hair,
I buy her som'theeng nice for wear
EM W'att 01 no, ces nofa hat;
Ees som'theeng wooch wtoro use dan dat.
Eet's lectla pad, so sof an' theeck
An' stuff weeth wool, dat she can steeck
On top da hair upon her head,
So Uka lectla feathra bed.
Ect sure tt'eel mafc' her fttla good
W'en she ees carry loada wood;
An' mebbe so eet halp her, too,
For carry more dan now she do.
So mooch tceefh, love my heart ees stir'
I buy dees lettla geeft for her.
Eef, rtieolo so, you gotta wife
Dat's good as mine to me.
You, too, would try for mak' her life
Bo happy as can be.
Comes a card designed and printed by
a prisoner In the Eastern Penitentiary,
evidently not a Teuton, which bears the
legend, "When an Angel Is wanted In
Heaven an Irishman dies."
That modest boast was Arst made by
another Irishman, who tickled tho sides
pf theatregoers twenty years ago as no
one has been able to do it since "J. W.
Kelly, the Rolling Mill Man.-"
Kelly used to say: "When an Irish
man dies It's bekaso t.iere's an angel
short In Heaven, nothln' elso at all.
Heaven Is our home. That's the reason
so mlnny av us is blowed up In quarries
we gotta go thatway anyhow. An' thin
they wake us. Th' other night I was
app'lnted fur t' rlffcree a German wake.
Ye may well laugh; fur 'twas foolish.
Whin a Dutchman Is dead, he's dead, an'
that's all there Is about ltj but whin an
Irishman dies ye gotta keep yer eye on
'1m two or three nights, I don't care what
ye say."
KELLY was so easily king of monol
oglsts in those days that scores ot
smaller fry attempted to puff thflmsolves
up to his caliber and modeled their pat
ter upon his. The amateur entertainers
went even further and frankly stole his
stuff. We were one of this class ourself,
and we used to think It was at us, In par
ticular, that Kelly leveled that clever
song of his, lambasting the fellows who
claimed they could do his stuff as well as
he and which had for refrain "Like Kelly
Can."
Who's got a copy of lti
I
GEORGE . FULLER GOLDEN, It
seems to us now, was the only contem
porary ot Kelly's who came within hail
ing distance of him at all, and Golden
passed but a good many Vfiars ao, Gbld
en was not a Phlladelphlan, we think,
but this old town has produced most of
the big vaudeville artists whose names
have been accorded the dignity of electric
lights above the theatre door. Kelly's
real -name was Shields and he was; born
somewhere n the old city limits. Then
mere' were ne n.erneu Brothers, and a
string ot lesser lights, doming down to
Frank Tinney and Jack Norworth In our
own day. But the real Irish variety actor
(there was jio "voderUU' then) trod the
beads' of th old Cetr) ?t, fe.
)AYiK&misiiM:iJW
WINTER'S THREAT
TO FRENCH POOR
Mrs. Duryea Says Money Will
Literally Save Lives Parnell
and Kipling
To the Editor of the Evening Ledger:
Sir Mrs. Nina Larrey Duryea, president
of the Secours Duryea, Paris, writes the
following letter after having seen Verdun.
She sends a very urgent plea for money,
as tho reorganization of the Red Cross will
delay the supplies that go to her regularly
from here.
"Yesterday I went to glorious Verdun.
Wordi fall me I The world never saw such
a stupendous monument to human endur
ance and courage. The military comman
dant, Dehay, was more than kind ; he took
us through the miles of rutned streets,
where no living creature stirs; and one
sees half a ruined wall, with Its memory
of luxurious homos, where weeds grow in
the drawing room and birds sing In the de
serted gardens, among Nature's eternal
resurrection of beauty.
"This vast citadel, which withstood Ger
man might, is more lmpresslvo than a bat
tlefleld. Huge bombs still fall, and each
day takes its toll, while the serene cem
etery in the Aeld spreads and spreads, and
the blood-red popples grow from the grave
of those brave men, as though proving that
their very sustenance was drawn from
thoso quiet hearts to give us the message.
'I am the resurrection and the life.' Beg
your bit of America to prove their valor,
that It may share in their glory,
"This depot cares for the wan widows
and their children, who come here by hun
dreds, wincing from the unaccustomed
charity; tho babies blue-lipped from poor
nourishment and the terror to which they
were born. If only once for once would
be enough those beautifully dressed and
kindly women at home could see these
they would spend themselves In very pity.
Three years hayo they borne such suspense
and disaster as the world has never known,
and now It Is 'up to us' to sharo a minute
part of the struggle. Oh ! I beg you, with
all tho earnestness of which I am capable,
to give, give, give as never before, for the
coming winter we contemplate with fear
for them. Franco is ngnung witn superb
determination for victory, and when one
contemplates what she has paid, one feels
that all one has Is not enough to give.
"And so, I beg brarenly ahd without
shame. I know how really hard you work,
but, remember, you work In comfort and
plenty I You will never be hungry or
see your home a cindered ruin, or those
dear to you, in their old age, bereft ot
everything but sorrow. The immensity of
this tragedy Is beyond description. There
fore, I ask of you one thing: wherever you
go, whoever you speak with, beg ask them
to deny themselves a theatre ticket, a box
of cigarettes, ahd send the money here.
It will literally save lives In this-fair land
of France, to which we of America owe
such a debt of gratitude."
Mrs. Duryea's'work Is almost entirely
among the refugees. A soldier will never
starve and a soldier will never go naked;
the Government sees to that; but the Gov
ernment canno.t and does not look after
the civil population, and that Is our part ot
the Job. Send me any sum, however small,
and I -will forward the amount to Mrs.
Duryea, In Paris, to buy supplies over there.
Checks m.ty be made out to Margaret
French, treasurer, and mailed to Miss
French, Chesterwooa, Ulenaale, Mass.
' MAROARET FRENCH.
Qlendale, Mass., September 10.
PARNELL AND KIPLING
To th Sdltor of the Evening Ledger:
Sir The reference to Charles Stewart
Parnell, in Introducing a Kipling poem
that you seem to think applies to the Fifth
Ward murder and outrages. Is based upon
a misunderstanding ot the facts. Ycu prob
ably had In mind what Is known as the
Parnell Commission, whtoh unquestionably
was the greatest political and personal trl
Umph In the eventful life of the great Irish
leader.
In th year 1I0 the London Times pub.
llshed, In facsimile, letters alleged to hava
been written by Mr Parnell and distinctly
Instigating crimes In Ireland. For mMi,.
the Times Jrd Parnell to bring libel suit
a alnat It, and thus test In oouh the nuJ
.immkis mm wtwi. raw sir. fartuji
Y$HEL5L'OUT, WHQEVBR'S FOR
tho Government to appoint a Royal Com
mission, before which he denied absolutely
that lie had ever written a single one of the
letters published. During the sitting ot the
commission In London, Henry Labouchere,
editor of Truth nnd an English member of
Parliament, was awakened one night and,
going himself to the door, found there
Richard Plggott, the chief witness against
Mr. Parnell. Then and there Plggott con
fessed that he had forged the Parnell let
ters Mr. Labouchero Immediately sent for
his neighbor, George Augustus Sala, then
one of the great literary lights of the world,
and In the presence of these two gentlemen
ho reduced his confession to writing and
signed It. The next day he fled to Spain to
escape an Indictment for perjury, and about
a week afterward committed suicide In
Madrid.
Of course, the Times publicly withdrew
Its charges against Mr. Parnell and made
a complete apology. It also paid the ex
penses of tho commission, a rather consid
erable sum. Mr. Parnell's entry Into the
House of Commons a few days afterward
provoked one of the most remarkable ova
tions ever given there. Members of the
Government and opposition benches rushed
forward to shake his hand, while from the
body of the House, and even the strangers'
gallery, n burst of cheering arose and con
tinued for nearly Ave minutes.
"You must have felt proud over such a
wonderful demonstration," said a frlond to
Mr. Parnell, In the lobby, later.
"Not a bit," he replied. "All these fellows
would leap at my throat if they felt, that
way."
The Plggott confession caused a remark
able revulsion of feeltng toward Mr. Parnell
In England, for his calmness, fortitude and
forbearance In the face of bitter persecu
tion and systematic vilification were Imme
diately recognised and appreciated.
It Is unfortunately true that during the
Incident of the Land League agitation,
when famine Joined hands with the land
lord evlctor In decimating the Irish peas
antry, agrarian crimes wero rife. But
neither Mr. Tarnell nor any other member
of the Irish Parliamentary party Indorsed
such crimes, and there was not a shred of
evidence to Justify the slang and the slan
der of the author of 'The female of the
species Is more deadly than the male."
J. ST. GEOROE JOYCE.
Philadelphia, September 26.
COMMENDATION
To the Editor of the Evening Ledger:
Sir The .Evening LEroan every evening
with Its powerful editorials and the latest
happenings of the day. oomes next to my
pipe for a good evening's comfort at home.
I also wish to ' congratulate your car
toon!'. Mr. Sykes, for the wonderful car
toons that appear dally In the columns of
your great newspaper, and I think they
should be shown everywhere.
A P.EQULAR READER.
Reading, Pa., October 2.
THE CONGRESSIONAL JUNKET
Our guess Is that those Congressmen
will take that Junket to the European
battle front after the war Is over Bos
ton Transcript
A REFORMED PACIFIST
Whenever Mr, Bryan says that It's the
right kind of a war and that we must
see It through, It's time for the other
pacifists to come Into camp and 'surrender
Charleston News and Courier,
LITTLE BOY BLUE
The llttlei toy. dog la covered with dust.
But sturdy and stanch he stands:
And the little toy soldier Is red with rust
And his, musket molds In his hands,
Time was when the little toy dog was new
And the soldjer was passing fair: '
And that was the time when our Little
Boy Blue
Kissed them and put them there.
"Now, don't you go till I come," he said
"And don't you make any noise I"
So. toddling oft to his trundle-bed.
He dreamt ot the pretty toys;
And, as he was dreaming, ah angel song
Awakened our Little Boy Blue
Oh I the years are many, th years are Ion
But the little toy friends are true.
As. faithful to Llttl Boy Blue thty stand
Each In the same old place, '
Awaiting the tOUch ot a little hand.
The smile ot a little face i
And they wonder, as watting the lone
years through v
In the dust .of that little bhelr.
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What Do You Know?
QUIZ
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ni "Krurrui liioi it. wiiuom infi
llT "major" or "lieutenant" or "b
nuier." no were tneM
Ahnilt IiAiv flip tiRVA tllA Ormtn nlftliM !
so from their bjse to the EnilUh teui'i
on uieir rmusT
Is nu nrmjr or nary olTlrer nupmited to tit
inn nui 10 ii vfomun in Bpeaun
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5, DIMayed on a wall at Oxford .t'nltrfaltr
an a superb specimen or written J.
tVhn rn Mrn. lljxhy and what wl
ii is juinroin'H leuer to sirs, til
orralon that uroduerd the turnout fettrr? F 1
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law. Why? '
when one says,- "That ta
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What Is meant br the tnow-llne, when eat
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answers 10 icsieraays juii ,
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nrM. muunrr nrarr m eneeieo. in revs
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3. A monttrnnce U an open or trantpemt - I
Jfstel of sold or sllrer In which tMf.l
. .tatholle Church.
4. The I'rlvy .I'line OfTlce and the rrlntl .
(ecretary'B Offlcei comprise the "nertenw
department" of the Knstitb Ulna's, bom
hold.
n. llfrnnrrf Kh.u. fil Ail.a l- Dln.M anj
Henry Arthur Jones are genera r, rr-.!
curded as the three leodlns drstnitlitl I 1
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and autumni tolttlces at the betlnnlntK,,
mtiiiiiiri is niiurrt i q
7. The Momeu'a Clirlntlan Temperance, Vnm 1
lind lu origin In the great anil-liquor '
cruauno or 187J. . ,
8. Aurna l the. chief seaport ot niitrU.
located on the liar of Ynrns. 325 biuh
by rnll niHt-nartheaet of Hoi
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THE WEREWOLF AT LARGE
The man who was also a werewolf sat 1
his arbor, drlnklnir excellent hfi.
'i
He was not an Ill-looking man. His toni
ness for an out-of-door life had given him '
ruddy color. He was tall and blond. H!
eyes were gray. But there was a shlttra
look In them, now dreamy, now fierce; At
times they contracted to mere silts. H
chin sloped away to nothing. His legs win
long and' thin, his movements springy n4
uncertain.
The philosopher who came to pay his re
spects to the man who was also a werewolf
(whom we shall henceforth call MWAW tof4
short) was'riamed Professor Schmuck. Hill
wis a globular man. with nrotrudlng chlnt--
blue eyes, much magnified by immense spe,j
mcies. me lame ot his book on "Escnato
logical Problems Among the Hlvltes al
Hittltes" was world-wide. But his re,
specialty was Universal bnnnMn.
Yet on entering the arbor where MWAW J
Was Blttlnir fVila ,n.U..... J r ..rail '
One made three deep obeisances, as If M
were approaching an Idol, and stammer!
In a husky voice: "Highly Exalted I dirt
'Ah, our good Schmuck J" said MWA"W
turning in his chair arid recrosslng his ll
Come In. Take place. Take beer, tfaks"
breath. Speak oiit."
The professor, thus graciously reassured,';
set forth his errand.
"1 have come to vnu tiim. rwalttd. to
Inquire your ertited views op the subjeet'i
vi .rtnuuiropy.rour Exaltedness knows- j
. "Yes, yes." broke In MWAW. "old T,
tonic legend. Men become wolves. Htronf-1
"", ""u irceB. Dreea. Kat people p
Frighten everybody. Ravage counryll.
Beautiful myth I Teaches power Is grsatt.t
thS?' . y,Kht VM rin. Force over all'"
Certainly, Highly Exalted," said SchmufK
humbly, "it Is a wonder-btautlful myth, full
of true ideallm. But what If It ost tt
purely mythical quality and became hl;i
torlcal, actual, contemporaneous? Wp!
It not change its aspect? Would not PP.
","i wnt not the werewolf wm.
himself d s Iked?"
"Perhaps." answered MWAW, smiling tlllj
h Is eyes almost disappeared. "But whatj
difference? Ignorant people, weak peopli.1
no account. Werewolf is stronger tWA
mereiore superior. Objections silly." '
. "True. Rxaltedness" slid SchmucV. .'I
a the first dqty of eVery Ideal to r4'?t
Itself. Yet In this nartlrnlar matter th
complaints are very bittet. ft Is ea4 ttii
great numbers of helpless men and worn".!
have been devoured, ih.ir .MMrn torn to -3
pieces, their farms and e.rrl.n. ravared aftV,
(heir houses destroyed by werewolves W$n
nwuiir, onau 1 aeny ur" . VJ
"No.' rrowUil MWlw vnaa't k a foekf- A I
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