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Canada, op lTnlt Htat mi. itaaa fraa. flrtv isdi rkni nr mMih iUm .. .. r :-IL.L . j " " ill (ortlca countries one (II) dollar per -i -iT i a v Tfivnins uurmj cnansva V MUtft Hv old 4U wtll a nw &ddrai. - ewa. 1. - mULI. j . . a "" ra-ZS ;,,. r . fmiv waiwt, jaAin jvuo VTH tfjLitrtf an ommtt(catont to Kvtnlna rMlo .A..v l Talcrr, tidndeno gowore. fMladelpnia. W?Vt V. ' ' - fi-J s xtUD xr Tin rnttJ.DU.rau rotr orrici i: RV laooxo cun ViiL iiama. fe'iK. - -.. - " t' f'w rkiieaupaie. rruaf, Mkraitr :z. I'll K34 i WASHINGTON 'iF ALIi tho yelptne, squarklng Infanta KfeU ? 8at men nave been caueu upon 10 Sir' .. . .ii1a4 In bIiaa- InnhlnltffiniV rrf . IlUlDVfl 14U1IQ ,HUftlt. 111 Olirvi lll.uivii.tiiv rntr1rtmrflt amhlv of KnvertMrm .flrrnmrnnnuTAnKViH wlilnli frathfrod themselves ...... , toaxeuier to oe Known as me uniteu oiaiea. ft nM.. nfiitH of inn nnntlipr nnrl fill A44CJT 0 &kv w..w ......-- ari! of foreign Powers. Half of them wern under the Influence of dangerous demagogues. Tho little States were Jealous of the big States and the big States were 1 1 ramer contemptuous oi mo muo omic. Tho sun in this heavenly chaos was George Washington. There was a Union because it was understood that ho would President. Ho served two terms, spend in most of his time In Philadelphia, and he was treated by a section of the press with as much respect as if he had been 'a cur dog of unknown parentage who rma permitted to breathe only through the vNJ ,a j ....nAOTn.k tt ilflopnt nnnnlo f cavity anu omiiiu" - -..- ,.v.u who knew him for the cheat he was, but were kind enough In their hearts not to cut his throat. Georgo Washington tow rd above all living men of his time, in ffS. iil own or any other country, but a great fcart of his fellow citizens never knew It and substituted flowers for bricks only vwhen he died. Democracy Is suspicious of all men and particularly suspicious' of rreat men. It-only loves them when they are In their graves. Within a few short years after the pass. lnc of Washington Napoleon was master 'it Europe. Empires yielded to him. No uMUi-a nmilA withstand him and tho list f his conquests read like tho index to a geography. The little fellows began to V Jump for the band wagon. "Poor otu 'C X England," lamented tho elect, and even Pitt examined the British exchequer with misgiving and wondered If it would, Indeed, ever be possible to check the Corsican adventurer. Paris to Moscow was a fact, but Waterloo to Saint Helena was Its a aftermath. Today Germany, having dreamed of ex pansion via Bagdad, finds tossed at her feet mighty Russia, the granary of the 'Bast, whoso territories straddle British India and hang like the sword of Damocles over China. Instead of a route to Bagdad .there is dangled before her eyes a domain from Hamburg to .Vladivostok. She can sacrifice the .ores of Lorraine and northern France,- give up Belgium, even restore it, and if left undisturbed In the East still be. laden with such spoils as no conqueroi v& .in. modern times has ever known. Here Wd . 3"tf . ... Bf " Is a Pan-Germany sure enough, a uoml- hant world Power with such resources In fi, .-men and material that no nation or alliance V-p t nations could hope to meet It on equal terms. We look for remarkable peaco oilers ftrom Berlin In the near future. Peace ow Is everything. If the Allies can bo A fooled Into accepting terms, If they can be wheedled Into giving uermany a few years for' recuperation and organization of Kus- j j Been assets, she will be the colossus she hoped to be, Invincible and unassailable. .iff But1 unless the Allies are fooled, Paris &, metaphorically stands between Berlin and 'the Pacific. The collapse of Russia, the V iuWugation'of Serbia, the netting of Bui- l-&jjria. and Turkey become mere Incidents ' tf, militarism falls in the west. Every inch I" .v t'nf rurman conauest eoes for naught unlean ir'-?-Jn . ..,.. . . M gels peace now or wins in in wcsi. ?AMies noiu tiio iniu ui nuosju in iiivir i .i and, more tnan ever, tne acsiiny or nj- "'fm t, ir er.WDr.iu. ' . The extravagances of guillotine and pro tatairaU did not appeaiioj Washington, The Cfyf Kanoleon would not have impaired , ' viaios,, Hidlcule would not have moved MfB Irom pursuance . of a eane course. .t&k-hti held in .the flnal triumph of . even.aunng tne aaric aays oi t, wouiei nave inspired mm to trtenee'T in the dominance of mMkfpdd (his master and his M.-; wmr ssrmsuy we appaai to, fc Mji0irrli--tt Urn'. -'B&f'tJssaJiifai aiaM(M once more to orderliness and obedlenco to law. We. believe that the voice of Wash' lngton, If that great patriot were alive today, would be emphatlo In opposition to a present peace pact or to any peace pact until militarism has been definitely and unquestionably overcome. PENNELL STRIKES BACK BESIDES being n good artist, Mr. Pen nell has done this city a service by yanking out Into public view several skele tons from tho -closet of hint and gossip for a good airing. Many had wondered whether British officers were getting drinks lit clubs while American officers went dry. It wns a ticklish thing to talk about in public. But now that it has been taken out of tho realm of whisper and Innuendo tho matter can be easily adjusted according to the codo by which gentlemen arrive at decisions when there is any doubt about a matter of ctlquetto in tho public mind. Some people do not llko Mr. Pcnncl! because ho has a way of saying what ho thinks. Tho suspicion went about that ho had criticized tho British Government nearly as frankly as it Is criticized every day in tho House of Commons. So some of tho University of Pennsylvania trustees thought It would bo best to play safe, let tho artist wnlt around for his degree until tho Art Club had straightened out a petty matter of gossip and Incidentally desert him and his nrt at tho very moment when tho big national point of view should have restored tho equilibrium of opinion. It was no business of any one, least of till of a trustee of a kemlpubllc Institution llko a university, to notice what some ono may havo said Mr. Pennell might have meant by some private remark. On the public records Mr. Pennell has been a loyal and useful citizen, and has recently received tho thanks of the Secretaries of War and of tho Navy for his patriotic nnd Inspiring work in depicting tho munition plants of the nation, ills manly letter to the Provost makes every University alumnus rise to the demand for a square deal and a chatico for a man to defend himself. CASH, PLEASE! THB Mayor's appeal for cash wherewith to carry out tho city's agreement in con nection with tho proposed housing plan for Hog Island workers will bo promptly answered by Councils, we do not doubt. There Is no Improvement In which tho money of tho city could be better em ployed. If tho city could not provide it. It would bo worth tho whllo of the com munity to do to by public subscription. But tho city can provide it, and approval of the plan to do so Is virtually unanimous. KAUSMIT'IM! THERE Is one brief message for us to send to Berlin today about Georgo Washington. Ho never told a lie. CONSCRIPTING ICEBOUND HENS POULTRY and all sorts of wild game are sometimes more easily obtainable than beef and bread In belligerent countries, l'ood of the former kind, associated with "living high" in normul times, in the days of tho U-boat can be akin to "living low." At best the prlco qt chicken Is a fancy price, except in parts of the country where chicken is so plentiful that It Is despised. Mr. Hoover lias ordered out tho cold storage chickens, and all of vintage ante dating February 1, 1917, must put on tho uniform of freedom by March 1. after their at least) thirteen months' hibernation. Chicken is not rated us meat on the war menu, and there Is no excuse whatever for keeping up tho prlco of tho fowl, especially since tho exposure has been mado that cold storage Is an artificial method of limiting the supply. THE $30-A-MONTH FALLACY IT IS stupid to try to settle every debate by remarking that a soldier gets only $30 a month. Let a letter carrier ask for more than $800 a year and tho reply Is that a soldier gets $30 a month. Let people whoso Hfo savings aro Invested in railroad stock get their usual Interest and somebody cries out that tho soldier gets only $30 a month. A British toldler has been paid at thu rate of $89 a year. A British second lieu tenant gets $466 a year, not much more than an American private. Japaneso and Austrian private soldiers get $8 a year. Brigadier generals In Franco and Germany aro paid about $2400. Before changing our whole fiscal and Industrial system to a $30-a-month basis, or adjusting tho army pay table by tho principles on which the Stock Exchango figures. It would be well to con sider what a. soldier Is and what work he Is doing. If ono war ruined the South another Is making it. Russia is officially dry. get the stuff, anyway? How do they God sae us from the orators. Even Demosthenes was a poor statesman. 7 In our solicitude for the rights of small nations we cannot overlook Russia. " They appear to have had the Initiative and referendum in Russia, but whet they needed was tne recan. Mr. Pennell is a little wordy. An ordi nary man could have said what he did to the University In three words. Germany reminds us of a gambler with five aces in a western mining camp a mighty fine hand, but he'll never collect on It. " The "Irish Republic" is going to send an envoy to Washington That's the place for IL There's been a Scotch-Irish republic In session there for five years. There are plenty of things for a special session of the Legislature to do, but rati fication of the proposed prohibition amend ment Is not one of them. Who wants to play with loaded dice? Any- one who wants the United, States 'to Pay him more than 4 per cent'on a Liberty Loan jnust' conalder himself not a part of the United States. We can't pull ourselves UP 'by our bootstraps. -;The Introduction ot a resolution In is caning ror an iinwuaaiiun ot tne riamnuiv with 'which ttba Vivnr Im :":' z. : .. . T-r: . -.'". tai a survey oc.tne peaetaa- ettu- aHEHMwaMlgAilJ tu onaaainivm or we' remark.- sg.agy. w rasyy JBSm. COAL-STRIKE RIOTS AND STATE POLICE Governor Pennypacker Tells How Constabulary Handled Mobs During Internal Crisis rcNMrrACKER ACTonioonAriir NO. s (Cewrlelit, mi, bu PuiUo Lttotr Comtanu.) QN THE 4th, the New York Sun had a long editorial, entitled, "No Presidential Intervention This Time," saying that the union leaders were "trying to dragoon tho most exalted personage in the nation Into a wrnnglo with which he has no official connection whatever," that there was a dellnlto report throughout tho anthracite region that the President "has determined to take part today or tomorrow," but that northeastern Pennsylvania was quiet, "thanks to Governor Pennypackcr's un yielding Insistence that law nnd order nust bo maintained." Knowing what thu Presi dent had said to mo at an earlier date, I havo no doubt that this statement was correct, and that ho was waiting to Jump In at tho first opportunity. There was rioting at Mount Carmel and tho mob took possession of tho town. Tho constabulary wcro sent thcro nnd tho mob defied them. Then they rode through tho town. Tho mob assailed them and they shot about eighty men, establishing a reputation which has gone all ovor tho country and has been retained in many trying occasions since, with tho result that tho labor difficulties In tho anthracite coal region entirely dis appeared. It was In every way a most wholesome leson. Tho rights ot labor and tho general sympathy for the man who pro duces the wealth of tho wcrld had been assorted, tho authority of tho Stato had been maintained and violent opposition to the law overcome, and tho aggression of tho National Go eminent, dangerous to both State and nation, had "'eon success fully resisted. There was almost univer sal commendation over tho country. Letters of Approval Reading Terminal. Philadelphia, 7th May, 1900. Mv dear Governor Pennypacker: When I was pressed by the New York Interpsts to urge the Governor of Penn xylvnnlu to take a decided stand for lnw nnd order, I told them that I know the Governor nf Pennsylvania; that he would perform his duty without suggestions from any one: that no one person In tho Commonwealth better understood what was his duty, nnd that he had tho charac ter nnd courago to perform It. I have re ceived a number of telegram.! congratu lating tho Commonwealth on the stand taken by you. and I only want to suy to you now that your nctlon was n most potential factor In bringing about a solu tion of the problem. Yours very truly. GEORGE V. BAEE, May 9, 190G. Hon. Samuel W. Pennypacker, Executive Chamber, Harrisburg, Pa. Dear . Governor I havo yours of the Slh Instant nnd extend to jou iny sincere congratulations on tho firm way in which you handled the strike proposition. Tho effect of your proclamation was excellent nnd it was most timely. Tho result, of course, has a. most Important bearing on the election. Yours sincerely, BOIES PENROSE. To the general approval thero was some exception. I am quite sure tho result and manner in which It was accomplished wero not pleasing to Roosevelt. Collier's Weekly, a sheet published In New York, took ad vantage of tho opportunity, May 19, to produce a poem. It hud recently taken to Its editorial bosom the young Irishman, Mark Sullivan, who, claiming to bo a Pennsylvanlan, had a few years before wTltten tho anonymous and slanderous article on tho Stato for tho Atlantic Monthly. Perhaps tho poem had a like Inspiration. WHO'S ZOO IN AMERICA GOVERNOR SAMUEL WHANGDOODL13 PENNYPACKER Llko Noah Webster, he reclines Within his easy chair. A-tnpplng wisdom's sacred mines And calling here and there. Yet all he finds of perfect minds Up to tho present day Are Moses, Plato, Socrates, Himself and Matthew Quay. Ife's written over fifty books And some are nearly good On railroad Jobs, successful snobs And human brotherhood; And ho can speak In French and Greek On topics of tho day, Like Moses, Plato, Socrates, Himself and Matthew Quay. Oh I Philadelphia's Sabbath calm Sits on his holiness Until by chance his ejeballs glanco Across the dally press. Then, palo before his grumblous roar, Reporters fleo away, Who took In vain by words profane Tho name of him and Quay. Yet soft he roareth since the hour When good Saint Graft was hurled, By anger quick upon tho kick. That echoed round tho world; And cautiously he goes by night, And cautiously by day. For fear some rlpo tomato might Be uimed at him or Quay. But when again tho Heavens smile And public wrath is spent, When Philadelphia sleeps awhile, Corrupted but content; Then sadly Pennypacker comes Forth to the graveyard gray, And lays a grateful wreath of plums Upon the tomb ot Quay. "O Master," twlxt his sobs he saith, "When all cartoonists die, When editors, all gagged to death, 'Neath broken presses lie, Four noblo statues I'll erect with nubile funds to pay: The Glided Hog, tho Yellow Dog, Myself and Matthew Quay." A picture equal In merit to the poem accompanied It. Stopping a Prizefight For the 29thjjf May, a prize fight, under the guise of a boxing bout, between "Bob" Fltzslmmons, the champion, and "Tommy" Burns had been scheduled at a sporting club at North Esslngton in Delaware County. Tho fisticuff fraternity In New York, who feared to run the risk of prose cution under the laws of that State, had arranged to have the bout in the Quaker county of Delaware, just outside of Phila delphia, where, as they convinced them selves, It would bo 'within easy reach and safe. They had the support of the sport ing editors of the Philadelphia Journals, and the scheme was lauded rather than op posed. A special train was engaged to bring over the New York: "fancy" and tickets were so much in demand that they sold as high as $50 each. 'McDado, the conscientious vounir District Attorney of 'Delaware ,Countyr did. .what he could to r.rr.. : . r. a.. -- - 1..- ' wi li'faufta , T-. I - . -. . (. mm 'i . ..- ' Then he came to Harrisburg to seo me. I tried In every way to get Into communi cation with the Sheriff, but he, too, had tho Impression that I was helpless to act, except through his Intervention, and he went Into hiding and escaped all direc tions. Then I called Groome to tho de partment, and said to him: "Gropmo, send somo of your constabu lary down to Esslngton and stop that prize fight." . Ho replied: "Governor, I am rather personally in favor of tho fight, but It you order mo to stop it, I will sco that It Is dono." Tho order was "stop It," Groome sent somo ot his men down thcro and whllo there was a great commotion nnd much swearing, tho fight did not occur. As was to bo expected, tho local paper, having an Interest In common with tho violators of the law, called mo a czar, and said that never beforo had any Governor assumed to overrldo tho Sheriff of tho county. Tho Republican Stato Convention met Juno 7 nnd nominated Edwin S. Stuart for Governor and Robert K. Murphy, an orator with much power of utterance, for Lieutenant Governor, Among tho resolu tions adopted was: We commend tho well-balanced admin istration of Governor Samuel W. Penny packer as capublo, upright nnd business like, oxnet In his attention to adminis tration duties: punctual In tho fulfill ment of Its duties; vigilant In vetoing pernicious legislation; fearless In Its protection of tho poor man's home against railway greed; wise in safeguard ing the water supplies of tho Stato; far seeing In Its Improvement of the public highways: firm In its maintenance of peaco nnd order; successful In the nccom. ptlshment of Important, far-reaching alid substantial reforms; watchful In the care of the Interests of all the people of tho Commonwealth; patriotic. Impartial, Just nnd ruggedly honest. Tomorrow Clovernor rennypf'l.er itU of an other "run In" with the IteimMlran OrganUntlon. JOE "NOBERRY" OF THE SECOND WARD Old-Time Leader Who Jockeyed the Democrats Through Dis cord Into the Discard THE glare of tho limelight upon John M. Nobre In Vare's $100,000 claim for work on League Island Park will disclose In tho background for many the ghostly figuro of old Joe Nobre, the father of John, who was long a character of tho town, ' They called him "Nobcrry" In the Second Ward, and tho clerk of Select Council fell Into that fashion, too, when he called tho roll In that chamber. Possibly Joe himself adopt ed that Americanization of his Portuguese name, for Joe was Americanized all right. Of his beginnings. If there was much of interest to tell, there nre not many now who have knowledge. Ills rise to power In his bailiwick was slow; he didn't leap Into famo at all. No Republican could do that In the days of tho old Democratic Second Ward 1 The way to take those trenches was by mining or sapping, and Joo Nobro proved himself a cute sapper. He didn't attract serious attention in the political acthltles of downtown until the early 80'p, when he began to take adantage of the constant and growing differences be tween the llugcn nnd McGowan factions of tho Democrats, whoso normal majority In the ward was about 2000. Nobre, who was an ardent admirer of Jim McManes, spent his afternoons nt the office of the old Gas Trust In a building on Seventh street aboe Chestnut, whoso site Is now occupied by the Builders' Exchange. Sitting nt the feet of McManes, Nobre nbsorbed political wisdom and later dispensed It or as much as was politic to his henchmen In the ward. His method of entertaining his followers "las unique. Nobre lived in nn old-fashioned house on tho east side of Moynmenslng avenue near Washington avenue which hail a large cel lar door letting upon the front pacment. By day the kids of tho neighborhood slid down It undisturbed, but nt nightfall the door was thrown open Invitingly and the elders were admitted to council. It Is tn the credit ot Joe Nobre that the threshold of his home was seldom profaned by a politi cal, or, Miall we say, a business foot. His family was ncer Intruded upon. Wo can scarcely say thit they wero undisturbed, for there were many hot discussions in that cellar and the raucous voice of Joe himself was of penetrating quality. It was there that all the deals were hatched which eventually switched tho Second Ward Into the Repub lican column and made Joe the acknowledged boss of the district. Sapping Democratic Trenches The old fox had a habit of playing flist with one and then with tho other of the two Democratic factions. One year he'd lino up his crowd with Hagen and the next with McGowan, and while helping the Democrats In one direction always managed to slide through Into olllce one or moro of his own men. His first Important coup of this sort was the election to Melect Council of his man, Matt Clifton. It was the first plum the Republicans had ever shaken down In the ward nnd It mnrked the beginning of the end of Democratic control. The biggest fight In which Nobre figured was that for Register of Wills in 1888, when Jim McManes won the Republican nomina tion for Alfred Gratz nnd elected him by 3000 majority over Robert S. Patterson, Democrat. That victory rhit Joe Nobre firmly in the Second Ward saddle, from which only the black rider on the pale horse was able to oust him. The political promi nence of George McGowan waned as Joe Nobre's waxed. Joe was a curious foil to McGowan, whose dapper, well-groomed little figure was thd Napoleonic center of nil Democratic gatherings of that day. He was a popular president of the Amerlcus Club and had been chairman of the Democratlo city committee when Bill Leeds was the leader of the Young Republicans. Joe Nobre was squat and swarthy and trailed a crooked leg. He sported a ferocious black mustache and In his shirt front perpetually blazed a huge diamond cross. When he entered Select Council, which he did In 1894, his booming olce was seldom heard .in debate. Indeed, our recollection Is that he used it most frequently to second the customary motion for th "suspension of Rule 33 (prohibiting smoking) for one-half hour," made by Peter Munroe, of the Third Ward, whose seat was beside his, to the left of President James L. Miles. That was about all Munroe ever did; but Nobre was never quite that clam-like. At Infrequent periods he was known to turn his voice loose for a moment or two and "causa the bell In the tower to vibrate In sympathy. He could swear picturesquely upon occa sion, but the occasions, of course, were never made where the Select City Fathers were tn solemn session. He had his own curious brand of logic, and It was Interesting not for Its carrying of conviction, but mainly for the strange language In which It was couched. He was always brief, and he some times said a humorous mouthful In a few words. When the Mutual Automatic Tele phone scandal was electrifying the town and' it was pretty well known that most of the political leaders had received blocks of stock, Nobre arose tn his place In Councils as the resolution of inquiry was about to be put to a vote and. said, "if, this resolution passes th'price,o carpetbags will go up." The resolution did pass, and for a time many.Buapeciaauuwca panic inclination to Mil .BUBtwcw hwito A'paaig inclination, to laelc up a faw due ana fly, But the storm law 'over. law aw , terB)a,.uuaUyjjU, In ka aWaaaK . aaaa' aaM Vtka atealai al 't)W&e - .a fi! HE SURVEYED AND CLEARED THE PATH WE FOLLOW A. - REVOLUTIONS THEN AND NOW What Wilson, Now Up Against Russian Upheavals, Once Said of Washington's Attitude Toward France By WOODROW WILSON I'rom "(Iforito Wnihlnffton." printed hy hpiclal arrangement with Harper A Bros. WASHINGTON had taken Jefferson direct from France, where for five years ho had been watching a revolution como on apace, hurried from ttago to stage, not by statesmen who were masters In the art and practice of freedom, llko those who had pre sided in tho counsels of America, but by demagogues and philosophers rather; and the subtle air of that ago of change had crept Into the man's thought. Ho had como back a philosophical rndlcal rather than a statesman. He had yet to learn. In the practical air of America, what plain and steady policy must serve to win hard-headed men to his following; nnd Washington found him a guide who needed watching. Foreign, affairs, over which It was Jeffer son's duty to preside, began of a sudden to turn upon the politics of France, where Jefferson's thought was so much engaged. The year 1789. in which America gained self pobsesalon and set up a government soberly planned to last, was tho year In which Franco lost self-losResslon nnd set out upon a wild quest for liberty which was to cost her both her traditional policy nnd all the hopes she had of a new one. In that year broke the storm of the French Revolution. It was a dangerous Infection that went abroad from France In those first days of her ardor, and nowhere was It more likely to spread than in America. -Vas not France now moro than ever America's friend and close ally against all the world? 'Twould be niggardly to giudge her aid and ioe to the full In this day of her emulation of America's great example. Washington an Expert on Revolutions But Washington's islon in affairs was not obscured. He had not led revolutionary armies wltnout learning wnat revolution meant. "The revolution which has been effected In France." he raid, "is of so vun derful a nature that the mind can hardly realize the fact" his calm tones ringing strangely amid the enthusiastic cries of the time. "I fear, though it has gone triumphantly through the first paroxysm. It Is not the last It has to encounter before matters are finally Bettled." He hoped, but did not believe, that- It would run Its course without fatal disorders; and he meant, In any case, to cep America from the Infection. She was fiernelf but "In a convalescent Btate," as he said, after her own great struggle. Washington's first nml almost single object at every Dolnt of policy was to make of the provincial States of the Union a veritable nation, independent; at any rate, anu reauy to be great when its growth should come, and its self-knowledges "Every true friend to this country," he said, "at last, must see and feel that tho policy of it Is not to embroil ourselves with anyr.atlon.. whatever, but to avoid their disputes and their politics, and, If they will harass one. another, to avail ourselves of the neutral conduct we have adopted." He had been given charge of a nation in the making, aridjie meant It should form, under his care,' an Independent character. It was thus he proved himself no senti mentalist, but a, statesman. It was tho stuff ot his character, this purpose of Independ ence. He would have played a like part of self-respect for himself among his neighbor on the Virginia plantations; 'and he could neither understand nor tolerate the sentiment which made men like1 Jefferson eager to fling themselves' Into European broils. Truly this man waa, the first American, the men hout him provincials merely.i dependent' still for their life and thought uponjhe ,breathk of the oioiwonu. unieaa.jiiue, laminon, they fcod'baan born 'and had .stood .aloof.'. or Ilka Oeuvarneur.. Morris,. hadi'dlyjned Eurepe'-tn't atr.'tm oatntaia .wn 'OMarA nnamored' - '.irna Diaia an Man ii ...' i-sssssl began to see It for what It was, a social distemper, not a reformation of govern ment effective enough as a purge, no doubt: Inevitable, perhaps; a cure of nature's own devising; but by no means to bo taken part In by a people not likewise stricken, still free to choose. In a Minority With the Right At first Washington and a few men ot like Insight stood almost alono In their cool pelf-possession. Every man of generous spirit deemed It his mere duty to extol the French, to Join clubs after their manner, In the name of the rights of man, to speak everywhere In praise of the revolution. But by the time It became necessary to act to declare the position and policy of the na tion's government toward France a sober Becond thought had come and Washington's task was a Httlo simplified. The crisis came with the year 1793. In 1792 France took arms against her European neighbors. let her mobs sack the King's palace, declared herself a republic and nut her monarch on trial for his life. The opening days of 1793 saw Louis dead upon the scnffold ; England, Holland, Spain nnd the Empire Joined with tho alliance against the fevered nation; and war as It were spread suddenly to all tho world. Would not America succor her old ally? Was there no compulsion In the name of liberty? Would sho stand selfishly off to save herself from danger? Thero was much In such a posture of affairs to gle pause even to Imperative men like Washington. Those who favored France seemed the spokesmen of the coun try. The thoughtful men, to whom the reat character of the great revolution over the sea was beginning to be made plain, were silent. It would have required a veritable art of divination to distinguish the real sentiment of the country, upon which, after all, the general government must , depend. "It Is on great occasions only, and after time has been given for cool and deliberate reflection." Washington held, "that the real voice of tlie people can be known:" but a great rial; must be run in waiting for It. Before that trvlng year 1793 was out an attack mi Hamilton In the House, though led by Madison, hnd failed : Jefferson had left the cabinet : and the hands of those who definitely nnd heartily supported the Presi dent were not a little strengthened. There was sharp bitterness between the parties it bitterness sharper as yet, Indeed, than their differences of view; but the "Federalists," who Hood to the support of Washington and Hamilton, wero able, none the less, to carry their more Indispensable measures even an act of neutrality which made the President's policy the explicit law of the land. The sober becond thought of the country was slowly coming to their aid. (Copyright) nv JIMINIXSK! The lluny are marrhlnir nearer Plnik: Jwl" J!?' W..on "' thay reach Mln.lc; Great Hcott, them Runlana havo a jfnak! Jfrc5,"n.an!'. r'nk. needles and Plnik! When Trot.ky .urrend.ra Ms troubles begln.kl What Do You Know? QUIZ tTliat ta meant hr Antnr fi Identify "Honeet Abe." What In a "palladium"? Where la "The Poet'a Corner"? Who Is Doetor tod Sadler? Where la rakafr? What la "the rhllonopher'a Stone"? Who wrote the "Star Spangled Banner"? What waa the Bra Home riot? When was the Brian ot Terror? ' Answers to Yesterday's Quiz Inlne I,. Lenroat la a Wlieoneln Kepraeenta- ,1 There are abont 110 Sorlall.U In th v..,i, I'huaiM m a 4....1 1 ..' v--- out of a tetM MaUnu! of oOJ iboot 104 are Boelallata, KalcbatM nemberahlo TbJX'!2,,w araWlaTfd'u riaa abont 3.- 060,000 men able to taaeTharil rUhtUia. 4, Whale meat la'edlble., Alia?1 wU. sett tompoa. of earth left r A Plain Guy to George This birt'day's yours, old George, an' not i er marble statue s, So let's be human guys. Eh, w'att Here's lookin' at yousei i always wuz a kind o' tool, .g In them few days I spent in school.j An' never got as much o' rcadin' An 'rithmetic as I wuz necdin' To git the sense that them things bri to pui mo wise 10 certain tnings. j An' in them foolish days of old ..fu I swallered tales the teacher told a That made me think youse wuzn'81 man. j It's never safe to trust a woman, 'M Rut when she said vouse couldn't he I guessed your homo wuz in the sky,. An' knowed, of course, youse never tv 'A' been a kid an be so (rood. J'1 I thought they carved youse froml quarry, J Ji. luii-grown statue, uee, i m sorry, jj For now I know I doped youse wronif t rom all them talcs I heard so long. Excuse this freedom with me betters,;1 Rut latclv. Georcre. I read some letten That come from youse to folks baiki home H.S When first youse started out to roamJ Amnnff tbo Ininne in tlio M'nnrls .jSI Surveyin' nil them solitudes; f$ I see from all that's written there .a You wuz a bear, old Gcoree. a bearlM No lady teacher'd think it nice SI 1U IU1K U UCUUUUS, llCHS Ul Jltc, IPi Rut when your letter gave the news'i How they kep' company with youse, ( 'minks I: "Well, say, 1 guess in nig To chum with him myself a bitr An' in thnt. letfpr when T enme To whero you liked your "nip o' ruaj sez I: "This guy lias got a heart; i xio uin t nu inuruiu wurn. ui uiii Love letters, too, when you wuz spooj I rrmH 'atyi. ehiielrlin'; "NOW WB looney?" ty fin rn flits ilntr ta oatvttit I tnke me hat off. Georce. yer greatH An' if the lads, with sword an' gunylyl That's startin' now to lick the HunvJ Wuz only told them human stunts . u mat Kep' youso, ueorge, so uusjr "" I bet they'd fight like Hell for youse;-$ An' there would como some glorious b T?MAn ..... ,.. n tf. 41,n iieb-pr ? j. turn uiti n ou "'"' v, An' it would come a damsite quiclteri.iS ,ji Thi l.'VtUn.-'a .,' nlil npnrce. an J e statue's; . . . f,J So let's be human guys. Lh, w'atlOT nere s loosin ui youse, . -;, T0SI DAW 1 FOOD THEN ANU wuvv There Is a startling' similarity bets the remarks made by Washington to a J mllfaa tt fnnirrAan In .TnntiarV. 1778, ' the remarks made by President, Wilson tJ American rarmers in January m "- Here in parallel columns Is what tbej men said: WASHlNpTON Unlets ample provi sions ara laid up In the courts of thla win ter and the approach Ins' eprlns, nothing fa vorable la to l0 looked for from the operatlona In the neat campaign! but our arms, enfee bled bx the embarraae ment of irrecular and fluctuating aupptlea of provlelona.1 will reap no other frulta than die grace and dltappolnt ment, v WILSON. t7 t, i..i tiirnu . that tho force 'J right ror """".7 freedom tor (dL all ovor m. -." wen v :-: inordinary a4' pected desree'ioi men are to firj to right, We araj In aa truir g lt "... "r,!lt oi our o v had io v over 'V w am . tADTtia -VVUTl-JllS S'fi . 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