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f.K, A Republic of the World ly JMM A. Edge-tea When our deathless Declaration Brought a new land Into birth, It was not alone a nation It conferred upon the earth But it added to the glory Of that fair, immortal page The first chapters of the story Of anew and golden age. & FA. TflTCHEL f-*HER i Over this achievement Teal, That the eyes of all might see. It erected an ideal Of humanity made free It set up for all the races The same goal that it had won And it bade them turn their faces To the rising of the sun. Since that time the generations Of mankind are growing free, While the progress of the nations Keeps in step with Liberty New republics are the fashion. Of our own design and plan. Burning with the sacred passion Of the brotherhood of man. What though now the lands king ridden All are weltering In gore. Freedom's light cannot be hidden By the clouds and wrack of war For, from out its devastations, A new flag, may be unfurled Of a Union of the nations, A Republic of the World. Herein lies the deeper meaning Of the many in the one: 'Tie a lesson for the gleaning Of all lands beneath the sun. Racial rivers coalescing Here commingle and increase. So all earth may find the blessing Born of union and of peace. St/IG MM P01^ was a timde during a fr$ the American Revolution jr S i whenY British held ^ijf'lft- cit an rthe Ne fnlXr tlon of New Jersey. The American forces were at Morristown, N. J., and at Dbbbs Ferry^ on the Hud son and points above, Communication between Morristown and Dobbs Ferry was maintained by dispatch riders who traveled in a line between the two points through Orange. At a recent decentennial celebration of the founding of the lat ter place a bronze statue of the dis patch rider was erected. One day George Paton, one of these messengers, stood in Washington's private office at his Morristown head quarters. An visitor may see the room today Just as it was then, on the northwest corner of the building.) Washington, sitting at his desk, turned and banded Baton a dispatch, saying: "I wish you could contrive to let this dispatch fall Into the hands of the enemy. Further, I would like In formation of thefr movements when they receive it, though I admit I don't expect such information. At any rate, after leaving Orange you might pre tend to have lost your way, taking a southerly direction between Newark and Elizabeth, where the enemy's outposts are located. I will give you the best horse in the command. You may contrive to drop the dispatch let them pick it up and escape. This is only a suggestion you must, of course, be governed by circumstances." That afternoon George Paton, In stead of following his commander's suggestion, rode boldly up to a Brit ish outpost hear Elizabeth, surren- Tumed and Handed Paten a Dispatch. tared himself and asked to be taken to the British general. There he pro 'dnced his dispatch, which the general read eagerly. "What does this meanr he asked, looking up at Paton. I means, general, that I have been a dispatch rider la the American army, but I am convinced that it is oscless and wicked to fight against the lawful sovereign. I was charged tids morning to take this dispatch to Dobbs Ferry. I have brought it to you." The general turned again to the dis patch. There was Washington's handwritingbis signature. Then fee looked anew at the dispatch Then he pfobed Paton with aft of which the mm answered satisfactorily. Then the general sat looking at him with an expression on bis face which plainly said: "Dare I trust you?" "Young man," he said presently, looking up with a crafty eye. "You can do your king a great service. I will give you a dispatch for General Howe, commanding in New York. Go back with it to this rebel, Washington, and tell him you chased a messenger of mine and took it from him. Will you do tbiaj" "You ask too much,'general. I was met and questioned by a party of American horsemen just outside your lines. Seeing that I could not give them a good reason for not being on the road to Dobbs Ferry, I put spurs to my horse and got away from them. To go back to General Washington would be to go to a halter. But tbis I will do. Give me the king's uniform and tine dispatch. I will approach the American lines, and on being seen will turn and run, dropping the dis patch on the way, for them to pick up.? "H'm," said the general, thoughtful ly, "I am-disappointed that you.can't adopt the plan I propose.. However, your refusal to do so convinces me that you have told me the truth and have turned to our side. If you can work the plan you suggest it may serve the same purpose." At nine o'clock that night George Paton rode up Vo the ferryman at Commtuupaw and as a courier from the general commanding at Elizabeth, demanded to be taken at once across to General Howe at New York. He found the general just about to go to bed. Paton handed him the dispatch. General Howe read it and called an aide-de-camp. Couriers were sent fly ing down the Jersey coast. Paton, stating that he had orders to return at once to Elizabeth, re crossed the ferry, and at daylight the next morning rode up to the Ameri can pickets at Morristown. He was recognized and permitted to go to headquarters. He found General Washington up and giving his aide, Capt. Alexander Hamilton, memoran da upon which to write the communi cations for the day., Washington, see ing Paton in the uniform of a British trooper, looked at him in astonish ment The young ntan gave him an account of his doings as it has been given here, following it up by an ex planation of what had probably been accomplished. Washington/ desirous of making transposition of his forces between Morristown and the Hudson in order to distract the enemy's attention, had sent by Paton a communication that Demanded to Bo Taken Across to General Howe. he was about to attack certain Brit ish troops in the neighborhood o*l Trenton. ,The general commanding at Elizabeth gave Paton a dispatch to General Howe, Intended for Washing ton, stating that the troops at Tren ton were without arms and ammuni tion and practically defenseless. At the same time he ordered a large por tion of his force there. General Howe, on receipt of the dispatch, ordered troops on the Jersey coast hurried to Trenton. The consequence of this secret service diplomacy was thai Washington made his transfers be tween Dobbs Ferry and Morristown without being disturbed. When the ^dispatch rider had fin ished his account Washington said to him: "Your riding into the enemy's lines as a deserter was an exhibition of splendid nerve your refusal to hear a message back to me was a stroke of genius. Had you agreed, It would have shown conclusively that you were a spy, seeking to deceive and gather Information. You are the champion secret service rider In this or any other army." "And the champion liar," added Captain Hamilton. "Given a spy." said Paton, smiling, "and a bad liar, and the result is a scaffold." (OasyrlgM, ISIS, fcr Western Wswspapsr TJUoa.) $* This Day of Enlightenment In the generous spirit of our time, and the broad catholicity of this hour, we cultivate no "resentment and bar* bor no revenges. We remember Great Britain not as the land of George the Third and Lord North, bat as the coon try of Shakespeare and Milton, of Chatham and Burke, of Gladstone and John Bright With the same language and lineage, we no longer settle oar difficulties by the bloody Issue of war, bat by peaceful arbitration, and are rivals only in the race for abetter civ ilisation and its beneficent results. We of the North and our Southern breth ren are united in strengthening, en Urging and perpetuating the repobtto We hopefully await the time when the leaven of liberty from America shall hare regenerated the political condi tion of every i Chaaojoi M. Do THE TOMAHAWK. WHITE EARTH. MINN. FEDERATION OF LABOR DEMANDS RAIL OWNERSHIP AND FREE IRELAND Plumb Plan for Buying and Managing Ratfrpads Indorsed by Ameri- can Federation of LaborSenate iteartog on Treaty Leak- Iowa Senator Wants Farm Loan Act Applied to Workmen's HomesAstor Sells a High-Priced AcreNational Taxes in Sight Cover Less Than Half of Exported ExpensesGovern ment Has More Life Insurance Than All Private Companies. WASHINGTON, D. C.Not only labor but the whole nation has its eyes turned toward the American Fed eration of Labor convention at Atlan tic City. The progressive elements are wondering whether the convention Is going to Indorse independent polit ical action the old-line politicians and the big interests are wondering whether Gompers and others are go ing to be strong enough to keep the convention away from it. The big struggle which will decide this Issue has not broken out yet. Whatever the convention does in re gard to it, labor in many states, such as Pennsylvania, Illinois and North 'Dakota, are going to keep on in po litical independence. Indorsement by the general federation'would merely give encouragement to a movement well under way, and failure to indorse would not hinder it. The convention has "indorsed the Plumb plan for government owner ship of railroads, a plan which pro vides for the squeezing out of the water in the stock and a joint control by the public, the officers and the em ploye's. It has demanded the with drawal of /American soldiers from Russia and recognition of the "repub lic now existing in Ireland." On the other. hand, the convention has apparently turned down the strike in favor of Mooney. There may well be differences of opinion in value of this method, but the arguments against it, especially those advanced by Secretary of Labor Wilson, appear decidedly weak. The division appears to break rather over opinion as to relative seriousness of the Mooney case. One side sees that if the no torious Mooney frame-up is allowed to stick, no honest labor leader in the country is safe, and that beyond this the whole organized labor movement is seriously threatened. The other side sees it as merely a personal mat ter of getting another radical labor leader- out of Jail. The conservative wing of labor naturally takes this po sition, because |t is in little danger while there are advanced labor leaders receiving the brunt of the special in terest attack. Treaty-Snatching Scandal. Senate hearings on the "peace leak" demonstrated the fact that Wall street has no fear of secret diplomacy. A president may find it convenient to negotiate compacts to a conclusion be fore making them public, but the bank ing interests confess and boast that 'the people," who have ho moral right to advance Information, do not include themselves. Ellhu Root made that quite clear when he came to Wash ington without an invitation to help the bankers out of a fix. "I should be inclined to resent any suggestion from any one that I am not entitled to this document, andHo make any use of it that I see fit, which I propose to do," he said. "The Ger man government, having the full right to make it public, has made it public, and It is public." Root to the Rescue. Many plain people felt Just that way about It, but the president cabled us from Paris that it would be a dis honorable thing for the people or the senate to see the treaty draft at this time. Millions respected Mr. Wilson's feejings. But not Elihu Root. Root tells the world flat that he takes his tip from Germany, not from the White House that Berlin has certain rights, which, when exercised, automatically overrule the president of the United States. None but a Root would have dared base his defense upon such "seditious" grounds, at a time when Americans are not supposed to concede that ene my governments have any rights left, much less that they have rights which free the American people from presi dential Injunctions. These awkward implications, and the equally dis tressing fact that Wall street got its copies of the treaty from the In ternational Red Cross league, the em barrassed newspapers have thought It best to drop and forget. When they looked Into Root's fear some eyes the senate investigators also deemed that the probe had gone far enough. The mystery had been solved. The Incident was closed. Kenyon'* Labor Program. Senator Kenyon of Iowa believes that the policeman's club is not the only remedy for social unrest in America. His mother taught him that when the baby howled it might have a pin sticking into it. So, while the department of Justice applies the birch, Kenyon believes congress ought to busy Itself at removing some of the established causes of unrest and re bellion. His first thought is that peo ple who own their own homes do not want to wreck the world. And, since farmers are being helped by the gov ernment to buy land, he thinks the town worker Should be helped to buy a home. To tbis end the farm loan banks might be empowered to extend credit to the city workers, without any. serious alteration of their present pro cedure. Kenyon's other projects include an eight-hour workday an enlarged sys tem of mediation within the depart- ment of labor a better federal em ployment service a public works com mission to provide jobs for the unem ployed in emergencies old age, sick ness and accident insurance voca tional training for mutilated indus trial workers as well as for mutilated soldiers a land settlement project le relieve congestion in the towns, and a permanent industrial relations com mission to collect and co-ordinate all data on wages and conditions of em ployment. Ail Acre Worth $4,000,000. Is $4,000,000 an acre a fair price for land? Vincent Astor thinks it is not too muchwhen he is selling it. The Farmers' National Single Tax league furnishes the following details: When Colonel John Jacob Astor lost his life in the. Titanic disaster he left to his son Vincent, by his first wife, along with other great wealth, a piece of New York real estate, 200 feet on Broadway by 207 feet on Forty-third and Forty-fourth streets, improved with buildings and bringing an annual income of $320,000. This property had been in the Astor family for three generations and was probably a part of the old Long Acre farm. During all the years since the original Astors immigrated to America and managed to secure a large part of Manhattan island, this property has been grow* ing in value with the growth ard de velopment of the city. When the bare ground sold the other day for about $3,500,000 the people of New York made young Vincent Astor a present of that princely sum. Republicans Face Deficit. The aviation section of the wa.* de partment asked the present congress for $83,000,000 to spend during the coming year. The committee in con gress has decided to let it have $15,- 000,000. By careful study of that brief news item any one may obtain the key to much that will figure in the foreign and domestic policies of the United States during the next 12 months. From all sources of revenue now in operation and reasonable pros pect, the government will collect $5,- 000,000,000 this next year. Senator Smoot and others figure that Uncle Sam wjll have to spend no less than $12,000,000,000 during the Mime per* riod. The missing $7,000,000,000 ts giving politicians a headache already. It is perhaps a source of secret satisfaction to the Democrats that they are no longer directly responsible for rais ing revenues. The Grand Old party has come to bat just in time to enjoy that post-war burden. The greatest consolation may be to compare our lot with that of others. When France adds all the German in demnity in sight to her present strained Income she will still have to add 1,200,000,000 francs of fresh taxa tion to pull through the fiscal year. AH that, provided the franc continues to be worth 19 cents.' It Is actually worth less than 10 cents abroad, and that Is why the French government will not allow the French manufacturer to go abroad for materials to resume Indus trial operations. Italy is In the same plight: And unless industry is re sumed in both countries very soon a sure collapse is in sight. Government Insurance. Through the war risk insurance bu reau the government has written about $40,000,000,000 in life insur ance for soldiers and sailors. That is more than all the private Insurance companies combined have written. That is why the private companies are desperately anxious to have the government turn the business over to them, free, gratis and for nothing. That desire may not be gratified, how ever. The*war risk bureau has pre pared a new policy to be substituted for the war-time contract, one that la said to contain all the advantages possessed by any private company contract and others besides. The de partment of justice Is now examining the new contract, and If It be approved congress will be asked to provide for permanent business of government in surance. The Berger Controversy. Victor Berger, Socialist congress man-elect, continues his fight for a eat in the house. The special com mittee of nine began early in June to hear arguments from his counsel and the attorney for the Democratic can didate, Carney, who ran second to Ber ger In the fifth Wisconsin district. Berger contends that he has violated no law and has not been finally con victed of any violation. Carney claims the seat on the ground that Berger** Alleged disloyalty made him ineligible from the start Everybody expects Berger to be kept out and nobody ex pects Carney to get in. The house is against both of them, though for different reasons. African Idea of Beauty. In Africa a crop of the blackest, curliest, closest hair imaginable makes a girl the belle of the kraal, especially if she be plump, with piggy eyes, thick lips, a nose like an India rubber shoe, and a akJa that shines like a cooking stove. Crookston. The Chautauqua pro gram will begin in Crookston July 11. The Chautauqua will continue five dayt Trommald.A. H. Carlisle, founder of the Deerwood Enterprise, will soon get out his first number of the Trom mald paper. Greenbush.C. M. Carlson, of Thief River Falls, was awarded the contract for the new school building here, to cost in the neighborhood of $55,000. Hlbbing.Hibbing's celebration on July 3 and 4 will cost over $3,000, ac cording to figures of the finance com mittee submitted at a meeting of all committees. Winona.Anna Hanson of Homer is the first woman to be appointed to carry mall over a rural route In Wi nona county under the modified Fed eral regulation. Stillwater.-August Sieber was fined $10 and costs or thirty days in the county jail when he entered a plea of guilty to catching under-sized black bass in Lily lake. International Falls.Jack* Bennett of Fort Frances was seriously injured when in the act of diving, while swim ming up lake. The accident is said to have paralyzed him. St. Paul.More than 150 applicants have taken examinations for appoint ments as deputies under Hjafmar Nils son, state oil Inspector. Seventy depu ties are to be appointed. Pipestone.Rev. J. G. Little, for sev eral years pastor of the First Baptist church of Galva, 111., has accepted a call to the pastorate of the Pipestone Baptist church, and will take up his work here early in July. Pillager.Rev. J. H. Allison, pastor of the Pillager M. E. church, and Mrs. J, M. McGuire, widow of the late Rev. J. M. McGuire, were married last week. Rev. H. G. Gardiner of Motley performed the ceremony in the M.*E. church. Brainerd.Senator Hilding A. Swan son of Brainerd has been married at North Branch to Miss Alice Marie Elm gren. The ceremony took place in the Swedish Lutheran church. Sena tor Swanson and his bride will be at home at Brainerd after July 20. Chatfleld.Lieut. O. W. Houck has arrived home from France after a year's service overseas. Lieut. Houck was mayor of this city when he left and was re-elected during his absence with no opposition. He saw his daugh ter, 9 months old, for the first time on his return. Stillwater.The hay crop now being harvested In this section is said to be excellent and of a far better quality than for several years. Farm hands are scarce in Washington county, not withstanding that in some Instances $75 to $85 a month is being paid for 'competent help. St. Paul.W. T. Cox, Btate forester, has been reappointed surveyor of logs and lumber,' and commissioned in that office for two years. He held a tem porary appointment, expiring July 1. His commission was issued under a new Jaw empowering Governor Burn quist to combine the offices of state forester and surveyor general. Crookston.Delegates at the Ninth congressional district convention of the American Legion and the Polk County World War Veterans' meeting here July 1 and the homecoming July 2 wilt wear their uniforms. The sol diers, sailors, marines and nurses can only expect to be recognised as re turned veterans by their uniforms. Minneapolis. Andrew Nelson, 27, employed on N. J. Mollne's farm near Belle Plaine, shot and killed himself at the farm, because the farmer's daughter. Miss Myrtle .Mollne, 20, re jected bis advances, according to Coro ner Yiviaaker of Hennepin county, who says Nelson shot himself after threatening the girl and her father with a pistol. Thief River Falls.A meeting of the Merchants' association and the Com mercial club was held Wednesday to hear the proposition of Mr. Winters, representative of the Gopher Gunners (One Hundred and Fifty-first field ar tillery) band. The matter was referred to the homecoming committee, as the directors favor the entertainment by the band as being part of the home coming event. Two Harbors.The newly organized Northland Stock company of this city has received Its first carload of sheep, totaling 275 head. At present they are being yarded here, but will be taken to the Hillman farm, three miles north of this city, to be pastured this sum mer. The new company is composed entirely of local men, who believe there is a good future in the sheep raising business in Lake county. St. Paul.The state securities com mission has granted an application for a charter by the Citizens' State bank of Watertown by John W. Boock, formerly a.banker at Gibbon, and oth ers. Charters were denied the pro posed Security bank and the proposed People's State bank of Watertown. The application of the proposed State bank of Dorset, in Hubbard county, by W. L. Cary and others, also was denied. Virginia.Although the deputy sher iffs have been working for several days in the township of Markham, searching for the slayers of Jacob Carlson, Markham storekeeper, they report little success. They have trav eled hundreds of miles in their search. Chisholm. A modern concrete swimming basin has been erected on the Frank G. Harris farm In Balkan township. The basin is 18 by 11 feet and 6 feet In depth, and will be sur rounded by trees and. shrubbery to shield the bathers from the sun's rays. Mr. Harris erected the tank for the pleasure of his children Fargo.C. M. Berg, of Mcintosh. Minn., was elected president of the Solaraget, which was in session here. Glyndon.A meeting of the farmers of this neighborhood was held at Glyn don to plan a systematic fight on the grasshoppers. Blue Earth.Mrs. Rosa Peterson* wife of Jens Peterson of Emerald town* ship, who had been acting strangely1 for some weeks, hanged herself in jail' here. Waseca.Three bandits held up the night operator at the Minneapolis & St. Louis depot here and rifled the till of $25. They were unable to get into the safe. Thief River Fells.V. C. Noper, liv ing just east of the fair grounds here, has a brother animal to the bull which was sold at the big sale of cattle at Moorhead for $65,000, Moose Lake.Moose Lake is arrang ing for a big Fourth of July celebra tion and homecoming day for the re turned soldiers. Representative Theo dore Chrlstianson will be the principal speaker. Mora.Fire of unknown origin waa discovered in the old fire hall building,) which is now occupied by the Georgei E. Rice Potato company, in charge of! W. M. Anderson,. and it was badly, damaged. St. Paul.Forty forest fires reported last month did $5,000 damage to state and private property in the vicinity of Tower, according to reports to the state forest service office from F. P. Murphy, forest ranger in that district. Nashwauk. The Great Northern station agent here and assistants had' some trouble to induce a cow that1 wandered into the waiting room of the depot recently, to leave, after the ani mal knocked a map from the wall and chewed up some timetables. Virginia. Several American sol diers of foreign birth are being exam ined for citizenship in district court here by R. K. Doe, Federal immigra tion bureau representative. Ten of the number filed petitions for citizen ship while they were overseas. St. Cloud.The remains of D. W. Sprague, who died pf pneumonia In Minneapolis on Dec. 31,1918, and who was at one time superintendent of the St. Cloud schools, were brought to this city by W. L. Klein and daughter-in law, Mrs. Horace Klein, for burial. St. Paul.Preliminary plans for In vestigation and study of state indus trial accident compensation and a state industrial accident fund were formulated at an organization meeting at the capitol, of the commission cre ated by the 1919 legislature for that purpose. Stillwater.Potato bugs have ap peared in great numbers since the heavy rain of last Sunday in all sec tions of Washington County, and in some instances the bugs have eaten up the vines so close to the ground that it has been almost Impossible to save them from complete destruction. Hibblng.Waltred Stenberg, 87, ot Alice, died at a local hospital of in juries received in Brooklyn, when his motorcycle collided with an automo bile said to belong to Gust Anderson, a contractor of Chisholm, he was thrown some djstance receiving a fractured leg and internal injuries. Moorhead.Dr. Patrick N. Barnes of Fargo was taken to Stillwater by Sheriff Dan W. McDonald to serve an indeterminate sentence of from one to five years. Dr. Barnes was convicted in Clay county district court on the charge of shooting and injuring Charles Ottersetter at his home here last winter. Hlbbing.The question of the in creased telephone charges will be brought up at the next meeting of the Commercial club on July 1. Local business men and others having occa sion to use the lines between Chis holm and Hibblng claim that a charge of 10 cents is too much and that the rate can be reduced. St. Paul.While Judge Grler M. Orr In Ramsey county district court was granting 20 divorces one day re cently, James Drummond, marriage ff cense clerk in the offices of the clerk of the Ramsey county district court, sold 21 marriage licenses. The day was one of the busiest the divorce "mill" has experienced in many years. Little Falls.Hard-surfacing of the state road between Little Falls and the Benton county line, which it had been hoped would begin this summer, will be indefinitely delayed as a result of the action of the state highway com missioner in changing the route of State Road No. 2 from the Jefferson highway and running it parallel'with the Northern Pacific right-of-way. St. Paul.A minimum wage of 23 cents an hour for all women and min ors employed in Minnesota is proposed In a tentative order adopted by the Minnesota Minimum Wage commis* sion. The tentative schedules for ap prentices will permit employment ot those 18 or over at 18 cents an hour for three months, and 21 cents for the second three months, tbe regular min imum then to apply, and of those un der 18 at 15 cents an hour for the first, 18 cents for the second and 21 cents for the third three-month periods, the 23-cent wage to be paid afterward. Public hearings on the tentative order will take place at 2 p. m. add p. m., June 30, In the house chamber at the new state capitol. Red Lake Falls.Daily shipments of liquor are leaving this city, which, with Plummer, are the only two wet places in this part of Northern Minne sota. On one day recently, it took half an hour to load the liquid express shipments on the southbound Great Northern passenger train, and the depot platform was piled high with casks, cases and barrels of liquor. There are six saloons and one whole sale house here. Three of the dealers whose licenses expire June 3 have applied for and "have been granted li censes for another year in case the president should let down the bars, ft