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THE CAPE GIRARDEAU TRIBUNE, CAPE GIllAJk&EAUrttOUftjrffi peace elmply fw the pnrpose of experiment THer greatest lawyers m the D United States say the Government must pay to the owners the fuJl value C CAPE GIRARDEAU TRIBUNE A Timely ffi oc tne nviroa-ds. confiscation ot private property in peace tames would be an usual procedure, and it would be a calamity just now The financial bur den placed upon the nation as the result of the war will not5 be liquidated during the next generation. The officials charged with managing the na t on should seek to re'ievc rather thrji add to the burdens that the people mot bear. Government ownership of railroads has proved a nightmare thus :'ar, and if we can release our grip on the bear's tall,1 the sooner we can do so the better off the railroads juid the nation will be. PublishedlEvery Friday. JAMES P. WHITESIDE, Editor. g SUBSCRIPTION RATES ft . . J One . ear.. .... .. Six Months Three Months. ..$1.50 . 80c ... 50c Entered t the Pest Office at Second Class "WHEN THE FROST IS When the frost is on the punkin and the fodder's, in the shock, nd you mar the kycuck and gobble of the strutlin' turkey-cock, And lh.y catkin cf the guineys, nj the cluckin of the hens, And the rooster hallylooyci as he tiptoes on the fence; O, it's then's tho times a feller is feeling at his best, With tin risi.i' sun to greet him from a night of peaceful rest, A, l,c tues the house, bare-headed, and goes out to feed the stock When the frot is cn the punkin and the fodder's in the shock. Thcy's something kindo harty-like about the atmusfere When tr.e heat of summer's ovtr and the coolin' fall is here Of course we mi- the dowers and the blcsoms on the trees, And the i-iumble cl the hummin'-birds a,nd the buzzin' or the bees; I'.ul the air's so appetisin'; and the landscape through the haze Of u cri.p ?nd sunny morning of the airly autumn dayj Is :t piciur thru no painter has the colorin' to mock When the fie-.-t is on the punkin and the fodder's in the shock. "Hie husky, rusty luss-el of the lossels of the coin, And the laspm of the tangVd haves, as golden as the morn; ihe slu'mie in thi furries kindo' lonesome-like, but still A -priachin' sermens i u . of the barni they growed to till; The strawstack in the niedder. and the l caper, in the shed; Tho hoss g in they s tails below the clover overhead (.-it -ets my iii'.rt a-c itkln' like the tickin' of a clock, '. When fiost is on tiie punkin and the fodder's in the shock. If ti:e styles of ti-u-ers an coats changed often as hats, the average run would irvaiiaUy !:n!: like a last year's bird-nest. . , he i. Uied Cepgivssnir.n !-;in s;. dsns for 1 1 i ' - 'vl-u'e woiid. When the L'rch Srim he vV til resemble a shanghai fcca.-.ou. W. should iiko home-folks "ibout L i hear .-ome of Col. l'-esident WVison's If a .'agu" of nat'oii means that the 3 H t' iiuro.ic evervliiiu : nvboilv kills ,ioi! the iit.io.'i. 'IKEftOCK LEVEE BRIDGE. of the bridges over the drainage Tli- destiTction tl 'id liiee during iif Tl rev 1: i I n" the present year, oi.ce jicinianent span.-. upheld' hy the courts, xhe county Th: ntevement to ievie the drainage coit.-d ruction on the (Iraiiige district, ra. thing beneficial can 1a- M-compIishcd a p rmancnt spa:; ua'i'i the Legislature H is the du'v of the people in this Fok !. vee road, which is the only corrtios t i!e south ef us. The railroad bends, which consumed a !arge 1 1 on v I and ie township's income for a generation, have hnal.'y been liqui i township will now get approximately $23,000 for good roads If it is i'r.po.-s'ble for the Township Highway Commissioners he township for a sum si tiicient to provide a bridge over the r Ditch, the Comrmssionc rs ran an-::rriate all of the road cacti yea!-. 1v 1!igat Little II! . flBhh lluo rcsi i tho thi. township for one year flnc.ds. Trim's s.-ni were sp.nl ami the Legislature eventually deeded to amend I thr dra'nage law. the township could recover from the Little River Drainage ricl, the money expended on the bridges. It is certainly not to the credit r.f the township or th- highway commission to permit present conditions to c n!i:iuo indefinitely. T!ie township has already squandered too much money on bridges over ids crna' without a:compli.-hing anything. To build another chap span 4-washed awav ;n the spring is almost etiual to embezzlement. The VSjSni I commissioners should use every dollar of the coming year's in-eer,i--?t provide the best bridge it can for the money .and then invest a 1-l.yruV portion of the township's income during the m xt few years to im-Tj-VC .add to the permanency cf the .'-tructure. Cape Girardeau should Ci:r-v-.to Iw longer svtolhed to sleep by the murmur of the wind. It has slcvd sti'l fo:- foer vcars. 1 HE li.MLKOAO The, rrcomi.iei.dat io: cf Secretary McAdoo that, the rai'-roads be taken e-vei-4y the government for a period of iive years does .not bear out the PCft'inaie by I"v,sidt-nt Wi!.-on in his annual message to Congress. In Wri-fng tx the -rail:w.ds, the president said: , ."Th question wl.icn causes me the greatest concern is the ques 4Jen of the policy to 1m? adopted toward the railroads. I frankly turn to yoa.for coups?: upon it. I nave no confident .judgment of my own" In Secretary McAdoo'c recommendation, he concludes: 'The President .. has given me po-mission to say that an extension, of time for turning back ""Ike wnlrciuds is- ihe on'y p-,acticab? alternative .and that thia conclusion ac - coid,-v. with his own view ol the matter." The agreement between Presidnnt W'ilson and Secretary McAdoo to recommend gevennental c ontrol of the railroads for a period of five years after the war mut have been reached before President Wilson delivered hi- message to Cengi.ss, because the President departed for Europe as soon ss Ac -concluded his message. Buti it .matters little whether the agreement was reached before 3Ir. Wilson adiresred Congress or net, the one question is Jiow long is the Gov ernment going to mis-manage the railroads at an enormous, loss to tbf PjK.' .-.Accard'ng tc a report given out last week :n Congress, the Gov ernment will lose $2L-n 000,000 this year in operating the rail road in spite orihe.f,3ct that thr-' Government! has arbitrarUy raised the rates almost 25 perNcenC - ....... N Th;raiIroads were taken over by the Government uresumably for war v purposes. It wa denied then that thy t:EtVe'tT,nient ownership. Can Congres 20c 05c Cape Girardeau, Mo., as Matter. ON THE PUNKIN. i James Whitcomb Riley, i li , c , i of tno Lnited States playing Santa various nations get through plucking rooster in the middle of the molting T. Koosevelt's pnv.-.ite iemaik to the receion in France. United Staines niiK-it send a ,H a duke. Uncle Sam had better not ! ... , , . ,. ditches last week, tne moic illustrates the urgent necoa- Under the drainage law, wh:ch has.' must bridge these artitica! streams. ! law and place the burden of bridge , . 4V. v..:. i One Month Single Copy... , f r,,i I other isolated spots where a few herd; dan never wasted or killed needless an .t mav not. cut r . .ork of constructing! f. af in tbe case on the ly may be successful by delating the w has acted or refused to act. township to .provide bridges over i- . i highway leading to this city from the in order to build a bridge that wiU I NIGHTMARE. were taken over to make a 'test of take over the railroads in time of . Punishing (By L. R. Johnson) The stand that we see taken in some quarters against ho'ding to . a personal responsibility the men who directed and sanctioned the barbar ous atrociti es of this war will not commend itsa'f to a majority of the j American people. It is a futile ar ; gumcnt to declare there was no pre cedents. We are not looking for a precedent This war itself constitute ,a precedent. Its mere rca'ity is a: 1 phenomenon. The men who ordered and i encouraged the countless savageries of which our souls have sickened, proved thcmseIVTp- pagans wan con - :tience utterly devoid of moral in- otincts. Christian civilization stood i . aghjs-t. To meet the situation without pre- I cedent we proceed to create preced- j cnts. Precedent must be met by pre- j cedent and the precedent we create is and executed Charles I for his rc i the doctrine of persona! responsibility, J tf'stance to democracy and tyrants i the doctrine thn neither official pos- j have always lived in fear cf personal j i'tion nor orders of nobility nor the vengeance. Our own Federal Govcrn j r;son cf royalt itse'f -hall be cc-jment brought to trial and hanged the tidcrcd any exemption for" responsi- j officer commander of Andersonvillo bi'ity, for crimes that violate not on- prison I ke a common felon on charge ly international laws of humanity,; of inhumanity that were trivial to i but the fundamental decencies of, what this war has produced and had ! civilization. Germany in her brutal- Jefferson Davis soi'ed his hands with ities created a precedent and civiliz- a tithe of the cruelties of which the ation must stand prepared to deal with it, not by debasing retaliation ; but by invoking the equable majesty Why The Buffalo Vanished Everybody has heard about the buffalo and ho.v numerous Ihey were iA .i On Hie pirt. IIS Jftira a&'t -jr I there are net many men left wno know from personal observation how these ungainly wild cattc nrea. ( innK, rcsr, iecj, ortnK ana rest ncv Hfty years ago they migiated with or ending cycled from the !ay he was the seasons up and down the country born to the day some Indian gathcr- from Alberta to Mexico, west of the i i Missouri river almost to the Pacific i coast, their principal range, iiowever.j being .lust east of the Rocky Mount-' j ains and erstward to aDout middle c iffs, (called "pikun" by the Black ! Nebraska. Once they ranged clear east ' feet), but they never wasted any to New York at least, but that was before the white man came. - Sixty years ago tney rangcu uie plains in many thousands and piac- tically ceased to exist in 1833, except in lenovvsione raru tuu u:n. -..m hj j latneaa r.ver, wnere some oi ine iard herd eot away and into the mountain while enroute to Canada several years ago. In the old days the herds drifted north in the spring and south in the fall, following the feed, which grew with the season. All the plains Indian. depended on the Buffalo for meat. c"othes, teepee 'ovcrings and about all ose that they needed for every day life, i i i A 1 X A t : cuna;:o in Inc TOUnir mp'ni nII'- ness and plenty in the Indian camps, . wh'le lack of buffalo m the country mesnt star-ation for the Indian ex cept for what litt'e meat he could get by hunting deer, elk and other such animals. Ante;ope usually migrated about the same time and along with the buffalo herds, so the Indians endd not usually get antelope when he couldn't et buffalo. One day the p'ains would be blark with feeding thousands of the big humpbacked animals; the next day they nvght al' begin "to move south and they then wou'd flow by ? grcn point in ar steady, living river of huge cattle: the next d.jy it might be im possible to find a single animal with- 'n a day's r'dc. i'hey came and wrni, drifting over the lard as the feed and water conditions dictated. In summer they lived on the high, grassy niains of Montana, Saskatchewan, Alberta and the north, thousands and thous and? of them In the winter they driite; t the panhandle of Tens, Mexico aid the nrid Seuthwcs Nowhere in the world has there ever existed, so far as man's know 'edge runs, such an immense herd of mrnr'ficent food animal yet we, as a nat'on threw away this supply of beef by killing the herds for their skin. Think of it! And buffalo leath er was about the' poorest excuse for leather that oyer wai; known' as titilmtfcr ,was porua as a sponge, though itrf would wear, if rightly tanned," like alligator hide.'' . '; f"f " .The buffa'o war a very methodical animai if left ' undisttirbed. Sow moving, stup'd in a way he aftted - f - nothing of life except that he be1 i War Makers of the 'aw to which civilization itself bows. The spirit of the aw as high as the ideals of man can conceive it. is personal punishment for the male factor who L'heds innocent blood. Shall men who murder or cause to be mur dered women and cildren, who torture defenseless prisoners, who scoff at moral sentiment and jeejr at mercy, shall they be permitted to she'ter themselves behind the impersonal shield of war? This feeling of pity for the enemy after the war this sentimental ces.i'on, was to be expected and it mut be fought wth reso uteness. The justice to which we bow we can- not afford to allow others to violate. . As a matter of fact the doctrine of personal responsibility for crimes "f state runs through a history. Our English ancestors tried, condemned j Kaiser has been guilty there is not a doubt that his life would have been forfeit. given plenty of irntss and water, and sunshine. 'Given .these he would feed, m u , li-l-ji wuib ins lun .'.lj' w, niv lin.-'i grade to the .ngareyit, water l:.nd anv - thing wet vajva-tcr to a buffal). . ed him in and dried hs flesh in the i- summer sun to' rat when winter came, Indians kfletf buffalo by the thous - ands :At a time by running them over meat or hides. These big killings by j the Indians were simply harvests of I , ... i , . , it , , mvm. aim sKins wmcn mey iook wnen they could from migr?.t.ng herds, and cured to last until such time as the u..l. u..i.i .i.'.et. i i. i a. il. i iitius Biiouiu uiiit, uuch uui- uii' m - i ntuinj; naons oi uuuaiu result - , ed in their moving over the same grouml many times, therefore they made deep trai"s from water to fe:- ing grounds, and these trails were nl ways in the shape of a- branching tree with the roots lo the water and the leps or "1,'mbs" stretching out on the ridges and feeding grounds. By inst'net the big animals frl Plenty of!'owpi a low, easy grade from the highest point of feeding grounds -To water, and this gr;dc was a' ways maintained, so buffalo trails always looked as though they had been laid out by a c.'vil engineer there was never any abrupt rise or falls in an;, trail ajid they were always good reads to follow Indeed the Union Pacific Rai'road is practically "built on top of a buffalo trail" from Omaha to Ogden and somewhat beyond. WoVes always hur.g about the herds readily to pull down sick or disabled j.nitnals. A wounded buffalo aiwavs went ,t water to die if he could so every water hole was sur rounded with b'eached b.-mcs. They perished by thousands sometimes in cross'ng high or icy streams, but they came and went like the tides un til the white man came and kil'ed them needlessly as. he does thing. eveiv- COW TESTING ASSOCIATION. The county agent is making an at tempt to organize a cow-testing as sociation in his county. It will be necessary 'to find" about twenty-five farmers who are interested enough in their rows to allow tho tester ..to come to their fa-rm one day every j month and see their cows milked, and id to weigh their nVlk -and make' a''"''to'-go-in'to' art investigation of the itcr lf at i testis :i j ' 'regttet and' find out w'hetlTer.the It is a f?et that many; farmers are ark needed .in nof." milKing cows that are not paying wr. i nomas, ine senator knows . novwapiefF wu wim muaeu aa an their way. The sca'es ,and the milk that a b'll is now pending in .the uaV ait abettor,' or pcrclianee a er test' is the on'v methort of findire Ser,'ite which does that very thinir-! vkht.- One'pictare of ttc Kaiser aeint . . . .... .1 these slacker cows. JTTie swner they 'taKen'ont of the herd the- bettetx off will the owner be. - . ' The Job Graft (From the Congre sional Kccord.) . . 0 . . t 1 1 . , thing that I think oiight to be done, and done immediately; by every de partment of the Government. 1 am told that in some of the recently created bureau.-' there arc today em ployed over 10,(HK people , and 1 kn w of -one of them as to which 1 stat'xl upon the floor of the Senitc the other day that the head of a di vision of the bureau to'd me that if he were al'owcd to select 40 per cent 1 cf the employees, and had the abso- lute right of direct'ng their work, he would ajcoinjJish more than is ac complished now by the 100 per cent. .Mr. Thomas. The7 Senator made that statement ,i day or two ago, and i I am veiy much siirpir.ietl to hear it. : I should like to ask the the senater why the head of this bureau has not the power to do what he would like to Jo? j Mr. Smoot. Mr. President, the j head of the division is not the one! I . wno uirocts tne employment oi tne ' person under him. Mr. Thoma-'. That is true of a I , i 1 lei MJiis unuer mm. Mr. Smoot. They arc sent to him by officials over him, and he is told lo put them to work; and the head of this division says there are so many of them that they .are in each other's way, and some of them never ought m bz employed in any department of the Government as they arc totally ignorant of the work, that they are called upon to do. Mr. Thomas. Mr. President, I think there i. no doubt about that; i and yet I am s.itised that there are j bureaus the heads of which have ample powers both of employment and of d'schargo. That is the reason why 1 am surprised al the statement of the Senator. I fully concur in the statement jio frequently made here! that there are in this District per-J haps 50 per eentf more employes, sol c-if'ed, than ate necessary. I do not 1 think there is any question about it The chances are and I understand that they are organizing for the pur- po.-c, and that me?ns polif'cal pow er- that an effort will be made to secure thc'r permanent retention in office Mr. Smoot. That, Mr. President, is the danger we have to meet today. 'Mr. Thomas. The chances also are that each of the great political part ies will enter into that situation, be cause it wi ll be a political as.'t. ' h Mr. Smoot. In answer to that j suggestion, I want to say that, so rar as i am concerned, I sha'I not b in the future approve of an appro priat'en unless it is ihowrr to the members of the Appropriation Com mitter, and- by theth to the Senate, that is absolutely necessary that the nviey be expended; and when cpiest in made for i horizontal, in- create of employees, aj has been done I hi the prist, I wctit to say to you that the first thing we ought to do rm , m the :iO-car.ed NplaapiH. which. .has passecF the- House". "I am very glad ( to heai the Senator trice that poi-j us ? I ri l r 'I l .11.,' ,t: In Washington J t ion, because I am in fu'l sympathy with it. ;Mr. Penrose. t'iesidenfc, I should like to call the .attention i 'of the Senator from Utah to a ehaCii teristi phraseology. On page 4. of the report of the committees, in the let ter over the signature of Franklin ! K. Lane he says: ' . "A million or twoi dollars, if appropriated now, will put ' the' work ' Avel': under way." ,It is a cose of throwing around millions. It does not much master whether they get one million or two millions-in Mr. Lane's opinion. Mr. Thomas. May I ak the Sen ator what the work is? Mr.'Smoor. Survey and classifies- t-ij'on of unentered public lands. Mr. ' Penrose. It is twi ingenious scheme to get money out of the Treas ury for a very great purpose. .Mr. Thoanas. pose connected It is not that nur.P roixc-i m with tbp proposed homestead policy for so'diers? Mr. Penrose. Yes; it is tV bill .. tnac we are tfi.'.cussmg. otrc it is so : absurd for the Secretary of the In- terior to say: "G:ve me a million or I x i ? . two million; one or two million will ho p a:ong. Mr. Thoma: The Senators know? that in these days a mi 'lion is not chicken feed when it comes to nation al appropriations. Mr. Penrose. I am hopeful, now that the war is over, that it will nol be chicken feed. Mr. Thomas. I hope so. too. Mr. Smoot. Mr. President, it took us long time to learn to use the word "billions. Members of the Ap propriation Committee would be dis cussing a question upon the floor, and it w.is next to impo f'ble for any of them to use the word "billions," but we have, got to usine ' the word so flippr.ntty and so often that nothing short of a billion has been thought' worthy of consideration. As the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Overman) suggests, if any member of the appropriations committee un- dcrtook to save a hundred thousand j dollars he would be laughed at; and; he might just as well have gone far I thcr and said that a mere question million dollars was not worthy of a moment s passmjr tnouglic. JVIr. President, we have got to re turn to normal conditions.. A recon- sti-uction is to take place. As Iv'e said in public many times. I have not been afraid cf the- outcome of the war. Success to the arms of America and her allies yrvs ax sure as that the siin would ri"2 on tomorrow. I bave said that w would have no trouble raising '. money or enforcing 'aw and regu'aCons during the time our arn ie were fighfcin' the enemy of civil ization; bat I always had a fwr as lo our ftttwre aftet pe.ace was! declar- re-Jed - , ' - ' THE GRAY MAN -OF CIiniST - The religion of William :Hofien- zollern' hat been' one' of the most ac tive topics of the whole war.' It ha Lonty b ?e in'k sVyiSf iattUtteYances thaf t tttrprtJerntan rtfawfirK has jc: -UIJJ. .ii ZmXa .Z - out bf the watehfur TefeswcjTI V Karl Bower, showed1 William in tne act of communion, ami we are dftUrctlj? told that in that Belgian chuuh with a wa:tt'ng audience of German pincers the worsnippers never bent, the km. There is a strong contrast betwvn him and the figure the Lose Angl-s Times draws of his conqueror, ien. Ferdinand- Foch "The Cray Man of Christ ; "This has been (lirist . war," says the Times. "C hrist on one tide, ani al that stootl opposed to Christ on the other s'de. And l" Genendissimo, is supreme command of all armies that fought on the sid of Christ, is Thrift's .man," Th Times brings forward the re minder that "it is the business of the newspaper to get at facts. a4 "if the faefci are a supenml nature, it is still the business of the M-wsppfr lo gel them and to m-ord them." When th:s was written the full pan of Gen. Fech's achievement h?J n l brien covered, but the end wa thei trarly in sight. We read: "A California !-, serving n:, a Foldicr in: the Americui Expedit'n - France luv menMv writtrm letter to hia parents i fran' Bernardino in which If gives a woil a any one else could giv. lhr answer to' the question, we a?k. "Thi.V American boy Evan?. ?.y namrtclls of meeting Genera! Foch at close, range in France. "Evans had gone into ;m old chiuch to havr a look-at it. and as he sto-d there with bared head satisfying U s respectful curiosity, a gray man with the cagli on a general on the collai of h'is slubby un'form also entend the church. On'y one orderly accom panied the quiet gr-iy man. No g'it tering staff of officers, no fntoiirag of geld-laced aids were with him: nobody but just the orderly. "Evans paid small attention at first to the gray man. hut wav cur ious to' see him-kneel in th- church praying. The minutes passe, I until three quarters of an hour hnd gon by before the gray man .nrosVrom his knees. incn vajM followed Ivm down the street and was surpiised to se soldicra salute this man in great ex citement, and women and children stopping in their tracks with aw stcken faces as he passed, "lt was Fwh. And now Evans, of San Bernardino, counts the experienc- as the greatest of his life. Vvripc that -three quarters of r.n hour t!Ht Mie Genera'issimo of the a'F'ed armies was on his knees in humble supplica tion in that quiet church, 10,1700 gunc were roarim? at his word on hun dred hills that rocked with death. "Millions of armed nrn croecnd in-trenches or 'rushed across blood dTenched terrancs at his 'command generals, artillery, eayalry, eng-'neer. tank.-:, fought and wrought across h map of Europe absolutely a he cem manded h;m to do nnd in no !r manacr, a he went into that JittV church to pray. "If youTfy Evan? could have follow ed' the- General where reports were waiting for hirr. and pews of victory upon victory pilca high before - him. hs would donbtrlss "hare 'ecn a gi-at gfadner on;, the General' face, but b wenll have seen no look of surprise the"?. '5fdurtg EvaiU, ihsfe .an every da? XitiwlcatT . ' boy. .from under tV shadow , of O'd Gorgoiiia. ?p, nt eary -jra hour with" Foch in an o'd .French clntrch, and." not even one baydnet wa " there to keep them apart 1 -'