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The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, June 16, 1912, Morning, Image 21

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adi ot wren" m evqry hiar alt'
soutre olomet,4 to trove that *lto
war 1iR1s":, wat' of the '!f
tlolai ii thetm, one m ht'
call at o uj ntº warntiy· the liar'
an- tint o "a ~war of the 1iea*t.'
i u of years pr'eceding it
there wasn oqtinualt strife and dai
satlsibttion aptong statesmen regard
ft thtd attitude of Irraaii pand sing
tent toward the Uatted' ftatee. Cjsee
qtdtt4Sie of t)iat timie insist that It
0Was tae. up which country was. glv
tot tote .one the woret deal and rtha~t
it eeeO ed to' depend on, the flip,of =!t
oi, plch one America would seleot
to ft to. fight both was ult'
gpoellbte.
T in :were Indighent over the
he =of -American seamen in
the °sety*a'Ijoe, hbut they equally
rese~m tebd 'the h hhanded methods ofi
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"IMPRESSMENT OF AMERICAN SEAMEN WAS THE FIRST CAUSE
FOR WAR"
%. The Celebration ot the Fourth
•L BRATJON That Will Give People Something to Talk About
As Long as the Flag Floats Will Be This Year's Big
Time in Missoula
Two Whole Days of Glitter"in Fun
Wednesday and Thursday, July 3 and 4
Grand Civic and Military Parade---10 a. m. Wednesday. Liberal Prizes for Floats. Athletic Tournament 2 p. m. Wednesday. $250 in Prizes
Mask Carnival 8.o 12 p. m. Wednesday. HI Jinks and Gay Revelry. Illuminated Automobile Parade 9 p. m. Wednesday. Most Gorgeous
Spectacle Ever Seen in Montana.' Magnificent Display of Fireworks. Patriotic Exercises---W. J. McCormick, Orator.
SEJIAL RATES 05 ALL RAILWAYS GOOD FROM JULY 2 TO 6
Goddess of Liber 6r
- S 0 1 ST AY LATE
The Most Beautiful Girl in Western Montana, To Be *
Decided by Vote=--Get Coupons and Cast Your Ballots.
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id I t sMlon shwewad otalnW.
IN b tef# o is 1itu tvaujoni that
he Iaferrd pke W..:b ngltEd atd
wr vfth ul e. gt, there " was a
pa k ~, the "Quids" fro.
.1' rf t, meelnt a third ,
they had depipd
4 kno*in organieatiq.
ii this newer voting bddy
",+ a ygsd iMnaroe for p1 14lt
4ven etured, to attack. 't
i I tigident Madison's et b
.tion. Whitle not substahtthited..h b. d
ioot facts, hiltdians tinite In agrq
.Ing that 'M2adisat" wi largely lI
fluuncv, In his Itubitiuent wjr at
'ttude, by his ;wih' to placate tleen
pollteta enemies.
Uo, the country stewed. qnd elm
mered In the cauldrop of dlneonenent.
Something additiondl was neeided to
bringl t to the boiling pol.t and it
r6mto In the atparently accidental cot
Illton of a uBritish tan of war and
thI' Ameroican vessel "President' Inl
'M'a$ of 1811. At another time this
would have passed as a minhehp of
the basm, but hubtle speakers made op.
poitnmity of It and the desire for wllr
steadily grew under their maniupla"
Unqueitionably the IngutgSmministevs
,to this dountry did mtieh-4hrough
Iaok ofl'thtt very dipiomaty for which
they .V dr. employed-to hbrinr. about
ttr woilrell ts ok1re ien s oun.
en tiis':.jlrt of t, and it'
nmet 010t m,ý. =tnlat, i Amtetr.
·t r d od:..the Non-Intaerourse
actV¶ i to favor Great B1ttaln, the
#tdtr wotdy recall Its orders In bonn
redent Mntdlson agreed to this for
Ameri*ca and subsequently ihad,
;seramblingly and mitch to hid iumilli
alion, b chlnge bacK agatn to 't.i
oritgtal situation -because Dn$tsnd uts
torly refused to keep the t.fethi~ e
made by her envoy. ' on 3ra~Is
lone Ihto the' deal with a ptmoeIt4p+pt
which was one of the real Inner casiqe
at the war,
In "The Making bo the Nation,"
Professor ranceis A. Walker tell how
Franoe met a proclamation of Madl
son's to the 6fteet that If either
France or England, should debide to
observe the heutral laws, as regarded
the United Itates, 'and the ·ther coun
try.fall;ed to do Itkewlewlthitt a pe.
riod of three months: all trade with
the recalcitrant nation' Nskuld cease.
torla, "Frtance met those aocuditions.
In Nhtembqr of that year President
Madion 'declared the restrictions re
moved, as regarded France and her
dependenoles. Three months' later, in
March of 1811, congress .passed an act
decreeing the restriction In force
against ,Great Britain."
Prafieaor Walker Insltas that "while
England had not kept her agreement,
neither had France, and the whole ex
planation Is that the dominant party
hid made utp Its mind that war must
come-and that, therefore, war with
France must be avoided. That we
would accept from the latter country,
not what we wanted, not what we
ought to have, but what we could
get."
,But it Is ever the militia whichl
voices the cry, of the populace. 'Regu
lars of land or sea are compelled to
fight for so muecb per month. The
militia, however, was a volunteer body
and historians relate that the greatest
difficulty was experienced In obtain
ing sfflicient recruilt to fill out nrc
essary state organlsations. Giving the
linpressment of American seamen by
the Engllsh as osn plausible reason for I
the war it wo,,ul not have added any
to its popularity had the Americans
Iohei conscrllptel fr home servic'.
Various "other causes tended, how
ever, to gradually create a war feeling
that became more than legislativo
talk. In the spring of 1812, President
Madison confidentially rcommended
to congress that war with England hIo
declared. Put to a vote, the measure
passed both legislatlvo -bodies .by a
vole of 79 to 49 In the [Hous., and 19
to 13 in the Senate-war ,lsing de
clared the same day. June 18th.
Unique In so many respects, the war
was apparently dominated by the
," PANGLED BANNER"
number "t1t1 ." Just that many rea
,onsal wor6e *tn for dclanrlng It; pre
eisely that aitmher of years elapsed
'from the git olollislon to the final da
olaring o ec; a trio of land on
counters a.i d. out cs memorable; and
three tora ttworrrre--or rather, war
fate in three dlfrerent scations, which
never overlliped- made it remarkable.
The Jmpreislment if Alnirlican sea-,
meq by the Enallsh. of course was
the first cautib for disatlsfactlon.
England, at war willh 'rante nid
desperately. In need f tmenI Insnsted on
her right to *the erv.ret a of her "off
.spring." Amerleans,. naturally, did
not see it that w;y,
A acond reason awas the belief that
nhigland was endellvoring to coax
away from the t'nin a, number of the
Staten. Strength wits lent this sur
mlise by a cofr.~siln mntido by a
Britisher, who ennr,,t.nird to the then
secretairy of slatnt that ibt. hadll been
bribed by the goverior general of Can
ada to engage I tllhs work. Not be
Ing paid, he sold his informlatioh to
this government.
A third rea.,,n and ono which
could probably h;aiv' Ibrtn eliminated
had the wireless bh,'i In ue tlhen
was that the houm thtlyi in geItting
Information front I:.ngland l.ld the peo
pilo to fear that ,-,,ntry mllght lhave
time to strengthen her frontier po-ts
and further stir itp thel Indilans
against this tiatiln.
When the i did lbreak" It was
fought out b tll1 t.10.- hit weI it ships
at sea; all a g th Athlltintl canst
and on the CViillilnn frn.tler. At its
hegi~nning E.ngnllnl had i:7 ships, als
compared to tish eagre 22 viIset.l of
the United Stat'es. tiii, the immeoset
area of shorre to ,te c,,vred pr-oved
w great handlc4p ti' the itlsh', whose
beet flghting men and ubtl~ were daur
Ing the early pert of the War, nseded
for engagements agarnst thet forces
of "The Little ('orporal,"
The uniqueness of this way neain re
Veals Itself In the remarkable num
her of' trite enytlnh of Its lenders
which have paselI into the Cliasul
grade as quotations. During one ~I
the many sea fights, the expression,
"Don't give up the ship" was first
heald--4t creator dying of his wounds
on the deck of the very vasetl in
question. Commander Perry, after one
of the most notable battles of all
time, in which he vanquished the
Brtish, wrote home his now much
used phrase, "We have met the enemy
and they are ours."
1he battle ao North Point stands out
as one where Americans fought so
bravely that a mere monument ap
pears to bh inadequate pralse, Ilvery
year, on Reptember 12th. which is
the anniversary of thart loody con
flict, Baltimore rememlw'rs her hrses
b;; a general holiday. Two young
men who wire eapecinl'y herolc in
their city's defense ars'e p'rpetuated In
marble.
Following this came the bombard
ment of. fort Mclenry. That hlstoffP
guard to the city's approach is still
standing and well preserved and, until
very recent years, maintained a full
quota of the millitary. With the long
distance shetll and newer malkes of
a 1' -
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E BATTLE OF NEW ORLEANS WAS FOUGHT AFTER THE TREATY OF PEACE WAS SIGNED"
bottle hdipa, naat expeftse have reil
4ued, however, that its days ot use-,.
fulneam--eacept as a sentinel-are over.
Here w0e fought the battle 'between
tort and hilps which gave to the
poetic genlus or FJrancima mcettt Key
that stltnulous needed for the compoil
the of our national anthem. Not that
he ponsesmed any idea of writing such
a hymnn Indeed, no far as he knew,
he was literally writing a death sona.
During the engagement he
aboard one of the ,Qangllh shilplit '
der a flag of truce, to ask etltallht
'for some Amerloans taken captive at
Washington. Once there, he was not
allowed to depart-many etudents of
warfare have said he coulld not well
have done so--end was an unwilling
spectator of the firing of guns from
;that vessel toward his country's forti
fieation.
Darkness c·aused a cremation of
fikhting until morning. Key. not
k'nnwing the result of the' final hour
of the struggle', waited through it long
night of h,'rrer and suelponl'e to, "'ao
by the dawn's early light" whether
there etill floated that flagi he had
"halld at the twilight's tant gleam
Ing." A ,Inh'utiful Ibrnnse and lmarbl,
monument has lately been erected to
his memory.
A.bout a fortnight previous to thi.
the British had boaleged and burnedl
Wahinglton city. President Madison
and his aide were on the battlefiehe
all of the fourteenth of August and
wheni at evening," they
were' beath, tlrdy e
ington -~a savte Wh , .
and of vaI. e. Tl onftu.o; i.
earibed by histlk4 w.*as tsttre
People fled ihadly ;gh the ;wefS
streets, the Capitol was ssdhbt ,
treat volumeuiot flame and sauroudttd
Ing the Whlthe House wete companles
of British-made all the more dete'
mined because they beUleved this final
victory'meant triumphal peace. -
Asnid the chaos, the everresAitdmetil
Dolly Madison kept her wits in ad
mirable condition. Directing servants,
bundling up clothing and jerking down
pa)ntings, she speedily had a whole
cartful of valuatles ready to send
away. The dBritish were advancing
and her helpers were none too anal
,us to wait longer. But, just as the
most temperamental of all the,"lPirst
tadier" wae about to depart she re
membered an Immense portrait of
(leorge Washington which adorned a
wall of the presidential bed chanber.
The c.trt could not posialbly contain
the frame-overloaded as It already
wca*-no the clear-brained Mrs. Madi
non cut the picture from its frame
and took it along.
And now one comes to the final and
nnat extraordinary feature of this al
most uselnls war. On December 24.
114,. a peace treaty was nilged at
(Ihent between this country and Bng
(Continued on Page Ton.)

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