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Feeding Bolshevism
Of all the extraordinary developments
? ?'' Russian polic> the most extraordi
nary, surpassing even Prinkipo, is the
feeding of the Bolsheviki.
Before examinjnn it let us (irst con
sider the justificatiom pul forward.
policy, it is said, merely extends to
starving Russia, for similar humani?
tarian reasons, the relief given to the
civilians of Belgium when under Ger?
man rule. Instead of similarity of con
riitions, there is marked dissimilarity.
In. Belgium the central fact of the ar
rangement, the simc qua non of making
ir. was assurance that the supplies
would reach Germany's victims. Elabo
rate machinery safeguarded against
Germans sitting down at tlie feast. This
was possible. The Germans wore uni
forms, and were set apart by language
and appearance. In Belgium were
municipal governments, manned by Bel
gians, whose good faith was undoubted.
In Bolshevik Russia is no foreign
army. The Bolsheviki are native and
mingled with the general population. No
non-Bolshevik municipal government is
allowed to exist. A Red Guardsman,
changing his clothes to gain admittance
?.'i a soup kitchen, will look and talk as
another Russian. The better elements,
which there is special desire to save. are
reduced to abject misery and are not
tinguishable from the Leninites. The
Leninites will be first at the food trough,
and when their stomachs are tilled may
be expected to s?iy: "Papa Lenine is
. t. I don't work. yet I live in com
fort."
Furthermore, the relief. although at
American expense, is not to be in the
hands of American agents, but through
Fridtjof Nansen and other citizens of
Scandinavia and Switzerland. Will they
'< able to discriminate between noxious
innocuous Russians, between the
vietims and the victimizers? Russia is
not a country like Belgium, but sprawls ;
ever a continent, and the Nansen ban
quet will be for all comers.
When Poland raised her hands in ap
peal the world did not dare respond
because it was known Germans, not
Poles, would consume Lhe grain. The
minal Bolsheviki, who have not
tpled aboul taking the last morsel
?? pea eable Russians, will by craft
"?'' foi contii I '??;!? ruthless prac
'-"' thc well disposed will America
? ourish, but the ii! disposed.
!'. il a condition is attached to the
feeding?namely, that the Bolsheviki
cease fighting. If one condition can be
>aid down so can another. The Bol
sheviki could be required to agree to the
ding of a free election, with the con?
trol passing to the agents of the ma?
jority, Bul this is ?ot asked.
T! e ('"> idenl once loudly asked C'er
many to change her representatives. He
d*?ew a i ; distinction between gov
fimenl and people, and refused a par
? until then- was satisfactory evidence
that the German spokesmen were chosen
by the German people. The evidence
*hat the Kaiser represented Germany
w?n much stronger than is the evidence
that Lenine represents Russia. Yet, de
ning to do business with one open
<'i:crr.y of democracy, we now give evi
' * rei ognition to a more rabid and
disguised autoi racy.
' ' Bolshi viki means, in all
I kelihood, a proloi gation of their power.
il a prolongation of their power will
'''? moutl than we can hope to
! ? ' ' '' will inti n ifj until the
e-mal inc inc il lifted. \o
more temporary crises are to be bridged
The world has on its hands not
' ,;; ' infiuenza bul of tuberculosis.
Kuwia in 1!.!::, thc last year as to
which there i information, produced
netrl, 6,000,000,000 I ?., 0f cereal
*?*. hy far "" world'a greatcst food
^'xu'-'-r'. During the war, her export
r*rJe cut off, she accumulated a large
JJIm. It i? gone, and not enough is
i:'""" ?' ^ to supply needs. That
European Russia in due
frota Siberia is a Bol
- Siberia ir, 1913
323,000 bushels of grain,
<J%:' f"r '?"'? of Russia's total.
fhe peasant woi | ,,-., because not
* th? fruit ofhi* labor. He feeds
** ??* h? family, but he -carcs not
* - Miliiorr. of RU,
::HUU "fiW"!- Rttssia' -,,,,,,
"' th< "" ^uen<*of Bolshevism and
noth,n* ' ' '? long , Bolshevi n
ay bc i <pected fco
;--row worne. L<-,. ,.,,. \ ,., tnc VT^t rf ^
kwmom'ic lawi vainly combats
thc habits oi thc human animal. The
i
laborcr won't work unless he gets his
hire. No Lenine by decree can repel
this law.
To pour American food into the maw
of Russia means, of course. that our peo?
ple must pay more for life's neeessities;
but the sacrifice would doubtlcss be
cheerfully made if it promised to make
for the healing of Russia. But by hold
ing up the tottering Bolshevist system it
will delay Russia's recovery and lead to
smaller crops this year there than were
gathered last year. We cannot hope to
Iransmit food enough to offset the sub
traction from Russia's normal supply
due to the Bolshevist paralysis.
What is proposed, then, is in the nature
"l" pumping gasolene on a fire. and will
intensify rather than allay the consum
?' '?' conflagration.
Mandatary of Stamboul
1 ncle Sam is prepared to admit he has
not entirely lost the ancient gift of
adaptability, buf it will not bc easy for
him to envisage himself strolling along
the Bosporus as mandatary of Stamboul.
The voice of the bulbul may be sweet, and
in its habitat all save the spirit of man
may be divine; but the duties of the job,
like its name, are new and unfamiliar,
and there is a modi sl shrinking.
Our Europoati friends are insistently
pressing the cup of sacrifice, and the
intention is doubtless complimentary;
but "No, thanl< you!" seems the mood of
tiie American delegation at Paris. In
time our people may become habituated
to the idea of shouldering a full share of
the white man's burden, but we would
learn the business gradually. "The Ara
bian Nights" is an cxcellent compendium
of Oriental life, and we have recovered
from our first shock over the hoochee
koochee, but we are not yet completely
educated in bowstring etiquette. Few
Americans ever have salaamed; but to
be salaamed to! -the very thought is
enough to stimulate a retreat to the high
grass. The average American, be it
sadly admitted, has not yet tirmly fixed
in his mind the difference between the
Sublime Porte and a porte-cocherc.
If the world wants a mandatary at
Constantinople, and ean be induced to
aeeept a man rather than a nation.
what's the matter with Pierre Loti? He
seems to have a real liking for pacha
civilization. He knows how to wear a
turban and to flourish a scimitar. He
might turn out to he a ('live or a Cro
mer. Henry Morgenthau and Abram
Elkus. it is true, know the narnes of the
streets about the Golden Horn, but they
are too useful as American citizens to
be wasted 0:1 being the centre of a
movie. Then think of how the Bolsheviki
would gibe at us greedy imperialists
should wc consent to play a decorative
part at Constantinople. No use to tell
Lenine and Trot/.ky we were unwilling;
and our home Bolsheviki would, of
course, dutifully e,cho their sneers.
Guarantees of Peace
IV?A Unified Italy
Italy achieved national unity after the
wars of the middle of the last cenfury.
She was assisted first by France and
then hy Prussia to throw off the Aus
trian yoke.
But in a military sense she didn't
aehicve independence. She had no de
fensible frontier on the north or east.
Austria was left in possession of the
Trentino?a wedge'driven deep into the
heart of the northern Italian plain. Al!
the Alpine passes remained in Austrian
control, including the Adige Valley.
which has been the historical pathway of
Teuton invasions of Italy.
The west shore of the Adriatic, which
belonged to Italy, was practically har
bprless. The east shore, bountifully sup
plied with ports and naval bases, was
Austrian down to Cattaro. Italy was
left, in a military sense, at the meroy oi'
her ancient oppressor.
Italian policy always had to consider
this perilous situation. Crispi formed
an alliance with Austria-Hungary and
Germany, thus safeguarding the north?
ern and eastern frontier. But that as?
sociation was an unnatural rnakeshift.
Italy and Austria-Hungary were in
evitable rivals. As the friction between
them increased, Italian statesmanship
became more and more convinced that
some day Italy must fight Austria-Hun?
gary iii order to sccwre her own boun
daries, and thus completc the work of
Italian unitication and nationalization.
Italy entered the war with two pur?
poses in view. One was to free the
Italian-speaking peoplcs of the Trentino
and Istria. The other was to establish
a sound military frontier. Both these
aims were legitimate. They were fully
recognized in the treaties of alliance
which Italy made in 1915 with the En
tente Powers. There is no good reason
why they should not he recognized as
legitimate hy the Paris peace conference.
Italy needs a northern boundarywhich
will cover the Reschen and Brenner
pa ea and then turn southcast to the
Camic Alps. givirjg her control of all the
upper basin of the Adige. There is little
digpute over this claim or over the Ital?
ian ciaims to Istria. The main ecntro
versy has been over the distribution of
the territory south of Istria.
The Entente secret treaties assigned
to Jugo-Slavia all Hungary'a frontage
on the Adriatic. Fiumc is in this reser
vation. The upper portion of Dalmatia
was promised to Italy. Now the Italians
are anxious to acquire Fiume, trading
for ii a part of their Dalmatian front
.age. Tbe Croatians and Slavonians, who
are to !,<? merged in the new south Slav
state, are nat.uraily cager to retain
Fiumc, which is their biggest porfc and
their natural sea outlet. Serbia, Bosnia,
Herzegovina and Montcnegro, the other
eonjititucnl parta oi th.' new gtate, are
not no directly concorned about Fiumc,
for there are many other noaportu on the
middle Adriatic which would suit their
purposes better if adequate railroad com
; munication were established across the
j mountains.
The whole Adriatic question has been
j confused by racc antagonisms between
; the Italians and the former Slav popu
lations of Austria-Hungary. Economi
cally a settlement offers few difficulties.
There are more than enough harbors
to go around. The Allied nations have
the warmest possiblc feeling for Serbia.
Yet Serbian interests are only slightly
involved in the coast controversy. The
-south Slavs, who are most actively con
cerned, are former enemy subjects, many
of whom fought freely and obstinately
against Italy.
Italy's claim ought to come first. She
deserves the most generous treatment.
To guarantee her military security is a
primary object of Allied policy. And
Italy has never been secure in the mili
tary sense, except when she has held
a large portion of the eastern Adriatic
coast.
This fact has escaped the notice of
most of those who have thoughtlessly
condemned Italian claims to that coast
as "imperialistic." They are not "im
perialistic." They are merely an out
growth of Italy's need for a really pro
tective military frontier.
Italy is one of the chief western de
mocracies. Whatever reasonably secures
her position should be allotted to her.
She is one of the essential guarantors
of peace in Europe and of the survival
there of the new democratic order which
ihe Paris conference is engaged in set
ting up.
Human Lloyd George
One may or may not agree in all
things with Lloyd George, but at least he
talks like a'human being. He makes no
cuttlefish exudation when asked to give
reasons. He rctreats into no fog of gen
erality. Ile does not irritate his hearers
hy claiming he is open when he deems it
wise to he secret.
The peace conference has seemed to
many an assemblage of wranglers. Since
the signing of the armistice 158 days
have elapsed, and those on the outside
have seen new trouble centres develop.
The cost of delay has been so great that
it'is doubted whether the j,rains ?f \V]_
surely consideration offset them.
The thought of the average man runs
toward the conclusion that it would have
been better to have deferred some prob?
lems in order to settle pressing ones. To
this criticism the British Prime Minis?
ter scarcely makes a completely satisfy
ing defence. but he has contributed to a
lessening of acerbity. The tone, if not
the matter. of liis speech tends to suhdue
impatience.
His explanation of the delay is the
enormous complexity of the issues. He
says that. the delegates have wojrked hard
-something no ono will he disposed to
deny. He also says that the disharmony
has been greatly exaggerated. Perhaps
he is right as to this. But Lloyd
George, of course, could not be expected
to admit disharmony. So to do would be
to raise the issue of where the fault lay
and would be an implied reflection on
other nations. Compliments to France
and to the United States are forced by
circumstances.
In the affirmative parts of his speech
Lloyd George dwelt at considerable
length on Russia. The heart of the pol?
icy he supports, as nearly as ean be
made out, is that Russia mustfbe left to
work out her own destiny. If she likes
Bolshevism, in effeel lie said, then she
can have Bolshevism. This conclusion
is reached, first, because of the practical
difficulty of military intervention, and,
second, because the British tradition for
bids dictation to another people. Thus
is thrown over the doctrine that. it mat?
ters to the world what sort of gov?
ernment is possessed hy an important
nation.
It may he suspeeted that Lloyd George
does not in his heart believe in such
aloofness. The real hope that sustains
him as he supports a do-nothing course
is thal Bolshevism is n fever lhat wiil
pass that it embodios an economic sys
tcm which is impossible; that thus time
figllts on the side ol' the democratic na?
tions.
Concerning the secrecy of the confer?
ence the defence is ihe conventional one
always made for secret diplomacy. The
ment in the argument no serious-minded
person will gainsay. Some sorts of busi?
ness seem to demand closed doors. But
Ihe trouble at Paris is that whenover il
has suited any one lo I ry to make capi?
tal outside the veil has boen liftcd, or
partially liftcd. It'has been indicated to
correspondents what they should say,
and this practice has fostered ihe dis
trust, and the mtltual sus|iicion which
Lloyd George so much condemns. Secrecy
may he well, but secrecy with a press
agent i< another thing.
But in one thing Great Britain is
fortunate. She has as her spokesman a
man capable of dismounting from moral
itilt:
.Sub-Burlcsonizofl Mails
/ ...... The ( ln rland Plain-Dr.alci i
I'he I'ostmastor General of Swcden is in
this country tn stllily the United States
mail .service. Whal a Bcrvice they must.
have in Swcden!
Pre-Llection Querics
' /'r.,,,1 i ?,,,,, , ?, Wrrkly, Tnprka i
We have an inquiry aa tn whether Proi i
dent Wilson permittod I'roBidcnl Poincaru
lo kii a iiim.
Wondcr Whal a Bachelor Thinks
About?
H-'rom The Dallan \, ,. ? .
Our idea of no
importancc ia wlmi
bacholor ?oyn when hc tulks ln hia gloep,
The Conning Tower
The Economic Aspcct
Tho dry wind doth blow
And we'll have H=0;
And what. will the souscs do then, poor
things ?
They'll drink sarsaparilla,
Crushed peach, and vanilla,
And save up a fortune or two, poor things.
One of the troubles with the *,dea that.
we are going to have the money now spent
on booze is that our drinking friends are
already richer than our abstaining ac
quaintances.
The G. F.
Sir: It i* a guilty feeling you have
when you find out that the attraetive
young "Y" girl you have been flirting with
at the camp is the now grownup little
girl from the big house on the Kill, in
your home town, which you left tifteen
years ago. R. \V.
What '.ve should hke to see i.?t a strike
of telephone answerers. A Busy Man says
tu his secretary. "(!et Mr. Splash on the
wire." She gets Mr. Splash. "Mr. Splash?"
she asks. "Yes," he answers. "Just a
minute," she says; and then, to the Busy
Man, "Here's Mr. Splash." As soon as the
Busy Man can, he says, "Mr. Splash?"
"Yes," he answers again. . . , Thirty
scconds is long enough to keep the an
swerer waiting, and once is enough for
him to prove his identity. When "Just a
minute" is longer than half a minute, we.
for one, always hang up the receiver. Are
there other rebels?
Boston'-- patriots see a deep plot in the
Xew York Times's proofreader's "Barh
Bay."
"Weep Thy (ioldon Rain"
April, why this weathcr dreary?
Tears abounding, not a .-.milr.
May ha* got il nn you. clearie,
Hy ,-, milc.
Month nf moods, you've had us leuping
Over puddlc3 till we're lamo,
Can'l you think somehow of keeping.
On your came ? s., ,,, ,.
We learn from a London dispatch to
The Xew York Tribune, which Billikens
points out to us, that a Copenhagen dis?
patch to thc Exchange Telegraph Company '
says |fhat the "Achtuhrblatt" and the
"Abendblatt," of Berlin. print reports re?
ceived from travellers to the effect that
communists at Budapest have executed
Archduke Joseph. Which is information at
practically first hand.
And Then Itaromctric Pressurc Saving
Sir: Since Daylighl Saving ii such a success
lhal it i- about to he mailo one of the Peace
Terms, Irt's start n campaign for Temperature
Saving. In Oclober let every thormometm- be
snt ahead twon'y degrees, so that .10" I ahrenheit
becomes ti"1.
Think of the saving in coal. fur cyats. and
the bouIs of janilors! Francaisb.
Harvard professors have formed a union
and become affiliated with the Boston Cen?
tral Labor Union. T'eachipg is a notori
ously underpaid profession and the hope
hereljy is expressed that the wage-scale
will be inereased. But suppose you were
about to take nn cxamination in a subject
you were shaky in, aml just as you began
to write your exam. paper the professor
walked out on strike. Is it, or ain't it, Mr.
C. A. Briggs, a g. and g. f. ?
Sampling the President
Hc is mi direct and srraightforward that
heseems subtle and Macchiavellian to those
who don't understand him. He tries to
do what is right; and that, of course. pro
vokes cynical laughter among those who
believe that he must he "clever." *He brings
to bear on all mattcrs a spiritual vision
instead of the narrow parochial-viewpoint
of most of us; and that, of course. "isn't
done" by practical men. When he thinks
he is doing what will bencfit the majority,
he gocs ahead in spite of all obstacles;
and (hat, of course, is merely showing
stubbornness and a blind disregard of ad?
vice. He is big onoufjh to risk displeasure
by doing the unpopular thing, if he thinks
it the moral thing to do. He scorns ex
pediency, intriguc and political chicanery;
also those who believe them neccssary. Hc
bclicves that a man's attitude toward any
circumstanee is of more importance than
the circumstanee itself. in short, he is
a statesman with a mctaphysical mind, and
the dictionary meaning of the word mcta?
physical will show why he is far beyond
the comprehension of so many of us in?
cluding the Democratic party. P. W.
Perhaps Mr. Edward Shcldon, Kugtish ;
adaptcr of "Thc Jcst," fcarcd to writc his
manuscripl i:i verse. Ho may have been
afraid that the playcrs would read it in a :
sing-SOIlg nianner, and so hc tore n page ;
from Wall Mason'a book and had it set in
proso. But in verse it would appoar thus:
The love of women Iransccnds all other loves.
I' i 'ho brealli ,,f life, th,- voice, lhe cry,
I ln- silver song thal lifis lhe soul to God.
It is lhe cup ,.f li!,,,?| and burning wine
Thal goads thc father on to Kill his child,
lhe brothcr to commil ihr orimc of Cain
Among those who will sing in Klmira i
next June, take it from the nnnouneement, }
is ihe barytone, Renauld Mcrenach.
The Duda <>f .Journalism
Su-: Perhaps I should wait until lhe milkmen |
l;" "!|1 "'' fitrlke I.. give tlmellness t,, this one
''"> ' am not .,? all miro thal they will become ;
'?' ????'? ""' '? foro I forgct (ho wheeze. Whal 1 ;
s|n rteil out ?., ? ? l is thal i-,, m ,n, . ,, i, ,
uiui, no ni.m, ? H hat vvagn
adjustments are ma.lo f?r the milkmen, I think
we should pension the lircd phruse found in the
accounts of the big costume balls, which always
cloao 'about tho limo tho milkmen begin their ?'
matutlnal rounds." ,\,,K ,\ Jackson
Hlustration'a Artiess Aid in exemplified
in the May McClure's. Mr. Crawford
Young, illustrating "I See by the Papers,"
draws a picture of a soldier wearing a
steel helmet. at Brest; and of n nurso at
Base Hospital No. IH wearing n white
dress and a white cap.
Subsolnr Novelty, discovcrcd by Mildred:
Thc fish botie which waa plaeed with care
on the butter plate and prcsontly riaoa
from broad and atnba you in thc check,
Belgium is not going to try thc former
Kaiser. aml Mrs. W. Hohonzollern is just.
a* well pleiised. \: p A.
Annexing Canada
Not Physically, but Socialty and Commercially
By Our Canadian Correspondent
TORONTO, April 15.?Xo one in Canada
any longer gives a serious thought to
the possibility of the United States an
nexing this country by force, but there are
many who believe that economic absorption is
still a possibility. Especially during the first
two years of the war the opinion was private
ly expressed by men thoroughly familiar with
Canadian conditions, and ever. high in tho
councils of the nation, that within a com
paratively short time the question of union
with the United States would become a real
issue in the Dominion.
It is well that the people of the United
States should understand that Canadians
have been and even yet are, "kicking
against the pricks" of what 'nave been con
sidered int'allible economic laws which, ac?
cording to accepted dogmas, should have
made this country part of the greater eco?
nomic unit repi-esonted by the United
States When this fa:t is kept in mind it
may help to explain irritability on the part
of Canada for anything which, even re
niotely, might suggest loss or impairment
of tho Dominion's identity or of its dis
tinctive characteristics.
Commercial nnd Social Annexation
And is it not true that tiie United States
threatens commercial and social annexation
of Canada; indeed, is the process not al?
ready far advanceel? N'ew York fashion?
are adopted in Canada, in very much the
same way as British Columbia or Winnipeg
'? weather gradually sweeps toward Ontario
? or Quebec. Canadians eat United States
j breakfast foods and are only slightly more
; conservative in their preference for tea in
stead of coffee. Canadian newspapers nre
published on the accepted United States
model. The bulk of foreign and even Brit?
ish news dispatches reach the Dominion
through The Associated Press from Ameri?
can correspondents oversoas, and naturally
br'.ng with them a United States atmos
| phere and interpretation. The people of
Canada read United States magazines and
Un'ted States novels. The Sunday schools
, in Canada distributc United States leaflets
, to their scholars and the teachers use
United States lesson helps with illustrationa
drawn from United States sources. Cana?
dians buy United States goods of nll kinds
to the tune of hundreds of millions of dol
lars annually.
The people of the two countries inter
marry. Atlantic City and Palm Beach are
holiday meccas for the well-to-do of both
the Republic and the Dominion. Canadian
banks keep a large volume of surplus funds
on deposif at call in N'ew York. The most
enterprising manufacturing ostablishmcnts
in the Dominion are probably the branches
of United States companies. They are wel
comed, but thev are none the less an Amer
icanizing influcnce. Canadian cobalt, nick?
el and gold mines are developed by United
States capital. Canadians bite readily at
the bait of United States oil stocks, while
United States investors lose as easily on
wildeat Canadian flotations, N'ew York or
Chicago experts are impovted by Canadian
municipalitics to advise on transportation
and other questions. Canadian exportcrs
to a very large extent ship their products
to ovcrseas markets via N'ew York or other
United States ports. Large quantities of
Canadian commoditics reach foreign desti
nations :-.s products of the United States,
and are so rceorded in official trade statis
tics.
Haseftall and the Movies
Canadians flock to see motion picture
films starring United States aetors and
actresses in scenarios prepared by United
States playwrights for I'nited States audi
encc-a Thry patronize baseball games re
gardlcss of the fact that. nearly all the pro
fessionals have heen rccruited from the
I'nited States. For post-gradunte eourses
thousands of Canadians attend I'nited
States universities. International conven
tions are the vogue. Canadian public men
take their cue in no small measure from
the United States. Canadians promptly adopt
the newest United States slang. They look
to N'ew York as the commercial centre of
the continent. Settlers from the I'nited
States predominate in some parts of West
Hearst as the Advocate
of Eugene Debs
f/.'rojn Tho I'hiladelphia Inquirer)
W/dU'IAM RANDOLPII HEARST has come
out in his true eolors. His "N'ew York
American," in a double-leadod editorial, ad
vocatcs cxccutivc clcmcncy in the case of
EugCUO Debs, who has been convicted nnd
sentenced to ten years in the ponitentinry
for obstructing the war. In considering
this case it is well to rememher that there
is no doubl about the fncts. In his address
to the jury Debs did not deny the accusa
tion. Ile said holdly: "1 admit it, and I
would oppose the war if 1 stood alone." Ile
did not merely proclaim his abhorrence of
war. He detied the government, and he
plainly violated the law. To say that a man
hns the right to defy the law because it does
not suit. his views would be to make n farce
of popular government. Yet the unspeak
ab!e and misnamed "American" would have
the President pardon Debs, not that tiie jury
was wrong in convicting him, but that ha
might have j,he right of "free speech."
Listea t.i thi; reasoning from tho ilearst
newspaper:
"But in the Debs case we do not havo
proof of physical resistnnce to the will of
the majority, or even threats of detiance
of law. What we have is the persistenca
of one man holding unpopular and un
s.ound opinions.
"No issue would have arisen if Debs*s
opinions had been in nccord with tho
thoughta of the majority.
"In that event he would have heen
lior.i/.ed, as many worse men vvero who
used the rhotoric of patriotic fervor and
v.ar-stirring 7.eal to disguise their profi
tecring or their use of power for other
Beltbh ends."
That is the Hearst idea. Against it we
place tho calm statement of Attorney (ioii
eral Palmer. That official says that Debs
was given a fair trial by jury. He says that
ern Canada. A thousand more points of con
tact, all tending to impress United States
leadership upon the people of the Dominion,
could be cited.
While the Canadian West is quite as
i'aithful as is the Canadian East to nation?
al and imperial ideais, self-interest influ
er.ccs, and in part explains, the difference
in their attitudes toward trade with the
United States. In the East suspicion and
I'ear of the ncighboring Republic are fos
tered by the consideration that closer trade
relations would seriously militate against
the manufacturing industries, which for the
most part are located in Eastern Canada,
and especially in the provinces of Ontario
and Quebec. Ir. Western Canada suspicion
of the United States and feaj of the con
sequences of economic absorption are weak
ened by reason of the fact, that the agri
culturalists s"c south of the forty-ninth
parallel a splendid potential market for
their products. In the lure of that market,
the diversion of the course of trade from
*v\ est-East to N'orth-South has no terrors
nor does it sccm to involve any menace to
the development of a distinctive Canadian
ism, If moro Westerners owned stocks of
Canadian manufacturing companies or of
Canadian railroads there would be less de?
mand for reciprocity.
Economic Pcnetration
Readjustments will be neccssary. now
that the war ia over. and with Canadian
manufacturing cstablishments embarking
upon new lines of production and empire
producers again conipeting for the Cana?
dian market, United States manufacturers
will find it difficult, and probably impossi
ble, to maintain their present share in the
Canadian import business. Importations
from Great Britain, despite inereased prices
of eommodities, were $50,000,000 less dur?
ing the fiscal year ended March ,11, 191S,
than they were during the fiscal year
1913-'14. Meanwhile the United States im?
ports into Canada for domestic consumption
have almost doubled during the same
period.
lhe value of goods imported during tho
last fiscal year from the United States was
at a per capita average of close to $100 per
annum. as compared to about $10 for im?
ports from the United Kingdom and a little
more than $120 for goods purchased from
all countries. Especially in Western Can?
ada United States manufacturers have
gained a hold on the market which suggests
"economic pcnetration" highly developed.
I'li" situation is not. without interesting
possibilities. Just now the demand is for
free trade relations, prompted by the hope
that thereby prices would be reduceu.
But what may happen if foreign trade
fails to develop on the scale hoped for and
it" Canadian industries are unable to pro
vide sufficient employment? Already a few
public men and certain newspapers are cn
deavoring to revive thc "made-in-Canada"
movement. It may he argued with much
plausibility that Canadian manufacturers
need a larger share of tho home market,
both to take up thc slack resulting from
cancellation of war contracts and to enable
them to reduce their unit costs of produc?
tion by increasing their output. More men
acing even than the present success of
United States competition is the agitation
from thc West for reciprocity with the
1 nited States and a general drastic reduc
tion of the tariff. To these conditions thc
Canadian instinct of s.elf-preservauon may
be expected to react, and national and im?
perial consciousness may be quickened.
Tariff rcvision is overduc, nnd under nor?
mal conditions it would have been exceed
ingly difficult for any government to with
stand the demands of thc prairic provinces.
'The issue is still to be fought. It prom
iscs to be a contest in which psychological
factors will play an important part. Tho
forces of nationalism are already increas
ingiy iti evidence. As the historic "arl
junct" speech of ex-rresident Taft and the
annexation argument of Champ Clark
helped to defeat. reciprocity in 1011, so may
careless utterances or ill-advised or misin
formed criticism in th'j United States again
upset the apple cart of closer economic re
lat ions.
the charge of tho trial judge was eminently
fair, and that on appcal to the Supreme
Court ol" the United States that tribunai, by
a unanimous decision, affirmed the judgment
of conviction. Now read tlie opinion of the
Attorney General." Mr. Palmer says:
"Deba was convicted, not Decause of his
political or economic views, but because
he plainly violated the law of the land.
<>n June IS. 1918, during thc most critical
period of tho war, Deba made a public
speech at Canton, Ohio, in which he urged
that wage carners rcfrain from giving
any aid to the American nation in the
war, asserting that the war was brought
on and conducted solely in the interest of
capitalists; told his audience that they
necded to know that 'they were fit for
something better than siavcry and cannon
fodder," held up to admiration as martyrs
to the causc of labor a number of persons
who had been convicted for violating thc
draft act, and urged wage oarners to stand
together as a class to prevent the success
of our country in the war."
To pardon Deba in tho faco of these facts
would be to insult every one of the Ameri?
can soldiers who went to Erance to fight the
battles of liberty and civilization. It would
put a prcmium on disloyalty aml treason
and would be notico to thc world that the
United States was too weak and snineless" t >
enforco its own laws. But it is fitting that
this plea for the pardon of lawlessness
should come from a publication whose loy
alty haa been under suspicion ever since
the beginning of the war. Is it any wonder
that patnotic and self-reapecting men of
Xew York City declined to serve on a com?
mittee to greet returning soldiers under
the. chairmanship of Mr. Ilearst? They evi
dently know their mah.
Too Many Hanrls
l/'Vom The ;.,.,: Anpr.iva Timo,
They havo been trying to wind up tho |
run of tho Bolshevik propagandiata in
Waterbury, but it takes time to wind up
anything in Waterbury. The place will bear
watch ing.
Mother's Corners
By Wilbur Forrest
: #\^T" ARMY OF OCCUPATIOX IX GER?
MANY.-A motherly faced woman with
i attraclive gray hair dropped a number of
, pr.pcrs from her hand to the floor in a sol
, d.er recreation hall at Treves the other dav
, Turning quickly to a young American sol
, dier. she said: "Will you help me pick
them up, pleasc?" Hc complied, and before
he knew it he was sitting in a big easy chair
in one corner of the room listening to tho
lady he aided. She talked only about ca<
ual tnir.gs and he said nothing. She asked
no questions, and finally said:
"Sit here and be comfortable as long as
you want to." And then she took up some
| sewing and worked leisurely,.watching her
; visitor now and then from the corner of
, her eye. Finally she asked: "Whv are you
. looking at me '.?'.? that?" His lower lip
j trembled a little : ?] tears came tq his eyes.
\ The story came , .'. The boy was in trou
; ble. Three long delayed lctters from home,
postmarks showing they were many weeks
old, had told him first that his father and
two sisters were dead of influenza; second,
that his brother had succumbed to the dis
, case, and third. that his mother also was
! dead. He produced the lctters, and they
; were all the news he had. He had to tell
; the story to some one who might be genu
, inely sympathetic. He told the lady sitting
I opposite him with her sewing on her knee
that she looked more sympathetic and
motherly than any English-speaking woman
he had seen in Europe. She talked with
him for a solid hour and then obtained per
mission for him to remain with her another
day. And eventually he went back to his
regiment with a new outlook on life, com
forted and contident that the world was
not so harsh and unsympathetic after all.
The soldier does not yet know, and per
haps never will, that the motherly faced
woman had been watching him for some
time and had rcad deep trouble in his face
, long before she usedthe subterfugc of "ac
cidentally" dropping a handful of papers al
? He knows only that he "accidentally" met
a kindly woman who took an interest in
j him and sent him back to his regiment
i With a lighter heart and a better soldier.
She was Miss Mary Hinman, of Chicago.
; who makes it her duty to read trouble" a
i the faces of lonely doughboys and "lure"
; them to the "Mother's Corner." And she
| looks more like "mother," "mamma," "ma"
I or whatever one happens to call that ma
ternal relative at home, than any one the
boys have seen since they came abroad to
fight Uncle Sam's battles for liberty and
justice. For them she is sort of an an
gelic spider and her heavenly web is the
"Mother's Corner" at Treves.
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Your editorial in the Sunday Trib?
une entitled "Saving Our Last Deer" was
not based on facts as they are. The object
of the people who support the bill to per
mit the killing of does is not to increasi
but to decrease the number of does killed.
There have been more does killed in the
Adirondacks since the "Buck Law '
been passed than there ever were prior to
the enactment of this law. I know thal
this is a fact. If you want to prove it for
yourself forget your compilations and sta
tistics entirely and spend the last two
weeks of October and the first two
of November this coming fall in the Ad
rondacks and find it out for yourself. Ul
less you provide a game protector for every
other hunting party that goes into the
woods it is impossible to enforce the "Buck
Law." The way the "Buck Law" actuallv
works is this:
A transportation company may nrc-,
for shipment only buck -ieer. Th< ?
when a hunting party goes into the ?
it stays and hunts until i( gets one or
bucks. Do you suppose that a partj n
it 'a killing bucks to take oul imporl beei
to live on? It most certainly does nol I
kills all the does that it nedds for meat
As it often takes several days to kill th<
number of bucks which a party desires, a
great many does and fawns may be killed
for food. Add to this the number of doc
and fawns that are killed hy mistake and
left to rot where they have been
down. and add further the number of does
and fawns that are killed intentionally and
taken out cut up in trunks or pack basket
and you will find that the "Buck Law" in -
stead of being a lifesavcr for deer doi
more to reduce their number than anvl
else, one autumn I found the r, m iii
live does or fawns.
iou als,. neglect to includc in yo
posing array of figures the fact i
severe winter wiil kill a greal i
deer than hunters kill ,? a hunting ,
Over a territory of about th;r.
miles we counted upward of forty dead
deer in the severe winter of 1916-'17.
You can easily find out all these foct ?.
(or yourself if you will really get in touch
with conditions as thej exist in the
rondacks. Scientists are nol in touch with
the real logic of the situation.
A A. LOW.
Horse Shoc, N. Y., Apnl 15, 1919.
The Tribune on April 16, m its account of
the attack by Althea, the Baroness Salvador,
upon the will of Mrs. Frank Leslie, saal the
petition of the contcstant alleged that v? . 1
iam N'elson Cromwell cajoled the widow ? f
the publisher to change her will; thi
will was executed while she was of ui
mind, under Mr. Cromwell's influenae, and
thal Mr. Cromwell made representatfOns to
her that hi r , tate had a value of onlj
?100,000.
It has been brought to the attention of The
Tribune that the petition i\nr<. not contain
any such allegations. It alleged that Mrs
Leslie waa casdy influenced by cajolery, but
not that it was practised by Mr. Cromwell or
that he influenced the making of the will.
Sullivan & Cromwell. the law firm of which
Mr. Cromwell is senior member, issued a
statement yesterday that Mr. Cramer, tho
other execulor, knew nothing of Mrs. Leslie'
will prior to her death, and that neither he
r.or Mr. Cromwell had any interest m woman
suffruge, ..",y acquaintancc with Mrs. Carrie
Chapman Catt .>r anything to do with tho*
i v cution of tho will.
Love fs Blinci
? ; r ".i Thi Tow ;"i l '??] . : I
Fcburcio Garcia, a Mexican, blind ln o*?
eye nnd wearing blue glai . cured .?
license yesterday to marry Marced Flore*.
Garcia is twenty nine and Flores ia thirty
nine.