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Reactions to Domestic News
Wayside Points
: Of View
Scant Consolation
ANT), anyhow, the less coal you burn the less ashes you'll have
to tote out to the curb.?Indianapolis News.
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.Mark i tic* Time
There's a thing about a clock
That very mucli *re like;
It never quits its work
Although it oft doth strike.
??Portland Prcas.
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The Old Remedy
But serious as the times may seem, America has no troubles that
cannot be solved by work.?Arkansas Gazette.
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When the Doctor Is Yonr Friend
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?Bronstrup, In The San Francisco Chronicle.
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Poor Innocent Bystander!
The Attorney (leneral of the United States is flourishing a big
stick, but does not seem to have hit a profiteer yet.~Owin/*a Bee.
No Fall Here
Palmer assures us that the cost of food has fallen almost 25
per cent. The cost to Palmer may have, fallen that much. The rest
of us can't see any difference.?Wichita Beacon.
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Cracked?
The prices of food aro said to be lower at Brazil, Ind., than at
any other point in this country. Brazil would bo entitled to con?
gratulations if it were certain that the information had not been
given out by some Brazil nut.?A'ansas City Journal.
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Crude, Rather
Sugar refiners' way of boosting prices is anything but refined. -
Chicago News.
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Some Faculties?, Too
Amherst College announces that it has found some rare old fossils
in Colorado. Almost every community can furnish the college with
some rare old fossils. ? PI ladelp) a inquirer.
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Words Unsaid
The Senate just can't adjourn on November 10. Why, just think
of the speechen that would die unspoken.- Savannah News,
Many Boycotts 11?re
A church congregation has struck in Vienna. American church?
goers might take the hint and demand time and a half for sermons
of more than thirty minutes' length.- Baltim >re News.
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Rifiht in Front of His Nose
?Morgan, in The Philadelphia Inquirer.
Getting After the Alien Red Menace
"" i rTMlE fnct that Congress is
1 taking active cognizance of
the alien menace to indus?
trial peaco is inspiring not
! a little laudatory comment in the
non-radical American press. The
war-time passport and immigration
restrictions covering such actions
' as sought to disclose to the enemy
vital secreta of the country's de?
fense nnd strategical policies are to
bo continued for a year, at least,
1 after the ratification of tho peace
; treaty. The plan is incorporated in
j a bill already passed by both houses
of Congress and now in conference.
j Another bill would prohibit aliens
j from remaining unnaturalized in
i this country for more than five
i years. _Any foreigner wishing to
make the United States his home
would have to assume the responsi?
bilities of American citizenship
| within five years from the time of
\ his arrival, or else leave the coun?
try or be put out.
Both of these measures are gen?
erally welcomed by the domestic
press. If there is any dissatisfac?
tion with them it arises from a de
: sire to enforce still more stringent
measures than those offered to
banish the alien agitator now and
forever keep him from American
shores. >
That some 11,000,000 unnatural?
ized persons in the United States
constitute alone a menace of tre?
mendous import is the opinion of
"The Atlanta Constitution," which
remarks that "there can be no
question as to the timeliness of such
I a legislative program" as that now
| before Congress. "This situation,"
j the paper explains, "demands that
?those 'undigested' millions be sub
j mitted" at once to the process of
'assimilation, and all who refuse to
or cannot qualify for American
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citizenship should be shoved off and
sent back to the foreign lands
whence they came.''
With equal emphasis, "The Min?
neapolis Journal" indorses the anti
Rod measures and remarks that
with the adoption of the passport
I bill the authorities will be given a
year to study the immigration ques?
tion and, in the mean time, will
have ample power to "shut out all
1 manner of anarchists and r?volu
i tionary agitators of whatever
; stripe." This paper would permit
' no such laxity in the enforcement
of immigration laws as existed prior
! to the war. "The mere existence of
| law will accomplish nothing of it?
self," the paper declares, and calls
attention to the fact that the immi
: gration legislation proposed reflects
a public sentiment against foreign
destructionists that is fully awake
.and militant. "There must be an
end to the hesitant nentimcntalism
?which has palsie?! the hand of the
Administration," the paper adds.
Referring to information that
there are on tiptoe to leave Europe
at the earliest opportunity ten to
.twenty millions of workers, all of
. whom hope to make America their
i future home. "The Minneapolis
?Journal*' says: "Ten years from
? now, if we let in the horde who are
j longing to come, revolution might
' become more than menac*. We
might have a trim civil war
one between sortions as was that of
l861-'65, but a civil war ii
city, invading many conn''
between vandals from abroad I
the diminished number, n a1
speaking, of citizens who bj tl I
ami thinking remained *Vn i
Recent test ?mony bi fore * ?
Senate comm?t te?
steel strike, by Joseph Margi
told of a "union of R i
men" in and a*
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Refusing a House
Seat to Victor
Berger
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AMAN may be elected to
Congress, but that is no
direct indication that he
will be permitted to take
his seat, therein and perform the
functions required of him by his
constituents. The reason is that
CongToss itself has something to
say about a member's fitness.
Specific illustration is provided
in the special house committee's
report recommending that Congress?
man-elect Victor L. Berger, of Mil?
waukee, be not allowed to occupy
his seat by reason of disloyalty to
the United States, Writings and
' activities of Berger and his associ?
ates, the report states, had no other
purpose than to defeat the United
States in its war preparations. The
vote against the Socialist leader was
8 to 1. The whole house will pass !
on this report before adjournment
of the special session this month. A
new election in the Milwaukee dis?
trict was also recommended.
Completing bis first term as a
member of the House of Represent?
atives in 3 913, Berger declared on
! the eve of his return to Wisconsin
from Washington: "1 am coming
! back here if 1 live. I have to go
back to Milwaukee now. We com?
pelled the capitalist parties to com?
bine in order to beat us. Now we
shall beat them combined." Since
this utterance the erstwhile member
of Congress and editor of "The Mil?
waukee Leader," Socialist organ.
has been in the public eye as a sub?
ject for the country's judiciary.
Anti-war propaganda of the Social?
ist leader was construed ris treason?
able and he was convicted under the
espionage act. His paper also was
denied mailing privileges under an
I act covering seditious literature.
\ Opposition to his being seated in the
house is based on the fact that he
is under sentence for penal offense,
and under the law no person so con?
victed is allowed to hold^public of?
fice. Berg?res counsel contends
that such legal barrier no longer
exists.
"The surprising thing," echoes
"The Scranton Republican" in re?
marking the recent action of the
special committee named to report
on Congressman-elect Berger's right
to assume office, "is that there could
be found, anywhere in the United
States, a constituency so lacking in
patriotism that it would cast a ma?
jority for Berger for a seat in Con
! gross."
The sentiment expressed is gen
ieral throughout the editorial columns
I of the nation's non-radical press.
I But the case of Berger alone, rather
j than the patriotism of his constitu
ents, begets the most comment.
"This country cannot afford to
condone treasonable conduct," as?
serts "The Richmond Times-Dis
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Victor L. Berger
patch," which sees adequate reason
for denying a seat, to Berger. "Let
voters of the district pfcove tiieir own
loyalty to the government by making
choice of a fit representative before
they ask for representation in the
American Congress," is this paper's
concluding dictum.
That there is no hope for Berger
and his following in looking to the
courts is the observation of "The
Washington Tost." "It is not neces?
sary," says this paper, "that his con?
viction stand in the court.? in order
that he may be proved disqualified
for a seat in the House." The paper
then adds:
"Indisputable evidence of his unfit
ness as a member of the highest law
making body has been produced, and
even if the court should decide that
he has not actually transgressed the
letter of the law, the membership of
the House of Representatives and the
American people generally are con?
vinced that he is not qualified to sit in
I that body. Berger has shown by his
written and spoken words that he is
not in harmony with the American
spirit."
In view of the committee's de
' cisi?n that Berger was "disloyal to
the United States" and that he
"gave aid and information to its
j enemies at a time when its existence
as a free and independent nation
was at stake," "The Detroit Free
Press" argues that "the House of
I Representatives can afford to make
: no concessions to dangerous her?
esies." The paper now concludes:
"There is just one proper course for
the house to pursue in the Berger mat?
ter, and that is to accept and adopt
the committee report promptly and
without quibbling."
Berger can lay no justifiable
claim to martyrdom, in the opinion
? of "The Philadelphia Bulletin,"
| which, like many other newspapers,
I sees an obvious intention of the So
? cialist leader to focus himself in the
! public eye as a victim of injustice.
Says "The Bulletin":
"Biting the hand that fed him, he
ha? violated American laws an i ideals,
It is only to be wished that lie and
all his ilk could be sent permanently
to Russia or to some other far away
abode of Bolshevism or irrational so?
cialism where they belone.''
"There was indeed no otner
course for the committee to take,"
declares "The Philadelphia Public
Ledger," which proce? ??s pointedly
as follows:
"The absurd contention that Berger
should be allowed to take his oath and
then be expelled is quite along th?
line of the usual pacifist reasoning
that asserts you haven't any right to
prevent or foresee situations, but mu I
refuse to take cognizance of any ovi rl
act of anybody until the bomb has
fallen into your lap, or, in this case,
'until Berger was actually seated in the
House of Representatives and posing
i as a vindicated patriot.
"The Hotise lias never committed
i this folly in the past; it is the judge
of the qualification of the members
elect, and it should adopt the commit?
tee report anil refuse to tie up its
i hands by giving disloyalty a certificate
of character. The committee by pil
i lorying Berger moreover has set Ui 0
Sam ami all the officiais of the gov?
ernment a go???! example, which they
well might follow."
In the opinion of another Phila?
delphia paper, "The Press." there is
no doubt that the house will confirm
the committee's recommendation.
"This should have been put an end
to and long ago," says this paper.
"for Berger came before Congress
under conviction of disloyalty!In i
United States dist riet court witl
sentence suspended pen :
pea!."
There1 is no quest ion of i ar1
ship in Berger's dis]
belief of "The New Vor ?
which paper says that "if he loses
the s? at to which he was ele t?
i? will be because t Ik 11 ou
he was disloyal during the 'ah?* i
not because he was a S ? ?
"The Times" adds: "Tm* report
the special committee that ci
?. red his case does not leave t
matter opes to doubt That is
because of course there wi 1 be an
effort to make a martyr of B? i
German Opera
Echoes
EEMINGLY desperate efforts
to present German opera in
New York City, with
final attempt succumbing in con
fusion, constitu;*' a Bubject for the
spritely play of editorial ? r?
sions around premature ma festa
tiens of peace -as newspapers o it
side of Gotham would have if.
Rather unanimously, th? ?>* r<
ponents of the public mind are say
ing:
The chief objection to Gei
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Arms and Armorin Metropolitan
Continued from page seven
tered with great satisfaction on the
part of every one save possibly the
slaughtered.
While the artist was eloquent in
his detail he was a little sloppy on
his perspective, but after the spec?
tator once becomes accustomed to
seeing three-story horses carrying
two-story men the effect is not dis?
agreeable. If the warriors did not
dominate the architecture it would
have been impossible for the gentle?
man on the extreme, left to have
ridden up on his charger and gaze
down over the town hall at the
festivities going on in the public
square. But there seems great
danger the horse will bite off the
chimney. The queen has just ar?
rived on her throne, having knocked
over a few granite columns to reach
the spectacle, and she seems as
pleased as could Ik? expecte?!.
Whether her pleasure grows out of
the prisoners' plight or the fact that
her throne is taller than the tall s1
i uilding in town is n >t ? ?
The armer of Dom Pedro II, King
?.f Portugal (1648-1706), hears li
its decoration the king'.-- initials, his
royal crown and his (?rand Com?
mander's Cross of the tinier of
Christ. The armor dates L680-1700,
and was probably worn during the
war of tin- Spanish Success on,
when the king besieged and took
several cities in Spam.
The pikeman of England, tl
1610, was a rakish gentleman with
Ins huff coat, that turned back sharp
blades, worn beneath a coat of mail.
Mexican stirrups are so ornate as
to give the impression of a minia?
ture of a cathedral entrance.
Brigandines with sleeves and brig?n
dines without them were worn with
success by the Italians in the six?
teenth century.
No finer collection of Japanese
j armor may be found outside of
Japan ti *
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regime
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The armor from the f the
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for its worki that
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ing ornan ent?t ion furl the
European The :
the aboriginal, datea
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century down bo the nineteenth,
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