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Rothschild As Strikebreaker.
May Break the Rothschilds.
No Hand-Picked Rulers.
One Foolish Prophet.
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By ARTHUR BRISBANE.
(Copyright, 1919.)
Baron Rothschild is driving an
antobus in Paris, as a strike
breaker. Ths gentleman should be unani
mously elected to the "lack of
brains" club. He renders a poor
service to the other Rothschilds,
and to all the Fafners that rest on
their accumulations. Wise Faf
ners are content to sleep on the
gold. They do not go into strike
breaking, for that is apt to break
them.
What is more important than
future distress for a few Roths
childs or other non-producers is
the fact that this conspicuous
fool, going out of his way to de
feat -workingmen, offers himself
as a. plausible excuse for future
anti-Jewish outbreaks. If the
richest Jew in Europe thinks he
must take a job as strikebreaker
to help put down workingmen: no
need for surprise, if the millions
of very poor Jews in Europe suf
fer in consequence.
Associated with Rothschild in
strikebreaking is a French Coun
tess named Villestrey. This lady
does not count. She represents a
class that remembers nothing, for
gets everything, and has long since
ceased to possess any intelligence.
Even the French revolution
couldn't teach anything to the
Faubourg St. Germain. But Mon
sieur le Baron de Rothschild
comes of a family cunning, if not
intelligent, and of a race that has
learned to think in the hard school
of persecution. He ought to know
that, representing a family owning
ten thousand million of francs in
Europe, he should make himself
conspicuous, if at all, by helping
workers, not working as a scab to
help break down their demands for
better conditions.
If old ancestor Rothschild could
come out of his little shop in past
history and talk to this descendant
with the title tacked on to his name
he would say to him, "Stupid de
scendant, are you not content to
keep and enjoy, without honest
work, the millions that I piled up
fcr you? Must you be the one to
start the destruction of the Roths
childs, as I laid the foundation of
their power?"
Kolchak, Russian leader trying
to take control from Ienine, re
ceives a telegram signed "Lloyd
t George, Wilson, Clemenceau, Ma
kino," telling him he is to have the
allies' support.
Herawe-have a new "Big Four"
with Japan In, and Italy out This
decision by the United States to
support Kolchak may involve con
siderable work for future American
soldiers. It makes particularly in
teresting the interview with Ke
rensky referred to in this column.
Kerensky ought to know some
thing about Russia. Kerensky, to
whom President Wilson sent Elihu
Root and money to help fight Ger
many, declares that Kolchak rep
resents reactionary Russia, the
Russia of the Czars, and that if he
wins, there will be a "White Ter
ror," with its long list of revenge
ful murders, to replace the "Red
Terror0 of Lenine.
It is difficult, in a country like
Russia, with hundreds of millions
of people, dozens of races and
languages, long opresslons, bitter
repressed hatreds, gigantic mass of
illiterates, to pick out ONE and
(say, "You are the man."
Who could have gone into
France, when Napoleon was a
young lieutenant, point to him
and say, "You" are the ruler. The
roan must find himself, and the
NATION must accept him. Out
siders cant do it. You will not
see Kolchak, or any other hand
picked favorite in control of Rus
sia, unless this country is foolish
enough to join others in burning
up men and money to bring it
about. Even then it would not
last You cannot keep hundreds
of millions of men like the Rus
sians in hand, after they begin
to think.
They are not like the three hun
dred millions that live under the
thumb of England in India. They
are not vegetarians, teetotalers,
fatalists, nor fools. They will pick
their own rulers and settle their
own destiny, regardless of Lloyd
George, Wilson, Clemenceau, and
especially MAKINO.
. Mr. Voliva, successor to the
"Prophet" Dowie in Zion City, on
the shores of Lake Michigan,
teaches that the earth is flat and
the sun DOES go around the
earth. You cannot blame any
body living at that particular
spot on Lake Michigan for saying
that the world is flat. And any
how you know that it doesn't mat
ter what Mr. Voliva thinks. If
he chooses to believe that the
kitchen range whirls around the
cook, whereas in reality the cook
moves around the stove, or our
sun moves around the earth, let
him think so; it doesn't hurt any
body, and it does good by helping
to make superstition ridiculous.
Optimism based on improve
ment comes in when we reflect
that it was once a crime endanger
ing men's lives to deny the pre
posterous statement that foolish
Mr. Voliva now makes to his dis
ciples. The great Galileo, who rmigbt
men the wonderful construction of
the universe, suns traveling
through space, with planets, in
cluding ours, revolving around
them, was compelled, on his knees,
to deny the truth that he had given
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NUMBER 11.196.
BRITISH
NATION
TELEPHONE
SHE 10 BE
CALLED OFF
NEW YORK, Jane 15.
Telephone companies will
obey Postmaster General
Burleson's order to negotiate
with their employes, accord
ing: to F. A. Stevenson, di
rector of the long distance
Hnes of the American Tele
phone and Telegraph Com
pany. "Of coarse all of the com
panies will follow any order
of the Postmaster General,"
he said.
Telephone companies are virtually
required to recogni7e the Brother
hood of Electrical Workers under an
order issued by Postmaster General
Burleson.
The order will result in abandon
ment of the nation-wide strike of
telephone employes set for tomorrow,
according to President J. P. Noonan,
of the Electrical Brotherhood, who
said;
Will Call Off Strike.
"I shall Issue an order calling: off
the strike until we see whether the
telephone companies will obey Post
master General Burleson's order."
Noonan made this statement here
(Continued on Page 3, Column 5 )
STRIKERS TAKE
TY AS ITALY
RIOTS GROW
ROME, June 15. Control of the city
of Kerrandina has been seized by the
population, according to reports re
ceived hare.
Five Socialist agitators were arrest
ed there. The people demanded and
obtained their release. Emboldener?
by their success, the people took over
administration of the city. Re
enforcements have been rushed.
Ferrandina is thirty-six miles
southeast of Potenza and is twenty
six miles inland from the Gulf of
Taranto. It has a population of
about S.O00.
Strikes, rioting and general indus
trial and social unrest are growing in
all parts of the country.
There is disorder in Turin, w herr
a general strike was called suddenly
yesterday. stopping all factories,
shops and transportation systems. A
general strike was also called In
Milan without warning, as a profit
against events in Spezia and Genoa,
where a number of workers are r
ported to have bor-n killed in a clash
with troops Thur.da
The strike in Genoa grew out of
demonstrations against food prof
iteering. Factories and shops wen
closed. Police and soldiers, in an ef
fort to disperse the crowds, engaged
in a bloody fight with hundreds of
civilians. The number of casualties
is not known.
The state employes" union is im
ported to hav threatened to strike
unless -the government meets the de
mands of other -strikers.
Published every evening (including Sunday)
Entered aa second-class matter, at th
postoffloo at Washing-ton. D. C
H K 'IHj IH H
FLYKAISERBANNER
IN MONARCHIST
PARADE
COPENHAGEN, June 15.
A sensation has been
caused in Berlin by a mon
archist demonstration, par
ticipated in by army officers
and men, according io dis
patches reaching here. The
imperial banner was raised
in the parade and a portrait
of the Kaiser carried aloft.
The Vorwatz says that the
first fight with the Poles
will be the signal for a mon
archical revolt.
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., June 15.
Agiation to unite American work
ers into a powerful labor party is
expected to come to a head at the
American Feder ''" of Labor con
vention here thit week.
Both the Gompers or conservative
faction and the radical leaders spent
the first week of the convention
sparring for control of the federa
tion machinery.
Advocates of the "one union" idea
are also busy.
Labor Men In Minority.
Gompers followers declare that both
the "one union" men and the labor
party men are greatly in the minority.
Radical leaders sav they will press
their proposals nevertheless. They
are backed by representatives of the
British aL.bor aPrty, which has made
a. sensational fight for control of Par
liament recently.
"In the labor party is found the
only solution of the labor problem."
S. J. Finney, fraternal delegate of the
Brittsh trade unionists, said today.
Kiney is a guest of the evening and
is taking no part in its deliberations.
His counsel, however, has been
sought at various times by the radi
cals, whose policies are almost iden
tical to the British workers' program.
Citcn British Labor.
"British labor has sixty representa
tives in Parliament," Finney said.
"Formerly we voted for the other
party candidates who were most ia
vorable to our cause just as you do
now. Thn, when we wanted legis
lation, we sent delegations to call
upon them. This is unnecessary n w.
They were elected by us to act for us
and for us alone "
INTEREST ON FIRST
Holders of Libert bonds of the
first issue will get their semi-annual
present from Uncle Sam tomorrow in
shape of interest on their investment.
The total interest to be paid will
amount to $36,000,000. according to
the Treasury, which urged immediate
reinvestment in war Savings Stamps.
URGE UNION OF
U.S. WORKERS
INTO SINGLE
LABOR PARTY
LOAN 36 MILLIONS
WASHINGTON,
FLIERS
IN
THE EMBARRASSMENT OF ARRANGING A MATCH BEFORE
GETTING CONSENT OF THE BRIDEGROOM
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BIG FOUR VE
D
EACE TALK
WITH FO
PARIS. June 15. Proposals that
the Germans lie permitted to discuss
the peace terms with allied represen
tatives were flatly rejected at the
meeting of the big four.
President Wilson, addressing the
other members of the big four, saio
that Inasmuch as there is complete
agreement among the allied and asso
ciated governments, there is no neces
sity of permitting the Germans even
to assume the role of bargaining.
The President declared that the
position of the United States is that
the terms are absolutely just, how
ever, and as Germany started the war
she must participate In the conse
quences. GEN. BIDDLE TO GIVE UP
HIS COMMAND TODAY
LONDON. June 15.--General Biddle.
who has been in command of Ameri
can troops in England since America
entered the war. will relinquish his
command to Colonel Pierce today.
General Biddle will remain in F.urope
on leave for home time and probably
will visit the continental battlefields
where the doughboys distinguished
themselves.
SUNDAY, JUNE 15,
IRELAND
'They All Flop Sooner
Or Later," Hero York
To Appear In Movies
NASHVILLE. Tenn., June 15
Sergeant Alvin York has made
arrangements to appear in a mov
ing picture entitled the "Divine
Call, staged In France and the
Hills of East Tennessee, accord
ing to an announcement from E.
A. Kellog, secretary of the Ten
nessee Society of New York. He
is temporarily acting for York in
financial matters.
The Tennessee Society of New
York will lend York $50,000 to
pay for making the picture which
he will own in its entirety. The
film will depict the life of York
at home and in the war.
E
E
Steps Mexico must take to qualify
for membership in the League of Na
tions will be outlined to General Car
ranza by Mexican Ambassador Bonll
las, now en route to Mexico City, it
is stated authoritatively here.
Carranza will bv informed, it is un
derstood, of th exact deliberations
at Paris that led to the exclusion of
Mexico from the world league. A list
of policies and evoc-utive decrees
detrimental to forrign inti-nsts.
which he must ronounce, also is being
dispatched to hrm,rit is declared.
Wll I SHOW M
10
1Y NO M
1919.
HOP OFF
BLANTON SAYS
UNIONS TRIED
TO KILL HI
Congressman Thomas L. Blanton, of
Texas, charged on the floor of the
House yesterday afternoon that an
attempt on his life was made on a
lonely road between Washington and
Baltimore recently.
A bullet from a rifle crashed
through the glass doors of his motor
car. in which he and his family were
returning to Washington. Mr. Blan
ton said. Glass Hew into the Con
gressman's face and also Into the
faces of two of his children, he de
clared. Mr. Blanton's narration of tho at
tack was made In the course of an
hour's arraignment of Samuel Gom
pers, the American Federation of La
bor, of which he is president and of
labor unions in general.
Under the rights of personal priv
ileges, Mr. Blanton answered the
statements of Mr. Gompers, made
Friday at a labor convention in At
lantic City, where tho labor leader
was quoted as saying of the Con
gressman: "As time goes on, Blanton will be
eliminated or left at home as others
of his stamp have been."
Mr. Gompers referred to Mr. Blan
ton as -"blatant, bleating Blanton,
of Texas "
Blanton declared he believed the
attack on him recently "could bo
traced to union sources."
TODAY
RED-LETTER DAY IN
THE HISTORY OF
AVIATION
Vickers' plane started
trans-Atlantic Bight
British dirigible R-34
scheduled for long trial voy
age for testing wireless, pre
liminary to attempting trans
Atlantic trip.
Lienenant Cazale, French
aviator, established new alti
tude record, 33,136" feet.
Three British planes start
ed from Greece for India.
Secretary Daniels announc
ed that plans are being dis
cussed for an American navy
Sight across the Pacific.
LABOR URGES
LIGHT WINE
AND BEER IN
HUGEPROTEST
Light wines and beer for the work
ing man or grave social unrest.
This, in effect, was the ultimatum
that organized labor, headed by
Samuel Gompers, president of the
American Federation of Labor, left
with. Congress yesterday after one of
the most impressive and dramatic
demonstrations against existing laws
that has ever been made in this
country.
The labor delegates, numbering
thousands, urged Congress to permit
the sale of light wines and beer un
til constitution prohibition goes into
effect next January. Falling in this,
they plainly Indicated. Congress may
well expect to be confronted with
grave Industrial problems that will
disturb tho peace of America In case
war time prohibition laws are en
forced. After a demonstration In front of
the Capitol yesterday, tho delegates
for the most part returned to their
homes last night. The delegates to
the convention of the American Fed
eration of Labor at Atlantic City,
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I.S.
LONDON. June 15. An exchange
telegraph dispatch from Copenhagen
reports that Sweden is negotiating
for a huge loan from the United
States at 6 per cent.
The dispatch also said hat the
American concern, Montgomery Ward,
is planning establishment of a large
branch in Stockholm.
Treasury officials today declared
that such negotiations, if they are in
progress, are being conducted with
private individuals and not with this
Government. A Governemnt loan to
Sweden would involve an authoriza
tion from Congress, which has turned
down two requests for authorizations
of additional loans to the allies since
the signing of tho armistice.
SWEDEN
SEEKING
BIG LOAN FROM U
PRICE THREE CENTS.
i
CAP! ALCOCK
BEGINS FLIGHT
ST. JOHN'S, N. F., June 15. The
British Vickers-VImy airplane, which)
left St John's at 12:13 p. m. yester
day on an attempted non-stop flight
over the Atlantic from New Found
land to Ireland, is expected to reach
the Irish coast today. If all-goes
welL
The machine, -with Capt John Al
cock at the wheel, made a good start,
rising from the ground after a run
of 150 yards. The plane swept north
of the city and disappeared over the
sea in a northeasterly direction.
At the start the Vickers scudded
close to the ground, then rose grad
ually to an altitude of 1,000 feet.
1,000 See Start.
A crowd of about 1,000 assembled
at the field to witness the start. Cap
tain Alcock, Lieut. Arthur Brown, his
navigator, whose parents were Ameri
can, although he was born in Scot
land, and members of the Vickers
squadron, calmly discussed the pros
pects and tested th'e engines.
While mechanics were giving the
motors a final going over. Alcock and
Brown donned their flying clothes and
sat on the field near the plane talk
ing to Manager Muller. of the com
pany, and a few close friends. They
lunched, then shook hands all around,
and climbed into their seats.
The motors were started and run
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MANDED AT
.C.IETING
Freedom for Ireland was demanded
at a mass meeting in Liberty Hut
atended by thousands, including mem
bers of Congress, here last night.
Bitter attacks on England and tha
proposed League of Nations were
made by Daniel F. Cohalan. justice- o?
the supreme court. New York, and
Hanins Taylor. formerly United
States ambassador to Spain.
Audience Applaud.
Action of the Senate in adopting
Senator Borah's resolution declaring"
sympathy for Ireland and asking the
peace conference to hear her claims,
was lauded with rounds of applause.
"It Is a notice to England and to
all the rest of the world that Amer
ica is going to continue to be a sov
ereign state and a guiding star to
all peoples struggling for liberty
throughout the world," declared
Judge Cohalan.
"It comes at a very opportune mo
ment, for England was sweeping:
everything before it at the peace con
ference, to the end that England
might become the dominant power of
the world.
"We are asked in the League oC
Nations to submit to an English plan,
to give up part of our sovereignty I
and to emerge from the war control!-
ed and tied to England.
No Tool of England.
"We are asked to agree to defend
England's grip upon Ireland, Indii
and Egypt, and to guarantee the ter
ritorial integrity of Japan. I have
no fear America will ever becomo a
party to such a proposition."
Tavlor attacked article ten ot ti
Ieagu o." nations declaring that ia
1776 it would have made the United i
States the Ireland of the ew w0Jt
FAIR WEAliU
PROMISED AS-
IRI FREEDOM
D