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SATURDAT HJVENTNO, SEPTEMBER 27. 1»19.
EVENTS OF A WEEK
The speechmaking tour of President Wilson was
brought to an abrupt close on Friday at Wichita, Kan
sas, when on account of the president's illness all future
speaking dates were cancelled,, and the special train
which has been the president's home for the past three
weeks was started direct for Washington. Some of the
dispatches which have come from the presidential train
from time to time have given intimations of Mr. Wil
son's poor health, and of the great physical strain under
which he was laboring. Dr. Grayson gave assurance that
there was nothing critical about tho president's condi
tion, but ho insisted that his patient must have a rest
at once, hence the tour was cut short.
'.*7v Since a week ago. therefore, the conditions have
been reversed. Then 8enator Johnson, who had started
on what was intended to be a trip to the coast, making
speeches in opposition to the League of Nations, cut
short his trip at Minneapolis and returned to Washing
ton to Join with his associates In further efforts to pre
vent the adoption of the League provteiona At that time
there was no indication of a curtailment of the presiden
tial trip. Now the president is compelled to abandon the
remainder qf his tour, and Mr. Johnson has decided to
resume his series of addresses substantially according
to the original plan.
It Is impossible for one at a distance, and it may
not be possible for even those who are close -to the
speakers to form any accurate estimate of what has
been accomplished by the addresses which have been
delivered. Both speakers have been greeted by large
crowds, and, enthusiasm has been manifested at all the
meetings. Advocates and opponents of the League have
both claimed many converts to their views as a result
of the speeches made by their spokesmen. Just to what
extent the people who have assembled at these hieetings
have been representative of the average population
there is no means to determine. So far as the imme
diate audiences are concerned, however, it is safe to as
sume that in each case the audience was made up very
largely of persons who were already substantially in
harmony with the views of tho speaker at that time.
The situation in the senate likewise remains ob
scure. Opponents of the League maintain that they have
scored in defeating their adversaries by a vote of 43 to
40 on a motion to postpone consideration of amend
ments. League advocates maintain that this vote does
not indicate the strength of the two groups, and that
serveral who voted for postponement will vote against
the amendments when they are voted on.
An indication of the president's attitude on one im
portant phase of the question was given in one of his
later addresses when Mr. Wilson said that it would be
his duty as the nation's executive to decide whether any
resolution of ratification passed by tho senate amounted
to acceptance or rejection of the treaty. This' is a re
minder of the fact that while the senate is a part ot
the treaty-making power, it acts in an advisory capacity
only. The senate can originate no treaty, nor can it
compel the ratification of one. The treaty is originated
by the executive, and must be ratified by him. The lat
ter act can be performed only after the senate has ad
vised ratification, but the senate's advice does not com
pel executive action. In the present case the president
can decline to ratify If he chooses, and his recent state
ment may be taken to mean that he will so decline if
the resolution adopted by the senate/ contains matter
which, in his opinion, is in conflict with essential pro
visions already written.
The League of Nations Is also being debated with
spirit across the water. The French chamber has been
the scene of some animated passages between the vener
able Premier Clemenceau, who delivered a vigorous ad
dress on his 78th birthday, and some of his political op
ponents. The opposition has used the peace treaty as a
peg on which to hang a lot of political antagonism, a
course of procedure which is apt to be prevalent
wherever government is by parliamentary bodies. The
premier in his address urged ratification of the treaty,
and expressed confidence that the League of Nations
would soon be an accomplished fact. Presumably hav
ing in mind statements made in the United States sen
ate that the other nations would of necessity adopt
whatever changes ia the" treaty the United States saw
fit to propose, and that without the United States tho
Leagu'e could not exist, the French premier declared
specifically that the League could be formed knd could
operate without the United States, but at the —«.» hw.
he expressed the earnest hope that thW Aww^n
would ratify the treaty promptly.
'The Flume Incident continues to bo one of the
mot perplexing with which the Allied council has had
to OmL D*Annunaio and his irregulars are in control of
the '«Mt, and an -other persons are keeping their
off. The Italian government, even although it may not
fee .secretly pleased at tho turn events have taken, dare
not send its own soldiers to dispossess D'Afinunxio, for
there is a spirit of mutiny in the Italian army and navy
which at any time may place either force out of control.
Italy has Invited the Allies to take action but they have
not displayed any desire to do «u. There is. a strong
fe?Hng that
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Aw^ ItaJy and her former associates in the greater
the great *»el etrfke a wwi 'eld nothing eon
^oen reached, nor is any solution in eight
J«»d«fs hav* \pj^eMd before ongrewt«ui
•ad "have forth the cau* of the striker*
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continue.
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A GOOD THING?—IN MODERATION
Self determination is a good thing but it must be used
like other good things, in moderation. The individual has
a right to do as Jie pleases so long as the thing which he
pleases to do does not interfere with the enjoyment ot the
same right by other people. A nation hal a right to gov
ern itself but, it must govern itself in sueh a way as not to
Interfere with the self government of other nationa A
compact group of people with simlUar traditions and alm
ilar ideals may be entitled to establish a separate and in
dependent government of their own, but this right is not
unlimited, or unqualifying. If it were so we would reach
a condition in which there would be no government and
no nationality whatever because there would bo no end. to
the separation of our people into small compact groups,
each demanding Its separate nationality. The thirteen
colonies chose to separate themselves from the British Em
pire, and to establish a new nation of their own. They
were numerous enough and powerful enough and occupied
a large enough territory to warrant the making of this
change. But the nation which grew out of the thirteen
colonies denied to eleven of its sovereign states the right
to withdraw themselves from the union, and to establish
a new and separate republic. Self determination in the
opinion ot the United States was not for the eleven south
ern states and they shed considerable blood In order to
maintain that opinion in an effective way. When the peace
conference assembled at Paris it was confronted with the
need of disposing of the national ambitions of numerous
groups of people. The principle of self determination was
recognised In its general aspects and several nations w«re
created, but It was also realized that every little group ot
people of the same race and language could not be estab
lished as a separate nation. Accordingly in each of the new
nations created there Is a diversity of race and language.
This Is unavoidable. The business of those who have the
shaping of these affairs and who will continue to shape
them largely when the League .of Nationa becomes firmly
established will be not to provide a separate national exist
ence for each racial handful, but to insist that under what
ever national form these racial groups are assembled each
shall be secure In the possession of its own rights and that
even majorities, no matter how large, shall not trample
under foot the rights of minorities no matter how small.
IMMEDIATE ACTION NEEDED
The longer ratification of the peace treaty ia deferred
the more disturbed conditions in Europe will become.
That has been evident from the beginning and was appar
ent from the very nature of the case. It is being dem
onstrated every day by the Incidents which are taking
place in various section of Europe.
The several peace treaties, that with Germany being
the chief, and striking the keynote of the entire series,
either fix the boundaries and the status of each of the
nations which has undergone change, or provide for ma
chinery whereby these things are to be determined. But
until the treaties are ratified and the provisions for the
administrative and executive functions of the League of
Nations become operative, everything is chaos. Political
and territorial rivalries have full sway. Local jealousies
find their vent'in armed forays into the territory of a
neighbor. Rumania invades Hungary. Armed contests,
are in progress between Poles and Germans on one side
and between Poles and Ukranians on the other. Italian ad
venturers seize Flume, and other adventurers are likely to
follow suit in other places. The Italian government hes
itates to use its own troops to overcome its own nationals
in Fiume for fear of the effect on sentiment at home, and
cs the other powers to take action. The otiler powers
hesitate because they do not wish to be placed in the po»
Itlon of making war on Italian troops, even though ^hose
troops are acting in defiance of their own government.
The jingo sentiment which is latent everywhere is becom
ing manifest in Italy, and, if the sentiment continues to
grow, the Italian masses will be likely to express their
resentment at the hauling down of the Italian flag at
Fiume In violent demonstrations ^gainst the government
Anybody, such as the League of Nations, which under
takes to develop order out of the present situation will
have its work cut out for it for a good many years. It is
a task of appalling magnitude. But the longer it is de
layed the more difficult will it become. Conditions are
bound to go from bad to worse in the absence of regular
ly created and properly recognized authority. At present
there exists nowhere any group or organization with au
thority to act effectively. The League of Nations, as pro
posed, come far from being the effective body which the
world needs, and which will develop from It in time. But
It is the only thing that stands between the world and
utter demoralization. Tho world needs it, and needs
now.
RIPE TOMATOES
Everyone says that never before- was such a crop of
tomatoes raised in the Red River Valley as has been rais
ed this year. And the usual explanation is that it been
an unusual year. There were no late spring frosts to
check the young plants, and the first killing frost did not
occur until the morning of September 25, which comes
pretty near being a record. In addition there was along
period of unbroken hot weather in the middle of the sum
mer. The season, therefore, has been Ideal for- the
growth ot tomatoea.
But the fact that such quantities of have
been ripened this year indicates something mora an
unusually long growing season. It takes more than
weather to produoe tomatoes. There must he preparation
an In
fruit will not be produced. And the size of the crop this
year indicates that people have accepted the-4oaato crop
as one of the standard crops of the locality, otherwise
there would j^ot ha,T0 been sueh quantities of atart
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Tha development of tho tomato Industry is typkml ot
the psogreai that has been made in other dintetions. if is
years shice the ambition of the average tomato
graw«r in this territory was to prodttea a liberal
r**" """ftitnw frrr plrkllng iiiiiiuww and, if all f»t»
ditiene were favorable, a handful of ripe ones. It ima not
considered possible to raise tomatoes in North Dakota in
quandttss sufficient for general use except at a oost
would be prohibitive, it was not considered possible.^to
ripen corn with efficient repilarlty to m^ka the eon crop
worth wliile. Xsbms, squash and pumpkins were
aldiored e««aQ^ oat the qveMon. Tot it hss been foand
that «U.
of these crops can bo raised profitably «ad whUe
-tluff to an nnnaMapial year in which ths results aro not
what were dasti e«. ^w raising of thess crops in reasonable
woMtles liM bs«B-:^hUMML mohss practieat basis
^•i^aiOy.'^od^ year is prwductive sf aacntdo^t raMilta.
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Roosevelt Wrote
Over 150,006 Letters
During Public Life
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New Tork, Sept. 25.—Delving into
the mine of 150.000 letters which
Theodore Roosevelt wrote during his
public career, Joseph Bucklin Bishop,
the colonel's biographer, in the Oc
tober Issue of a magazine, brings to
light a number of "gems" in the inti
mate correspondence between the
former president of the United States
and Sir George Otto Trevelyan, Bart,
O. M., English statesman and author,
with whom tho great American en
Joyed a rare friendship covering 20
years.
Mr- Bishop's paper, the second of
the series, entitled "Roosevelt and
Trevelyan," reveals the many-sided
Roosevelt as "an insatiable reader of
books," his warm sympathy for
authors and his broad and profound
knowledge of ancient and modern
literature. Even amid the cares of
the presidency, Mr. Roosevelt, it Is
shown, maintained a regular corre
spondence with leaders of literary
and intellectual life both In this coun
try and Europe. In Sir George
Trevelyan, a nephew of the historian
Macaulay, he found a man singularly
responsive to his own Intellectual
tastes and knowledge The corre
spondence-began when he was gov
ernor of New York and continued un
til a few months before Mr. Roose
velt's death.
"I certainly would not be willing to
hold the presidency at the cost of fail
ing to do the things which make the
real reason why I care to hold it at
all," he wrote to Sir' George on May
28, 1904. "I had much rather be a
real president for three years and a.
half than a figurehead for seven years
and a half. I think I can truthfully
say that I now have to my credit a
sum of substantial achievement—and
the rest must take care of itself."
Previously, in 1899, Trevelyan had
sent Governor Roosevelt a copy of the
first part of his history, "The Ameri
can Revolution," which made a deep
Impression on its recipient and which
he praised for "its interest, delightful
humor, absolute fair mindedness and
exactness of narrative," an opinion
which was shared by Senator Lodgs
and Elihu Root, both of whom later
joined with Roosevelt In buying a
silver loving cup and sending It to
Sir George as a token of their appre
ciation. Roosevelt, his biographer
says, was always on the alert for
writers of only "even moderate fame"
and of encouraging them with friend
ly letters and invitations to visit him
at the White House or Oyster Bay.
The books that made the president
happy covered a remarkable range,
history, fiction, philosophy, travel,
zoology, ornithology, anthropology,
religion and art and he said they gave
him ease and relaxation he could get
in. no other way, "not even on horse
back."
Statements and apothegms charac
teristically Rooseveltian abound in
this collection of letters. Some of
them are here reproduced for the first
time in any newspaper.
"A great free people owes it to itself
and to mankind not to sink into help
lessness before the powers of evil,"
"Unfortunately for us, small men
do most of the historic teaching in
the colleges. The great historian
marshal and weigh the facts."/
o®ce tends to put
a premiura upon-a man's keeping out
jn-his ac
complishing results. The electorate
fa very apt to vote with its bick to the
future."
"I do not think the average Ameri
can'multi-millionaire a very high -type
Mtd I do not much admire Jifan. On
the whole, our people are, spiritually
a well as materially, on the avwfage
hotter and not worse off than, they
Were 100 yean ago."
"Each man knows whero his
shoe pinches. I have had a'
vmd realisation of what it must have
meant to Abraham Lincoln, in the
midst of the heart-breaking anxieties
of the Civil war, to have to take up
his time trying to satisfy nsniUflatns
for, postmaster."
"There are numerous grave
evils incident to free government, bat
after all fa said arid done I cannot
lmagihe any real man being willing
to live under any other system."
"Benedict Arnold! What baas
web waa shot through the-woof of bis
Jrtld1 daring! He ras at heart a
Lacifer. that ehfld of thunder
Untwot the battfe'ajtftttwt
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hearty grow
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He man not being so absorbed In the
great and vital questions with which
he has to deal as to exclude thoughts
ot assassination.' It is not a question
of courage."
Colonel Roosevelt, in what was
probably one of his last letters to Sir
Gedrge in 1918, referred to the fact
that his four sons and a son? In-law
were fighting for the Allies. After
referring to them in terms of affec
tion and that he would not for any
thing "have them anywhere else." he
concluded: "I fear we would wel
come their return home, each with an
arm or a leg off. so that they could
feel that they had played their parts
manfully—*nd1 yet ws could havs
them back!"
RippUng Rhymes
THE OTHER SHORE.
In that happy land we're nearlng
there's no graft or profiteering, you
might rake the country over and
you'd find no sign of woe and it
seems to me surprising, yet the fact
there's no disguising, that it's hard to
find a fellow who is in a rush to go.
Whenever we've 'crossed the silent
river, where no sunbeams over quiver,
if we have a goodly record we shall
never know a tear yet our hearts are
bowed and grieving when we find it's
time tor leaving this old punk aban
doned planet, this cheap, beastly sin
ful sphere. Here we've fought our
battles, here we have our goods and
chattels, here we've planted vines and
flgtrees, and we hate to leave them
all here we have our daily labors,
here we know our next door neigh
bors, and it's bitter hard to leave
them, even though the angels call. I
believe in all the stories ofv elysian
joys and glories, and I hope such
goods to sample when. I cross the
Jordan wave my sad life is full of
worry, but Tm really In no hurry to
approach the gates of jsapdr by a
short cut through the grave. This old
world's a tinhorn flasle and our tears
forever drizzle, and our groans are
ever rising as we toil along the road
but. although I loathe and hate it,
and with third class gold bricks rate
it, I am in no shameful hurry to aC
quire a new abode.—Copyright by
George Matthew Adams. ^, 4
WOMEN BTm B0ADB.
Marash. Mesopotamia, Aug. 5.—
(Mail.)—Five_ hundred Armenian
women employed by the American
Red Cross have built 100 miles of
stone roads and reconstructed several
steel bridges in this section within the
last four months. Tho roads were re
built in order to facilitate transporta
tion of Red Cross supplies. There
were no male laborer* to be employed
so captain Edward Blekel of Seattle,
who had charge of the engineering
work, engaged tho women who were
glad to have employment of any
kind.''
TTAVMASm BEQCm.
Weimar, Aug. SO.—(Mail.)—Min
ister Naumami,
tor
fW. J*
nearly a year head
of tho German press, hsa resigned
after a misunderstanding with Presi
dent Ebert over an interview which
the president granted a New Tork
newspaper correspondent Ha has
been succeeded by Ulrlch Rauscher.
The change arouses little enthusi
asm among tho foreign correspond
ents who see in it small hope that
Germany can obtain favorable publici
ty in the press of other nations.
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FOR THE GIiORT OF TOUB BACK
For the glory of your race
And the honor of yoor name,
Do your best, whato'er yoor place
Be too proud to stoop to shame.
Do whatever life shall ask,
So when finished, it shall bo
Tour performance ot a task—
Fit for all your Mends to see.
For the father's name you wear.
And the mother love you know,
And the'trust In you they share—
Be your beet where'er you go.
Never turn from what is right
Although strong, the lure may be
Never do by day or night
Deeds you would not have men
Toll, whatover be your place
And whatever tasks you claim,
For the glory ot your race
And the honor of your'name.
Documentary Evidence
On Cause Of The
War.
(From Minneapolis Tribune)
Of course it has been well' under
stood almost from the beginning that
Austria framed her demands up$n
Serbia in July, 1914, so as to make it
impossible for Serbia to comply in all
particulars, and that Austria intended
to make the expected refusal of, Ser
bia an occasion for war. I
Now the official archives of the
Austrian government are open and
are bringing information that not only
proves that Austria intended to pro
voke Serbia to war, and with that
object In view imposed conditions with
which she could not comply, but had
the assurance from Germany that if
this were done and war resulted. Ger
many was ready to support Austria.
It appears that at a meeting of the
privy council of the Austro-Hungarian
government on July 1. 1914, Count
von Bercbtold, the €Vll geniue ot Aus
tria and the tool of Oermahy, planned
and promoted the outbreak of hostil
ities against the protest of the Hun
garian premier, Count Tlssa. Tii
insisted that diplomatic action be ta
ken first and that an ultimatum of
an acceptable nature be sent, but Von
Berchtold insisted that "The opportu
nity is so favorable that immediate
action is necessary sad finally a res*
olution was adopted proposing .that
demands be made upon Serbia which
it was known, or at least expected,
she would not And could not fulfill.
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To put the official stamp upon this
statement. there is produced a copy
of a note from the lata Emperor
brands Joseph, .stating that he "had
taken notice of the contents of the'
mlnutea of the meeting (where this"
ultimatum was framed) and hf.d sign
ed them with his own hand."
But back of all this villainy was the'
kalaer and the war party of Germstay,!
using sueh pliant tools as Von Boreh
told. Those papers preserve the ree-j
ord'of the faet that tha great wad
was deliberately brought on for tho{
aggrandisement of an ambitious pow-l
or, ruled by a despot assuming to ace
right
WA3TT TKZBBUnr
Loulsvnie, lCy^ Sept
sentativee of'eighteen
civil organisations here have
their efforts in tho form of
lutlon submitted to tho United Con
federate Veterans requesting
Louisville bo selected for that
national convention, next June. In'
vttattOns to the veterans were Issued
is Louisville convention league at
thcT request of a special committee
the Kentucky division of the U, C. V.
organisation.
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