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The Lamar Register VOLUME XXX. U. S. WILL NO LONGER RECOG NIZE BLOCKADE American Note Characterizes the At tempt to Cut off Supplies of Ene emy as “Ineffective, Illegal and Indefensible" Washington, Nov. B.—Publication tcday of the American note to Great Britain denouncing as "ineffective, il legal and indefensible,” the attempted blocade against Germany and Austria, gives notice to citizens of the United Slates whose legitimate foreign trade is interfered with by the allies that they should seek redress directly through channels of their own gov ernment rather than through prize courts. This latest note delivered by Am bassador Page to the British foreign otlice is an exhaustive document deal ing with England’s interference with American trade since the outbreak of the wur. In effect it is a communica tion also to France which has follow ed her ally in the treatment of over seas commerce, as a copy was pre sented to the French embassy here. Thirty-five points are treated in the note, and in conclusion Secretary' Lan sing declares that the United States "cannot with complaisance suffer fur ther subordination of its rights and interests to the plea that the excep tional geographic position of the ene mies of Great Britain require or jus tify oppressive and illegal practices.” The relations between the United States and Great Britin, he says, must be governed not by expediency, but by established rules of international con duct; it is of the highest importance to neutrals not only of the present day but of the future that the principles of international rights be maintained un impaired and the United States unhes itatingly assumes the task of cham pioning the rights of neutrals. Herat >fore Americans, whose car goes destined to neutral countries have been seized on the high seas and de layed or confiscated, have been advis ed to exhaust legal remedies abroad before asking the United States gov ernment to seek reparation. Now, the note says, the government, "feels that it cannot reasonably e expected to advise its citizens to seek redress be fore tribunals which are in its opinion unauthorized by the unrestricted ap plication of international law to grant reparation, nor to refrain from pre senting their claims directly to the Rritish government through diplomat ic channels." Since the United States does not rec ognize the existence of a legal block ade Americans may look to their gov ernment for protection in the shipment of noncontraband cargoes not only to neutral countries contiguous to belli gerents. but directly to or from the enemies of the allies. Trust Companies Will Escape Washington, D. C., Nov. B.—Admin istration officials are alarmed at the possibility of a further loss in reve nue. Some months ago certain trust com panies brought suits to recover amounts paid by them under the ‘war tax’ law. Their example was follow ed by others, until at the present time practically every dollar paid by the trust companies under the ‘war tax’ law is involved in litigation. The first of these cases is set for trial before December 1. It is ap parent that the administration is by no means confident of the integrity of the law congress enacted, for ad ditional counsel has been employed to aid government attorneys in defend ing the suits. It is said that unus ually large retainers have been paid on both sides for legal advice. The litigation is particularly vex atious to the government because con gress laid the foundations for it by a stupid blunder. The tax involved is levied under section 3 of the ‘war tax’ law referring to banks and bankers. At the time it was passed federal courts had already declared that a statute identical in terms, so far as trust companies were concerned, with the present law, was insufficient to THE PIONEER NEWSPAPER OF PROWERS COUNTY LAMAR, PROWERS COUNTY, COLORADO. WEDNESDAY, NOV. 10, 1915. make trust companies liable for the | tax imposed. It is said that if congress hud ex ercised ordinary caution anti drafted the ‘war tax’ law so that it should not conflict with a precedent ulready established by federal courts, the lit igation could have been avoided. By carelessly neglecting this elementary principle, congress virtually gave the trust companies a mortgage on all the revenue they have paid, which they may foreclose by judicial procedure. A decision adverse to the govern ment would be unusuully embarrass ing at this time. In the first place, it would mean a further shrinkage in ; revenues directly due to democratic carelessness. The treasury deficit J long ago assumed ugly proportions, and additional leakages would be dam aging, both financially ami politically. Furthermore, it is proposed to im mediately reenact the ‘war tax’ law, which automatically expires December 31, 1915. This places the administra tion on the two horns of a dilemma. If the paragraph by which the trust companies are taxed is amended, it is a confession of error. But if it is reenacted without amendment, and the courts later decide against the valid ity of the law, a large sum in revenues will be lost. "By their fruits ye shall know them.” The administration has pro posed a program of legislation for national defense that calls for the highest degree of accuracy and effic iency in law making and a fiscal pol icy that will finance it. The muddle over the trust company tax is an apt illustration of complete democratic failures on both counts. “Fear Men" Bradstreet’s is authority for the statement that only three per cent of men who go into business for them selves are successful. It is safe to assume that the proportion of suc cesses in other fields, art, music, au thorship, politics, social work, etc., is as small. The failures are made so through fear. Fear of consequences, fear of the future, fear that we can not finish successfully what we begin, fear of our opponent, unnecessary, il logical fear stands between us and success, and with an apparently im passable arm bars our progress. Those whom fear rules we call “fear men,” because they are not really men at all, but men requiring u classification —an apology. There has hardly been u time in American history when men were called on more to overcome their feur than at the present time. Moral strength is needed in politics more than ever before, and moral strength is as far superior to physical strength as the spiritual is above the natural. It is told of Wellington that, before the battle of Waterloo, his knees shook so that he luughed and called attention to them, saying: "If they knew where I was going to carry them they would shake much worse.” That was moral courage overcoming physical fear, and this is the courage that men must have now if America is to go onward and upward. We must have moral courage to over come the selfish persuasion of the politician, who seeks his own advance ment regardless of the public good. Courage is needed to overcome the fear that organizations and societies and leagues cause by their tactics of force and threats in their eforts to enforce morality by law. Moral cour age is necessary to make men follow the dictates of their own conscience, regardless of the arguments of poli ticians, ministers, leagues or individ uals. The time has come for Ameri can men to throw off the fetters of fear—to come out boldly for what they believe, to refuse to follow the selfish, money grabbing politicians or organization and to stand strong for progress, liberty, decency and social liberty. No Time for Foolin' A man ran from the city clerk’s of ! fiice in Chicago last week with a w-iman in close pursuit calling "Stop thief.” The police took them before court when the woman admit ted that they had just gone after a marriage license and he lost his nerve. She knew it was then or never ’so took that means of stopping him. The court married them. Safety of the Nation In a stirring address to a private putty of newspaper men, J. Stuart Blackton, author and producer of the great praperedness film, “The Battle Cry for Peace,” said that the final salvation of the country would be up to the country newspaper. "If the rural newspaper—the country weekly and the small tovfp daily—get be hind the preparedness movement und demand action by congress,” Blackton said, “then we wilL see an upprupria tion during this session that will b« a good starter. Oficourse to get any where we will neeil a series of ap propriations—a progi.. for navy and army which, spread over a period of years, will give us eventually what protection we need. But if the small town newspaper refuses to call for preparedness and prefer "pork" in stead, the movement will fall. The protection of America is in the hands of the country editor." Mr. Blackton’s Speech for prepared ness followed the viewing by news paper men of the. film, “The Battle Cry of Peace," in which the author shows how helpless the United States would be in case oif attack by a for eign foe. New’ York streets are bom barded, homes are attacked, women and children terrified and fathers tak en out, lined up against a wall and shot. The handful of American sol diers are a joke to the invaders ami enemy ships stand off our shores, out of range of our guns, and hatter to pieces our coast defenses. “These* possibilities are not without the basis of fact,” said Mr. Blackton. in his address. Instead of being a sleeping giant, we are a helpless babe. The dream of universal peace has been shattered by the European nations, and will again be shattered. We have learned that nations will break sol emn treaties when they think it is to their advantage to do so. The world is but little different from what it was a thousand years ago. But we, in the democracy of the United States, are full partners. The re sponsibility of government and the salvation of the nation is on every citizen. Every citizen should be able to transfer himself into a soldier for the defense of his country. This is not imperialistic; it is the very es sence of a democracy that would live. A Banner of Promise In the past year we have several times spoken of the trend of public opinion and sentiment toward the re publican party. Our judgment in this matter has been questioned by some who were unable to discern the signs of the times, being blinded by dust of their own raising; but no unusual l»erspicacity has been necessary to see and to interpret these signs when the eyes have been clear. The elections of Tuesday were another emphatie confirmation of the correctness of that vision. The country is not satisfied with democratic policies nor with dem ocratic administration. It has found that their feasts of anticipation be comes crusts in realization. It has found that iridescent theories, like ev erything else that is iridescent, have little substance. It wants to get back to principles that are founded upon wisdom and justice, to policies that are founded upon practical and suc cessful experience, and it is showing its discontent and its intentions at every opportunity that comes for the expression of its opinions. In that expression there was signi ficant unanimity on Tuesday. Without a single exception the republican party made large and, in most cases, de cisive gains. It was even so below Mason and Dixon's line. North and South, in city and in country, the trend was the same, all toward the full and complete restoration of the republican party to power. The peo ple are not to be fooled by the effort to magnify diplomatic questions into political issues. Our foreign relations are matters of great public interest, and the satisfactory solution of ser ious problems merits praise, while unwise courses justify condemnation. But the conduct of diplomatic nego tiations seldom influences votes. It is upon its domestic policies and par ticularly its economical policies, that an American administration must stand or fall. Every election since 1912 has shown a growing antagonism to the present administration, the di et result of its economical errors. The verdict of last Tuesday hung a banner of promise over the portals of the coming year. —Globe-Democrat. Lincoln—Sixty Years After In 1856 Abraham Lincoln, in a •peech delivered at Chicago, said: "All of us who did not vote for Mr. Buchanan, taken together, are a ma jority of 400,000. But in the late con test w'e were divided between Fre mont ami Fillmore. Can we not come together for the future ? Let every one who really believes and is resolv ed that free society is not and shall not be a failure, and who cun con- I scientiously declare that in the last i contest he has done only what he thought best—let every such one have 1 charity to believe that every other one can say as much. ThuH let by gones be bygones; let past differences us nothing be; and with steady eye on the real issue let us reinaugurate the good old ‘central idea’ of the repub ! lie. We can do it.” In 1916, sixty years after these : words were spoken, they should come to the men of Lincoln's political faith 1 and of Lincoln’t party as both an ad monition and an appeal. All of us who did not vote for Mr. Wilson are a majority of nearly two and a half millions. Those of us who voted as republicans and progressives are a majority of nearly a million and a half. If we alone will take Lincoln’t counsel we shall “reinaug urate the good old central idea of the republic.” Let us do as Lincoln would have us do. “Look For Your Money Where You Lost It” Such was the counsel of a wise father to his son. The boy had failed in some project he hail undertaken. Just what it was, we do not know. He might have lost a crop of wheat be cuse of a hail storm and was afraid to try wheat again. It may be that he lost a drove of hogs with cholera j and declared that he would not again raise hogs. Possibly it was new to him and he was not onto the “how” of doing it. Sometimes a person learns more when he fails than when he suc ceeds. It is the schooling of experi ence that counts. A man may fail to make money on a farm. He may find it harder work than he had thought for. That is no indication that he should quit. He is only preparing to begin. Of all lines of business, farming is certainly the most flexible in this respect. Every man has within his own power the possibility of increasing or decreasing the profits, of muking his work heavy or light acording to his managing ability. The use of proper farm records wiU show up the why and the wherefor of a lot of the leaks. Plugging up the leaks is one good way of increas ing profits. Put down what you do and where you did it, what you spent and where you spent it, what you re ceived and from where it came. Then at the end of the year look over your record and see how much you did ami what you got fordoing it. Quit guess ing. A guess is dangerous if you rely upon it for dollars and cents. Some methods of keeping records are easier than others. Get a simple : and complete method and you will en- i joy keeping a good record. —O. S. ’ Rayner, Colorado Agricultural Col- : legt, Fort Collins, Colorado. Good Money in Horses A drive to C. F. Hiley’s ranch s. nth- . west of town will convince you that i alfalfa, sugar beets and dairy rows ■ are not the only good things this ' country can produce. Mr. Hiiey be- i lieves in good draft horses, and puts his faith into practice by raising rome i of the best thoroughbred Perc'icron j horses that can be found in thr state, i He has imported black mares that an? ’ the equal of the best, and some gray t mares that are simply fine, one of i which he values at SI,OOO. I In a large alfalfa field that the i NUMBER 24. t hordfes keep mowed, without the ex it pensc of worry of doing it with a e machine, Mr. liiley has some spring n colts weighing 500 pounds, two-year -old fillies that will weigh 1,50 n i. pounds and worth S4OO. High gram a horses that will make good any f where, in the show stable or on th< farm. He believes that this is the greatest country in the world for th< developing of good horses, und he i.- proving it. Mr. Hiiey says thut to raise goon 1 horses and market them at the pre. ent price is equal to selling hogs at • twenty-five cents per pound ami not near the worry and expense. You wi;, enjoy a visit to this ranch anad wi. be made welcome. Drive out som< ? flay and see for yourself what can b< ’ done in this business.—-Wiley Journal. Long Distance Diagnosis t , More than half of the specimen* e sent to the veterinary laboratories of r the Colorado Agricultural College for . the diagnosis of disease are übsolute i ly worthless. Three such specimens , arrived by the last mail. One is a ? bottle of milk, and with it a request thut it be examined to determine if the cow had tuberculosis. Another , consists of a small viul of putrid , blood, taken from an animal twelve , hours after deuth. It wus presumed . that this animal died from unthrax. The third specimen is described as follows: "We are sending by parcel , post a sample of the tallow ami mem , brane from inside of flank of u beef . cow slaughtered here yesterday and , would like to have you tell us if the . beef is fit for use.” In the first instance, answer will . go back to the effect that the only feasible way to determine the pres s ence of tuberculosis in the cow is to give the tuberclin test. We can do nothing with the sour milk in this in stance. in the case Of suspected un i thrax the blood should have been tak en either before or immediately aft< r the animal died. A thin smear of the ■ fresh blood on a glass slide dried an>! I sent by mail is often sufficient to re veal the presence of unthrax germs. In the last instance, a pound or mor of tallow and lean meat from insid. of flunk was sent by parcel post and was putrid upon arriving ut the lab | oratory. Of course we were warrant ed in assuring him that the sample at least was not fit for food. A small piece of the meat should have been sent in a bottle after being covered with a ten per cent solution of form alin. The laboratories are unable to give the assistance in diagnosis that could be given if more care were ex ercised in sending specimens, and I might add, if a better history of each case were sent with the specimen. - i Geo. H. Glover, Colorado Agricultural College, Fort Collins, Colorado. Odd Hits of News Minneapolis, Minn. White Earth, near here, claims the champion mother of this state and perhaps of the entire country. Although Mrs. Myrtle La Chappclle is only nineteen years of age, she has been the mother of nine children. Her husband is 22 years old. Atlanta, Ga.—When William Bur den, 76 years old, advertised for a wife, the ad was answered by Miss Lula Douglas Thomson, 26 years old. It is reported that the groom settles $300,000 on the bride before the wed ding ceremony. Burden has adult grandchildren. Portland, Ore.—ls Doc Osier in the audience? Jeremiah Paulscll, 99 years old, has just pplied for a license to hunt big game. "I don’t take water from any young fellow," says Uncle Jere. Cincinnati, o.—Archibishop Moeller of the Roman Catholic church, in a statement to the Ohio Temperance so ciety, saye he is opposed to prohibi tion of the liquor traffic and believes that a well-regulated saloon is not un desirable. El Paso, Tex.—When Stanley Cobb applied for a license to marry Mar garet Corn, the marriage license clerk refused to issue the license thinking it was a joke. WTien convinced, how ever, he shelled out. Pop Corn was said to have opposed the marriage, but when appealed to said “shucks” and headed the list for tho husking.