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THE DALTON CITIZEN, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1921. Entered at tha Dalton, G»., postofflce tor tmnitniirioa 'Oirragfc tba mails, as second-class matter. ——!— DALTON, GA„ THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1921. Pay as mu£h as you can, and your credit will not suffer. Can you afford not to vote for bonds for schools? We wonder if the “emperor of the invisible empire” is feeling right well these days? The School Bond Issue. In calling for a $90,000 bond issue for schools in Dalton those having the matter in hand have in mind the repairs absolutely necessary to the present school buildings, as well as the building and equipping of a modern high school building. It is dot contemplated to spend all of the money for a high school building, but in order to be on the safe side the issue called for was made amply large enough to take care of all that must be done to make the Dalton Public School System what it should be. The town has out grown the present school fa-' cilities, and today notwithstanding the compul- . sory education law, there are boys and girls walk ing the streets who should be in school. No town can afford to grow faster than its schools. There must be, if civilization is to en dure, ample educational facilities. It is ignorance that breeds bolshevism and breaks down orderly government. The proponents of the bond issue do not pro- pose to attempt to sell all of the issue in one lump. They intend to sell them only as the needs of the occasion require, and if the high school building can be built and the necessary repairs to the old ones can be made, for less than $90,000, all the better. If the work can be done for $50,000, $60,- 000 or $75,000 no greater sale of bonds 'will be made. We do not believe we have ever witnessed pub lic sentiment so thoroughly crystallized on “any question as is the case with reference. to the pro posed bond issue, and it is to be hoped that noth ing will be thrown in the way of the final con summation so devoutly wished. The school population of Dalton is very large, and it is necessary that the people provide means for the education of those who are soon to take the leadership in the places of those now in the ranks. This cannot be done with the present fa cilities. Dalton is growing and the schools must grow with the town. Let’s all Work together for the bond issue. Look how far Dalton went forward with her last bond issue. The Greensboro Herald-Journal advises every body to do their Christmas bottling early. We hope the good women will continue to reg ister. They are going to do it we are sure. “Bud” Blalock is one man we should like to see commissioner of agriculture. The boys say he is going to run. The Lawrenceville News-Herald has been won derfully improved within the past month. It is now a full-fledged seven column paper and is issued twice a week. It is one of the virile news papers of the state. !K Almost at the Parting of the Ways. The civilized world has had its eyes on Wash ington for the past three weeks. The war-worn people hope yet something will come out of the conference that will have a tendency to lessen tax burdens and make for universal peace. But the hope is fading. This country cannot re main in the, world and at the same time live out of it. If we fere to do our part in keeping the peace of the world, we must assume some of the responsibility. We must either be leagued, or as sociated, with the other great powers for the pur pose of maintaining world order. Destroying obsolete ships will not make war impossible, but it will relieve the tax-payers of a great burden, and for this the proposition is to be commended. The assumption is that in the future, should wars come, and they will if there is not a better international understanding, they will be fought from the air and from underneath the seas. A dreadnought, or a super-dreadnought, is no match for the bombing plane, and with the seas full of submarines, what service could a $43,000,- 000 battleship render to a nation battling for either democracy or autocracy? Universal disarmament is a beautiful thing to talk about, but it would be a more wonderful and L a more humanitarian thing if it could be accom plished. We hope for much yet from the conference at Washington, but-at this writing the glooms have us. The president sees clearly that the best plan for permanent peace is a league or an association, with the other nations of the world, but he is all enmeshed in politics and partizanship. He trav els a little way in the right direction, and then is forced to retreat. He may be gaining a bit, but it is by slow processes, with much halting and misgiving. The League of Nations, with something above forty signatories, in Article VHI, provides for gradual disarmament, the very thing for which the conference was called to Washington to de cide. . A mere gentleman’s agreement will not mean anything. There must be some binding force if the nations of the earth are to cease preparing for war. Certainly the statesmen at Washington ought by this time to be able to see where they are—al most at the parting of the ways—largely because republican statesmanship is not big enough to rise above its hatred of Woodrow Wilson! Augusta Again Suffers from Fire. Augusta has suffered another great loss from a disastrous fire. In 1916 the city was partially burned out, and in this fire the Augusta Chronicle lost its plant but saved its valuable files, dating back to 1785. In the fire of Saturday night not Only was its plant destroyed but its files as well. But the Chronicle is undaunted and will build back'Tngger and better than ever before. So will the city of Augusta, because her people are built of that stern stuff that makes of obstacles step ping stones to higher and better things. The Chronicle never missed an issue, and to Editor Thomas J .Hamilton and his loyal staff The Citizen extends both sympathy and congratula tions. With spirit unbroken and a determination to accomplish whatever is necessary to bring success out of disaster they are forging ahead to the goal of a greater Augusta and a greater Chron icle. The following editorial, appearing' in the Chronicle Sunday, November 27th, breathes the spirit of that admirable, brave trait that knows not the meaning of the word failure: The Augusta Chronicle was in its temporary quarters in the old Schneider building, 735 Broad street, yesterday morning by 9:30 Oi’dock and by ten o’clock telephones had been installed and a large sign placed over the door. We were warmly congratulated on the great speed that was used in getting ready for business. The Chronicle was enabled to go right back into business with that marvelous despatch which was shown because of the fast work of Chronicle employes and the ex cellent co-operation that was shown by the tele phone company, the gas company, the Augusta- Aiken Railway and Electric Corporation and Mr. Robert Dressel who painted a big sign in record time. At seven thirty a. m., Mr. H. H. Stafford, one of the owners of the Schneider Building was got ten on the telephone and asked if he would rent the offices that were available in this building. The deal was closed at once and men begap to clean up the offices. Tables and chairs were in stalled, office records which had been in the tem porary custody of citizens were brought into the new quarters, telephones were put in place, the Associated Press loop wire was' cut in, gas was connected for the radiators and every thing made ready for business. The big sign “Office, Augusta Chronicle” was swung out over the front door and we were in business again. We were out of a home just about six hours. The Chronicle employes, one and all manifested that wonderful spirit which bespeaks their splen did loyalty for the paper. They worked like Tro- jahs during the fire and after the fire worked to produce the creditable morning newspaper with out inconvenience to patrons. The people of Augusta secured - their paper a little late but they did not mind. The occasion was estraordinary. The Chronicle had been burned out, but it was not out of commission, it was simply delayed. The spirit of the Chronicle cannot be killed and though fires may come to destroy our physical property it cannot dlfestroy the wonderful spirit which has enabled the grand old newspaper to Tie in busi ness 137 years without missing an issue. During the day yesterday we received dozens of telegrams from good friends all over this section of the coun try and hundreds of warm assurances from our own Augusta people of their fond regard for the Chronicle. ~ We are grateful for all of these and we are encouraged to dare to do greater things with The Chronicle than we have ever attempted before and we are absolutely convinced that Au- gustans love the Chronicle as they do a member of the inner circle of their own families. The new and greater Chronicle for greater Augusta, that is our slogan.. Corn is selling in many places at twenty cents a bushel. In Russia, China and Armenia thous ands are starving. What is the answer? Corn is now being^burned as fuel. A lot of it is exploding, and some of it is burning out the coppers of those inclined to be bibulous. We have been living for more than a week without the Columbus Enquirer-Sun. We seem to be unable to locate it among our exchanges. We had thought a' right smart of the sales tax proposition until we saw Willie Hearst was so all- fired strong for it. It must be wrong somewhere. Keeping the Record Straight. “Our Tom” is the most magnificent claimer in the world. He kills all the bears, chases away all the hobgobblins, fights all the windmills (with wind), climbs all the greased poles, and success fully catches and holds all the greased pigs. In the failure of the senate to ratify the ap pointment of Henry Lincoln Johnson as recorder of deeds for the District of Columbia, “Our Tom” is there, with the goods. He is the Spartan who delivered the fatal blow—the gladiator who hung Henry Lincoln on the ropes. Now let’s go to the record and look the facts in the face. “Our Tom” appeared before the sen ate committee investigating Link, and appealed to __ with all the fire and ire of his perfervid nature. He told the committee that Johnson was personal ly objectionable to him (almost everybody is, you know) and that he wanted the republican commit teeman turned down forthwith, as well as in- stanter. What do you suppose the senate committee did? Why, it simply up and voted to a man for the confirmation of the Georgia negro, that’s what it did. And it did it in spite of “Our Tom,” too. Jt was a sad day, mates. “Our Tom” couldn’t even get one vote in the committee room against the negro who was -personally objectionable to him. Speaking of senatorial courtesy—but what’s the use? But on the floor of the senate it was quite dif ferent. Senator Harris voiced his opposition to the confirmation of Henry Lincoln,'stating that he was personally objectionable to him, and he got action. In other words, he is respected by his colleagues, because he is sincere and honest, and also a gentleman. While all the talk about who “killed the b’ar” going on it is well to get the facts and keep the record straight. “Our Tom” had about as much to do with keeping Henry Lincoln Johnson out of the office of recorder of deeds in Washington as did Hie supreme ruler of Haiti. Lord Northcliffe says “we must disarm our minds before we can reduce our fleets.” If we continue to think fleets and falk fleets we will continue to have them. The “poison squad” seems to be getting ready for business at the same aid stand. Senator Borah has already started, and Hi Johnson can be ex pected to join him. And then there is Senator Reed. The monkey-wrenches are beginning to fly, and soon the disarmament conference is likely to resemble a negro crap game where everybody is - winning and disputing. / • ♦ ♦ CLIPPINGS AND COMMENTS ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ Is a railroad millenium coming? The rail road managers are coming to believe that low er freight rates would stimulate business.— Dawson News. That’s what a lot of us ordinary “boobs” have been telling them for a long time. The price of beef at packing houses is back to the level of 1914. But the consumer would not know it if he hadn’t read it in the news papers.—Dawson News. Certainly he can’t tell it by the bills he gets the first of the month. According to Glenn Plumb, the railroads of the country are “financial, physical, mental and moral bankrupts.”—Macon Telegraph. " Which brings to mind the question, “What’s the matte/ with Glenn Plumb?” The Bainbridge Post-Searchlight calls -Tim Georgia’s Apostle of Sunshine. The Post- Searchlight editor has never seen Jim work at night.—Bill Biffem, in Savannah Press. What you trying to do, Bill, set the revenoors after “Uncle Jim”? The Ku-Klux Klan has offered its services to the chief of police of Cincinnati to suppress banditry in that city.—Rome Tribune-Heald. Having headquarters in Atlanta it would seem that the Klan could, with more becoming grace;, offer its services to the chief of police for the same purpose. At any rate, you never hear a man in front of a soda fountain declaring' loudly that he can lick everybody in the house.—Athens Daily News. k But you will find him quite frequently in a dark alley soon after he has had an “interview” with his favorite bootlegger, not only kicking everybody, but stepping on them besides. Conditions would be at least fifty per cent better if everybody .would pay as far as they can. There can’t be much progress as long as the wheels are locked.—Jackson Progress- Argus. That’s - the truth. There are too many people who take advantage of stringent times and begin riding those to whom they- are indebted. This makes bad matters won^e, of course. If, as a superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League declares, the newspapers and news paper writers of this country have been sub sidized by the liquor interests, we want to rise to a point of order and raise a yelp that may be heard from the rockbound coast of grand old Maine to the sun-kist slopes of the Pa cific. How come we didn’t get ours?—Macon Telegraph. And how come also we didn’t get 010: part? A reader of the Tumulty articles in the New- York Times is struck by the omission of any references to Col. E. M. House. In other chap- tiers, however, the author has alluded to the 7 Colonel several times.—Savannah Press. The enemies of Mr. Tumulty and the ex-Pres- ident are so intent on finding fault that they jump at conclusions, and in so doing, often make them selves ridiculous. To the person interested in the history of the World war the Tumulty articles are most interesting as well as instructive. The Dalton Citizen says that it has never seen the person that politics and society would * not eventually ruin. "We don’t know about this assertion from a political standpoint, but from the crest of high society. Jack Patterson, of the Atlanta Journal; is a living refutation of Editor Shope’s assertion.—Winder News. Jack Patterson is not the kind of society man we had in mind when we wrote the paragraph above referred to. The social snob, gad-about and climber is the genus homo (hobo would do just as well) at which we aimed our javelin. Bradstreet’s commercial agency says that 84 per cent of the business failures of the past year occurred among firms which did not ad vertise. This is a good showing under the cir cumstances. The only wonder is that the other 16 percent didn’t fail also.—Rome Tri bune-Herald. And yet there are a few firms which try to do business without advertising. The trouble about this sort of a proposition is that they may know what they are trying to do, but nobody else does. We notice that two or three Georgia daily newspapers are snapping at the letters of Joseph Tumulty regarding former President Wilson and attempting to detract from them by belittling Tumulty. But this is mighty little journalism and doesn’t add either ^dignity, strength or popularity to the pee wees that still maintain a mean and contemptible atti tude towards the former President.—Walton Tribune. The snarlers and snipers will never harm Woodrow Wilson by trying to belittle Tumulty. If we should ever be called to a responsible posi tion where we would have to have a private sec retary, we would want one just like Tumulty. Way down south in the land of cotton, the price, is good but the freight rates rotten.— Tom Sims. Way down south we sit and wait, because darned few of us can pay the freight.—Dal ton Citizen. Way down south we fuss and fret, because d—n few of us are out of debt.—Madison Madisonian. Way down south things are brightening up, soon we’ll be out of the goldarned rut.—Dal ton Citizen. Way down south there’s a cuss of a nut, who should be told that “up” is a darned poor rhyme for “rut.”—A. J. S. We are not much on poetic technique. What we tried to do was to sprinkle a little salt on the tail of a little, as Ring Lardner would say, idear. A farmer who sold ten or twelve bales of cotton at Dalton Tuesday was robbed on his way home, according to reports reaching here yesterday, the highwayman taking every cent of his money and his hat besides. We will continue to hear of and read of such things happening so long as people carry any con siderable amount of money around with them, or conceal money around their homes or v premises. The proper place for money is in a bank, and the man who takes a chance on having his money burned or stolen, and risks getting himself killed by a robber’ to boot, is not entitled to much sympathy when he loses it.—Calhoun Times. It is here considered the report that a farmer was held up and robbed near Dalton has been greatly exaggerated. In fact no such thing hap pened, so far as The Citizen can learn. But it might have happened. v Look for the good that’s in people instead of the bad. No matter how bad a man might be there’s some good in him.—Greensboro Herald-Journal. We wish we were able to hold this view, but we can’t. Some people are just like rotten eggs— no good at all. Look at Tom Watson. The senate is to be complimented on its good, behavior during the Washington Con ference. Its quietude has been unusual, not even being broken to the extent of taking a fling at the Japanese in Shantung. Mr. Hard ing must have had fine faith in the democrats, not to have acted on the advice of advisors and adjourned the senate before the confer ence opened; and certainly they have shown themselves worthy of that confidence. Of course, the republicans kept quiet. They have democracy to thank that it has not acted as the party of Mr. Harding did when Mr. Wil son was at Paris.—Macon Telegraph. , The republicans will- never hear the last of their impudence and bad behavior during the clos ing days of the Wilson administration. The fact that party was placed above everything else is’ fast dawning upon the minds of the people every where. Hon. A. O. Blalock’s friends are urging him to become a candidate at the next election, for commissioner of agriculture; £ftid it is pret ty generally understood that he will do so. He is an honest, capable and able man, and the people of Georgia could hardly make a better selection. “Bud” Blalock ’would'immediately clean out the filth and rot now accumulated in that Augean stable, and give the state such an administration of that department as the public interests emphatically demand, and if any responsible citizens, whether legislators or plain clothes people, suggest that there is rottenness there and request an investigation of it, he not only would not lobby to prevent itfhut promptly demand that one be made.— Lawrenceville News-Herald. That’s the difference between the present in cumbent and the one contemplated. The fact that “Machine Jim” Brown opposes an investigation of the agricultural department, over which he pre sides, is the very best of evidence that something is rotten. A change is needed, and “Bud” Bla lock can bring it to pass. ♦ ♦ ♦ LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ Bankruptcy. To the Editor of The Dalton Citizen: It is a terrible thing for a man to be forced into bankruptcy in financial matters. Especially is this true of a good man, a man that has always met his obligations on time. For this kind of man to real ize that he has failed, for him to know that he must acknowledge defeat is one of the great trag edies of life. Such an experience is so trying, so destructive of courage and reason, that some of the ablest business men of America could not stand the strain. The result was that the number, of suicides in this country was vastly increased in the past year. And yet there is a bankruptcy that is infinitely more appalling than the failure to meet financial obligations. Bankruptcy in financial matters may weaken the business interests of this country, but a failure to meet certain obligations in other direc tions will, cause a greater and more terrible loss. We cannot pay all the debts we owe with money. What of those debts of service and appreciation we owe to the family, the community, the state, and the nation? Civilization is so constituted that we must pay, and pay, and pay. Every day makes new debts... and unless we are to become hopelessly involved we must square our accounts every day of the world’s progress. And finally there are those obligations that we owe ourselves, that necessity under which every human soul is bound to itself. Have you allowed the encroachment of material considerations to impoverish your spirit? Have you given that im mortal part of yourself that we call spirit, a chance to grow, to expand into a new ana radiant life? Have you paid the debt you owe your own self by improving every opportunity for service and self culture? Are you keenly appreciative of the beau ty of the world, its great thinkers, its music, the divine purpose running through all? If you fail to pay in these things, fail to meet these higher obligations, you are a bankrupt in things spiritual and are hopelessly involved and in debt so deep that you can never get out, though you pay every cent you owe in a money mad world. Are you a spiritual bankrupt? HIRAM SMITH. aiSRWsiliWiiiiswwifiiiiai w * s s s m * s s 5 EXCHANGE OPINION * at * *sss*x*s*m*******pxsxsx* Still It Was Wilson. It was Wilson who received the big ovation in Washington on Armistice day. But you would nof have known it by reading the Washington pa pers'.—Dalton Citizen. . But the Washington papers are not all. Uncle Henry Watterson said the other day in a New York interview that the peak of usefulness of the Amer ican newspaper had been reached. We do not know whether he was right, but we do know he is a wise old man. Following the Watterson interview a few days later the people of New York chose a man for mayor against whom all the greater newspapers in that city had launched a terrific onslaught. They paid no attention to the newspapers. In the matter of Wilson’s statesmanship it is going to be much the same. Public adherence to his policies is going to bury newspaper propa ganda that rose so furious and solid against him when republican partisanship directed their war on him. The anti-Wilson newspapers of this coun try are going the same route the anti-Hylan news papers went. Substitutes for the Wilson statesmanship will not hold despite all efforts to appropriate and in corporate his best ideals into their program. All the nations on earth have accepted his plans for reconstructing governments following the war ex cept the republican party and the newspapers it controls in this country—and not even all these oppose the peace plans he set up. The nations represented at our present arms conference are all members of the league of na tions. They cannot abide the principles set forth in the league and make of the arms conference what it ought to mean to the world. Either the. one or the other will suffer—and should all the rest of the world lay down its plans for peace to suit a group of men.like. Henry Cabot Lodge and George Harvey in this country? - Thfey may say nice things—they may deliberate long and faithfully, they may try honestly to find some solution which will please all factions, but when the final reckoning comes, the nations which have already chosen the league as a means of in suring peace will more than likely stick to it— and they are going to do so in spite of American republican newspapers which have in late times served as political organs. Of course, the Washington newspapers are not going to say a word when such an incident as that occurring the other day at the burial of tlje unknown soldier takes place. But that is not go ing to keep the people from considering Woodrow Wilson as the greatest among those who gave their lives for permanent world peace.—Cordele Des patch. “Entangling Alliances.” Entangling alliances seemed to be frightful things when President Wilson at Paris was trying to make the League of Nations the effective agency for world peace which he believed the times de manded and for which he believed the opportunity was presented. They'were a “menace to the safety of the coun try” when senatorial opposition to the Versailles treaty was delivering its broadsides and express- CHEERY LAYS for DREARY DAYS By JAMES WELLS, The Printer-Poet Christmas Time is Near. Can’t you see the little kiddies Acting “just as good as pie?” See them help to feed the “biddies,” Never do you hear them cry; And in every-_day behavior, Each one is a perfect dear. They are thinking of Old Santa, For Christmas-time is near. Johnny’s busy splitting kindling; Tommy’s bringing in the wood; (Little Eddie—full of mischief— Tries so hard to be quite good). Lou and Lillie, Maud and Millie All help mamma, never fear! Sweeping, dusting, washing v dishes, For Christmas-time is near. Susie’s busy writing letters To her friend, Dear Santa Claus, For she wants some little dishes And a stove “that’s just like ma’s.” As she mails them in the chimney, And they quickly disappear, You can tell that Santa gets them, And that Christmas-time is near. Brightly gay are shops and windows, Loaded down with pretty toys. While around them gazing, praising Stand the eager girls and boys; / And the legend loud proclaiming, “Santa Claus’ headquarters here,” Bids us watch for St. Nick’s coming, For Christmas-time is near. ^ * * * » * • Don’t You Cry. Fortune sorter thrown you down? Don’t you cry. Never mind misfortune’s frown— Pass it by.~ - Keep a good stiff upper lip— Hang right on with bull-dog grip— Vow that you will win next trip. Don’t you cry. Everything a-Iookin’ blue? Don’t you cry. Twill look better, lad, to you Bye and bye. Every lane must turn some day— Come the end of day so gray— Dry your weeping eyes, I pray, Don’t you cry. ****** Love. Some love their wife and little babes; Some love the fields, all sunny; Some love the mountains and the streams, And some love only money. ****** The National Sport. Some sportsmen fish for trout and bass Until the sport quite “tuckers,” While others sit the whole day long And cast their bait for suckers. ****** A Question. - , I’m state-ing to you a question Which drives me to despair: If Georgia wears her New Jersey, Then, pray, what will Delaware? ****** Two Little Animals. When Mary had a little lamb, Which did as it was bid, * No wonder she took it to school, . For she was just a kid. ****** No One to Love Me. (Song rights reserved.) I am lonely as can be, For there’s no one thinks of me, And the game of life I’m playing all alone. There is none my heart to share— Not a soul who seems to care— Not a single one that I can call my own. Chorus. No one to miss me, No one to kiss me, No one to call me dear; No one to love me Or “turtle-dove” me, No one to soothe or cheer. Others have their sweethearts, true, And their happiness I view, While in my heart there’s loneliness and pain; And I hope some day there’ll be Some one who will care for me, For,a little love I’m longing all in vain. Chorus. No one to talk with, _ No one to walk with “No one my heart to share. If I lay dying, There’d be no crying— There is no one to care. ing its horror of our departure from the beaten paths of tradition. , But the times change, and viewpoints change with them. It is noted that following the power ful speech of Premier Briand, Secretary Hughes made a cordial response in the 0010*56 of which he said: “There is no moral isolation for the de fenders of liberty and justice.” Comment is made by the Philadelphia Record that “this means some thing or it means nothing; and we cannot assume that the Secretary of State of the United States in a formal speech responsive to that of the Prime Minister of France means nothing.” And to that the Philadelphia paper adds the following, which is very interesting: But if it means something, what is it? We cannot assume that the qualifying word “moral” destroys the apparent meaning of the sentence. Mr. Hughes could not mean that if France were attacked by its ancient enemy other nations would feel sorry for it and watch its destruction with regret. A moral obligation is supposed to be more binding, if possible, than a legal obligation; it is supposed that where the legal obligation ceased the moral obligation would become effective. The moral obligation must inspire conduct when the legal obligation falls short. If these are not empty words—and we cannot suppose them to be—they mean that if France were attacked it would receive substantial help. But Mr. Hughes cannot speak for Great Britain or Italy or any foreign country. He can only speak for the United States beyond the life of this Administration, but unquestionably he pledges this Administration, he pledges the United States so long as Mr. Harding shall be President, to go to the succor of France against an attack. But this is clearly an entangling alliance. The Republican party defeated the Versailles treaty because a compact with other nations for mutual defense would be an entangling alliance. With the failure of the treaty, the treaty negotiated between President Wilson and Premier Clemenceau guar anteeing the defense of France fell, and with the agreement also there fell the treaty of like char acter negotiated between Prime Minister Lloyd George and Prime Minister Clemenceau. This left France with such guarantees as the League of Nations could afford, but with none other, and the value of the League of Nations was seriously impaired by the refusal of the United States to enter it. France had given a consideration for the de fensive agreements with the United States and Great Britain. The military authorities of France were agreed that the safety of their country de manded the Rhine for a frontier, or, failing in that, the erection of the German territory west of the Rhine into an autonomous buffer State. In deference to the United States and Engfland France waived the whole of this demand and then by the action of the United States, it failed to get the quid pro quo. And now' in fact, though not in form, the Re publican Administration commits the United States to an entangling alliance by assuring France of allies if it shall be attacked.—Albany Herald.