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Two Monkey:Sentences,
World Prohibition.
Where Is Gowernment?
Laying on Hands.
By Arthur Brisbane——
Professor Garner, who confided
to this writer years ago his trsen
tion %0 study monkey language is
back from MNis stadies, and postive
that monkeys can ask, “Where are
you,” and answer, “Herec] am™
. That is about all they need @
say. The conwversation enables Mr.
Monkey to locate Mrs. Monkay,
and the monkey race goes on. They
meed no other language, hawving no
thoughts to communicate, 0o banew
olent plans to carry oumi. Maoy he
man beings coul get along well if
their vocabulary were as lmited as
that of Professor Garner's mondeys.
As a matier of fact, bundreds of
millions of humans ase RBmited in
vocabulary to fewer than 500 words,
With two votes to spare the wom
an suffrage comstitutional amend
ment passes the Senate. Thirty
six States must now vote for the
amendment to put it in the Consti
tution. It s not pleasant to say,
but it is probable, that thirty-six
States will NOT wote for justice to
women. "
Some States fear their colored
women; say they can control col
ored men, not colored women. Oth
ers fear their white women, say
they haven’t brains enongh to share
in making laws. It is probable
that this constitutional amendment
will be defeated by the States and
that women will be compelled to
continue their fight, State by State.
They might shorten the fight by
making it a party matter, all voting
for the Presidential candidate of
the party that displays no sectional
opposition to woman suffrage. If a
party discovered that it had to stay
out of power until it allowed women
to vote, it woulkd allow the woting.
There is axcitement in the Sen
ate because the peace treaty reach
ed Wall Street before it reached
Washington. e
Frank Munsey gave a dinner to
Rord Northciiffe after the latter
beught the London Times.
Munsey had all the big financiers
except Rockefeller, the biggest, to
meet Northeltffe. J. P. Morgan sat
gipping his red wine and water
mixed. K H Harriman, who died
too young, looked sadly at his milk
and seltzer. Wo.aurghooae. Wide
ner, H. H. Rogers and a glorious
collection of others listened to the
speeches. A newspaper man said
%0 Northeliffe, *“The interesting
thing about the dinner is this: The
President of the United States isn't
here; there is mo Gowernor of any
State, no member of Congress, no
Judge, but the GOVERNMENT of
the United States s sitting with
you at this table.”
It isn't as bad as it vsed to be, in
days when Washington learned
from Wall Street what to do. But
there is still plenty of governing
power in the Jlower end of New
York, and it is In Do way remark
able that the text of the peace
treaty reached the financial govern
ment South of Canal Street before
reaching the other Gowernment by
the Potomac,
From Enghnd comes the Rev,
Hickson, working at Trinity Chapel
in New York City, curing tle sick
by “laying on hands.” The rever
end gentleman says he is not ‘a
Christian Scientist, but something
else. He THINKS that he has
cured crippled children with his
hands.
If this gentlemaan could, by May
ing on hands, cure the sick, it
would be interesting, but not im
portant.
One scientifie invention, BY
PREVENTING DISEASE, can cure
more in a day than the total num
ber upon which the Rev. Hickson
could lay his hands in a lifetime.
We cleanse the leper now by wip
ing out leprosy. There isn't any to
speak of. We save millions of lives
that were sacrificed to the pilague
by cleaning up plague spots. We
put an end to smallpox by vaccina
tion, prevent yellow fever and ma
laria by getting rid of mosqguitoes
that carry yellow fever and ma-
Jaria.
The world has passed beyond the
individual healer, as it has passed
beyond the individual stagecbach
driver. Things are done wholesale,
with science in medicine and rail
roads in transportation,
In a wortd of Bolshevism, dyna
mite explosions, red flags, wild
gambling and general disturbance
it pleases to learn of a certain force
working always for pure morality.
The Anti-Saloon League of America
is starting out to spread prohibi
tion all over the world. There will
be interesting developments when
the prohibitionists begin near the
London docks, or near La Halle
in Parig, or the railroad station in
Veniee, To persuade English,
¥French and Jtalian workers that
what uaq really want is good cold
water, with perhaps a little grape
Juice in It, will offer extraordinary
opportunities for oconvincing elo
quence.
$10,000,000 Realty
Of Astor To Be Sold
NEW YORK, June 14.-—Supreme
Court Justice Donnelly has designated
ex-Justice Charles F. Brown as ref
eroe to sell at auction the property
which formgerly belonged to Henry
Astor. The land lies on the lower
west side of Manhattan and is valued
i excess of §10,000,000,
The proceeds will be divided among
Astor's descendants, including Via
eent Astor, young John Jacob Astor,
Willlam Astor Chanler and several
members of the Roosevelt family,
If you have any difficulty tn bdbay
fng Hearst's Sunday American any
where n the South, notify Circula
tion Manager Hearst's Suaday Amen
ican, Atlaata, Ga.
VOIL. VL NO. 10.
THIRD PARTY INEVITABLE
WORLD LABOR IS DETERMINED TO WIN ITS FIGHT, SAYS RUSSELL;
‘IRELAND’S CRISIS ALSOAN AMERICAN AS WELL AS BRITISH CRISIS’
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Declares Self-Determination Ap
plies to Irish as Well as to
Pole, Slav, Ukrainian, Finn,
‘As Never Before the Irish People
Are United—Vote as a Unit
for Their Indépendence.’
George Oveel was during the entire
period of the war chairman of the
comanétice om public information of
the United Rtates Govermment, the
committee being
George Creel, chairman.
Robert Lansing, Secretary of State.
Newton D. Baker, Secretary of
War.
Josephus Daniels, Secretary of the
Navy,
Since the peace conference in Paris
Mr. Creel, his work as chief official
censor of the United States Govern
ment being ended, visited Ireland,
sarw all the leaders, studied conditions
there, and gives the reswlts in this
series of letters, eritten for The
American, the first newspaper articles
written by Mr. Creel since the wer
b(’”.. I
By GEORGE CREEL, I
Former Chairman of the Commit
tee on Public Information of the
United States Government.
The world is asked to consider
Ireland merely as “England’s do
mestic problem.” Certain circum
stances, unyielding as iron, preclude
the acceptance of any such view.
Not even by the utmost stretch of
amiable intemt can a question that
strikes at the very heart of in- |
ternational agreement be set down
and written off as “domestic.” That
magic formula, “self-determina
tion,” has marched armies and
tumbled empires these last few
years, playing too large a part in
world consciousness to be limited
by any arbitrary discrimination in
the hour of victory and adjustment,
Even as Poles, Czechs, Jugo-
Slavs, Ukranians, Finns and scores
of other submerged nationalities are
struggling to the upper air of in- I
dependence so does Ireland appeal |
to the solemn covenant of the Al
lies, with its championship of the |
“rights of small peoples” and its
sonorons assent to “the reign of
law, based upon the consent of the
governed.” |
IRISH PEOPLE UNITED. |
As never before the Irish are
united. With the exception of pro
testing majorities in four Ulster
connties, kreland vofed as a unit in
1918 for a republican form of gov
ernment. The 73 representatives
elected by the Sinn Fein refused to
take thetr seats at Westminster and
have assembeld as an Irish Parlia
ment, of sorts, in Dublin. \ |
The thousands of British soldiers
m Ireland virtualy constitute an
army of oecupation. I
In America the rce has put aside
the factional bitterness of the past,
and stands solidly and squarely in |
support of Ireland’'s demand for jus
tice.,
It = this that gives the Irish ques.
tion an American aspect In the
United States there are over 15000
000 people of Irieh birth or descent,
woven into the warp and woof of
our national life by common aspira
tions and devotions. They stand
implacably today between this
ecountry and England, crying out
against any alllance, agreement or
even amity until the case of Ireland
has been futrly considered and just
ly settled. .
Such a mass, instinet with intel.
Hgent emotionalism, can not be g
nored either in honor, decency or
plain common sense. This Is a de
moceracy in which the treaty-mak
ing powers of government are un
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Johns Hopkins
Finds L
-
inds Locusts
ALTIMORE, June 14—One
of the entomologists at
Johns Hopkins University
has made the discovery that lo
custs are a delectable food. He
says they taste much like shrimp
and advises everybody to add
them to the menu.
It is the easiest way to get rid
of the pests, he adds.
.
Boy Scouts Enter Big
Drive to Rid Country
.
Of Caterpillar Pests
(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, June 14.—80 y
Scouts, attention! The big drive to
get the “tent” caterpillars, those
webby thins gthat hang in the trees
in June, is on. This is the game at
which the Boy Scouts have had the
best kind of fun, says the American
’ Foresty Magazine, which urges that
organizations be effected to block
~ formations in order to rid the trees
~of the pests.
“The tents,” says the magazine,
“are eommon at this time on wild
cherries, mulberries, willow and
other trees. Apply a burning rag or
torch to the web, or else squirt a
little kerosene into the web. This
should be done under proper su
pervision in every case.”
Other suggestions for June fol
low:
+ Spray for leaf=eating insects, for
- most of them commence defoliation
at the end of May.
| Hickory trees infested with the
hickory bark borer should be re
moved and destroyed, for the bee
tles emerge early in June and pro
ceed to other trees. Look for the
~ fine holes in the bark and the fine
sawdust that is ejected.
| Spraying for sucking insects is
urged and advice along these lines
will be gladly given to any who
write to the American Forestry As
sociation, Washington, D. C, and
inclose a stamp for answer. In
almost any group of trees will be
found branches that have died off
during the wintre. These can be
removed now and the resulting
~ wounds covered with coal tar.
Electricity Cause of
. .
Many Cotton Gin Fires
WASHINGTON, June 14—Every
year a considerable amount of cot
ton is burned at the ginneries; like
wise the ginneries burn also. l.astl
year there were so many mysterious
fires that the Government set to work
to unearth this possible enemy at
tempt to destroy our resources. The
truth is out at last. Static electricity
has been the incendiary. I
Everyone remembers the old-time
electrical wheel used in classes of
natural philosophy, when so little was
known about electricity. By hltvhlan
the largest boy in the class to lhe;
crank and working him hard like a
farm hoy at the grindstone in haying
time, enough electricity could be gen- |
erated to charge a set of Leyden Jan.l
Friction developed the electricity.
That's the secret of the fires in cot
ton ginneries, After the discovery,
the rest was easy, Simply lnntnlll
grounded wires like the lightning
rods of former days, and the cotton
market will no longer be affected by
fire losses, Aganin, the science bovomenl
the handmaiden of industry and
finanocs, r I
Court Holds ‘Private
Bet on Horse Lawful
NEW YORK, June 14— Magistrate
Walsh, of the Adams Street Court,
Brookiyn, holds it vo erime to bet
“privately” on horse races, This ron-I
struection on the law was volced when
Thomas Maher, chief clerk of the
Marringe License Bureau of Brook
lyn, was discharged after having been
arrested on a charge of bookmukln(.
Magistrate Walsh said the defend
ant had received three private bets
while standing in a refreshment par
lor, and that #o long as he did not
own the place where the bets were al
leged to have bheen received and that
no writing or memorandum had ac
companied the waggrs, Maher could
not be held.
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Shorter Work Day, Larger Share
in Product and Control of In
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' dustries, and Better Education.
These Will Improve Mankind,
Says Critic—Holds Labor Must
and Will Have Its Desires.
By CHAS. E. RUSSELL.
Famous Author and Leading Writer
| on Civic Righteousness.
The greatest of all the signs of the
times is the sign that s receiving
the least attention.
Run over a few basic facts and see
if this is not so, I
Modern ecivilization rests upon la
bor. Labor is the length and breadth
and height and depth of it, and on|
labor it lives and has its being, I
Whatever labor makes up its mind
it wants, whatever it wuniteg for.l
whatever it continues to demand, that‘
it will have to have. It is the king
pin of the whole social machine, !
This tremendous fact it had never
understood until the war. It is be-I
ginning to understand that fact now
THREE DEMANDS.
Observe then: Three things the la.
bor of all the civilized world is de
manding. On some other points in the
labor programs put forth in the vari
ous nations there are differences. On
these three points organized labor in
every country is unanimous: |
A shorter workday. A larger share .
in the product and in the control of;'
industry. Better education for the
children of workers, '
Of these the first two seem to striknl,
some sgensitive or primitive minds as
sheer revolution. They are but n)ftl
stuff compared with the possibilities |
of the third
Because if that third demand shall
be carried out it will in the end
equal the great war in importance to
the human race, and make our famous
peage conference that we follow with
so much zeal look like the treaty ofl
Tilsit. I
At the present time, the children |
of the mass of the workers, who nre'
part of the great majority of the n:a-l
tion and under democracy must have
the whole future in their hands, arel
not being educated at all. Magy of
them are being schooled, more or lons'
and chiefly less. Mighty few of them
are being eduvcated
Even of those that are allowed to
have a little schooling and gather
some rudimentary crumbs of knowl
edge, the number in our own ('mm?rvl
falls far short of our hazy and lmm|~l
tiful dreams about it )
Here is a truly amazing thing
Consider it
WAR HAS CHANGED TIME,
What was it that before the war we
used to say with such a eharming!
complacency about our educational
system?
“The American public school ts the,
best in the world. The American]|
worker is the most intelligent in the |
world. All is well with us and in
finitely better than with the effete na
tions we have outstripped.”™ .
That was about the tune, I think
grand, glorious and satisfying, And
along came the war with its ugly an ‘I
relentless figures and knocked to bits |
all our fond imaginings about Amer I
fean education For here was the
stunning fact thrust ito eupr face I
that an average of one person fn five |
in this ecountry can not read nor
write, I
One in five—the assertion geemed |
to many minds unimaginable. Twenty |
per cent of illiteracy in the eountry!
we had believed to be the most intel I
per cent of {lliteracy lin the eountry|
we had believed to be the most intel- |
ligent on carth! There must be H'-'l"‘l
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ATLANTA, GA., SUNDAY, /UNE 15, 1919.
Reconstruction Movements in Full
Swing in Every State Getting
Country Back to Peace Basis.
Alaska Comes to Front With Offer
- to Place 3,000 Service Men in
Jobs ag Teachers, Clerks, Etc.
WASHINGTON, June 14.—Recon
struction movements, now in full
SWing in every State, cover every
conceivable angle of the problem of
getting the nation back into peace
time form, according to a survey be-
Ig‘un ®oon after the armistice by the
National Council of Defense. I
Governors, Mayors, State Legista -
tures, churches, Boy Scouts, Chamber
| of Commerce, volunteer workers and
civic bodieg aré co-operating in plans
to insure a square deal for demobi
( lized soldiers and get the factories
to work again.
No State was overlooked in the
survey. |
Alaska, tgo, is helping by ofl‘erlngl
to place 3,000 demobilized soldiers Inl
Jjobs as teachers, clerks and watch
men.
GREAT MASS OF DATA.
A great mass of information that
fills yards of filing cabinets piled cei!.
ing high has been collected by the
| defense council describing the State
' projects. Collected and edited .Jor
early publication, the information for
!snmr- States fills hundreds of pages
Most projects aim at getting sol
jdmrs on the land as farni.rs and
helpers,
For this work the Colorado Legis
lature appropriated $725.000 to be
| spread over a period of twenty vears
[’l"he money will be administered by
'a board which was given $25.000 to
Isp(‘nll in assisting soldiers to take
advantage of the offer during the first
two years. Similar appropriations are
now being considered by Legislatures
of other States,
An appropriation of $5.000,000 is
provided for loans to demobilized sol
I‘dh'rfl in a bill introduced into the
lowa Legislature. Under the bill, no
' soldier could borrow more than $2,000
and special provision was made to
encourage married soldiers to take
advantage of the offer,
HOME MOVEMENT IN DENVER.
Denver is one of several citieg now
in the midst of campaigns to “own |
your own home" and help reopening |
of building activities
One form of reconstruction work
connected with Americanization proj
| ects is illustrated in New Bedford,
Mass,, where cotton millers organized
Im teach English to all foreign born
residents
Michigan and Ohio were among the
first of the many Stateg that called
reconstruction congresses Women
I\ll‘!' represented equally with men on
a reconstruction board appointed by
the Governor of Michigan
‘ Governor Cox stole & move on
Ohlo's Congress by personal letters to
160 Mayors, asking their help in
creating a $1,000,000 fund for public
works to give work to the unem
ployed,
Twenty-five Ohio cities now have
Americanization programs
JOBS FOUND FOR SOLDIERS,
Job canvassing for returning dough.
boys was begun early in New York
ity, where merchants’ assoclations
combined to canvass all manufactur.
ers and list openings
Oregon's Legislature, as one of
many after the war measures, passed
v bill prohibiting the use ! only in
public but in private scho™ as well
of any language except glish in
general instruction. The how
ever, is not intended to prevent the
teaching of any necds foreign
language,
Pennsylvania's Legisiatur ApPPro
pritaed $60,000,000 for rosd bullding
to make work for unemploved Kirie,
Pa., undertook a bullding mulation
campaign and in Philadep! L poster
movement was begun to Wi agninst
seling war savings stamnie below
their face vahie Broker t was
found, were encowraging s I sales,
Baron Von Gerlach
Tells Germans Why
World Hates Them
heR
Declares Peace Dictated by Wilson Would
Have Been Acceptable, but That His
Hands Were Tied.
S o e
Former Under Secretary of State in the Ebert Cabinet.
BERLIN, June 14 —We have
hated; we hate; we are hated!
Hate among ourselves; hate of
other nations; shall there be no end
of hate?
1 took a trip to Thuringia the
other day. On the outgoing trip,
traveling third class, | met soldiers,
This was the substance of their
talk:
_“The revolution has not beén of
any benefit to us. Militarism is
still alive, Noske (the Minister of
National Defense) is a prisoner in
the hands of army officers. The
Government is B prisoner in the
handg of captalism. We poor dev
ils are still poor devils, Well, if it
can not be done otherwise, we shall
at least see to it that all others
will be poor devils, too. Of course,
this will mean the spilling of much
more blood.”
On the return trip I traveled sec
ond class and met many rich man
ufacturers of Central Germany.
Their view, as represented in their
conversation Was:
“The Government is too weak. It
hesitates too long before it orders
the soldiers to shoot and does not
give the orders often enough. Every
Russian whey agitates against our
Government should be shot. Every
communist, too, should be stood up
against a wall. But Schiedeman
does not dare, and Noske, whc
probably would like to do so, does
not permit it, Under William the
Secortd things were much better.”
LAYS DESOLATION TO HATE
AND FEAR.
Our plenipotentiaries went to
France. Slowly they traveled
through the desert which was once
the most fertile part of France,
It had been made a waste by our
ruthless methods of warfare. Hate
accompanied them; hate received
' them; hate has dictated the condi-
I tions of peace—hate and fear. Hate
i for a Germany that has become
pacifist only as a matter of op
portunism, but remains militarist
at the bottom of her heart,
Wilson is free from hatred against
us. A peace dictated by him should
be acceptable to every reasonable
German. But he had no free hand
in making his decisions. His hands
were tied by his allies, with whose
hate and fear he had to compro
mise. It was thus that the peace
treaty acquired a form so terrible
to us
What \N)nuidflr the greatest sin
of our Government is its failure to
tell our people the truth,
All the world knows that Ger
many caused the outbreak of the
world war; that we are responsible
for wilitarism in Europe; that in
July, 1914, we frustrated every at
tempt at coneiliation; that by al
lowing the Austrian ultimatum to
be sent to Serbia we applied the
torch to the gunpowder barrel; that
we based our declaration of war
against Prance upon false claims
and that by our breach of neutral
ity against Luxembourg and Hel
gium we proved ourselves to be
morally unscrupulous,
Only the German people—the vyt
majority of them—do not as yel
know this, They still believe that
fletion of an‘encircling poliey, of a
war forced upon us, of Belghum's
unneutral attitude,
WORLD KNOWS GERMANY IS
TO BLAME.”
Al the world knows that Cer.
many is to blame for the endless
prolougation of the war; that as
early as the spring of 1916 there
had” been an opportunity to open
negotintions with London, but that
our Foreign Office brusquely refused
to entertain the proposal made by
Dreeselhuyvs, of Holland; that in
1916 & decent peace could have been
made with the aid of President
Wilkon, but that we preferred to
promise a few American States to
Mexico and inaugurate an inten
sified submarine warfare; that in
the winter of 1917 a serious attemit
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Georgian Companwy )
to bring about negotiations for
peace could have been successful,
for Wilson's friends in Swlt?erland
plainly 'showed the way, but the
supreme command thought it could
I achieve final victory by its spring
offensive; that the Brest-Litovsk
peace made it plain to everybory
what sort of peace Germany was
seeking; that Germany never in
tended honestly to keep the promise
made to Belgium on August 4, 1914,
to right the wrong done.
It is only this misled majority of
the German people that still be
lieves that Germany always was a
lover of peace and that the other
nations were filled witl\ an unbrid
_led lust for war. : il
All the rest of the world knows
that the German army command
practised extreme ruthlessness, if
not inhumanity,
The fact remains, nevertheless,
that by sinking merchant and pas
senger ships by our submarines
witho,n warning we inaugurated an
especially hateful system in viola
tion of international law; that by
using poisonous gas and flame
throwers we set a very bad exam
ple; that hy our air attatks upon
open places in England, militarily
worthless, we created a sentiment
of hate among the English masses;
that by systematically devastating
the whole Somme region we incited
the whole French nation to send up
a unanimous shout for revenge;
that by bleeding white the territo
ries occupied by us and deporting
their populations we furnished a
semhblance & truth to the accusa
tion that we were robbers and
slave-drivers,
STILL BELIEVE WE ADHERED
. TO LAW.
But the majority of the German
people still believe that we con
fined ourselves to what was abso
lutely necessary from a military
standpoint; that we adhered serpu- |
lously to international law.
All the rest of the world knows
that German propaganda in for
elgn landg was more abominable
than anything ever heard of before;
~ that long before the United States
~ entered the war we misused our
| diplamtie office, committing all
forms of corruption and violence;
that we prostituted the inviolability
of diplomatic intercourse with neu
tral countries, such as Norway,
I Swedeg and Switzerland, for the
- purpose of smuggling explosives
and bacteria into enemy countries,
there to be used against our foes;
that we attempted to make traitors
of our Irish and other prisoners of
WAar,
Whoever knows only a part of the
sing committed by our former rulers
understands the world atmosphere
of hate surrounding us. But, as |
have pointed out, the majority of
the German people do not as yet
know of these erimes.
We need pacifism within as well
as without, We Germang must
learn to understand ourselves and
other nations as well, Hate is an
evil counsellor, Violence will al
wanys beget violence, The system
of Clemenceau or Noske will not
redeem the world any more than
the system of Tirpitz and Lnden
dorft,
Baron von Gerlach's condemna
tion of the militaristic policy which
has brought Germany to the brink
of ruin and earned for her the
hate of every nation has been re
celved with all the more attention
because he s not a Socialist or
radical agitator, but has been
known as an idealistic pacifist
throughout his career, . After the
- revolution last November he en
terad the Ebert Cabinet as Under-
Secrotary of State, When war
clouds arose on the Polish border
he was sent there and tried to pla
eate the threatening forces by the
use of reason and conciliation. A
I short time after that the militarist
and Pan-German influences forced
tis retirement,
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By JUSTIN)McGRATH,
Editorial Correspondent of The Sun=
day American.
WASHINGTON, June 14.—Signs of
a,new party alignment in the United
States muitiply. A third party in the
campaign of 1920 is not only a prob
ability, but seems inevitable. There
has not been so much politieal une
rest in the country since the free sile
ver campaign of 1896, Political unore
thodoxy is reappearing every day.
In the Senate vestefday Senatop
Borah threatened his Republican eol.
leagues with the formation of a new
party in the event that the Republi
can party indorsed the league of na
tions covenant or remained silent on
that issue.
Senator Reed, of Missouri, the lead.
ing Demoecratic oOpponent of the cov
enant, took occasion to criticize and
condemn the chairman of the Demo
cratic National Committee and Mr,
Tumulty, secretary to the President,
for “committing the Democeratie party
to ihe league of nations, although the
treaty has not yet been given to the
Ameriean people.”
REED TAKES FIRM STAND,
Senator Reed has not yet said that
he will desert the Democratie party
if the leaguesof nations covenant sis
| ratified, but among his colleagues it
is understood that he does not intend
to cease his opposition after the Sen
ate's fina! action. He also is believed
to be ready for a third party move
ment it it shall turn out that the third
party shall prove to be the only way
in which opposition to favoring the
league of nations policy in the United
States ean be made effoctive,
| Senators Johnson and Poindexter,
on the Republican side, and Gore,
Thomas, Shields and Myers (Mon
tana), on the Demoecratie side, alse
have been so strongly opposed to the
league of natlons ecovenant that it
may be difficult for them to preserve
their party allegianee if the cam
paign of 1920 should turn upon that
issue .
OWNERSHIP CHIEF ISSUE.
Podtical unrest is not due solely to
the 'muv of nations issue, There
are other issues which are luring Sen.
ators and Congressmen away from -
their old party camp grounds. Prin
eipal among these is the issue of Gove
ernment ownership
Postmaster General Burleson's de
cision to return the telegraph lines to
private ownership; Director of Rail
roads Hines' disposition to return the
raflroads to their private owners;
Chalrman Hurley's recommendation
that the Government's steel-built
merchant marine fleet be sold to prie
vate Individuals, and President Wil
son's seeming acquiescence in all
these plans of his subordinates te
take from the control (s the Gov
ernment all those privalle utilities
which it was found necessary for the
Government to operate during the
war, have caused great dissatisface
tion among those who believe in pube
lic ownership of publie utilities and
think that the soundness of their con«
victions on this subject is proven by
the experiences of the war
PARTY TIES LOOSENED.
The Republican party, of course,
will not commit itself to Government
ownership, and the Democratie party
scems to be drifting away from It
Therefore those who belleve In ¢
must find some other party medium
of expression. A union between some
of the league of nations opponents
ind the ndvocates of public ownership
i« a politieal probability, It might
"'”,,_\,. a formidable political combina«
tion. The appeal of such a combina«
tion, of course, would be to give the
Government of the United States
more power instead of, taking away
from it, through the I'oulut of nae
tions, some of the powers ““’h"
possessos