TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT, OCTOBER 16. 1919
aside in the heat of the hustings and
the bitterst campaign this country
has ever seen would be sure to follow.
In the present state of the public
I mind, such a campaign ought not .o
[be, but the time for placing the re
sponsibility for delayed peace is
right now and it ought not to be for
gotten.—Gazette Times.
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Shameful Story Must Be A Shock To
The Nation.
(From The Kansas City Star)
I In spite of previous bitter exper
ience, the Nation cannot fail to be
¡founded and shocked over the ae
on of the War Department in re
leasing Joseph Brandon, the leader
of the conscientious objectors at
Camp Funston. The shameful story
was told in The Star yesterday after
noon.
Bramlon was one of the foremost
of the defiant and disloyal band who
if they had their way, would have
turned over their country to the foe.
The administration went the limit in
catering to the eccentricities of these
men. It did not ask them to fight.
All it required was that they perform
noncombatant duty.
The religious conscientious objec
tors accepted this policy in good
faith. The Reds refused and did
everything possible to make them
selves obnoxious and to destroy dis
cipline. Brandon’s offense was so
conspicuous that he was sentenced to
death by court-martial, then his
sentence was redeed by the com
manding general to twenty-five years
imprisonment, and by the President
to five yars. His conduct during his
brief imprisonment was intended to
show his contempt for the govern
ment. He even disregarded the com
mon decencies of life.
After he had been sentenced to
death and his sentence commuted he
wrote: “From what little news we
get, we almost go crazy for joy when
we read or hear that the red flag Is
rapidly waving over more and more
territory in Europe.’’
And this is the man wrho is singled
out for release after a few months of
confinement! The only thing lacking
is the failure of the government to
provide him with transportation to
Boston to take part In addressing the
mobs there.
Do the President and the Secretary
¡fire set by a mob intent on securing ¡found that an agreement had been of War really consider an attempt
[a negro prisoner to put him to death, ¡unanimously made by the repr.esenta- to strike down the government while
j You haven’t heard of any Western jtives at the peace conference, includ- It is fighting for its life so trifling
Those parts of Canada which ad i people acting so much like savages. ing our own delegates (who had been an offense? Do they wish to impress
opted daylight saving will follow the I We are too civilized for that kind of left to conduct our affairs in the on the country that disloyalty is of
piesident’s absence), to perfect a no consequence? Or why do they
example of the United States and (stuff oui here.—Itemizer.
preliminary peace with Germany to follow the policy defined by Secre
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abolish summer time on October 26.
The Canadian government refused to
The Independent is not the only take effect March 21. This prelimi tary Baker as “doing all that public
legalize daylight saving, and the gen paper to “rare” on its hind legs over nary peace included all military, opinion will stand in the interest of
eral opinion is that it will not be the silly anti-cigarette law which naval, economic and geographical .conscientious objectors?”
adopted next year.—Telephone Reg may be on the ballot at the 1920 terms—everything that could in any I We should be unfaithful to those
ister.
election. Our namesake, the Wood way effect the immediate welfare, [who have died in France, says the
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burn Independent, comments thusly peace and prosperity of the world. It President, if we do not adopt his
As surely as two and two make on the proposed measure; "An at- was in effect, the final peace treaty ¡League of Nations. So it Is untaith-
four, unless Oregon restores the tempt will be made to abollsh the exclusive of the league of nations : till to those who have died to stand
death penalty as applicable to the cigarette—the little comfort that covenant. According to Mr. Simonds, I fast for Americanism, but it is
fiends who assault women and chil went with the boys through the there had been no difference of opin unfaithful to give countenance to
dren, the primal sense of outrage trenches and the war. If the fadtid- ion among the peace delegates in ar- 'men who tried to destroy what
that fills the breasts of fathers and ious ones who do not smoke cigar- riving at their conclusion, and no were fighting for.
mothers of this state will vent itself ettes and do not want others to do so feeling among the American dele-
In mob lawlessness and mob crime. are successful in passing the initiat gates that the action was intended
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Why A League of Nations.
Our civil officers may pay the penal ive law. they will next endeavor to do to or would defeat the league of na
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tions,
or
was
In
any
way
intended
to
ty of upholding the law by laying away with all tobacco, then will
The total cost to England of the
down their own lives to save the curs come the injurious coffee and finally evade the issue even temporarily.
Napoleonic wars is estimated at $4-
The
sole
idea
was
to
end
the
war,
whose lives are protected by our Ore poisoning tea. But >ve are glad this
050,142,500. Practically the debt han
gon amendment forbidding the death question of abolishing cigarettes is stop the growing unrest in Europe, not yet been paid, and it is estimated
coming up at the next election. It | ¡enable the belligerent countries to
penalty.—The Sentinel.
[demobolize their armies, and get back that 57,500,000,000 has been paid in
will, It is oplnloned, be defeated, but '
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Ito work at the earliest possible mo interest thereon during the century
The stories in the bible are to be it will be the means of bringing vot ment without awaiting the discus that enormous debt has run.
filmed. If the right kind of scenario ers to the polls that would not even sion and decision of important feat
During the Boer war the British
writer takes charge of the matter come to vote on the Presidency of ures of the world constitution.
debt rose to 53.999,000,000 sweeping
there will be nothing more interest the United States. It will be an invi
Upon the arrival of President Wil away in three years of war tne sav
ing ever seen on the screen. There is tation for a full vote—the greatest son, Mr. Simonds said, he abruptly ings of 36 years of peace.
no more heart stirring romance any ever polled in the state of Oregon. I and imperatively vetoed the proposed
During and following the war of
where in literature than can be The thousands who generally re ¡program. The world will remember 1812, we will say from 1807 to 1821
found in the bible. They contain, ex main away will be there without fail. that M. Pichon had issued a state the interest on our nation's debt ran
Independent.
citement, mystery, intrigue, love,
ment to the effect that this peace more than $40,000,000; as the result
comedy, tragedy and historical set-
agreement had been reached. Mr. of the Mexican war, from 1841 to
tings unexcelled. All that is needed
Who Delayed Peace ?
Wilson issued a statement denying 1853, the interest totaled more than
to bring these things to tlie attention
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that any such agreement had been 522,000,000; civil war, from 1856 to
of the public is proper filming of the
more
than $670,000,000;
Senators who have grown personal reached or would be permitted. He 1871,
connected stories. -Gazette-Times.
and bitter toward President Wilson, [thereby assumed responsibility for Spanish-American war from 1893
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even those of his own party, can [continuing a technical state of war. it0 1904 more than $300,000,000 and
The people are holding the Wilson hardly be blamed, for they know so delajing the return of American I for five years preceding the world
democracy In large numeis responsi much more of what has been going j‘roops to the United States and a pro- 'war just closed, that is from 1912 to
ble fot present conditions and the on in government circles than the longation of the vast expense con- 1916, inclusive, the interest on our
people are justified in so doing. Mis average newspaper reader, that it is nected with the maintenance of a debt totaled more than$114,182,575.
..'hen the world's debt has grown
management of war industries oper a wonder that they do not rise in ¡large body of troops on foreign soil.
year from $41,236,800,000 to
ated by tlie government or financed their righteous indignation put coun i If Mr. Simonds was coriect, and in <
more or less by the national treasury try above party as Senators Tho'. p- Ibis statement of the facts was never [app.o:. lately $200.000,000,000, and
wus so general as to lie a disgraceful son, Reed and a few others have denied even by the New York Times I when most of that large sum rests on
scandal. The latest of these scandals done, and tell the people tlie whole |or the New York World, is it not only a few nations, isn’t it about
comes from Fort Deleware, where truth, That they should permit party [perfectly fair to draw the conclusion time to call a halt? Has Borah,
the government was mulcted to the politics, to silence them and even to hat Mr. Wilson made the peace and Johnson or Lodge stopped to think
tune of fourteen millions for a plant Join with the yellow press in de safety of the World a secondary mat ¡that the annual interest charge of
which should have cost about one nouncing their fellow senators is an ter to his desire to have a personal this world’s debt has grown from
tenth of that sum and which is now outrage that history only will dem- |trfun|ph over the U. S. Senate by $2.000,000,000 lo 510,000,000,000?
What great good may be accom-
I weaving, as he threatened to do, the
worth little or nothing except junk. oust rate.
That is the way the money went.
Take the question of the delayed covenant so thoroughly with the plished by the payment of this $10,-
That Is the reason why government peace. Everybody of course wishes treaty that it could not be extricat-^00.000,000 annually if spent for im
taxes are high, why a level Is placed that the peace treaty business was ed? Shortly after this Norman E. proving mankind instead of destroy
on every conceivable article and why properly settled and out of the way. 'Mack. Democratic National Commit ing it.
people believe they are robbed to There Is so much domestic legislation teeman. announced that if the senate I The average American, and the
make good wholesale profiteering in that cannot be attended to until it is. refused to ratify tho treaty with the senate in particular, of late years
war
contracts
Umpqua
Valley But it is monstrously unfair to blame covenant, it would be the basis of a has been too prone to look askance
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the senate for the delay even if those third term candidacy on the part of at war without giving thought to
senators who are patriotically trying Mr. Wilson. Newspaper men on the the consequences. We of late have
Those eastern and middle states to Amerlcaftize the treaty were whol recent tour with the president did ¡been thinking, talking and acting in
people ought to come out west and ly wrong. It Is known in Europe and not hesitate to say that they felt that millions, and regarding th<' questions
absorb a little enllghtnient and civil it is known in congress and it is the circuit of the country was being [most vital to the republic oo lightly.
We believe in fair pl: . Why not
ization. It would do them good and known by all diligent readers who made to feel out public sentiment on
give the league a trial?—Denver
make them more useful to their haven't short memories, that the the third term proposition.
We sincerely hope that the presi I Times.
home communities. In fact, they President himself refused to permit
might be able to make their sections peace with Germany and defused as dent found that the third term can
Washington Post: "Senators
decent and fit to live In. The expert- long ago as last March and over the didacy would be foolish. We hope so,
ences of Boston durlng the recent protests of the other signatories to not because we have any fear that are opposed to the peace treaty in its
he would be elected, for we do not present form are now convinced that
police strike, th* outrages, the rob- the treaty.
In a Parts cablegram, published in believe that there is the slightest they have won their fight for reser
belles. and everything else that wa
bad which transpired there recently this country March 19. and dated nt possibility, but we hope so for the I vations which will make the position
is fresh in
our
minds.
Now Paris March 17. Frank Simonds, a reason that the bitter feeling that t of the United states plain to the
comes riots and shooting and killings man not unfriendly to the President, the campaign would endanger would world and will leave no room for fu
In the eastern steel strike, and in a correspondent for the New York be a bad thing for the country. The ture misunderstanding. In this view
various other states lynching and Times, a Democratic paper, and a press and the senate have been won they are corroborated by practically
mob violence and defiance of law and man not unfriendly to the president's derfully restrained in their express all the Democratic Senators; in fact,
order. At Omaha an attempt was conservatism, stated that when Presi ion of the president owing to the re almost unanimously ,by the support
made to lynch the mayor and the dent Wilson returned to Paris from spect they have for his high office, ers of the treaty with the notable ex
court house was nearly destroyed by his short trip to the United States, he That restraint would be thrown ception of President Wilson himself.’
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