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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 191.
COURAGE AND COMMON SENSE.
The bill recently introduced in con
gress providing for the deportation of
interned alien enemies is a good be
ginning. It Is a bill with incisors, but
it lacks molars. A dainty little peck
at this alien enemy business is not
enough. Deportation of a small and
relatively insignificant group of Ger
mans who were caught with the goods
is not enough. Like much American
legislation this bill does not go to the
root of the trouble. A group of even
more dangerous alien enemies, made
in Germany and finished in Russia, is
operating in America today. They are
conspiring against our institutions
and hoping to loot our country. We
are not so short of tonnage that we
cannot spare some for them. One
shipload of Bolshevik agitators start
ed home for Russia via Siberit and a
second shipload started home for Ger
many would end the whole business.
. Has congress the courage and the
common sense to act? In the past il
has usually been more given to catch
ing a snake alive and counting itf
rattles and trying to tame it, than tc
stamping on its head. This is not
however, a domestic snake, but one o:
til® well-known German viper family
We should have learned by this tim<
not to play with that breed.
Courage and common sense woulc
have prevented almost every evil witi
which we are contending today, il
little simple root legislation passec
when the problems were young woulc
have done what a multitude of repres
sive laws have since been powerless
to effect. These measures were sc
obvious that they were not statesman
ship—only common sense.
The need for drastic legislation tc
restrict immigration has been appar
ent for some time. Congress finallj
passed a law that requires the would
be immigrant to tell how far he has
progressed in the Second Reader 01
something equally searching. If i
had decided to be real nasty it woulc
doubtless have prescribed an examin
ation in the new dance steps.
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that there arc not enough of them ant
that the rank and file do not makt
themselves decisively heard in mat
ters of leegislation. They believe ii
their country and thair institution!
with all their hearts, and are inclinec
to let it go at that. Of late years, too
they have been in danger of beinf
overwhelmed by a mass of undigestec
aliens. True, a large number of thest
foreigners are good material for citi
■zenship, but they have poured It tot
fast for proper assimilation. Ant
while they are in a transition statf
from the customs, methods and Instl
tutions of the Old World to those 01
the New, speaking English imperfect
ly or not at all, they are easily misled
and preyed on by dishonest dema
gogues and agitators. One of thi
great tasks ahead of our generation h
the teaching of our ideals and ou:
language to these men. If we let- ii
a new flood of foreigners before wi
do this the melting pot will end up ai
a garbage pail.
Among Americans there is no rea
Bolshevik sentiment. The stuff is al
made in Germany and exported to u
via Russia. The newspapers play u;
every happening that can possibly b
given a Bolshevik head, exactly a
they would a mysterious murder or
hot-story divorce, and for the sam
reason. It is abnormal, un-Amerlca
and sensational. But it Is the new
fad of the hour, like a Thaw trial, t
which the papers send sob-sister
specialists in emotion and “bl
names.” For a certain part of th
public are morbidly interested in Be
shevikism, as they are in the laiei
; murderer and his crime. Man
psychopathic women affect a mil
form of it os they would any Strang
cult that promised diversion and ex
citement.
The only real field for Bolshevism
in America i3 among the ignorant and
halt-assimilated foreign-born; our
only danger from it is in permitting
its alien-enemy leadership to operate
among tho credulous and the vicious.
The cure is courage and common
sense. The same simple home pre
scription will take us through the re
construction period to a better and
stronger America.
No one but a fool will shut his eyes
to the faults of our democracy or de
ny that many grave abuses exist in
our country. The American conten
tion is simply that no other system
yet devised by man has given so much
peace, prosperity and happiness to a
nation than ours, and that none holds
out so much promise for the future.
America has been a good place to live
in; it must be a better one in the fu
ture. To make it so is our job, and
we must go about it with courage and
American common sense, not with pes
simism and Russo-German theories.
We want prosperity in America, but
not swollen fortunes. We want big
rewards for men who do big construc
tive things, and jail sentences for the
big fellows who steal the fruits of
their work and the savings of small
investors. There have been alto
gether too many mavericks loose on
the range, sucking cows on which they
had no claim. There would be no real
railroad mess, no necessity for trying
to pare down wages in basic indus
tries, if there had been no banker con
trol and no flagrant watering of the
stock of these corporations. For this
reason, if for no other, reductions in
high dividends must precede reduc
tions in high wages during the adjust
ment period.
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one who is talking about liquidating
labor, but the one who is sharpening
his pencil in order to figure out a way
to keep wages up. The reactionary
business man must get it clearly in
his head that the country is not inter
ested in speeding up business in order
that he may have a new motor, or a
new country house and a flock of foot
men, but that the whole mass or
Americans may move up to a higher
plane of living and self-respect. He
must be satisfied with a fair but a
smaller share of the profits. Labor
must not only be kept employed but
well paid. Courage and common sense
will do it—courage to go ahead, to ex
pand, and to bet on the country that
has never failed the man who be
lieved in it—common sense to under
stand that no prosperity is worth
while that is based on the exploitation
: of others, and that no gains will be
lasting that are not fairly divided.
America is big and rich and she has
been able to stand a lot of damned
nonsense, but this is not the time for
any sort of nonsense from either Bol
sheviki or Reactionaries. And one of
the best symptoms of the times is the i
determination of intelligent and for
ward-looking business men to stand
• for a square deal. We have passed a
library of laws trying to stop the
i growth of evils, but not to stop the
evils. At this very minute we are
lifting the restrictions that safe-guard
ed small investors during the war—in
effect saying to the wolves: "There
are the sheep; they are fine and fat;
help yourselves.” We might as well
repeal the health laws while we are
about it.
We have been very busy trying to
i save the world—a laudable enterprise,
but a large -contract. Let us by all
means try to help our neighbors, but
■ incidentally let us try to help our
selves. Every paper, every speech is
i full of references to our debt to
Britain, our debt to France, our debt
to Belgium, until it looks as if we owe
everybody and nobody owes us. But
in remembering these multitudinous
debts we need not altogether forget
• our debt to America. We can pay it
i with a little courage and common
sense at this time.—Saturday Evening
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WHERE MEETING
IS PLANNED FOR
REFACTIONS
The National Geographic society,
from its Washington headquarters,
has issued the following bulletin con
cerning the Princes’ island, in the Sea
of Marmora, where the warring fac
tions of Russia have been asked to
send delegates for a conference at
which it is hoped the internal dissen
sions in the vast Slav dominions can
be composed.
“It would seem that the peace con
ference in Paris may have had the
number of the Princes’ islands in
mind as well as their geographical
location when they named as the place
of meeting on February 15 for the
warring factions in Russia. There are
nine islands—enough for each group
of delegates to have an Island to tnem
selves should such a course of segre
gation prove expedient.
Near Turkey’s Capital.
“The islands lie from ten to fifteen
miles southeast of Constantinople,
near the Asiatic shore. Four of them
are inhabited and the largest of the
group, Prlnkipo (also called Pityusa,
meaning rich in pines) has a popula
tion of more than 10,000, Turks and
Greeks being about equal in number.
“The islands in modern times have
been popular as summer resorts,
owing to the salubrity of their climate
and their proximity to the Turkish
capital.
"Few islands have a history more
poignant with tragedy, with high
hopes and shattered dreams, with dia
bolical machinations of empire wreck
ers and makers than these few square
miles of earth washed by the waters
of the Marmona. Their very name is
significant of their past, for in the
days of the Byzantine empire they
wore the retreats, either forced or
voluntary, of princes and princesses
who had fallen into disfavor at the
nearby court.
Of Historic* Renown.
“Each island of the group could tell
its own story of famous exiles. None .
is more pathetic, however, than that
of Proti as the prison of the deposed
emperor, Romanus IV., called ptog
enes. The life of this ruler reads like
one of the fictitious romances of Cleo
patra’s days. He was a distinguished
young soldier, descended from a Cap
padocian family. Having been impli
cated in a conspiracy to depose his
sovereign, Constantine IV., he was
condemned to be executed for treason.
While being led to his death, accord
ing to one account, he caught the eye
of the empi’ess regent, Eudocia Ma
crembolitisss., who instantly fell in
love with him, granted him a pardon
and shortly thereafter married him.
After his coronation as emperor he
led three successful expeditions
against the Seljuk Turks, his fourth
campaign, against Alp Arslan, was a
disastrous failure.
“Compelled to pay a large ransom
for his release, Romanus returned
home, to be defeated at the hands of
a pretender to the throne. Blinded,
he spent his few remaining days of
abject misery imprisoned in a mon
astery on the highest point of Proti.
“On the island of Antigone, the
great patriarch Methodius spent seven
years of his life, imprisoned with two
brigands.
“On Prlnldpc, which is now dotted
with fine residences and gardens, the
traveler is shown the ruins of a con
vent in which eleven centuries ago
the remarkable woman, Empress
Irene I, was Imprisoned for a time. A
poor but beautiful orphan of Athens,
Irene married Emperor Leo iv and
soon became the true ruler of the
Byzantine empire. Upon the death of
her husband, she assumed the reins
of government for her 10-year-old son,
Constantine VI. For a decade her
reign was distinguished by firmness
and wisdom. Then began the conflict
with her ambitious /on, which term
inated In the greatest blot upon her
career, the capture of the fleeing
youth, his return to Constantinople,
where, by his mother’s orders, his
eyes were gouged out. It would seem
that the ancients had good cause to
Interpret an eclipse of the sun which
ook place about this time as a sign
>f heaven’s horror at such a deed.
"Another famous prisoner of Prin
dpo was Zoe, the wife of three em
jerors—Romanus III, Michael IV and
Constantine IX.
Bulwer’s Castle.
"One of the moet populous of the
slands is Halki (also spelled Chalcitis
uid Khalki) where there are a naval
college and theological college. A
Creek commercial school occupies the
dte of an ancient monastery. At the
entrance to the school is the tomb
done of Sir Edward Barton, English
imbassador to Turkey during the
-oign of Queen Elizabeth.
“On the island of Plate the peace
lelegates will find a castle, built after
;he model of Windsor castle. It is
dow falling into decay. Once it was
the summer residence of Sir Henry
Bulwer (the famous author or the
Clayton-Bulwer treaty of American
History) when he wa3 British ambas
sador at Constantinople. Upon his re
tirement, the one-time British am
Hassador at Washington sold the
island to the Khedive of Egypt, whose
iamily still owned it at the outbreak
>f the world war.” !
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RUSSIA A WORLD PROBLEM.
Russia in 1917 had a population of
178,378,000. or approximately sixteen
:o the square mile.
Seven hundred and seventy-one of
svery 1,000 were peasants.
One hundred and seven of every
1,000 were city people.
Fifteen out of every 1,000 were
noblemen and members of the gentry.
Five out of every 1,000 were clergy.
Seventy-five per cent were farmers.
Ten per cent were in industrial pur
suits.
Four and a half per cent were do
mestics.
Three and a half per cent were in
Eommercial pursuits.
Of every 1,000 soldiers, 611 were
Illiterate.
Four per cent of the population of
Russia attended public schools, as
compared with 20 per cent in the
United States. _
About 65 per cent of the entire
population of Russia was illiterate as
compared with seven per cent in the
United States.
More than 100 languages are spoken
in Russia.
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