Show 3 M Love Song r 0 f By Will Lou I I My love is like lite a a. habit-forming habit drug drug drug- Like Lik whisky th that t heartens a man Dike opium that brings bring sweet dreams Like small beer boor for foran an idle moment Like champagne at a banquet J rol Like c P una o on tho the deacons deacon's shelf 1 A I f r bottle bottlo of wine trine at a picnic I. I 1 Like mm rum before the battle rL My My love is like a a. formin babit-formin habit forming drug g fa f r f c e one wie e has the m more r on one wa wants ts f fv v i In In New cy York r Trib Tribune n Y J L 4 l v x- x it r TILe The Pilgrim Celebrations T has heretofore been made in these columns columns col- col R REFERENCE to the series of celebrations to take tako place this year ear in commemoration o ot of historic events connected with the pilgrims from Holland o of their sailing for America of the signing of or the tho Mayflower compact and of their landing on tho New England coast years ellS ago The honor of suggesting these celebrations comes from the institution which maintains Sulgrave manor the ancestral English homo home of the Washington family as a 3 place of pilgrimage for Americans and more than forty other societies and national organizations have joined in this S appeal which deserves cs the attention and support of all who value American institutions and the basic basie principles of American development dc Frequent recurrence of fundamental principles is a safeguard to the nation at all times but particularly when these principles arc being challenged by alien ilien ideas and insidious propaganda Tho fathers of this republic are arc frequently extolled as having better than they know when they set up a government deriving its just powers from the consent of the gO governed and when the they declared that governments go long established established should not b changed for lor light and transient causes One of the fundamentals of the American system gS g'S tem tern is the right of the majority to rule Liberty and the free freo association of men to protect prote t their rights right of person person person per per- son and property and to sustain and enforce the rule of the majority arc are being assailed by a new nosy and dangerous I cult whose leaders teach a doctrine of minority absolutism absolutism absolutism ism to be set up and maintained by force They deny the right of lh the tho majority to control control even even en if that majority is the common people or prole proletariat They hold that the masses are not intelligent enough to govern themselves cs and must submit to a dictator who will give them what they want instead of what they think they want That belief is the inspiration of the present revolutionary re movement in the United States Its theory is that democracy must be destroyed in order that autocratic auto auto- cratie cratic minorities may have haye their way The Tho object son to which we are arc asked to turn our eyes is the thc soviet system which obtains in Russia The propagandists in inthis inthis in inthis this country point with pride to conditions under Lenine and from which men with any my spark of American Amen Ameri can cm manhood and love of country recoil with horror American progress for years has been heen based on a gradual broadening of the principle that the m majority shall hall rule with due respect to the primary rights of the individual Our forefathers fought for that principle and md made it the keystone of the arch of our liberties If n necessary their descendants will fight for it again It is still the American faith and it will not be surrendered for a n. miserable atrocious letting blood-letting property property- destroying destroying- experiment of the new disciples of sabotage e and red ruin It is a 1 good time to recall American history and aud ideals to refresh our faith to strengthen our zeal to renew renew renew re re- re- re new our allegiance to basic principles and aid to celebrate the incidents which fj figured cd in the breeding and birth of our Americanism Repeal of Pro Prohibition A A. A to Arthur Scars Henning Hennin the Washington Washing Washing- ton correspondent there has been boon a checking up of prospective wet strength by both hoth Democratic and Republican Republican Republican Re Re- publican leaders within the last week with th the result that the foes of prohibition have been advised their case caso is hopeless so far as the presidential contest is concerned It was the Democratic convention which was looked to chiefly by the the wets as likely to adopt a I. I wine and beer heer plank The Democratic up check showed that only sixteen of tho the six fifty-six members of tho the resolutions committee at nt San Francisco would bo ho in favor of a wet plank if they represent the prevailing sentiment sentiment sent senti senti- senti ment mont of their stat states s. s It is therefore announced that Chairman Cummings who will be the temporary chairman chair r- r man maD will refrain from striking any keynote favorable to tho the wets Democratic leaders havo have also urged the to lay off warning them that if they persist they will surely spur tho the prohibitionists to force h a tl dry dry plank The canvass by Republican an leaders showed that the wets wets would be he even weaker at Chicago than at San Francisco It looks very cry much like prohibition has bas come como to stay at at least until it has a a. fair trial as a great national re re- form The advocates of repeal of the Eighteenth amendment and the act arc like the frogs in tho the meadow The They make a lot of noise but there are arc not so many of them The London Incident W WHILE BILE UThE the breaking up of the first nights night's perV performance per per- per per-I V of J. J Hartley Manners Manner's play A A Night in Rome in the Garrick theatre London is not likely to cause war between England and the United States it has caused a great sensation and the motive moti for it aft after r nearly a week remains a mystery Miss Laurette Taylor the American actress against whom the demonstration was supposed to have ha been aimed was at first inclined to return home but has bas relented relented relented re re- re- re and is not only continuing to pack her houses but is apparently the object ct of much solicitude and sympathy from every quarter in Whether inspired inspired in inspired in- in by a personal grudge against the manager Mr Ir Cochrane or intended as an anti American wt demonstration tion the action of the hostile gallery in breaking up the evenings evening's performance is bound to o create ill feeling feeling feeling feel feel- ing in and out of tho the profession The Tho Pall Pail Mall fall Gazette says II The The event e is doubly I regrettable from the fact that the play was an Amerie American Amer Amer- ie jean ican n play in which a distinguished American actress played the leading part These facts will bo be exploited I I in the United States by our enemies and at such a moment moment mo mo- I ment anything which helps to embitter tho relationship relationship relation relation- ship between the two countries is deeply to be deplored We Ve do not believe however that there is any ground for suspecting that the disturbance has any international international significance American citizens will bo be glad of the assurance that there is no international significance to bo ho attached to tho the of a L London theatre gallery We Ve see seo it all now now It is necessary for members of Congress with their families to visit the islands of the tIle Pacific in order to learn what effect playing the tho ukulele has on tho the high cost of living Who will pour water on tho the troubled oil refiners 7 |