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Show THE CITIZEN WAS HE A 7 1IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIU By F. P. Gallagher and TF Joseph Caillaux, A one of the most brilliant statesmen of France, is convicted of treason ex-premi- er - Americans will inevitably draw a parallel between his career and the careers of Benedict Arnold and Aaron Burr. Caillaux is suspected of being of France and should the arch-traithe be executed even the sinister fame of Bolo Pasha will lose some of its baleful lustre. Like Burr, the French statesman, gained a popularity which seemed to clothe him about with magic and pro: tect him from the slings and arrows The new of outrageous fortune. France regards him with more or less indifference, although he has many devoted followers who live with him in the sorcery of his past. or t UR school books used to point with overwhelming force to the bad example of Benedict Arnold. A brilliant and brave soldier, beloved by his men,' admired by the great Washington, hated by the British for. his skill that so often turned their best plaiis awry, he was by way of becoming, next to the Father of his country, the chief figure in the formative days of the American Republic. In him were all the qualities of brain and heart needed to elevate him above most of the military leaders of his time, hut he was vulnerable, like Achilles, in one spot. He loved to live opulently, to drink and gamble and to attain the goal of his ambition by leaps and hounds. His wife, was no less addicted to the paths of pleasure and glory. She pampered his weaknesses and inflamed him to resentment when his ambitions were not realized as quickly as they both desired. ' One of the charges against Arnold 5was that he sold army supplies to ob- tain money to satisfy his own proclivities toward gambling and those of his wife toward fine clothes and social bedazzlement. In Philadelphia the British general was kept informed by his agents and came to know of this American general who possessed all the attributes of greatness except moral stamina. Briefly, British gold corrupted the American general and he betrayed iis country. Fleeing to England, he escaped American justice, but Nemesis was forever on his' trail. Wher ever he went he was ostracized by There honorable men and women. . was ho place in all the civilized woTld where he might obtain peace, for wherever he went his secret soon was known. A ARON BURR long deceived, his countrymen as Caillaux has done the people of France. Even at this day some writers have succumbed to the spell of Burrs personality and have tried to rehabilitate him before the world, but with ill success. Like Caillaux, he was a master of oratory and the ingratiating ways of the demagogue. Like Caillaux he was able, spectacular and magnetic. 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Caillaux, with a revolver concealed under her cloak, visited the editor, was admitted to his office on the pretext that she wished to present her husbands side of the case and, when opportunity offered, she sent bullet after bullet crashing into the body of her victim.' Caillaux was suspected of complicity in this murder enterprise, but he stood by his wife with a show of chivalry and honor which won admiring sympathy for both of them. It was what 4he French would call a beau geste and Caillaux was versed in the art of dramatic attitudinizing. Acquitted and restored to the man she had won from his first wife, Mme. Caillaux became a heroine in those Parisian circles where beauty, cleverness, brilliancy and accomplishments count for more than moral worth. There are decisive reasons why your choice of a phonograph should be the Sonora. Plays all makes of disc records without extra attachments. Won highest score for tone quality at the Panama-Pacifi- c Exposition. 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But the was the chief instrumentality of the Germans for the spreading of that memory of that mild faults is swallowed up today in the accusations that defeatist propaganda which 'was de- signed to wreck France from within Frances destiny. j j Insurance Of All Kinds It was the world she and her husband DANCING IPOIR , : 4 f I- before the United States could muster an army on the western battle front. We gasp as we run across narratives that reveal to us how close Germany came, time and again, to win- ning the war. It seems to us that just a little more pressure here or there on the battle line, just a few more tricks of propaganda at., the (Continued on Page 9.) |