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Show THE CITIZEN methods of various kinds, and to all third degree, to strong-arme- d d officers could the cruelties that the imagination of The British simplified the problem by shooting the suggest. first time that the league has failed to function in accord with its constitution. It will be remembered that the South American countries, with a thoughtlessness that was amazing, fell over one another, so to speak, to join the league. Among the ' Signatories were Chile, Peru and Bolivia. About the middle of last March a mob attacked the legation of Peru in the city of La Paz, Bolivia. Instantly there was created a situation which sent a thrill of alarm through the neighboring country of Chile. Thinking that the country was menaced the Chileans began to mobilize their troops. The Bolivians and Peruvians, when they saw that their neighbor was getting ready to fight, let it be known that they planned military mobilizations at the borders. The situation had become so explosive that everyone looked for war. Although the three countries belonged to the league of nations, which President Wilson has told us will prevent wars, not one of .the governments made any appeal to the league and, so far as any of us are aware, it never occurred to them to seek the leagues Nor is this S the; hard-boile- offenders. If the torture chamber had been reserved for sulkers and the voice of bitter complaint would not be heard in the land, but there has been testimony before the congressional committee to show that men legitimately on leave were arrested and mercilessly beaten. Some of them were given no chance to explain. They were held without charges and shared the fate that befell the dodgers and criminals. Manifestly General Harts lived in the midst of these horrors and there is but one conclusion to draw that he not only approved of them but sanctioned them. duty-dodge- rs THE MESSAGE OF MICHIGAN -- congratulate the people of Michigan on turning from the ignorant idealism and puerile pacifism of Henry Ford to the Americanism of Hiram Johnson, was the inspiring and chivalric message which Senator Moses, Washington manage- - of General Woods campaign, sent to the people of Michigan folic wing the presidential primary. In a few words Senator Moses has promulgated a genuine national platform. The coming contest is to be one between Americanism and all those puerile policies, whether of pacifism or internationalism, which are sapping the vitality of American patriotism. What we need, more than anything else in our country, is a check upon those decadent doctrinaires who are injecting hypodermic doses of insidious poisons into the veins of America. The pacifism years' process of enfeeblement began with a namby-pamb- y ago and. during and after the war, developed into a no less namby-pamb- y internationalism, in which we find mingled Bolshevism, socialism and an ignorant idealism which would sacrifice the United States to the craft of Europe. The rivalry between General Wood and Hiram Johnson is having a good effect because it is serving to clarify sentiment and opinion. It is helping the people to understand that Americanism versus internationalism is the issue, and the issue, as we have pointed out, is .not merely a dispute about the league of nations, but runs the entire gamut from imperialism to Bolshevism. There is nothing pacifistic about either Hiram Johnson or General Wood and both of them have set their faces sternly against a sentimentality which would surrender the rich heritage of our republic for sops thrown to us by European foes or flatterers. It ought not to be necessary to say that neither General Wood nor Senator Johnson is militaristic, but the cry has been raised in the case of General Wood because he has advocated universal training. Needless to say, that cry is a phase of the U. S. SOLDIERS TORTURED d American fears that any warp and woof contest. No That a system of torture was employed to force American of militarism will be woven by any candidate the Republican convention may name. soldiers in Paris back to the front was the tacit admission of .Gen-erHarts, former commander of the American troops in the Paris arbitrament. The president did not wait for the league to operate. He wisely concluded that the three nations would be in the midst of war before the league could begin to function and he stepped into the breach. On March 17 the American ambassador in Chile, complying with instructions from our state department, informed the Chilean minister of foreign affairs that the government of the United States had informed the Bolvian government that it viewed with the gravest apprehension the attack by the mob and deplored any agitation tending to imperil peace. The ambassador was further instructed to inform the Chilean minister that the United States would deplore mobilization by Chile or her neighbors. The action of the United States brought tire South American Chile sent a note stating that republics to their senses. the country was absolutely tranquil and that there was no thought of the extreme measure of mobilization. Are the founders of the league afraid to put it in operation? Ostensibly the league is to prevent war, but if it fails to preserve peace it immediately becomes a league for war. The supreme council then considers what steps shall be taken, in addition to the economic boycott, to coerce the warring or outlaw nations. The boycott begins automatically and naturally any other measures would be even more stringent if the league were to maintain its prestige. In other words, the league would be called upon to furnish troops for the carrying on of a war in South America against republics supposed to be under the protecting aegis of the Monroe doctrine. The president foresaw the possibilities and hastened to intervene. He was quite aware that the league might soon be invoked to sel aside the Monroe doctrine and he used the influence of the United States to prevent a situation which would have revealed the basic antagonism between the league and the doctrine. I red-blood- red-blood- ed ed -- pre-conventi- on clear-heade- al CHEAP MEAT PALMER region. men slept in a room twenty Representative Bland said fifty-tw- o by fifteen feet, directly above General Harts office, without blankets, beds or ventilation. That is true, the witness replied. Blankets were sent to the men from the front. Thev would have had blankets if thev had been in Paris legitimately. That explains the whole attitude of the Paris command. Bland replied. They were there and you didnt care what became of wr them. These men were sulkers. Not at all. General Harts retorted. who didnt remain with their divisions. The British shot such men. Our object was to get them back to their organizations as soon as possible. It was remarkable that we accomplished duty-dodger- s, what we did. Sulkers and duty-dodge- rs were arrested and subjected to the While seeking votes in the presidential primaries A. Mitchell Palmer, through his personally conducted department of justice, is Week. 'which is to absorb our preparing for gullible attention from April 12 to 17. The fair price commission lor Utah, which is a sort of subsidiary corporation of Mr. Palmers department, is sending out puerile publicity to promote the business of the boss. Needless to say, the fair price commission will be watching t make sure that no dealer tries to make the stimulated demand for cheaper cuts on occasion for illicit profits.' is the promise contained in one of the printed publicity articles issued by the fair price commission. And lest the merest dabbler in economics should see through the game and laugh it to scorn, the publicity agent proceeds to argue in this vein: The retailers should be able to sell, and undoubtedly Savc-Money-on-M- v eat |