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MARCH CIRCULATION.
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of The Baa Antonio Light during the month of March
1914 was 19.M8 copies and of the Sunday edition was
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returned filed aamplea advertisers and exchanges the
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coplea and of the Sunday edition 214*1 coplea
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DOLBLE THE LOCAL CIRCULATION
OF ANY OTHER PAPER
THE ESSENCE OF STRATEGY
Far be it from us to jeer at a fallen foe.
Also far be it from us to jeer a foe who
retreated so rapidly that he had no time
to fall—unless he stubbed his toe. Jeers
at those who flee are always out of place
even with the bravest of us for we never
know when we may be tempted and fall
•—or rather when we may be tempted and
flee that we do not fall.
With this slight preface Ths Light
desires to offer its sincere congratulations
to the Mexican general Maas lately in
command at Vera Cruz. As a conserva-
tor of his valuable person and as a pro-
found strategist he seems to have few
equals and no superiors.
When Admiral Fletcher intimated to
General Maas that he would like to have
him surrender the city of Vera Cruz
General Maas replied that he could not
do it—being aware of the fact that he
was some distance on his way to the
interior of Mexico by the time the trouble
began and consequently unable to take
part in the ceremonies incident to the
surrender.
The general remained on the scene for
thirty minutes after the first gun was
fired and then departed for the rear in
a carriage. His men left to .themselves
did the best they could and really put
up a fight that was disagreeable to the
Americans and creditable to themselves.
Having arrived at a proper halting
place in the rear of Vera Cruz the gen-
eral immediately planned to take the of-
fensive against the Americans. He is-
sued a manifesto calling upon all the
people of Mexico to rally around his glor-
ious banner and setting the rallying spot
at Saltillo which is several hundred miles
to the north of Vera Cruz and so far
from the Americans that it would be im-
possible for them to reach the place in-
side of a fortnight even if they desired
to go there—which they do not.
It is quite evident that in selecting
Saltillo as his new base of operations
General Maas was guided by the slogan
“Safety first’’ and that he allowed mili-
tary strategy to take second place.
Francisco Villa’s men are not far from Sal-
tillo and are moving steadily toward that
point and it may be well for General
Maas to revise his idea of a secure rally-
ing point. Oshkosh Wis. or Baden-Ba-
den Germany might answer. They are in
no danger of attack from the Constitu-
tionalists or the Americans.
“THE WHITE MAN’S BURDEN”
Commenting on the stand taken by
President Wilson with respect to the Tam-
pico incident in the following sentences
the London Daily Graphic makes good
its titular claim to analytical vividness:
“President Wilson is making war not
on Huerta but on Mexico. The war is I
not an accident but a thing predestined
by irresistable causes. Nevertheless it is
likely to bring more anxiety and embar-
rassment to the present generation of
Americans than glory or profit.”
These sentences are almost epigram-
matic and though they may not have
been made intentionally so they have a
significance that will bear closer study
than is ordinarily given such observa-
tions. Assuming a state of war to exist
—and the situation has practically
reached that stage —the Graphic takes no
notice of President Wilson’s insistence
that the United States will not make war
upon the people of Mexico under any con-
ceivable circumstances. Doubtless the
Graphic has reference to a larger struggle
than the shedding of blood upon a battle
field. In fact this meaning is revealed in
the last sentence: “Nevertheless it is
likely to bring more anxiety and embar-
FRIDAY
rassment to the present generation of
Americans than glory or profit.”
If the United States should take full
charge of affairs in Mexico it would have
a monumental problem on its hands.
However if the occasion demands such
action the present generation should not
be halted by the prospect of “more anxi-
ety and embarrassment than glory or
profit.” Volumes upon volumes have been
written about the natives of Mexico their
unpreparedness for self-government and
the hazards of keeping them under gov-
ernmental control. Among men who have
closely studied conditions in Mexico it
has come to be the consensus of opinion
that “Mexicans can be ruled only by an
iron hand.” Porfirio Diaz they agree
was the only man who has ever been
able to hold the Mexican people within
bounds and the breaking of his power
was due to the feebleness of his advanced
years rather than to the power of those
who revolted against him. So if the
United States should go into Mexico with
the purpose of establishing a government
and maintaining it in stability until such
time as the Mexicans themselves should
become able to govern themselves it
would have no small task on its hands.
Doubtless it is this larger prospect that
engages the attention of the London
Graphic.
Probably little glory or profit would
come to the present generation or even
to the next generation from such an en-
terprise for it would require many many
years really to “civilize” Mexico a coun-
try that is more than a century behind
its neighbors in thought habits and ideals
of life as well as in government. But
as intimated it would be only a selfish
motive that would look for glory and
profit as the primary- compensations for
performance of the task. However both
glory and profit would ultimately accrue
for in the light of what the United States
has achieved in the Philippines and else-
where it would require a confirmed pes-
simist to believe that the task of trans-
forming a barbarous Mexico into an en-
lightened Mexico after years of mature
effort would fail.
If the effort is not made if the United
States does not accept the duty that
Providence seems to have thrust upon
this country the alternative prospect —a ’
continuation of the ghastly chaotic con-
ditions that have existed in Mexico for
more than three years growing steadily
more gruesome—would be even worse
than any embarrassment or lack of profit
that the United States could experience
by taking the course for which it ap-
pears to have been destined.
“GENERAL” COXEY’S WATERLOO
“Soldiers of France forty centuries are!
looking down upon you!” exclaimed Na-
poleon Bonaparte when in the campaign'
through Egypt he came upon the pyra-!
mids. By this eloquent apostrophe his 1
men were electrified as thoroughly as if 1
the greatest of patriotic emotions instead
of the lust of conquest had stirred them.
A few days ago “General” Coxey at-
tempted to produce the same effect upon
his “army” of alleged job-hunters. He
addressed his eloquence particularly to
his corps of fifers telling them that the
eyes of a hundred million Americans were
upon them. It was a descent from the
sublime to the ridiculous such as can be
made only by accident.
The provocation for the address was
that the fifers had swapped their instru-
ments for beer with the result that the!
“army” became gee-gloriously drunk and
was locked up in the “calaboose” by the
village marshal. Then it was that “Gen-
eral” Coxey became an advocate of “tem-
perance.” He delivered a Napoleonic ad-
dress to his men winding up with some-
thing like this: “I don’t belong to the
W. C. T. U. but from now on you’ve
either got to 'cut out the booze' or we
don’t want you along. We’re marching
to Washington to teach the people a great
moral lesson and you’ll destroy all its;
effect if you persist in getting drunk.” <
Men with a great mission to perform j
men with a determined purpose have
neither the time nor the inclination to in-
dulge in such excesses and the fact that l
the members of Coxey's “army” did so
will impair their “cause” not so much be-
cause of any immorality attaching to the
act as because it indicates their lack of
sincerity and their weakness of convic-
tion even if such shortcomings had not
already been revealed by the depiction
of the ranks under nominal hardships.
The Coxey “army” episode is signifi-
; cant of a change in the general mental i
attitude of the American people toward
such movements. It shows that the pub-
lic mind is not so impressionable as it
formerly was. “Demonstrations” of all
sorts are losing their effect. The mob
spirit is less easily aroused. The public’s
sense of humor is becoming keener. Meth-
ods employed by such men as Coxey be-
long to an earlier and less logical age
when men were easily moved by the
spectacular and when the emotions and
primitive impulses took no counsel of
reason.
If “General” Coxey reaches Washing-
ton with a corporal's guard of followers
; the journey will be completed not be-
-1 cause of his Napoleonic speech to his
fifers but in spite of it; and once in the
capital city with “the lid off” the “army”
will doubtless forget its mission alto-
| gether except perhaps in so far as it may
be to swap coats and vests and drum-
sticks—if any be left—for a few bottles
of brewage. At the outset Coxey and
his “army” had the sympathy of thou-
sands of laborers and jobless men who
believed that there was some efficacy in
such a movement. But the actions of
the "army'' cannot but destroy the confi-
dence of all who are honestly striving to
find a way to better economic conditions.
It is doubtful that any more such “arm-
ies” will march toward Washington; and
if they should their avowed purpose will
not be accepted with seriousness.
GENERAL LEE’S GRANDSON
Americans generally North as well as
South have expressed deep regret at the
report from West Point that it was found
necessary to drop a grandson of Gen.
Robert E. Lee from the roll of cadets for
being deficient in mathematics. It is un-
fortunate that the descendant of so great
and honored a military commander should
be unable to stay with his class and the
news of his failure to remain in the cadet
corps has raised on many sides the ques-
tion as to whether it is absolutely oeces-
sary that so high a proficiency in mathe-
matics should be insisted upon for all
branches of the service as is now re-
quired.
One of the most serious of Eastern
newspapers the Boston Transcript has
this to say editorially upon that point:
“If there is anything in heredity this is
a strange shortcoming in a grandson of
General Lee for the latter was one of the
most accomplished of engineer officers
and had qualities that involve a profound
knowledge of higher mathematics. Put-
ting aside the case of young Lee and con-
sidering the West Point course as prepar-
atory to the exercise of the profession of
arms it may be questioned if proficiency
in mathematics is a sufficient test of a
cadet's capability for becoming a good
officer. There have been eminent gradu-
ates of West Point who barely passed the
mathematical test Sheridan for example;
and there have been those who in their
cadet careers gained a distinction that they
never equaled in the service. Originally
intended to be a school for engineers the
emphasis West Point puts on mathemat-
ics is a survival of the impulse that gov-
erned its foundation. It has become a
school for all arms of the service some
of which demand a mathematical knowl-
edge not required in others.”
Whether or not a deep knowledge of
mathematics is essential to all branches
of the army service is a question that
certainly cannot be settled by laymen
nor even discussed very intelligently by
them. The case of Lee’s grandson will
give rise to discussion among military
men that may —if modification be proper
—cause some toning down of the quali-
fications at the Point.
In the meantime the discussion of the
incident is principally interesting and
significant as showing throughout the
North a genuine feeling of regret that
the honor of wearing an officer’s uniform
should be denied tbe descendant of so
distinguished a Confederate general.
Baseball in the Courts.
The decision of the Federal court in the Killl-
fer case establishes two important principles in
the conflict between the “organized” and Federal
Irn.seba 11 leagues. A club that induces a player
to repudiate his obligation to the club that for-
merly employed him may look for no assistance
from the courts in retaining the services of that
player. The reserve clause by which the clubs
formerly held the services of their players in-
definitely at their option from year to year is
invalid and unenforceable by law. The Killifer
decision merely puts the baseball chibs in the
same position as any other employers of labor.
And it gives the players the right to sell their
services to the highest bidder. — Philadelphia
Press.
(hit of Their Cellars.
One by one the G. O. P. old guard is emerging
from the cyclone cellars. Uncle Joe Cannon has
announced that he proposes to run again for
Congress and now comes Fire Alarm Foraker of
Ohio who wants to return to the senate and inci-
dentally to oust Senator Burton one of the best
Republicans there. This resurrection should in-
terest the Standard Oil Company. Ex-Senators
Aldrich and Lorimer are not too old to return
to their former seats and will doubtless be heard
from in good time. And still there are some sim-
ple-minded persons who believe that the Repub-
lican party took the trouncing of 1912 to heart
and that it has been chastened and purified by
enforced absence from the fleshpots.—Philadel-
phia Record.
Lining Up.
Mrs. Taft wife of the ex-President has an-
nounced that she is opposed to woman suffrage.
Archbishop Moeller <>t the Cincinnati diocese of
the Catholic church asks the women of his dio-
cese to take a decided stand against woman
suffrage. But it will be only a day or two be.-
i’ore some of the prominent ones of the country
are announced as having taken the other side
and so the merry contest goes on.—Utica Ob-
server.
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A State of Mind.
Happiness is a state ut mind remarks a fellow
pen pusher. True that accounts for the fart
that at this time of year when the blue bonnets
are in bloom when the earth worms are fat and
the fish are biting in the brawling brook a fel-
low is happy when he <nn steal away from his
creditors and spend a day down the creek. That's
real happiness if the dream does not last.
Yoakum Times.
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Bleaso Still Active.
Governor Cole Blouse of South <’arolfna seems
! to be proceeding quite well with h’s program to
empty the state penitentiary and convert it into
an asylum. 141st Monday ho pardoned eight
murderers and six other convicts running the
total of his pardons up to 1190. This left iso
prisoners in the penitentiary but we do not
know how many of these have been pardoned
since last Monday. Temple Telegram.
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Trunt Question lambus Large.
The Democratic Congress has determined that
the trust question is a bigger proposition than
; can be settled in the present session of Congress
; and in consequence of that determination the
elaborate trust busting program first ad ptod
has been abandoned. One bill providing for
an interstate trade commission will probably
be all the legislation attempted during the 1 es-
ept session.— El Paso Tinies.
THE SAN ANTONIO LIGHT
From the Philadelphia Bulletin.
In the first municipal election in
Chicago under universal suffrage the
women voted pretty much like men.
Approximately the spine proportion
of them turned out at the polls to
fulfill their new civic duties while
the usual number were counted
among the “stay-at-homes.” Appar-
ently little change was made in
alignment of the various political
parties and factions and on the
whole the sort of candidates for
office were successful who won
when the male voters alone had been
casting ballots. The effect of the
change appears to have been to in-
crease the registry rolls without ma-
terially affecting the standard of
character among the officeholders
or divesting the control of th© old
political machines.
The marked failure of th© women
to support candidates of their own
sex as such must be disappointing
to th© suffragette leaders who
throughout the campaign leading up
to the change In the Illinois voters’
law last year as well as in the con-
test just closed insisted that women
should be chosen to take active part
in the governmental affairs of
cago and other cities. The independ-
ent candidates of both sexes who
specially appealed for the endorse-
ment of the women at the polls evi-
dently were neglected for the nom-
inees of the regular organizations
the strength of the latter being rela-
tively what it has been in former
elections showing that the so-called
female “balance of power” was sad-
ly split up and Ineffective.
If the outcome is to be taken as
a criterion it would appear that the
“Bath House Johns” and “Hinky
Dinks” of municipal politics have no
more to fear from votes by women
than they heretofore had from votes
by men.
From th© Memphis News-Scimitar.
On the heels of the announcement
of the passing of the venerable and
much beloved Picayune of New Or-
leans comes the news that another
old and once influential newspaper
the Chicago Inter-Ocean has fallen
crushed under a debt of $700000
and Is to be sold under the hammer
on the 13th. The Record-Herald of
the same city failed to meet interest
on $2000000 bonds and a “reorgan-
ization” was necessary* Meantime
afternoon newspapers that print to-
day’s news today are increasing in
importance. The morning newspaper
was a great improvement on the
weekly newspaper just as the latter
was an improvement on the occa-
sional “broadside” and the monthly;
but it is a belated institution at the
present time and is passing and must
pass. The news of the world is made
in daytime and must be published
in daytime to meet modern demands.
The morning newspaper was closer
on the heels of the news than was
the weekly newspaper just as the
evening newspaper is closer on the
heels of the news than is the morn-
ing newspaper.
From the El Paso Times.
Congressman Smith is trying t<
settle the Federal Court situation li
West Texas through the creation of
a new court at Amarillo which may
relieve the situation to some extent
and give El Paso an entirely West
Toxas district. The Abilene Reporter
says:
“Congressman Smith has an
nounced that he will push the bill
which he introduced in Congress
creating a new United States court
in Western Texas and while he
agrees to leave Abilene in the north-
ern district of Toxas he will prob-
ably include El Paso in the nev
district. Considerable interest was
manifested at the committee hear
Ing which tonk place in Washlngtor
on the Sth. Judge Legett of Abilene
was among the Toxas citizens pro
testing against the placing of Dalia*
in the eastern district thus fnrMnr
Judge Meek to move from Dallas.
“Judge Meek is one of the mor
popular and capable jurists on th'
bench in the Southwest. an ( ] the peo
pie of Abilene would count It a dfs
tinrt loss to bo transferred th-
jurisdiction of his court.”
PROPER NATIONAL SCHEME.
From the Buffalo News.
Chairman Charles D. Hilles of the
Republican National Committee
speaking for that body proposes that
m the next national convention there
shall be provision for election of
delegates at primaries.
It Is the proper thing to do. The
primary of a district though larger
than that from which delegates are
sent. Is a workable scheme. Tn the
next place the general sentiment of
the party Is that delegates shoun!
represent something and that thev
should stand on a level with respect
to each other.
Tn a word th-- members from the
south where there are but few Re-
publicans. ought not to be sent on
the basis of population but rather
on the basis of what they actually
represent.
BETWEEN TWO FIRES.
From th* New York Mail.
Pancho Villa Is “exonerated” of
: the murder of Benton by General
l Carranza’s investigating committee.
| As this investigation had to be car-
ried on at Juarez and Chihuahua.
' where Villa still holds the power of
I life and death and uses it Just as
he pleases the convincing effect ol
the exoneration is not great.
It would be interesting to know
what would have happened to the
investigators if they had not exon-
erated him.
If this exoneration holds good
Huerta's exoneration > n the raw of
Madero holds equally good. Our gov-
ernment cannot accept this Carranza
verdict without accepting the other.
It there is a clean slate for Villa
there must be one for Huerta.
The administration is certainly in
an interesting dilemma between
these two acquittals. If it assumes
that Villa is guiltless while treat
Ing Huerta as a murderer it justi-
fies the European contention that it
is supporting Villa for a selfish and
aggressive purpose.
Women Vote Like Men
THE AFTERNOON PAPER.
SMITH’S COURT BILL.
What Is "Sabotage?"
From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
A correspondent < omplain 8 that he
has seen the word "sabotage” used
' in various articles of late but that
he is unable to find the word in any
dictionary.
Strangely enough the correspond-
ent is right as to most lexicons. How
ever it is a word that threatens to
become a part of our language. The
failure of lexicons to record it does
not arise from the fact that it is
slang; many cant phrases find their
way into the dictionaries very early
in their existence.. But this one hap-
-1 pens to be a bit of French slang and
in its case the common people have
beaten must of the lexicographers in
adopting it.
Twenty years ago “sabotage” was
a slang word among French labor
ers to designate not the act of mak-
ing sabots (wooden shoes) but the
act of doing* such work resentfully.
“Comme a coups de sabots” was
the phrase. In 1897 the Confederate
I Congress of Labor met at Toulouse
and there the word got its official
baptism. It became a formula of
social combat by labor against cap-
ital. And in the following year the
Rennes Congress of Labor com-
mended the theory. In 1900 the
Confederated Congress at Paris voted
decisively in its favor.
What does it mean? It appears
to be the French form of the Scot-
tish phrase "go canny” If two Scots
are walking together and one goes
a bit too fast the other says “go
j canny.” If laborers think their em-
ployers are too exacting they can
get some satisfaction by going easy.
In plain terms "go canny" or "sabot-
age” means just this —a method em-
ployed by laborers to accomplish a
purpose without going out on a
strike.
An employer finds that hi s help
can do bo much work per hour. But
he does not pay his help w’hat they
think they ought to have. So they do
less per hour than is expected of
them. They "go canny.” That Is
sabotage in its simplest form. Other
forms involve the wrecking of the
employer’s machinery the burning
of his plant and so forth. But these
are higher examples.
MAPLE SUGAR.
From the Washington Star.
Time was when maple sugar could
b© obtained for the gratification of
the humblest sweet tooth and maple
sugar can be obtained today but one
is often overcome with the suspicion
that it is not what its name implies.
There is a fear that some less delec-
table. and less palate-thrilling sweet
!s masquerading as the classic pion-
eer confection of the northern states.
Many government reports and other
reports of an authoritative charac-
ter make it appear that this fear is
not without foundation; but that
there still stand some of the trees
which yield the sap from which
arboreal sugar is made is shown by
recent news items which tell of the
slaughter of maple trees for various
uses and also of the poor flow of
sap In those that are yet green and
growing. It is encouraging to know*
that suffer maple trees still exist and
discouraging to know that the
slaughter often hitherto complained
of and commented on still continues.
The destruction of the sugar maple
groves of orchards is saddening to
those persons who cherish the flavor
of the sweet output of this tree.
There neems to have been very lit-
tle effort toward the conservation of
the sugar maple but as this sugar in-
creases in price there may be dis-
cussion of the feasibility of plant-
ing and cultivating maple sugar
orchards.
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GIVING COUNTRY’ A REST.
From the New York World.
Administration leaders at Wash-
ington have reached a wise conclu-
sion in deciding to leave further
trust legislation to the next Con-
gress. Their Judgment would have
been even more commendable if
they had abandoned also the idea
of elevating the bureau of corpora-
tions to the dignity of an interstate
trade commission.
One notorious evil everywhere ad-
mitted. seems to have been ignored.
No investigation is necessary tn
prove the fact that the stock anF
bond issues of interstate railroad
companies should be regulated bj
the nation. Such an act might to
be passed in a fortnight. With tha*
accomplished and existing laws en
forced It would not make much dif
ference whether further anti-trust
legislation were postponed for one
or five Congresses.
ABSTINENCE IN NAVA’.
From the Pltt«burg Gaxette-Ttlmcn.
Time was when an order such as
Secretary Daniels has issued abol-
ishing the “wine mess" of officers
and tabooing alcoholic liquors on
shipboard or at shore stations of
the navy would have created a na-
tional sensation to say nothing of
widespread resentment among those
whom it concerned directly. But cus-
toms have changed and public sen-
timent differs from other days on
the subject of "grog” and the step
thus taken radical as it is. is likely
to be received with more approval
than antagonism.
For one thing and whether the
। proposed new arrangement is prac-
ticable or not. the experiment can
• work no permanent harm. It is more
than worth trying. Uncle Sam takes
fairly good care of his navy and its
men. and he is within reason in re-
quiring that the latter adjust them-
selves to a life which will contribute
to their alertness strength effi-
ciency and longevity.
roosters am> men.
From the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Feminists ought to find much
comfort in the policy of the admin-
istration to weed out the surplus
roosters of the country and leave
the field as exclusively as possible
I t<> the modest hen. A warning bul-
; letin from the Agricultural Depart-
; ment counsels of fowls
1 to destroy roosters between May 1
and December 1. on the ground that
they are unnecessary and consume
1 more than they are worth.
We should s»y men are In the
I same category. So long aa they can
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Daily Fashion Hint
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A TROUSSEAU SUIT IS THE
LATEST.
Here Is the newest thing In man-
nish suits one that gives all possible
freedom in walking and in dancing
that is now likely to be indulged iu
any time of the day. Instead of »
petticoat there is a bifurcated gar-
ment quite like a man's trousers fas-
tened to a jwttk'oat top of black
satin. While there art' the masculine
crease and cuff to show through the
slash in the outer skirt yet in or-
dinary movement it will appear only
a filling in of the opening. The flare
to the lower part of the mannish
jacket is the hall mark of the latest
mode.
furnish women A’ith clothes and
money for tango teas and bridge
parties they are to be tolerated.
When they get beyond the produc
tive class and become consumers
themselves they are to be wiped
out. If not senV to the block thej
should be confined and kept on th<
shortest possible allowance while
the surplus income goes to the fe-
male members of the family.
POLITICS AND PENSIONS.
From the New York World.
Aside from the private pension
bills whitHi every member regards as
his personal privilege the House
has just passed a new bill granting
pensions to widows and minor chil-
dren of all officers and mon who
served in the Spanish war the
Philippine insurrection and the Box-
er uprising. There are the usual
conditions as to marriage before the
passage of the bill and limited in-
comes.
This Is the familiar practice of
Congress. It always begins by plac-
ing restrictions upon pensions. But
no one need be fooled by the trick in
th© present case. In a few years the
restrictions will b© removed on
Spanish war pensions as they have
been on other pension® and the
doors of the treasury will be thrown
wide open to all. It’s an old story.
Politics and pensions go together.
WE ARE NOT s6rß\’.
From the Detroit Free Presu
The text of the treaty between the
United States and Colombia is nol
before the public but there is n<
particular reason to doubt the ac-
curacy of the report that it include:
i a paragraph conveying on the part
of the American government an ex-
pression of regret over the sever
1 ance of Panama from Colombia
amounting to an apology. It scarce-
' ly requires the gift of prophecy tc
forecast that the submission of any
such proposition to the Senate of the
! United States for its ratification will
I precipitate a row. And it ough.t to
cause a row a big one.
The people of this •country are not
a bit sorry that they separated
Panama from Colombia.
The inclusion by Mr. Bryan of ar
apohigetlc < lause in the text of the
proposed treaty may be in some part
an ebullition of th.it maudlin senti-
mentality whiph has been pretty gen.
erally substituted for real statesman-
ship since the present administration
has come into power but therp is
some room for suspicion also that
it may be in great degree a disin
genuous attempt to throw mud on
the record of a preceding admtnis
tration of opposing political com-
plexion by persuading the Senate to
formally repudiate and reprobate
one of its most noteworthy achieve-
ments. Stu h an attempt could only
he characterized ns a piece of con-
temptible pettiness.
WHEN IS A PLEDfiE?
From the Springfield Republican.
Platform pledges! Oscar Straus.
Bull Moose lend< r. repudiated his
party's “covenant with the people”
in commending President Wilson's
stand for the repeal of the canal
tolls exemption. And Senator O'Gor-
man himself has been exposed in an
act of base treachery to that plank
of the Baltimore platform demand-
ing that publicity be given to all
recommendations for nomination of
Judges. For the senator's committee
has killed a bill embodying the idea.
It might be added that Senator O'Gor-
msn wouldn’t give the Idea of Phil-
ippine indc pendence three seconds of
life yet the Baltimore platform is
tn favor of it. These considerations
raise the question when is a plat-
form pledge not a pledge' This is a
Democratic country and the people
must answer. They settle such ques-
tions as they like and what they
decide goes
APRIL 24 1914.
Letters to the Light
All letters t® tbl* P*P*r that are
tended for publication muat be eigned by
the writer. The name of tha writer wIM
not be publiahed unleaa it la deaired. Tha
paper muat know however from whom
the Jotter cornea No attention will ba
paid to anonymoue communicationa Type-
written aifnaturea. and those made with
a atamp are claaaed aa anooymoua The
publication of a letter doea not ooceMariiy
mean that tbe policy or opinion outlined
therein la endoraed by the publishers si
Tbs Light.
To the Editor:
Is the General Maas figuring in
the dispatches from Vera Cruz the
same one who was arrested in San
Antonio several months ago and
who was a client of Marshall Hicks?
CONFUSED.
Gen. Gustavo Maas reported to
have deserted his command when
the American marines landed at
Vera Cruz is not the same Gejierai
Maas who was arrested here several
months ago while making a journey
from El Paso to LarejJd. The man
who was arrested here was Gen.
Joaquin Maas Jr. a relative of the
Vera Cruz Federal commander. Gen.
Joaquin Maas is commander of the
Northern Zone of Mexico for the
Huerta government and is in the
vicinity of Monterey seeking to repel
the invasion of the Constitutional-
ists.
Gen. Joaquin Maas was taken off
a Southern Pacific special train at
the stockyards on complaint of Wil-
lard Simpson charging violation of
the neutrality laws. He was carried
before United States Commissioner
R. L. Edwards where through his
counsel Marshall Hicks he was al-
lowed to make appearance bond to
appear for trial in the event the fed-
eral grand jury returned an Indict-
ment. The case was considered by
the January (1914) federal grand
jury but no indictment was returned
it being stated by federal officials
that the Federal general had not
been guilty of any violation of neu-
trality and that when he began his
Journey through the United States
he did it with the more or less well
known sanction of the State Depart-
ment at Washington. After his re-
lease General Maas continued to La-
redo where he took command of
the Northern Zone which he since
has retained. His relative Gen. Gus-
tavo Maas is commander of the
Southern Zone with headquarters at
Vera Cruz and Jalapa.
THE LX)RT WORTH MEETING.
From tlie Houston Post.
Certainly when the carpenters de-
cline to build in accordance with th©
plans and specifications put before
them there is nothing for a self-re-
specting architect to do but put his
plans in his pocket and quit the joo
with what grace he can muster.
The five or six gentlemen who
projected and planned the Fort
Worth conference did not contem-
plate the nomination of the Hon.
James E. Ferguson. Most of the two
or three hundred carpenters who
were to execute the plans were evi-
dently bent on doing precisely that
thing. Who can construct with con-
tumacious carpenters? Nobody.
Hence we should say that the finale
of the Fort Worth conference how-
ever inglorious was altogether logi-
cal. The constructors did the'very
sensible thing of quitting the job
when the carpenters spurned their
plans and specifications.
What rende red the Hon. James E.
Ferguson so unsuitable to the plans
and specifications of the ambitious
constructors is left largely to con-
jecture. To be sure he had prev-
iously shown a most obdurate aver-
sion to being used them. But no
complaint was made of him for that
reason. His ineligibility if we may
give full credit to the explanation
is that his advocacy of a law to limit
what landlord may charge tenant
betrays him to be a Socialist. But
those of us who recall the several
things which the state does to limit
the charges of individuals and insti-
tutions must think that this particu-
lar circumstance wag not thought so
highly criminating as it is made out
to be. There is a hint —even a
charge—that the failure of Mr. Fer-
gusen to align himself in respect
of a former memorable contest on
the side preferred by the architects
of the Fort Worth conference ren-
dered him so obnoxious as to make
the •'federal despotism" involved In
Colonel Ball’s candidacy the lesser
evil.
NO CAN \L MONOPOLY.
From th»' Philadelphia Bulletin.
Objection to the treaty of settle-
ment negotiated with Columbia is
made on the ground that the United
States does not secure a perpetual
option on the Atrato river canal
route. The treaty with Nicaragua
which involves the payment of an
honorarium by the United States Is
being urged chiefly because of Us
provision guaranteeing this country
exclusive canal privileges through
that country.
There seems to be a purpose at
Washington to "bottle up” In th?
name of the United States all the
possible canal routes in Central
America or Isthmian territory thus
establishing an absolute monopoly of
canal privileges for this country. The
necessity of this i s not apparent.
One canal is enough for all the
trans-Isthmian commerce as far in-
to the future as we can see and
competition will not be invited as a
commercial or private enterprise.
And the possibility of national back-
ing on the part of any foreign power
for such hopeless competition 1 R a
bogey that ought to be laid without
worry.
QUESTION OF RATES.
From the Chicago News.
Senator taFollette asserts that th©
railroads are to bring undue
pressure to bear upon the Interstate
Commerce Commission to secure ap-
proval by that body of their request
for permission to make a 5 per cent
advance in freight rates throughout
the territory east of the Mississippi
liver. Whether this charge is justi-
fied or not. it Is only fair to the pub-
lic to say that the railroads ought
to rest their case upon the argu-
ments.
The question of freight rates is one
for determination by expert inquiry
and through public htarings. The
situation is only confused by the ac-
tion of various bodies apparently
taken In response to stimulus from
the railroads urging that the rail-
roads be given what they ask.
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