The Stroud Democrat (Stroud, Okla.), Vol. 9, No. 22, Ed. 1 Friday, February 28, 1919 Page: 2 of 8
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THE STROUD DEMOCRAT
LAND IN DEMAND'ANARCHIST CREW
Opportunities of Western Canada
Becoming Known.
3ERGER. TUCKER. ENGDAHL.
GERMER AND KRUSE
TO THE PEN
INTERFERED WITH THE WAR
By Runninfl Seditious Matter In the
American Socialist. — Berger
Elected To Con-
gress.
Chicago.—Twenty years In the fed-
eral penitentiary ai Fort Leaven-
worth was the sentence Imposed on
Victor Merger, represent,ulve-eieci
from .Milwaukee and his four co-de-
fendants, following their conviction
In federal court of conspiracy to vio-
late t h<- espionage act and obstruct
the United States war program. This
was the maximum prison sentence un-
der the law.
Sentence was pronounced by Judge
Keneaaw Mountain Landls, the trial
judge, ufter he had overruled motion
for a new trial. After sentence was
pronounced motion for stay of execu-
tion was made. Judge Landis also
overruled this motion.
Attorneys for the defendants Imme-
diately went before the United States
circuit court of appeals, where Judge
Samuel Alschuler granted stay of ex-
ecution and fixed the bond at $25,000
Fertile Soil on Which Can Be Pro-
duced Record Crops Offered to Set-
tlers at Prices Attractive to
Farm Seekers.
In the enrly months of 1910 there
was a demand for farm lands In West-
ern Canada, the greatest that has ever
been In the history of the country, i
This despite the fact tlmt farm land*
have Increased In price, as the value |
of the farm product has Increased and
the virility and productive value of
Western Canada farm lands have come
more and more Into evidence, runn-
ing there Is no longer an experiment.
Good crops can be grown In all locali-
ties, some probably a little more fa-
vorable than others, but on the whole
a good—more than good—general av-
erage. Land elsewhere on the conti-
nent Is used for the developing of one
hundred and twenty dollar steers.
thirty-five dollar hogs, two dollar and
twenty cent wheat and eighty five
cent oats, and lis price Is anywhere
from one hundred and lifty to three
hundred dollars an acre. Western
Canada land sells at from twenty to
forty dollars an acre, and the farmer
cultivating it gets one hundred and
twenty-five dollars for Ids steer, thirty-
five dollars for Ids bog, two dollars
and twenty cents for bis wheat, and
eighty-five cents for Ills oats. And he
can grow corn, too, but Western Can-
ada Is saying no more about It than
North Dakota did fifteen years ago,
when It was an experiment there, and
see what North Dakota is doing to-
day. The prediction Is flint In less
than a decade corn will be grown suc-
cessfully In all parts of Western Can-
ada. It Is, therefore, easy to account
for the increased demand for West-
ern Canada lands. The war Is ended,
nnd the food that the American and
Canadian farmer sent across to the
soldier, holding up his strength and
maintaining Ids vitality, won the war.
No I It was just a factor In winning
It. as was the soldier of Italy, of
France, of Belgium, of Great Britain,
ot Canada and of the United States.
\n Important factor, nevertheless.
People generally have begun lo real-
ize what food means, means to every-
body—and it is grown on the farm.
Ro people today want farm lands, and
they want those that nre good. The
t.'tat, wide, open stretches of wonder-
fully productive soil of Western Can-
ada are the chief attraction of the
land seekers of today, and It will be
so tomorrow, and of nil days, until
these vacant Inviting acres are brought
Into fruition by the hand of man and
the multiplied effort of steam and gas-
oline power, to the Influence and op-
cation of which these lands present
such n splendid opportunity.
Tiie pulse of today's desire to secure
farm lands may be seen to beat in the
columns of the local newspaper, re-
cording sales of many tracts of lands,
ranging from 100 to 1,200 acres. A
Keglna (Sask.) paper says, "In farm
lands there is so brisk a business be-
ing done that It might be considered
a boom." Another paper reports the
sale of a section of raw prairie seven
miles east of Itcglna for $35 an acre,
and 200 acres at $.r>0 an acre. One
leal-estate linn handled In three
weeks' time over 3,800 ncres of farm | |U.V. Irwin St. John Tucker, social-
lands, the turnover being upward of ist writer and lecturer.
J 100.1 MMi. An Improved farm near Re- j
guin changed hands at $ 17 an acre. I
"I'oi the first time In the history of i
the Moosejaw district farm land has
teen sold for $100 an acre, when J. S.
G.O.P. NOMINATES THOMPSP:
CHICAGO MAYOR BEATS
BOTH OPPONENTS
Republican Outcome Was Reached In j
Face of Criticisms of the Candi-
date's War Record.
WILSON DEFIES
SENATORS AND OTHERS
LOOKING FOR A FIGHT
WILL FIND IT
DtitNDS LEAGUE OF NATIONS
In Boston Speech He Tells Why He
Has Fought for Certain Ideals at
Paris and Will Continue To
Fight for Them At Home.
Boston. — President Wilson will
fight at home as he has fought
abroad for a league of nations.
Returning from France he had been
Victor Berger.
for eacn of the live defendants, pend-
ing hearing on the appeal. Bond was
furnished.
Must Restrain Agitation.
Judge Alschuler said he hesitated
to grant the motion for bail lest the
defendants continue their socialistic
agitation.
All Prominent Socialists.
The live are prominent socialist
loaders. They are:
Victor L. Berger, representative
elect from Wisconsin and editor of
the Milwaukee Leader.
J. Louis Kngdahl, editor of the
American Socialist.
Adolph dernier, national secretary
of the American Socialist party.
William F. Kruse, secretary of the
Young People's Socialist League.
Cameron of Victoria, 1$. C„ sold half
a section, known as the Lett farm, to
John Logan. The fnrm was bought a
year ago for $85 an acre and Is locat-
ed three miles from the city. It is
highly Improved and has line build-
ings."
An extract from a local paper says:
"The movement of farm lands Is open-
ing up well this season and there is
every Indication that a large area of
prairie property will be turned over
during the months intervening before
seedtime.
"The price received for farm lands
In each Instance Is considered as good,
particularly for unimproved raw prai-
rie, and shows a considerable Improve-
ment on prices for similar properties
sold during the years of the war."—
Advertisement.
Scott Nearlng Escapes.
Now York.— Scott Nearing, one
time professor in the Unlverstiy of
Pennsylvania, and Toledo university,
and a socialist candidate in this city
in the last congressional campaign,
was acquitted of seditious wriftings
Hy a federal jury here.
Tho American Socialist Society, co-
defendant, was found guilty on both
counts in the indictment. The Jury
returned its verdict after deliberating
twenty-nine hours.
The indictments were based on pub-
lication b> the Hand boo!; store, op
erated by tho American Socialist So-
ciety. of Searing's phamphlet, "The
Chicago.—Mayor William Halo
Thompson was renominated by the re-
publicans and County Cleik Robert M.
Sweitzer was renominated by thu
democrats in mayoralty prlmarle
Both won big pluralities. Four years
ago Thompson defeated Sweitzer by
tho largest majority ever given a can-
didate for mayor of Chicago.
Mayor Thompson has not only re-
ceived a plurality of about 45,000 over
Judge Barry Olson, chief justice of the
municipal court, but has received con-
siderable more than both Olson and
Captain Charles E Merriam combined.
Sweltzer's plurality over Thomas on American soli not more than three
Carey, a brick manufacturer, it was hours before he threw down the
estimated, would range between 60,000 ! gauntlet to those who distrust the
and 70,000. proposed concert of governments
Max Ileidlemeier, son of a dead ba8ed- lle Ha'd °n the American ideals
police captain, who loug called him- which had won the war for justice
self "the burgomaster" in a north side an<\ humanity.
German ward, also ran on the demo New England gave the president a
cratic ticket with a platform of "free r°using welcome. This city probably
beer, no work" and other limitless llover has seen a greater crowd than
planks. lie received a few hundred gathered at every point of vantage
votes. along the route from Commonwealth
Mayor Thompson's success bore out ;'"r l'>e naval cutter Ossipeo
his adherents' predictions in spite of D,rought hi" Party fom the steamer
his war attitude and references to his eorKe Washington, through the
past utterances that "Chicago is the own own districts and around two
sixth German city." He received the , °f Bost<,n common to tho Cop-
majority vote of the women as well ,lz'1 ^otel where a stop was
as men. made for luncheon.
Cheered Everywhere.
CONGRESS ON FINAL WEEK chee^ Hatband h^odVh"
• motor car throughout the two miles
Busiest Seven Days of Lawmaking In °' '^e Pal'ade except in one block
Its History. between Washington and Fremont
I streets where because of the narrow
way spectators were not allowed to
Washington.—The final week of the congregate.
Sixty-fifth congress ushered in the The national army, the navy, the
busiest seven days in all congression- state guard and the city police in
al history in prospect. lines on either side of the route
Among the outstanding features of formed a guard of honor for the en-
the final week were President Wll- ''re distance of the drive.
son's conference at the White House So effective were the arrangements
with the foreign relations committee that not an unpleasant incident oc-
on the league of nations, prospective curred.
dally discussion of the league pro- President Wilson was accompanied
posal In the senate, selection by the •« the parade and later to Mechanics
house republicans at a conference of Hall, where he spoke before 8,000 per-
a candidate for the speakership of the sons, by Mrs. Wilson. He appeared
next house, and the final rush of the physically fit for what he declared as
appropriation bills and other urgent 'he approaching 'strenuous attempt to
legislation
Decision regarding an extra session
of the Sixty-sixth congress also will
be reached during the week.
With sine die adjournment at noon
on Tuesday, March 4, and with more
legislation remaining on the calendars
than in the history of many congress-
es, leaders of both houses have aban-
transact business for a little while in
America."
Summary of the Speech.
The president said:
I ahve not come to report the pro-
ceedings or the results of the pro-
ceedings of the peace conference;
that would be premature.
I can say that I have receiedv very
happy Impressions from this confei-
doned hope of avoiding an extra ses- I ence; the impression that while there
sion. The only question, it was said | are many differences of judgment
while there are some divergences of
object, there is nevertheless a spirit
and a common realization of the neces-
sity of setting up new standards of
right in the world.
And I have been struck by the mod-
erateness of those who have repre-
sented national claims.
Seek American First.
And in the midst of it all every in-
terest seeks out first of all, when it
reaches Paris, the representatives of
the United States.
Why?
Because, and I think I am stating
the most wonderful fact In history—
because there is no nation in Europe
The speaker of the next bouse is to I that suspects the motives of the Unit-
be chosen at a conference of repuhli- j e<* States.
cans, including the members-elect Clash In Competition.
But you understand that the na-
tions of Europe have again and again
by some members is the thlme when
It will be called by the president.
Senate discussion of the league of
nations Is one of the principal ob-
stacles in disposal of legislation. De-
fense of the league on behalf of the
administration was opened by Senator
Lewis of Illinois. Daily and pro-
tracted debate on the league there-
after is ill prospect. Senator Owen,
democrat, discussed the leagne on
Wednesday, Minority Leader Lodge
on Friday and Senator Knox of Penn-
sylvania, republican, former secretary
of state, on Saturday.
Several of the Tibetan lakes In the
Himalayan mountains are 20,000 feet
above sen level.
Cuticura Soothes Baby Rashes.
That itch and burn with hot baths
of Cuticura Soap followed by gentle
anointings of Cuticura Ointment.
Nothing better, purer, sweeter, espe-
cially if a little of tlu> fragrant Cuti-
cura Talcum Is dusted on at the fiu-
Ish. 25c each everywhere.—Adv.
The Scandinavian countries were the
first of Europe to sanction the full po
lltlcal enfranchisement of women.
f^rov. '• TwteteM chill Tonic
'-'"I"""nr t>j purifying and an-
rlt/ilntf the bjoort. ^..u can anou f.( t Hireru-th-
•u lug, Invigorating HfTect. Prlc"fik: oir®nK" *
A penny saved is two pence clear.
A pin a <!«y 1m u grout a year. Save
and have.—Poor Iliehard.
Your
Eyes
A Wholesome, draining,
Kelresblng and Healing
Lollan—Murine for Red-
ness, Soreness, Granula-
I tion.ltchingand Burning
_ of the Eyes or Eyelids;
z Dropi" After the Movies, Motoring or GoH
will win your confidence. Auk Your Druggist
f"r Murine when your Even Need Care. M il
Murine ty Hunady Co., CUlcugn
Great Madness,'
cussd militarism.
The two counts on which the society
was indicted charged the society and
Nearing individually with having at
tempted to cause insubordination and
refusal to perform duty in the army
anil navy, and with having attempted
to interfere with enlistments.
Photos of Soldiers' Graves.
Washington Kvery identified
grave of an American soldier in
France will be photographed nnd the
picture sent to tin soldier's next of
kin. Several hundred photographs
have been taken and forwarded to
relatives and it was announced that
at the request of the war department
the Red Cross has taken over the
task of photographing all grave-
Each photograph will ii- mounted on
a cardboard folding frame on one
side of which will be inscribed the
record of the soldier
Many —ee :.;ex;co in —ear or Villa.
Juarez An armed Villa band u;i-
reported late today at a point threL>
miles north of Villa Ahumada, eighty-
three miles south of here. Whether
the band is a main Villa column un-
der Martin Lopez or a scouting party
was not known here, but its presence
within the hundred radius of Juaroz
is causiug continued vigilence. Un-
usual military activity, coupled with
authentic reports from south of Jua-
rez that Villa bands were active,
caused many rumors of Impending at-
tacks to be circulated.
Friends of Representative Gillette of
Massachusetts are confident of his
selection, although supporter of Rep-
resentative Mann of Illinois, have not
yet conceded defeat.
Special Session In July.
Washington President Wilson will
not call an extra session of congress
until after his return from Europe.
While the president did not state
when he expected to reach home after
his second trip overseas, it will not
likely he earlier thai June 1. Presi-
dent Wilson feel- 't his duty to re-
of
in which he dis- ' maln in KuroPp ""til the treaty
clashed with one another in competi-
tive interest.
It is impossible for men to forget
those sharp Issues that were drawn
between them in times past.
It is Impossible for men to believe
that all ambitions have all of a sud-
den bepn forgone.
They remember territory that was
coveted: they remember rights that it
was attempted to extort; they remem-
ber political ambitions which it was
attempted to realize—nnd. while thev
believe that men have come into a dif-
ferent temper, they cannot forget
these tilings, and so they do not re-
peace wa 4 concluded. The pr■■ ddeiit sort to one another for a dispassion-
will return to Paris
March 4.
Immediate!*' ;>fter
Federal Aid For Ftoads.
Washington Final legislative ac-
tion was taken on the ?400.m>0.000 post
o ce appropriation bill, which car-
ries $200,000,000 for road construction
during the next three years. The sen-
ate adopted the conference report
without a record vote and the meas-
ure now goes to President Wilson.
Food Riots Form Spanish Menace.
Madrid.- Serious food riots have
broken out at Palma. Majorca, one of
tiie largest islands In the Spanish
Bealerlc group The market halls
were plundered nnd destroyed. All
the stores and cafes have been closed.
Artillerymen with machine guns are
guarding the railway stations, while
troops are patrolling the city.
Germans Call Off Polish Hostilities.
Basel.—An official statement from
Berlin says: "Conforming with the
conveniion prolonging the armistice,
hostilities with Poland were sus-
pended on the morning of February
17."
Uncle Sam Gets Eight Enemy Ships.
Washington.—Do finite Information
reached the war department that
eight German steamships, including
the Imperator, had been allocated to
the United States for transporting
troops from France
ate view of the matters In contro-
versy
They resort to the nation which
has won the envlahle distinction of
being regarded as the friend of man-
kind.
Whenever it is desired to send a
small force of soldiers to occupy a
piece of territory where It is thought
nohodv else will be welcome, they
ask for American soldiers.
And where other soldiers would be
looked upon with suspicion and per-
haps met with resistance, the Ameri-
can soldier is welcomed with acclaim.
Before this war Europe did not be-
lieve In us as she does now She did
not believe In us throughout the first
three years of the war. She seems
really to have believed Hint we were
holding off because we thought we
rould make more by staying out than
by going in.
Whole Verdict Reversed.
And all of a sudden, in a short
eighteen months, the whole cerdict is
reversed.
Bad Air Is Killing Senators.
Washington- Appeals for steps to
purify the atmosphere in the senate
Chamber, Senator Owen of Oklahoma,
said lie believed thv poor ventilating
system had contributed greatly to the
mortality among members of the sen-
ate. He pointed out that In eleven
years \irty-six members had died
during office while twenty three others
had died after retiring nnd declared
his belief that their health had been
Impaired by impure air In the senate.
"I think the senate is suffering more
from hot air," said Senator Thomas
There can be but one explanation
for it. They saw what we did—thai
without making a single claim, we
put all our men and all our mean;
at the disposal of those who were
fighting for their homes, in the first
instance, but for a cau>t, the cause
of human right and justice, and that
we went in. not to support their na-
tional claims, but to support the great
cause which they held in common.
And when they saw that America
not only held ideals, but acted Ideals,
they were converted to America and
became firm partisans of those ideals.
Speaking with perfect frankness ii|
the name of the people of the I'nited
States 1 have uttered as the objecti
of this great war ideals and nothing
but Ideals and the war has been won
by that inspiration.
And now do you realize that thia
confidence we have established
throughout the world Imposes a bur-
den upon us—if you choose to cull it
a burden.
It is one of those burdens which
any nation ought to be proud to carry.
Any man who resists the present
tides that run in the world will find
himself thrown upon a shore so high
and barren that it will seem as if he
had been separated from his human
kind forever.
The Europe that I left the other
day was full of something that it had
never felt fill its heart so full before.
And now these ideals have wrought
this new magic, that all the peoples
of Kurope are buoyed up and confi-
dent in the spirit of hope, because
they believe that we are at the eve of
a new age in the world when nations
will understand one another, when
nations will support one another in
every just cause, when nations will
unite every moral and every physical
strength to see that the right shall
prevail.
If America were at this junction to
fail the world, what would come of
It?
I do not mean any disrespect to
any other great people when 1 say
that America is the hope of tha world;
and if she does not justify that hope
the results are unthinkable.
Men will be thrown back upon the
bitterness of disappointment not only,
but the bitterness of despair.
All nations will be set up as hostile
camps again; the men at the peace
conference will go home with their
heads upon their breasts, knowing that
they have failed—for they were bid-
den not to come home from there un-
til they did something more than sign
a treaty of peace.
Supose we sign the treaty of peace
and that It Is the most satisfactory
treaty of peace that the confusing ele-
ments of the modern world will afford
and go home and think about our la-
bora; we will know that we have left
written upon the historic table at
Versailles, upon which Vergennes and
Benjamin Franklin wrote their names,
nothing but a modern scrap ot paper;
no nation united to defend it, no
great forces combined to m. ke it good,
no assurance given to the downtrod-
den and fearful people of the world
that they will be safe.
Any man who thinks that America
will take part in giving the world any
such rebuff and disappointment as
that, does not know America.
I invite him to test the sentiments
of the nation.
We set this up to make men free
and we did not confine your concep-
tion and purpose to America and now
we will make men free.
Her Power Dissipated.
If we did not do that the fame of
America would be gone and all her
powers would be dissipated.
She would have to keep her power
for those narrow, selfish, provincial
purposes which seem so dear to some
minds that have no sweep beyond the
nearest horizon.
I should welcome no sweeter chal-
lenge than that.
I have fighting blood in me and it
is sometimes a delight to let it have
scope, but if it is a challenge on this
occasion It will be an indulgence.
Do you realize how many nations
are going to be set up in the presence
of old and powerful nations in Europe
and left there, if left by us, without
a disinterested friend?
The arrangements of the present
peace cannot stand a generation un-
less they are guaranteed by the united
forces of the civilized world.
When I think of the homes upon
which dull despair would settle were
this great hope disappointed, I should
wish for my part never to have had
America play any part whatever in
this attempt to emancipate the world.
But I talk as if there were any ques-
tion. 1 have no more doubt of the
verdict of America in this matter than
I have doubt of the blood that is in
me.
And so, my fellow citizens, I have
come back to report progress, and I
! do not believe that the progress is go-
! ing to stop short of the goal.
! The nations of the world have set
their heads now to do a great thing
and they are not going to slacken
their purpose.
And when I speak of the nations of
the world 1 do not speak of the gov-
ernments of the world.
I speak of the peoples who consti-
tute the nations of the world.
They are in the saddle and they
are going to see to it that if their
present governments do not do their
will, some other governments shall.
And the secret Is out and the pres-
ent governments know it.
And. therefore, probing deep In my
heart and trying to see the things that
are right without regard to the things
that may be debated as expedient, I
feel that 1 am interpreting the pur-
pose and the thought of America; and
in loving America I find 1 have joined
the great majority of my fellow men
throughout the world
Liberty Loan Five Billions.
Washington—The Victory Liberty
loan to be floated late in April is ex-
pected to be for five billion dollars,
the public ways nnd means commit-
tee reported in submitting legislation
authorizing sale of snort-term notes,
instead of bonds.
Asiatic Ruler Is Reported Killed.
London. — Habibullah Khan, the
amir ot Afghanistan, was murdered
on February 20.
LOOK AT CHILD'S
TONGUE IF SICK,
CROSS, FEVERISH
HURRY, MOTHER1 REMOVE POI.
SONS FROM LITTLE STOMACH,
LIVER, BOWELS.
GIVE CALIFORNIA SYRUP OF FIQ8
AT ONCE IF BILIOUS OR
CONSTIPATED.
Look nt the tongue, mother 1 If
coated, It Is a sure sign that your lit-
tle one's stomach, liver and bowels
needs a gentle, thorough cleansing at
once.
When peevish, cross, listless, nale,
doesn't sleep, doesn't ent or act natu-
rally, or Is feverish, stomach sour,
breath bad; has stomach-ache, sora
throat, diarrhoea, full of cold, give a
teaspoonful of "California Syrup of
Figs," and in a few hours all the foul,
constipated waste, undigested food
and sour bile gently moves out of the
little bowels without griping, and yon
have a well, playful child again.
You needn't coax sick children to
take this harmless "fruit laxative ;w
they love Its delicious taste, and it
always makes them feel splendid.
Ask your druggist for a bottle of
"California Syrup of Figs," which has
directions for babies, children of all
ages and for grown-ups plainly on the
bottle. Beware of counterfeits aold
here. To be sure you get the genuine,
ask to see that It Is made by the "Cali-
fornia Fig Syrup Company." Refuse
any other kind with oontempt.—Adv.
Over-Polite.
A correspondent tells of a neighbor,
one Farmer Brown, who Is not well
educated. His daughter lias attended
a boarding school and lately they re-
solved to have a party of the neigh-
boring farmers nnd their wives. Pre-
vious to the party she instructed her
father that when speaking of anything,
for fear of offending, he should add:
"The present company always except-
ed." He was late for dinner, so Jane
invited the guests to begin operations.
They had not long commenced when In
rushed Mr. Brown, covered with per-
spiration.
"Why are you so late, papa?" asked
Jane.
"The fact Is, Jane, I've been vlsitln'
neighbor Smith's pigs, nnd they ar®
the finest lot of pigs I ever seed, th«
present company alius excepted."
Handsomely Equipped.
"King Solomon was the wisest of
men."
"Yes," replied the press ngent.
"And resplendent In his entertain
menfs."
"Yes."
"And most felicitous In his epi
grams."
"Yes. It's very evident that In ad
dition to other advantages be had a
highly energetic and discreet publicity
department."
Direct Reply.
Rejected Suitor (a slacker)—"it
there another man?" Girl—"Two mil-
lion ; somewhere in France."
Most good things come to those who
hustle while they wait.
As always-
i food will
play a bi^
part
'As a man
eats,
so is hef
Grapefjuts
a food for
body and
brain
(Contains "the
building phos-
phates of the
$rain)
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