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ROWS OVER TREATIES IN WASHINGTON’S DAY

First President Clashed With Hostile Congress Cabinet Divided. Rows over treaties are almost as old *s the country itself. And the bitterness of expression whleh has accompanied the controversy over the treaty of Versailles, has been eclipsed in earlier years. History Invites to the second term of George Washington’s administration. It will be found, strange as it may seem La the present day, that our first president at that time urged upon the country a foreign policy and a treaty with an European country which split the infant republic Into two wildly hostile camps, caused him to face three belligerent sessions of congress and a divided cabinet, brought the most abusive and stinging maledictions upon his head, not only In his own nation, but In Burope as well, and all but resulted In a complete loss of his popularity and prestige. Whdn France declared war on •Great Britain In 1793, Washington, fearing the effects of another war on the Infant union, on April 19, called his cabinet and issued a proclamation calling for strict neutrality. The reception of the proclamation is described by Washington Irving in his “Life of George Washington.” “The measure, however,” says Irving, “was at variance with the enthusiastic feelings and excited passions of a large portion of the citizens. They treated It for a time with some forbearance, out of long cherished reverence for Washington’s name; but his popularity, hitherto unlimited, was not proof against the Inflamed state of public feeling.” Washington not only faced the opposition of his countrymen, but a difference of private opinion in his cabinet as well. How he bore this change of sentiment toward him Is told by Irving, who says: “Washington saw that a deadly blow was aimed at his influence and his administration and that both were at hazard; but he was convinced that neutrality was the true national policy and he resolved to maintain It whatever anight be the loss of his popular favor.*’ Congress assembled December 2, 1793. The hostility to, Washington among members of both houses was "widespread, it is related, although the senate was more largely Ln favor of his neutrality attitude than was the house. Washington previously had Informally protested to Britain, against her actions on lhe high seas, and, despite the unfavorable attitude of his countrymen, decided to send an emissary to London to negotiate, which, if possible, would guarantee protection for America. He chose that eminent jurist, John Jay, for this -mission. Incensed at this action, the congress drafted a resolution providing that all intercourse with Great Britain should be out off. The resolution actually ipassed the house and only failed in the senate j£hen the vice-president, John Adams, voted against it, thereby dissolving a tie.

Another divided and unmanageable congress convened November 19, 1794, and the attacks on Washington continued. This congress adjourned March 3, 1795, just four days before the treaty which had been effected by Judge lay in London, arrived in this country. Washington, it is declared, liked some clauses of the treaty. Others displeased him. It is related, however, that he realized that such a treaty would be agreed upon only after a game of “give and take” —a game practiced in negotiating the majority of treaties. The senate was convened in p special session -June 8. On June" ?4 two-thirds of that body, the constitutional majority, voted to ratify the pact on condition that Washington ireopen negotiations for the purpose of amending the objectionable article—the then famous article 12. ' This Washington consented to, and prepared to sign the treaty. Intense resentment toward the president followed his decision to put his signature upon a document of this nature before it was fully completed. A Mr. Mason, senatoi from Virginia, had the full text, up to that time held in secret by the president and the senate, published in an anti-federalist Philadelphia paper, thus instigating the first treaty "leak” in the country’s history. "The whole country,” it is chomtcled, "was immediately in a blaze. Besides the opposition party a portion of the cabinet was against ratification. The assailants seemed determined to carry their point by storm. Meetings to oppose the ratification were held La Boston,

New York, Philadelphia and Charleston. In New York a copy of the treaty was burned before the governor’s house. In Philadelphia it was suspended on a pole, carried about the streets and finally burned Ln front of the British minister's house, amid the shoutings of the populace.” Marshall’s “History of Washington” declares that the president was attacked venomously. “His military and political character,” It is related, “was attacked with equal violence, and it was averreu that *he was totally destitute of merit, either as a soldier or a statesman.” Washington, however, signed the treaty August 18, 1795, his signature, of course, being conditional on Britain’s ratification of article 12. Congress had adjourned when this action was taken. The next congress, however—that which convened In December, 1795 —was even more discordant and belligerent than its predecessors. In February of 1796 Washington i again received the treaty from Britain finally amended and ratified as the senate had* desired. The last of March the president again signed it and proclaimed It the law of the land. The tempest did not cease. The house of representatives denied Washington the right to ratify a treaty by senate action alone. The house, by resolution, demanded that all papers relative to the Instrument be placed before It. Washington, at this juncture, established an historic precedent. He flnmly believed that treaty action should be accomplished in secret and in the senate. He accordingly refused the request of the house. The house retaliated by threatening to refuse legislation of an enabling character and thus block firmly the necessary action to put the pact In full effect. The country again was In an uproar, but sentiment gradually was shifting to the president and public feeling seemed with the minority of the house, whlcli favored the necessary enabling laws. The public will finally prevailed, and on April 30, 1796, by the close vote of 51 to 48, the needed legislation passed the house and the treaty was history. Feeling continued against Washington, both In America and France, but at the last session of congress with which he was to be identified as a public servant, that which convened in December or 1796, he had regained much of his personal popularity, in the opinion of our most cautious historians. It is true that there was a faction in the house, headed by the notorious Mr. Giles of Virginia, which refused to concur in resolutions of regret when Washington’s farewell address served as public announcement that he would not stand for a third term. But for the most part the country was again with him.—Kansas City Star.

NEW SAVINGS CERTIFICATES

SIOO and SI,OOO Government Securities Are Availrjfle in September for SB4 and SB4O Respectively. Treasury Savings Certificates in denominations of SIOO and SI,OOO are being distributed throughout the five states of the Seventh Federal Reserve district. They may be bought during the month of September for SB4 and SB4O respectively. These new government securities are in reality discount bonds. They will mature January 1, 1924, and are issued only in registered form to insure them against theft or loss. The same rate of interest is paid as for War Savings stamps, namely 4 per cent compounded quarterly. War Savings Stamps of the 1919 issue may be exchanged for the Treasury certificates. The Treasury Savings Certificates are offered to the public at any post office of the first or second class and at incorporated banks and trust companies which are agents for the sale of 1919 War Savings Stamps. The hame of each purchaser will be inscribed on every certificate, the registration records being kept at the Treasury department In Washington, D. C. Each, month the new certificates will Increase in price. They began in July at SB3 for the SIOO certificate and at $836 for the one which will be worth SI,OOO when it matures. Thus the Income Increase is twenty cents a month for the smaller certificate and two dollars a month for the other. They are tax free except inheritance, surtaxes, war profits and excess profit taxes.

A six-weeks-old pig was sent by parcel post from Bryantsville to Cotult, Mass., by Mrs. Joseph Dowlar, who is the pig’s foster mother, having brought it up on a bottle since it was one day old. The little black and white fellow has been a great, pet, and wherever Mrs. Dowlar went it trotted behind her like a dog. She sent It to her brother, who is an Invalid, thinking the pig would amuse him and help him pass the time away.

An armload of old papers for 5 c at The Democrat office.

THE TWICE-A-WEEK D

We Should Show Intelligent Thrift, the Symbol of Peacetime Patriotism

By THE WIFE OF THE COMMANDANT, U. S. M. C.

in the world had indulged before the war in such reckless expenditure as the United States. Perhaps no country ia the world had been endowed with such lavish resources. The steady demand from our associates in the war and the heavy demands on transportation made saving necessary to husband those resources to meet the needs of the world. If we are to continue a leading nation in the future as in the past we have no choice as to whether we shall save or not. Lord Rosebery, the great English statesman, has assured us that “Thrift is the surest and strongest foundation of an empire—so sure, so strong, so necessary that no nation can long exist that disregards it.” More recently President Wilson has said: “Economy and everything which ministers to economy supplies the foundations of national life. We have not studied cost or economy as we should, either as organizers of industry, ag statesmen «r as individuals.” The unazing recovery of France from the Franco-Prussian* war is attributed to the personal habits of economy of the French people. They never allow the least commodity to be misused which can be converted into money, and the money in turn into the much-coveted industrial or public service securities floated by the great banking corporations of France. It is estimated that with a population of a little- over forty million people, there are twenty-three million savings accounts in France. In reality they save first and spend afterward. The enormous individual saving which can be effected simply by paying careful attention not to allow any waste to creep in was demonstrated amply during the war. But our success then must not be allo wed? through negligence to change into failure now. For it is through individual thrift that individual stability and prosperity are assured; through individual prosperity that the prosperity of the community is assured; and through community prosperity that the prosperity of the country is assured. The peacetime service our country calls for does not mean hoarding. It seeks to awaken in each individual a realization of the tremendous benefits resulting from intelligent, steady saving; using his best judgment in the outlay of his money; and from some investment, with its production of money by money. Thrift and War Savings stamps are the ideal channel through which streams of money—often the many tiny bits of heedless expenditure—may flow into bodies having real power of achievement. In other words War Savings stamps create in an easy and fascinating way funds for opportunities which otherwise could not be seized. Their purchase gradually establishes habits of profitable economy which spell personal and national prosperity. Though we do not wear a thrift banner every man, woman and child can display in each everyday act of their everyday lives intelligent thrift — the symbol of peacetime patriotism. BuyW. S. S.l

Demobilized Soldiers Need Work, But the Work Needs Them Just as Much

By COL. ARTHUR WOODS,

When he was in the army the buck private could communicate with his superior officer only through military channels. Now that he is out of it I want him to forget military channels and tell his troubles directly to me. The red chevron on the discharged service man’s sleeve does not mean that the army is through with him. We are not through with our men until we have put them into the job which fits them and for which they are fitted. There are more than enough jobs to go around. The problem is to get the jobs and the men together. - These men have just come back from participation in the greatest experience that will occur in your lifetime or mine. They are veterans, trained by hardship, discipline and loyalty to high ideals to take their place as more useful and more valuable citizens of America than they ever were before. They need work, but the work needs them just as much. What we intend to do is to act as a helpful point of contact among all the organizations in the United States which are so splendidly endeavoring to put our returned soldiers into jobs fitted for their abilities and training.

The Public Is Starving for Filins Worth While, But It Gets Very Few Indeed

By J. A QUINN,

Motion picture stardom should be ma.de “safe for democracy.” Most films today are trash. One reasoh is that there are too many so-called movie stars-—who aren’t—while others who might become real artists are unable to break in. In America today there are only three feminine film stars who are really stars. The rest are merely keeping out girls who have a right to be there. A number who are advertised as stars might fill second parts very well. \ But in all the United States there are only three stars worthy of the name. The producers are to blame. They make so-called stars overnight—create them by force of advertising. Instead of selecting them from among girls who are potential artists, it is the producer’s pet who breaks into the movies today, not the .girl with the real art in her. The public is the goat. The motion picture today is the biggest joke on earth. The public is starving for films worth while. They get very few.

When the United States entered the war it was considered an expression of patriotism to wear a tiny American flag. The finest expression of patriotism one could display now would be the wearing of a tiny Thrift flag, if such an emblem were obtainable, to indicate an understanding of, loyalty to and service for our country in peace time. Instead of a war with other countries the United States now has before it the tremendous struggle with the tendency to drift back to its prewar habits of careless spending and general waste. Perhaps no country

, Los Angeles Theater Owner

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And * woman’s conscience is almost as elastic as her tongue. It’s the silly old hens Jhat give the fox a reputation for shrewdness. « Many a girl after visiting a drug store appears in the pink of condition. Evidently the railroad 'brotherhoods have been reading up on strikes. Man is born to rule but woman comes along and beats him out of bls job. One scarcely knows whether to classify the actors’ strike as tragedy, comedy, farce or vaudeville. Senators who indulge in abuse of America’s allies are trying to make the world unsafe for democracy. While the world is studying control of the air, some one should arrange for world control of hot air. Marriages in airplanes these days put very far into the past that old song about a "bicycle built for two.” Yes, Hazel, a man Is supposed to be landed when he owns real estate or when he invests in a marriage license. Under the leather profiteers’ plan to educate the public to $25 shoes many of us would be forced to grow up In Ignorance. As for their admiration and gratitude, Americans are now able to tell it directly to the marines of Chateau Thierry and Be leau wood. Capital and labor each needs to learn that the other Is not necessarily wrong headed and stubborn and that reasonableness always pays. There are many nominal reasons why Senator Lodge is against the league of nations, but the only real reason is that President Wilson Is for it. • A man and woiman Ln St. Louis have remarried after having been divorced for 34 years. They’ve probably both forgotten, -what they were fighting aboutViscount Grey says he’ll try ambassadoring at Washington for a cowpie weeks. The antics of congress will begin to pass on any man after a month or so. The peace treaty and the cost of living are linked, says President Wilson. They must go down together. Swallow hard, gentlemen of the senate, swallow hard. Havana is said to be preparing itself to become a great resort for thirsty Americans. It does look as If the Cuban metropolis across the channel has the chance of a lifetime. New York’s strike of cigar-mak-ers Is said to be causing a shortage of 4,500,000 cigars a day. How many brown-stone houses saved from going up in smoke does that represent? "Mr. Lodge, to say the, last, is fighting hard,” says a Boston admirer. Undoubtedly; but the rest of us would like it better if he were merely "fighting hard to say the least.” Now the coal operators are accused of a "famine plot” to sky the price. We have no sure proof of this, but we all know that coal mining is a dark, underground business. Even the world war ended sooner than many persons expected it would; the race riots are over; many of the temperamental strikers are returning to work and food prices are coming down. Maybe the world is on the way back to sanity.

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FOR SALE For Sale—City property and town lots. PHILIP BLUE, phone 438. 010 1 \ For Sale—Recleaned timothy seed. —CHAMBERLAIN & MARLATT, at Rensselaer Garage. ts For Sale—Three second hand Overland cars, 1 second hand Saxon.—KUBOSKE & WALTER. ts. For Sale—Good mare, wt. 1500. Price is reasonable. HENRY PAULUS, phone 938-G. sl3 For Sale—Two fresh cows with calves by side, good milkers and both young.—JOSEPH TRULLEY, phone 945-B. sl3 For Sale—Paragon lever paper cutter, 23-inch, recently rebuilt and In A-l condition.—THE DEMOCRAT. For Sale—24o acres of level black land, well located and good buildings. Also have several other farms, running from 40 to 160 acres, all of which is good land, as I will not handle any other. Price of the 240 acres is $125 per acre,

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with terfns. This is the cheapest large farm I know of. Write F. STARKWEATHER, Niles, Mich. 06 For Sale—Oak bedroom suit—dresser, commode, bedstead and springs. Will sell reasonable.— MRS. MARY D. EGER, phone 125. SlO For Sale—Six-room house with two 58-foot lots, electric lights, city and well water. Will sell on part time if desired.—KOßAH DANIELS, phone 299. ts Seed Corn—Pedigreed 90-day Reid’s Early Dent. This seed Is bred from one ear of corn 15 years ago; no seed being sold until this season. The 1918 crop of this corn yielded 107 bu. per acre and was bred and raised by H. J. Scouce of Fairview farm, Sidell, 111., and is hand polllnlsed and hybrinated. Price $5.00 per bu. Place your order now at Democrat office or address—GEO. W. KIMBERLIN, R. F. D. No. 1, Rensselaer. ts Farm For Sale—Jasper Co., 160 acres, will sell at a sacrifice. Located 10 miles north of Rensselaer, 8 miles south of Knlman, 80 rods of the Jackson highway, described as follows: the west half of the southwest quarter, Sec. 29, east half of the southeast quarter. Sec. 30, township 31, N. R. 6 W., 160 acres more or less, known as the Meeks farm. 125 acres level and la cultivation, balance timber and pasture, most of the farm is black sandy loom, no sand ridges, fences in fair condition, good set of Improvements, good neighborhood. Owner non-resident and wants to sell. If interested, itneke inspection at once and submit offer to ISENBARGER REALTY CO., ’ (Sole agents,) 14 Union Trust Bldg., Indianapolis, Ind. Terms can be had. 8-21

For Sale —l2O acres, Pulaski county; z good buildings, good crops. Write J. M. WORK, Crawfordsville, Ind., 106 Simpson St. ts For Sale or Trade—2oo-acre farm; 80-acre farm; 40-acre farm; complete threshing outfit; one Ford 1ton truck; 80 head of cattle; 1 good work mare.—ALBERT DUGGINS, Rensselaer, R-2, phone 924G. s2O For Sale—l6o-acre farm, well drained, most all level, black soil; 5-room house, good barn, corn cribs, good well, fine orchard land all in cultivation. Can give good terms on this. Price S9O per acre.—CHAS. J. DEAN & son: ts For Salo ■ 56 acres, with new 4room house and barn; good wheat and corn land. Will also sell 40 acres adjoining above tract. Land situated 414 miles west of Rensselaer.—RANDOLPH WRIGHT, Rensselaer, R-3, phone Mt. Ayr exchange. ts For Sale—Some real bargains fa well improved farms located within three miles of Rensselaer. 120 a., 188 a., 212 a., 152 a.. 80 a. I also have some exceptional bargains In improved farms of all sixes farther out from Reneeelaer. For fuya then particulars see me or csfr’ phone 246, office, or 499, home.— HARVEY DAVISSON. ts For Sale—-Good two-story, 7-room house, with batn, electric lights, drilled well, large cistern, lots of fruit, splendid shade on corner lot—really two lots each 75x 150 feet, each fronting improved street and Improved street on side. Splendidly located on best residence street in Rensselaer. Lots alone worth more than entire property can be bought for.—F. E. BABCOCK. ts For Sale—A beautiful home of 16 acres % mile from court house; house modern in all respects (buildings all new), lots of fruit, land well tiled. For price see A. S. LARUE, Rensselaer, Ind. I have a lot of good farms close to Rensselaer, also a lot of well improved farms for sale in Laporte county. See me for prices and terms. —A. S. LARUE. ts

For Sale—Farm of 289 acres In Jennings county, Ind.; or two farms, one of 193 acres, one of 96 acres. Good frame house and barns on each farm. Good outlet on pike, good shipping; station 1 mile, good school 1 mile. One mile southeast of Scipio, 6 miles from North Vernon, good pike. Some orchard, good timber, abundance of water.—JOSEPH DETRZ, Scipio, R-2, Jennings Co., Ind, o 4 LOST Lost—A SSOO Victory bond, No.yF648,250, some place In Rensselaer or vicinity.—HAßVEY DAVISSON, phone 499. Lost—One black and tan and one black and white fox hound.— JAMES SHELDON, Goodland, Ind., R-l. 810 Estrays Taken Up—Came to my place In Newton township August 30, 6 hogs, wt. about 100 pounds each. Owner may have same by identifying animals and paying for advertising and keep.—B. M. MAKE EVER, Rensselaer. 524 WANTED Wanted—'Place to work mornings and evenings while attending school. EARL WILCOX, phone 907-E, 813 Wanted—To buy 5 or 6 cords of good 4-foot body wood, to be delivered before Nov. I.—F. B. BABCOCK. ts FINANCIAL Do you need money? We lend it on second mortgages on real estate.—AETNA MTG. & INV. CO 508 Fidelity Trust Bldg., Indian- i apolis. Farm iKMins" Money to loan <M farm property In any sums ud te < slo t ooo.—B. P. HONAN. Money to Loan—CHAS. f. DEAN & SON, Odd Fellows’ Building Rensselaer.