Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 45, Number 27, 12 December 1919 — Page 10

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, FRIDAY, DEC. 12, 1919.

Washington First President

to Meet With Bolshevism

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' : (Kansas City Star) If the average casual student " ot ; American history should be told that . there ;. was a I period when the very foundations of the republic were threatened with a reign of bolshevism, when red-capped revolutionaries preaching the doctrines ot anarchy swept through the country destroying property, killing and torturing law abiding citzens, and when a mob army ' of sixteen thousand men was mustered to defy the power of the chief executive of the nation and had to be sup- ; pressed with a federal army, the state- ' ment would likely be greeted - with amazed incredulity. True they didn't , call it bolshevism in those days it nucleated around a banner which a celebrated French woman said was responsible for many crimes, that of "'Personal Liberty." And one of Its ,r slogans was "Free Whisky.' For nearly four years, when the young republic was Just emerging from Its cradle, it went on a wild jamboree of radicalism and drunkenness that brought its new constitutional government to the verge of doom. It was a . phase of our history over which historians draw a hasty curtain. It was the period from 1792 to 1796. Wash- ' lngton was president and it was fortunate for the country that he was, tor ;by decisive action he checked the rislng tidea of revolution and anarchy and floated the young ship ot state through the dangerous waters. There were two distinct currents of revolutionary propaganda that combined their influences to create the political upheaval one ot foreign, the ; other of domestic origin. The French revolution was responsible for one 'movement, the tax on whisky tor the other and between whisky on the one hand and revolutionary doctrines on -the other, the nation traveled far on the road to political and physical delirium tremens in that fateful tour . years. The political movement swung around the person of that troublesome Citizen Genet, who came to this country as an emissary from the French revolutionary government, then entering upon its reign of terror in which ' Robespierre figured as the Trotzky of the period, and the whisky movement had for its leader one David Bradford, a wealthy distiller from that region of Pennsylvania where the fountains of Monongehela rye had the! rorigin and 'overflowed the land in a plenteous - stream. When Louis XVI was beheaded in January, 1793, and the French republic established, a wave of republicanism of the most radical character swept over this country, even penetrating the conservative cities of New England. From Boston to Savannah, the red cap was in evidence at public gatherings, French songs were sung, "citizen" and "citizeness," terms adopted from the French revolution.ists, began to be freely used and soap .box orators denounced the new government as undemocratic. About this time, in April, 1793, Genet, as minister of the newly established French government, ' arrived at Charleston. His reception in Charleston was an ova

tion. Banquets and public meetings were held In his honor at which the red cap figured prominently and public speakers denounced Washington -and his policies and praised Genet and the new French doctrines of "Liberty, Equality and Fraternity." Genet won ovw Governor Moultrie, the revolutionary hero, to his cause, and before he had presented his credentials as ministPr to the government at Philadelphia, he began a policy of open defiance of the neutrality proclaimed by President Washington between France and England, and with Moultrie's connivance, it is said, started to organize on American soil, privateering and filibustering expeditions against England and Spain. He commissioned four privateers, manned chiefly by Americans, and sent them to attack the British commerce on the coast, and he even went so far as to organize a regiment of American soldiers of fortune for an expedition from the frontiers of Georgia to attack the Spanish-American possessions. When her ode in to Philadelphia, thousands of the people turned out to meet him, and escort him to the capitol. Boston, Philadelphia, New York and Savanah went crazy over him. Washington alone held his head and refused to be drawn by popular clamor into the revolutionary wave that followed the trail of Genet and his red doctrines. Genet developed a violent antagonism to Washington. "The old man," he wrote home to France, "is not what history has painted him." Republican clubs were formed and most of the big cities of the east and revolution

ary doctrines became the fashion. "A great revolution Is preparing here," Genet reported back to his home government. "America Is lost to France

If the purging fire of our revolution'

does not reach its midst." He went from one public folly to another, until finally both republicans and federalists turned against him. He tried to have Washington called before the supreme court to answer for the wrongs which he imagined the president had done blm. In the end he was recalled by France, but Robespierre being then in full power, and at the height of his head chopping industry. Genet feared to return and Washington, with characteristic magnanimity, refused to allow him to be extradited, and thus probably saved his life. He remained In America and married a daughter of Governor Clinton, of New York, where he lived to old age. The wave of political revolution aroused by Genet subsided, but his doctrines found lodgement in a soil that brought forth a reign of terror that threatened to have far reaching consequences. In 1791 congress rad enacted laws laying excise duties upon spirits distilled within the United States. For two years the distillers of Pennsylvania openly defied the authority of the government, but for awhile rested content with evading the law and boycotting those who paid the tax. But with the spread of the new revolutionary doctrine, the spirit of opposition was inflamed into acts of open rebellion against the authority of the government. Public meetings were held, at which the federal government was scoffed at; its coersive authority disavowed and banners displayed bearing the motto, "Liberty and No Excise." Then the nightriders began their work. Bands of disguised persons, known as the "whiskey boys" visited those who were inclined to obey the law, smashing their stills and inflicting bodily

injury on the owners. Tne tax collectors were seized in the pursuance of their duties, and ridden on rails and often tarred and feathered. Witnesses against the law-breakers were seized at the doors of the courtrooms on their way to give testimony and carried away by armed mobs, tied to trees and whipped. The barns and other property of the taxpayers were burned and destroyed, and the spirit of lawlessness and anarchy spread rapidly through the country. David Bradford was the chief agitator among the "Free Whiskyites" and often led in person the desperate bands in their career of violence. He was an old settler in Pennsylvania, had accumulated a large fortune in the whisky trade, and, being a bold and unscrupulous politician, wielded a powerful influence over a certain class among which the whisky consumers figured prominently. Under Bradford's leadership the region around Pittsburgh drifted swiftly into a condition of open rebellion against the government. July 16, 1794, one of Bradford's bands surrounded the house of an inspector named Neville, who opened fire on them and they replied in like manner. Six of the mob were wounded and one killed. This was the whisky men's Concord. Thousands of them now flew to arms and roamed the country distributing free whisky, burning the houses and barns and destroying the fields ot the government sympathizers. Bradford then issued a call tor volunteers to capture the military stores at Pittsburgh and a mob of seven thousand answered his call. Bradford, assuming the title of "major general," reviewed his "troops" and the march on Pittsburgh was attended by a wholesale intimidation of the disaffected, the robbing of houses and the burning of buildings. At Parkinson's Ferry, where Bradford called a meeting to organize his insurrectionary government, sixteen thousand men, it was said, rallied to his red banner and pledged themselves to fight to the death for his "cause." President Washington called upon the governor of Pennsylvania to take some action against the insurgents, but the governor, Mifflin, was a timid man and a politician and was averse to taking any steps that might lead to bloodshed. He temporized and expressed the fear that it would be impossible to get the militia to serve against their insurgent fellow citizens. Washington then determined to take the matter in his own hands. August 7, 1794, he issued a proclamation against the rioters and called for 15,000 militia from Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania and New Jersey, to be ready to march by Sept. 1. The militia responded to the call with alacrity and

Sept 1 almost the fall quota had mobilized. Washington ; personally re viewed the little army and committed the command of the expedition to Gen. Henry Lee, of Virginia. It had been Washington's Intention ' to lead the army In person, but he was called back to Philadelphia to attend the convening ot congress and left General Hamilton as his deputy, giving instructions to Lee to march each division across the Alleghany mountains, meet on the other - side and to act vigorously afainst the insrugents as circumstances might require. It was Washington's announced policy "to determine once for all whether a small proportion ot the United States shall dictate to the whole union." ' Qy the time the two detachments ot the federal army had crossed the mountains and united at Parkinson's Ferry, the seat of the insurrection, panic seized the revolutionists and Bradford's army melted away, and in a few days the last remnants of resistance had disappeared. The leaders were arrested and 18 of them sent to Philadelphia, where they were marched the streets with the word "Insurgent" on their hats. A few of them were tried for treason and convicted but were subsequently pardoned by Washington. Thus ended America's first straggle with the spirit of bolshevism. While it was a war of very little military prestige, its outcome was attended with far reaching political significance. It was the first test of the young nation arrayed against internal forces which might have destroyed it, and it made a triumphant demonstration of its ability to take care of its own radical elements. Washington's firm and vigorous policy received a hearty indorsement throughout the country and the red orators and fementers of anarchy soon found their occupation gone. i NOSE FILTERS OUT . GERMS FROM AIR (Stanley M. Rinehart in the Saturday ' Evening Post.) The most important function of the nose is that of respiration. Man was not intended to breath through h"m mouth. The nose is the front door of the lungs. And the air stream does not pursue a straight course, but winds deviously through passages, over projecting shelves, and when it reaches the lungs it has changed considerably. Atmospheric air is usually too dry. It must be moistened in its passage. Whatever the humidity of the respired air the nose either adds to or subtracts from its moisture, so as to make it right for the lungs. The mucous membrane of the nose supplies to inspired air about a quart of water a day. And the temperature must be raised. Cold air' is injurious to the lungs. In its passage through the nose the temperature must be raised approximately to that of the blood. Also the air must be filtered free from irritating particles of dust and from germs. Very little dirt gets into the lungs of a nose breather; and almost no germs. At the openings, the nostrils, there are hfiirs to catch the grosser particles of dirt. And farther within the mucous membrane has an outer coat of what is called ciliated epithelium, whose minute cilia wave constantly toward the front door, catching the minutest foreign matter in the air sterms and waving it gently but insistently back toward the door through which It entered. Then tho mucous membrane itself has what is called an inhibitory action upon inimical germs, rendering them harmless. And so. though innumerable germs get into the nose they do not get very far. They crowd in great numbers In the vpstibule. And those that push onward any distance are returned, harmless, to the port of entry. This Is why the nose breather has so much better chance, so much greater expectancy of life and happiness, than the mouth breather. One can realize the tremendous task the nose has to perform if one remembers that about 2.500 gallons of air pass through it or phould pass through it In 24 hours. And it has been estimated that at least 1.400 organisms enter the front door during an hour's quiet respiration.

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GREEKS ESTABLISH NEW LINE IN SMYRNA

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Ccnjzrxtion cl Planets . . Gives No Fcssidicn to Alarms for Distsrbesces WASHINGTON Dec s ML "Alarming predictions of severe atmoepherlo and other disturbances" to occur between ,Dec. 17 and 20, hare been denounced by the weather bureau as without scienUflo foundation. ' The conjunction of certain planets and their consequent speed Influence on the sun. on which the predictions are ostensibly based," said C. F. Marvin, chief of the bureau, "have occurred before without any unusual conditions resulting, and there is no ground for expecting extraordinary happenings at this time."

ASK MINISTER TO IRELAND. WASHINGTON, Dec. 12. Hearing on a bill providing for diplomatic relations between the United States and Ireland was set for today by the house foreign affairs committee. Advocates of the bill. Introduced by Representative Mason, Republican, Illinois, proposing an appropriation for appointment of a "minister and consuls to the republic of Ireland," were here to appear -before the committee. The list Included Daniel F. Cohalan, of New York; James E. Deery, Indianapolis; Frank Walsh, Bourke Cochran and others.

NOBLESVILLE BAILIFF DIES. NOBLESVILLB, Ind., Dec 12. Hiram WeddeU, 67, bailiff ot the circuit court in Noblesvllle, was found dead In the court room early today. Heart disease is believed to have caused his death. Woddell was well known by attorneys all over Indiana.

8TEENDHAL RESIGNS. J. O. Steendhal, former associate of Industrial education' at Indiana University, and instructor of an extension

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mond every Friday night, has resigned

to take up personal work for tho train-'.

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