Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, September 3, 1913, Page 10

PAGE EIGHT Marble Mention «lerk of the school board. \ — Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Van Horn, swere Nashwauk visitors, Monday. Mr. and Mrs. R. G. Krueger ar- wived home ‘Tuesday, in their car. : Dr. Gilbert left for Duluth last Sunday evening by way of Grand Rapids. C. S. Chase wentto Grand Rap- | ids, on business, Friday, returning apaturday. { Mrs. Emily Moffat went to Grand| Rapids, Thursday evening for a brief visit. Mrs. Harry Sullivan returned on} Sunday from a visit with relatives in Michigan. Miss Minerva Myers is visiting at the home of her brother, Mr. Chauncey Myers. Mr. and Mrs. Revore, of Dorches- ter, Wis. and their little “niece, are guests of Mrs. Wm. Allen. Mr. and Mrs. J. 8. MeCusick re- ‘turned Monday, from Duluth, in the car they purchased there. Mrs. Al Murray and little son, | returned Saturday evening froma visit with relatives in Eveleth. VanHorn, spent Saturday in Vir- | ginia. Miss Flint left Monday noon for River Falls, Wisconsin, where she will resume her position as librarian in the normal there. months, has resigned his position, | Sunday night being his last night | in that capacity. Mr. Allen jhas | been a faithful and efficient of- | ficer and the townspeople exceed- ingly regret his resignation. Mr. Allen's plans for the future are not. fully determined upon. Katherine Doran of Grand Rap- | ids, came over Monday to assume her position as teacher. Thursday evening Bertha I. El- lison of Kansas City, presented a very unique entertainment, a “Tom Thumb Wedding” in the auditoy- ium of the Olcott school, to a large and interested audience. The entertainment was so | uniformly good that it is difficult | to select any one part as being es- pecially good. The wedding follows the form of a society wedding,and | the ushers, “rushers”, (aS one little performer called them,) per: | formed their duties with as much | ease and dignity as if assisting at | Mr. and Mrs. Smith of Virginia, jsuch functions was an everyday | zand their th daughters have re-| aurned home froma camping trip. Dr. and Mrs. Costello and echildren, and Mr. A. C. Bossard of Grand Rapids, were in the village, Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. E. S. Chase and children of Bovey, spent Sunday with the family of Mr. and Mrs. aC. 8. Chase. Mr. and Mrs. Swenson went to Duluth Friday, where Mr. Swen- sen is to undergo an operation for appendicitis. ) Misfes Eva M. Patter and Ida M. Heggs, arrived Sunday evening to assume their duties as teachers in the Olcott school. Mrs. Bush returned Tuesday from ‘Duluth. She was accompanied by Miss Leona Hathaway, who is anaking .a .short visit here. Ear] Garinger was over from Col- eraine, Tuesday, going over the manual training department with Mr. Wickmann, the new instruct- for. Agnes Moffatt returned Monday | eyes never left the preacher's face. from Winnipeg, where she spent part of her vacation. Her mother, | Mrs. Emily Moffatt, returned with her | Jennie Liese left Sunday to as- sume a position as teacher near! her old home in Bessemer, Michi- gan. Dr. McComb and brother and ne-| phew, of Duluth, came Tuesday | morning and left that afternoon | for a fishing trip with J.S. Me- fusick. As this was the first chance the | boys had had t give them a chari- | vari they took full advantage of it,! and gave them a characteristic} welcome. Mrs. D. M. Gunn and daughter, Margaret, of Grand Rapids, and | her guests, the Mi es Hardy and) Wise, were callers in the village, Monday. _ ‘Mr. and Mrs. D. M. Vermilyea, cand little son, and Mr. and Mrs. J. . Musick and little sons, went to Grand Rapids, Sunday in the MeCusick car. | Lyle Kutz and Blanche Blan- chard, will join ;the senior class in ibe Greenway school at Col-! -eraine this year, as there is no senior class in our schools, Hl » Mr. and Mrs. David M. Vermil- yea drove over to Coleraine, last Tuesday evening, where Mr. Ver- milyea attended to some work as’ Mrs. J. McDonald and Miss Nor- ma McDonald, went to their home! vin Hibbing, Wednesday morning, accompanied by Miss Vina Young, who returned Monday evening, Mrs. Walter Smith went to Duluth, Saturday, to meet Mrs. Smith, who is returning from a visit in Michigan. They returned} from Duluth, Sunday evening. | Miss Bertha ‘Ellison, directoress |Truly,” sung by Miss Violet affair, and their bows were worthy | of a Beau Brummel. The guests | were dressed in full evening dress, | swallow tail coats | and evening | gowns, the trains of which caused | ‘the small ladies some difficulty at | times, but they bore themselves with becoming dignity nevertheless. Grandpa and Grandma Midget,and| the parents of the bride and the groom, and the three gay spins- ters caused much merriment in the audience and the old maids’ ; song, and,“Silver Threads Among the Gold,” and “I Cannot Sing the Old Songe,”, sung by Grandipa and | Grandtha Midget, were received | with much appreciation. The old maids’ gay costumes and cork-! serew curls, and their disdainful | airs | were highly amusing, and| Grandpa and Grandma -Midget in | their quaint costumes made a decided hit. | | Tom ;Thumb and his little bride | ‘Lily Putian: Midget, were as | charming as possible, and the preacher seemed fully aware of | the dignity of his office. The little bride said |“Yes” as if she really jmeant it, and the little : groom’s The little maid of honor in a trailing white gown; and the four | bridesmaids, in pink and blue, ad- | ded much to the picture. A girls chorus sang several songs in a pleasing manner, and “I Love You Van | by | ‘Horn, and “O Premise Me,” |Misg Ellison, added much to the | audience’s pleasure. Altogether | the entertainment was a success, | and Miss Ellison and the Methodist Ladies’ Aid Society, under whose | auspices the entertainment wasg,, given, are to be congratulated on} the success of their undertaking. | Methodist Church Notes. Sunday, September 7, 1913, Prof. R. G. Kreuger, has returned from his vacation and we are glad to have him in charge of our Sunday school again. Sunday school at 10 o'clock. We are planning a contest for Bibles. See the pastor if you wish to enter for it. Junior lea- gue at 7 o'clock and we°wish a good attendance. Bring your bi- bles. Evening sermon at8 o'clock. We cordially invite strangers as well as townspeople to. attend the services. FRED ALLAN WEEKS, Pastor. Confessed Lobbyist Invites Lawyers to “Come Outside.” Washington, Aug. 26.—Representa- tives J. T. McDermott’s defense to charges brought out in the house lob- by ‘investigation began with cross-ex- amination of Martin M. Mulhall, au- thor of the expose which pictured the National Association of Manufacturers as the maker and breaker of many congressmen. Mulhall swore the New York World, | which published the story, was now Paying him $100 a week. His passages |with McDermott’s lawyer were fiery and sprinkled with invitations to “come outside.” Cross-examination developed that on a visit to the World Senator Reed of the senate lobby com- mittee. Mulhall told of trying to dispose of of the “Tom Thumb Wedding”, Jeft Monday noon for Duluth, go- dng from there to Brainerd, swhere she directs an entertainment Friday evening. ; Misses Healy, Flint jand Violet | his letters to William R. Hearst. Per- Triton Maxwell, Hearst’s magazines, told Mulhall that the only reason he could advance for Hearst's lack of interest he thought it would help the present | administration.’ REVIEWS Sermon topic, “I Am |The Vine.” | office Mulhall was accompanied by | editor of one of | EFFORT TO AID MEXICO | ay | i , Tom Allen, who has been «Wilson Reals Mes- village night policeman for several | J sage to Congress, REJECTS GOOD OFFICES Huerta Government Not Awake to Its Great Peril, MUST WAIT WITH PATIENCE Americans in Warring Country Will Be Assisted to Leave and Strict Neutrality Willi Be the Policy of the United States in Dealing With Atfairs of Our Strife Ridden Sister Republic. Washington, Aug. 28.—President Wilson appeared in person before congress and laid bare to the world the Getails of this nation’s efforts to bring about peace in Mexico; the acts concerning Huerta’s rejection of the peace proposals and the polity to be pursued now by this government. The message follows: “Gentlemen of the Congress: “It is clearly my duty to lay before you very fully and without reserva- tion the facts concerning our present relations with the republic of Mexi- eo. The deplorable condition of. af- fairs in Mexico I need not describe, but I deem it my duty to speak very frankly of what this government has done and should seek to do in fulfill- ment of its obligation to Mexico her- self as a friend and neighbor, and to America’s citizens whose lives and | Vital interests are daily affected: by the distressing conditions which now obtain beyond our Southern border. “These conditions touch us very nearly, not merely because they lie at our very doors. That, of coursé, makes us more vividly and more con- stantly conscious of them, and every fustinct of neighborly interest and sympathy is aroused and @uickened by them, but that is only one élément in the determination of our duty. Friendship Is Unselfish, “We are glad to call ourselves thé friends of Mexico, and we shall, I hope, have many an occasion, in hap- pier times as well as in these days of frouble -and confusion, to show that our friendship is genuine and disin- térested, capable of sacrifice and every generous manifestation. “The peace, prosperity and con- tentment of Mexico mean more, much more, to us than merely an enlarged field for our commerce an@ enter-: prise. They mean an enlargement of the field of self-government and the realization of the hopes and rights of & nation with whose best aspirations we deeply sympathize. We shall yet prove to the Mexican people that we know how to serve them without first thinking how we shall serve our- selves. “But we are not the only friends of | Mexico. The whole world desires her | peace and progress, and the whole | world is interested as never before. Mexico lies at last where all the | world looks on. Central America is | about to be touched by the great routes of the world’s trade and in- | tercourse running free from ocean to ocean at the isthmus. The future has | much in store for Mexico, as for all ; the states of Central America; but the best gifts can come to her only if she be ready and free to receive them and to enjoy them honorably. Sees Great Future. “America in particular—America north and south, and upon both con- tinents—waits upon the development of Mexico; and that development can be sound and lasting only if it be the product of a genuine freedom, a just end ordered government, founded up- | on law. Only so can it be peaceful or fruitful of the benefits of peace. Mex- ico has a great and enviable future H before her, if only she choose and at- tain the paths of honest constitutional government. “The present circumstances of the republic, I deeply regret to say, do not seem to promise even the founda- tions of such a peace. We have waited many months, months full of peri] and anxiety, for the conditions | there to improve and they have not | Improved. They have grown worse, rather. The territory in some sort controlled by the provisional authori- ties at Mexico City has grown small- er, not larger. The prospect of the Pacification of the country, even by arms, has seemed to grow more and more remote and its patification by i the authorities at the capital is evi- dently impossible by any other means than force. public. They have not made good their claim, in fact. Their successes in the field have proved only tem- porary. War and disorder, devasta- tion and confusion, seem to threaten to become the settled fortune of the distracted country. Necessary to Act. “As friends we could wait no long- er for a solution which every week seemed further away. It was our Guty at least to volunteer our good offices to offer to assist, if we might, inveffecting some arrangement which would bring relief and peace and set up ‘a universally acmowledged poli- tical authority there. “accordingly, I took the liberty of sending the Honorable John Lind, former governor of Minnesota, as my personal spokesman and representa- tive to the City of Mexico, with the following instructions: “Press very earnestly upon the attention cf those who are now ex- ercising authority or wielding influ- | ence in Mexiéo the following consid- erations and advice: “The government of the United States does not feel at liberty any longer to stand inactively by while it tecomes daily more and more evi- dent that no real progress is being made toward the establishment of a government at the City of Mexico which ‘the country will obey and re- spect. “The government of the United States does not stand in the same case with the other great govern: ments of the world in respect to what @ 1013, by American Press Ancociation. PRESIDENT WILSON. is happening or what is likely to hap- pen ifi Mexico. We offer our good Offices, Net only becausé of our gen- uine desiré to play the part of a friend, but also because we are ex- pected by the powers of the world to act as Mexico’s nearest friend. No Ulterior Designs. “We wish to act in these circum- sdnces if the spirit of the most earn- est and disinterested friendship. It is ou purposé.in whatever Wé do or Propose in this perplexing and dis- treesing gituation\not only to ‘pay the most s¢ripulous-regard~ to the sovereignty. and independnce of Mexico—that Wé take as a matter of course to which’ we are bound by every ‘obligation of right and honor— but also to give every possible evi- dence that we act in the interest of Mexico alone and not it the interest of any person or body of persons who may have personal or propétty claims in Mexico which they may feel that they have the right to preds. “We are seeking to counsel Mexico for her own good and in the interest of her own peace, and not for any other purpose whatever. The govern- ment of the United States would deem itself discredited if it had any selfish or ulterior purpose in transactions where the peace, happiness and pros- perity of a whole people are involved. It is acting as its friendship for Mex- ico, not as any selfish interest dic- tates. Basis for Settlement. “The present situation in Mexico is incompatible with the fulfillment of international obligations on the part of Mexico herself and with the main- tenance of tolerable political and eco- nomic conditions in Central America. It is upon no common occasion, there- fore, that the United States offers her counsel and assistance. All America cries out for a settlement. “‘A satisfactory settlement seems to us to be conditioned on— “‘(4)—An immediate cessation of fighting throughout Mexico, a definite armistice solemnly entered into and scrupulously observed; “(B)—Security given for an early and free election in which all will agree te take part; “‘(C)—The consent of General Hu- erta to bind himself not to be a candi- date for election as president of the republic at this election, and, “«(D)—The agreement of all parties to abide by the results of the election and co-operate in the most loyal way in organizing and supporting the new administration. No Reason for Refusal. “‘The government of the United States will be glad to play any part in this settlement or in its carrying out that it can play honorably with international. right. conditions suggested. into consideration the government of | | fhe: Wted States can comeeive of no ‘yeasons sufficient to justify those who | are now attem ig to shape the poli- cy or exercise the authority of Mexico in declining the offices of friendship thus offered. Can Mexico give the civ- iliged world a satisfactory reason for rejecting our good offices? If Mexico | can suggest any better way in which to show our friendship, serve the peo- ple of Mexico and meet our internal | obligations; we are more than willing | to consider the suggestion.’ | Tribute to John Lind, “Mr. Lind executed his delicate and difficult mission with singular tact, firmness and good judgment, and made clear to the ge ae at the City of Mexico not ofily the purpose » of his visit, but also the spirit in which it had been. undertaken. “But the proposals he submitted were rejected in a note, the full text of which I take the liberty of laying before you. “I am led to believe that they were rejected partly because the authori- ties at Mexico City had been grossly misinformed and misled upon ‘two points. They did not realize the spirit of the American people in this matter, their earnest friehdliness and yet so- ber determination for some just solu- tion for the Mexican difficulties; and they did not believe that the present administration spoke, through Mr. Lind, for the people of the United States, “The effect of this unfortunate mis- } understanding on their part is to} feave them singularly isolated and without friends who can effectually eid them. Awaits Awakening. “So long as the misunderstanding continues we can only await the time of their awakening to the realization of the actuci facts. We cannot thrust our good offices upon them; the situa- tion must be given a little more time to work itself out in the hew-Circum- stances; and I believe that only a lit- tle While will be necessary. For the circumstances ate few. The rejection our friendship makes them new id Will inevitably bring its own al- terations in the whole aspect of al- fairs. The actual situation of the au- thorities at Mexico City will present- ly be revealed. “Meanwhile, what ig it out duty to do? Clearly, everything that we do Must be rooted in patience and done with calm and disinterested delibera- tion, Impatience on our part would be childish and would be fraught with every risk of wrong and folly. We can afford to exercise the self-restraint of a really great nation which realizes {ts own strength and scorns to misuse it, It was our duty to offer our ac- tive assistance. It is now our duty fo show what true tieutrality will do to enable the people of Mexico to set their affairs in order again and wait for a further opportunity to offer our friendly counsels. Negotiations Gan Be Résumed. “The door is n6t elosed against the resumption, either upén the initiative of Mexico or upon ouf éwn, of the effort to bring order out éf the ¢on- ; fusion by friendly co-operativé action; would fortunate occasion offer. “While we wait the contest of the rival foxes will undoubtedly for # little en be sharpef than ever, just | Recause™it will be plain’ that an end must be made of the existing situation and that very ;fouiptiy; and with the increased activity 6f the contending factions will come, it is to be feared, increased danger to .thé noncombat- ants in Mexico as well 48 fo those ac- tually in the field of battle. - “The position of outsider# is.always particularly trying and full of hazard where there is civil strife and # whole country is upset. Americans Should Leave. “We should earnestly urge dil Americans to leave Mexico at once, and should assist them to get away in every way possible—not because we would mean to slacken in the least our efforts to safeguard their lives and their interests, but because it is imtiperative that they should take no unnécessary risks when it is physical- ly possible for them to leave the country.. We should let every one who seems to’ exercise authority in any part of Mexico know in the most un- equivocal way that we shall vigilant- ly watch the fortunes of thoses Ameri- cans who cannot get away, and shall hold those responsible for their sut- | ferings and losses to a definite reck- oning. That can and will be made plain beyond the possibility of a mis- understanding. “For the rest, I deem ft my duty to exercise the authority conferred upon me by the law of March 14, 1912, to see to it that neither side to the strug- gle now going on in Mexico recetves any assistance from this side of the border. I shall follow the best prac- tice of nations in the matter of neu- trality, by forbidding the exportation or arms or munitions of war of any kind from the United States to any part of the republic of Mexico—a pol- icy suggested by several interesting | precedents, and certainly dictated by 1 many manifest considerations of prac- tical expediency. We cannot in the circumstances be the partisans of either party to the contest that now distracts Mexico, or constitute our- selves the virtual umpire between them. Other Nations Approve. ordi- wary principles of international obli- such circumstances to act as nearest friend and intimate adviser. rious question that we haye the moral right in the case or that we are act- - ing in the interest of a fair settlement and of good government, not for the promotion of some selfish interest of our own. “If further motive were necessary than our own good will towards a sister republic and our own deep con- cern to see peace and order prevail in Central America, this consent of mankind to what we are attempting, this attitude of the great nations of the world towards what we may at- tempt in dealing with.this distressed people at our doors, should make us feel the more solemnly bound to go to the utmost length of patience and forbearance in this painful and anx- ious business. The steady pressure of moral force will, before many days, break the barriers of pride and pdej- udice down and we shall triumph as Mexico’s friends sooner than we could triumph as her enemies—and how much more handsomely, with how much higher and finer satisfactions of conscience and of honor!’ .. to ——$—SS+——' SLAVERY EXISTS. “IN PHILIPPINES Ad “se Special Report of Commis sioner Dean Worcester. = ‘ “ GIRLS AND SOLD Assertion Made That Members of the Assembly Maintain Peonage on Their Own Farms and Block All Efforts to _ Stop the Traffic. : Re Washiagton, Aug. 26.—Slavety in the full meaning of the word exists throughout the Philippines, even in the city of Manila, and peonage id general in the islands, according to a special report Commissionar Dean Worcester has made to the insular government. It has not been received | by the war department, but copies are in the hands of other officials. 3} Filipinos in parts of the islands cap: ture children and sell them into slav- ery for profit. Some are sent to China, where they are dressed in the native fashion. Some children have - been | enticed from their homes by slave | igents upon promise of scholarships in ; behos/s, and SoMe of those, in am in- stance’ which Mr. Worcester reports in detail, Were sdld and others weré farmed out for money. | | He cites the case of a thirteen-year- oid girl bought for some pigs and a cloak. The stipremé court of thé is lands released the slave trader on tle | grounds that no crinié had been com- | titted because no phygieal force had been used. & : UEt Blocks Slavery Prosectitiord. 7. | ‘This one case, Mr. Worceste? says, | has blocked other slavery progecu- | tions. 3 The Philippifié assembly has biock | ¢d laws for the sitppression of the traf- fic, Hé says, because many of its mem- bers come from proVittces Where slav- ery flourishes. One of his reports on the traffic, he says, lies fabled im the Philippine assembly. 3 Mr. Worcestér declares hé had great difficulty in geétting facts regarding slave cases. atid’ intimates that Be ged Were withleid by fle officers of thé’ ne constabulary. He cites the’ caught red bamded oWiling a slave girin Manila and says: “I could obtain: conclusiv@ Videtice of a hundred, a'thousand, tii thow: sand ofthem, but’ why multipt chses? It is simipty a case of time ancl Work.” He chatges that Philippine 448ém- blymen m&fritain pewmage on thefr’ own farms.: _ 3 Subscribe for — We 5 GUARANTEED PURE PASTEURIZED MILEf: | / ==>