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THE SOUTH NORWALK
EVENING SENTINEL
ESTABLISHED BY
JAMES GOLDEN.
E L. ANDA. L GOLDEN,
PROPRIETORS.
SiONDAY. AUGUST :7 1914!,
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over their lines without {barge
little later Western railroads were re-
ported to have offered their coopera-
tion. and now as passengers arrive?
from Europe the} will be able to pro
oeed home without delay. Whether"
they hale any mone3 or nor.
Mani oi the stranded t0urists will
repay the railroads. just as the) will
THE SOUTH NORWALK EVENING SENTINEL I
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LIEGE SCENE or GREAT BATTLE, AND BELGIAN KING ALBERT.
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KONDAY. AUGUST 17, 1914
The Great
Em fi fi #_ 7 __,. A __ rt-pu)‘ the l'nited States government
for tho— rellef afforded But there is .
HINIATURE ALMANAC FOR , _ _ _ I!
TOMORROW_ no pledge emitted lll either case. it , as
High tide 8:13 a. m.: 8213 p. m. is enough to know that the benem'iary Ii
Sun mes 5506'- sets 5146' in an American citizen. stranded ‘ . fl
4 —- ~ abload through no fault of his own. . "3
EVENING SENTINEL TELE. \Hiile virtue may be its own re- earl“ 4 a e a
PHONE CALLS ward. the railroads will lose nothing . HI
gz‘z-gews Degutfltmtnt in the long run by this liberality. HI
92-3— usmcss epa m . , i
use -—Branch Office Norwalk ’"F‘ Goes on With Greater Vigor .3
_ '90 —-Editor’s Residence AN AMERICAN VICTORY. h E ii
‘385-12—City Editor's Residence. At last the Panama Canal is open. t all vet. ll
‘2‘“ IchR‘D' M. BOUTON it is ready for navigation nearly halt II
' R a year sooner than the engineers ‘Nr AK
.. l‘ d .\l. Bouton, 9pm 9‘
in the death 0f mi ”:1 los fan promised when they started tlle Dig This eek Eve‘y D at Offers "-
- . ' ,' 1 l8 5 O . IN
the (omniumt3 “mans . enterprise. That alone is a triumph New Bafgallls II
estimable citizen and The Sentinel a . , \
3 of American efficiency. The ships of" II
faithful and valued employee. for the world may now so through in N L R . M
It 1 i has been ' , mu ..
, m... l. B... o. on M“ “mm “m“ of, ew etc are u into the Sale to ,,
sdperintendent of the mechanical de- l
partmeiit of this paper During that
lobg period he has been painstaking
it: his duties and cheerful in every
lllze is 10,000 tons.
When one trou-
blesome little section of the Culebra
cut is crimpleted the greatest naval
and commercial giants may pass.
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be Cleared Out
Come expecting greater
at Sensational
Value Giving Prices.
bargains' than we ever offered
‘ll 1 as called on to per- 1
Wk whit le “ tWithin the hours of an ordinary work
form His business associates will.
ml hi C t h“ ing mild ing day they can accomplish a voyage,
our eous o
as m g which has always taken weeks
mannered, he gathered about him a
' months.
before and you won't be disappointed. Come before the
most tempting offerings are gone. 3.3mm."-
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1hr Cll_\' of Liege bore the self 111 war Willi no fcwcr than dom would be overcome by a few
01‘ brunt of thc militar3 opc.iatiun.~‘ five goicrnmcnts. Ihc gallant ”mu‘allll lr‘lol’5~ llll’) scnt 100"
liii tlic li"uloptan war for scicral «lticrisc of licgc b3 tht fortcs of 000 afttr ”u" my ”PM“? king.
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idion of warm personal friends. As
a Qcitizen his loss will be mourned, but
in the home circle hisdcparture will be
keenly felt. lie was an ideal home
man and greatly appreciated the home
. _ of loved
l
ties and companionships
ones.
The Sentinel gives testimonial to
4tions.
'It’s an old story now. And in
How of the tremendous events in Eur- 41mm in Europe sitterssfulh tlc~ tn llic pimple of F tiropc. I he (ici- (itrtnalis
ested in it But when the smoke of
battle has cleared away, we shall see
‘this achievement in its true propor-
We shall probably come to
'will he still more thoroughly German
regard it——thls peaceful victorv over
his sterling character and worth as
a [citizen, and extends to the bereaved
members of his famil3 heartfelt sym-‘
pptliy. I
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NORWALK 5 GOVERNMENT i
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.Under the about heading. the
B.dgepon Sunday Post published the in this counti3 by the sudden rise of _two powers now
.food prices has checked the upward Europe
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following editorial:
ffTho City of Norwalk has not yet
.toi'rnally begun the investigation of
The old district system is in vhgue;
there as in Bridgeport and the fact
. makes the district s3stein all , thei
supra .obioCtionsbie. V
.l ' With mandated to the Common.
Council by districts, the old sectional
dealing is maintained. Prominent
‘Norwalk men believe the commission
plan which does not recognize the
districts in the election of a commis-
on would be much better. The fact
.gthotwanyone can be a candidate by las-
lcurlng a petition of 100 names is a
great factor of simplicity and places
the rule directly in the hands of the
people, for the consent of a party boss
‘ that of a political convention does,
tiihave' to be obtained under the'
.xmln‘xnissiou plan.
‘ ' fine of Norwalk‘s prominent officials
insanity stated his belief that the
state should pay the expenses ofa
undldatos election and therefpre
snake it just as easy for a poor man
,to become elected to office as a rich
'mn. This is a somewhat novel idea,
utxilt has adegree of fairness that
lipappe‘ai to many."
NMD osusnosrrv.
The railroads have been accused of
the material obstacles of a continent
—as a greater triumph than any Eur
, ter.
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THE FIGHT AGAINST EXTORTION.‘
The unherssl indignation amused
trend and in many cases has compell-
ed a decline. Much of this w-hole
ill! Commlsl‘iOD form lll' government lsomo effect was doubtless produced books
but according to all accounts, it is by the starting of public luv-eatiga fray it may be regarded as certain
dissatisfied with its present charter. tiona simultaneously at Washington that Greece will ,0,“ the Frenchitus-
which is cumbersome and unwieldly and in many states and cities. which sian English Belgian- Servian -.\lon-
put‘fear into the hearts of speculators
and extortlouara No less pow erful,
consumers, and their refusal to ‘pay
war prices in times of peace and
plenty.
Solemn. inquiries by congress, by
attorney generals, district attorneys
and citizens‘ committees are excellent
in their way: but far more effective
is the education of the general public
to the real economic situation and the
to be mulated. Law is powerful. but
the people who do the buying are out
nipotent.
The most important factor in this
economic crisis is the woman of
America. They hold the purse strings
of the nation. bf they will not stand
for extortion. not all the entrenched
land. can hold put tossinst them.
If the problem cannot: be solved by
publicity had peaceful resistance.
there remains the 4alternativo
lighting war prices with war mess.
urea. The police poster of the United
States is as great as that of any for-
eign natioii'. if, in spite of big crops
and slotted markets, we are held up
for prices in- higher than the people
of Belgium pay in the very vortex of
the European war zone-Attica, as the
New York Wot-id pointy out. , our
government can properly Adopt the
autumn woodcut»! Wormhole
‘ limiting pic exportation it! loud to
Europe. That woulduiuiokllt. 19ft prio-
so down to their, who do 1,. with
'and liroslnu through real or ostensi-
quiet determination of that- public not l
monopoly and speculative greed in the ’
at
out has: much an to mum on“ 4 ”.
days. llilc of tlic litthzst king-.1
she appropriates the warships Goebeu
ble purchase, the bulk of her navy
She fears Russia—with good reason::
for Russia wants control of the:
loptan nation has won through slaugh- 'Bosporus and Dardanelles to let hcr‘,
bottled iieet out of the Black Sea and,
-give her an ice free port on the thcdi-I
teriancsn. if Turkey enters the winr,
it will doubtless be as an all3 of the:
fighting combined
Turkey and Greece are still w-;at<h-
ing each other like a pair of lighting-
lf Turkey jumps into the‘
tenegrsn group “e mu3 then haie
a new Balkan war added to the hor-
4 thin Norwalk and South Norwalk have however, was the pressure of public tors 0,, the greater conflict to the,
' recently become united in one citY. sentiment as evidenced by millions of n.0rthwest
Bulgaria and Romania
may be forced to take part. the
latter siding presumably with Russia
and her allies and the former, despite
-her"Slavic blood. joining her recent.
enemy Turkey and helping Austria
and Germany
Never in history has there been a
.
'Europo's vaunted “diplomacy," which
makes it impossible for any nation to
plunge into the abyss oi war without
dragging others with her and entail.
ing disasters impossible to foresee
and out of all proportion to the orig
trial act. 4
:w rl'H :OTMIR. SOLTORS
An upstate Democrat visiting-
Bridgeport the otherday said from
what. he heard in the northern tier of,
commas, while on his travels he
Would not be surprised to sue Mahani
naméd .for senator and Lander: for,
governor upon the first ballot in the
Democratic convention next month-
Bridzeport Post. ;
m.:—e
Tansolng must answer to s more
minus charge that: merely wasting
.tims.snd hoopla! people up late. Mitts
Catherine T. Casts a trained nurse.
«says that the spread of the tango
ozone in New cm into been raincoat-4
bio for a marked increase in the
number of oases of tuberculosis. Miss
Ooots, who has had several years” c:-
parlance in Néw York hospitals and
who hulx'tven special study to pub
14.
Calls Bryan Shame of the Nation
War of such punling complexity The hit-7r stulc
’urday, his subcct linihg‘ni’ast
world ‘5 reaping the full frullage 0: ant and Future" ills spccch is given
lfntt ry us named in the report of
4thn factory inspector of Connecticut
for misunderstanding b3
‘ newspapers
state.
" obr'opa bag which can be mods
\ing \lllctt has been a rt3clziti0nl
lope we may not be particularly llllel‘ tittl tlit nation which lilit)i\L‘(l it— ill ”in rltiilimitu thouclit tlic kiiitz- tunic tn Killilulrt him
Alht rt himself took the field and
Mllltllflllll ll) lloil llic llltrt'lSlllg
till 80000 Frenchmen
HI 1 AHABKS
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llllil nun
it nitrite
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iAf Big Republican Gathering ”9|!-
uuls for Dvorlut‘il of House
and Senate.
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wuu nun "Ti
,llHHHE Hi .HiflllHiS
Months Tariff Neces-
sary ior Prosperity
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Former Congressman E. J Hill
one one of the chief speakers at the
gnthcilng at Bridgeport Sflt~
Pres-
in full below.
lion. E. J. Hill‘s Speech.
“Mr. Chairman. ~'—'l3wo years ago I
worked against the iqdmt of rach
the reduction in tariff rates which
the Democratic party prt‘lposcd to
make if given the power to do so.
There was not the slightest room
any \oter
in the state These rates were read
at the factory gates. printed in the
in large t3pe, and dis.
tributed thoroughly ill] over the~
Mr. Underwood had declar-
ed the intent to be the elimination at
protection and th putting of foreign;
trade on a con‘uie'titlve basls with
our own.
Sail Tariff “'asa Dam on Prosperity
“Woodrow Wilson had declared‘
that the protective tnrlt’t was to gain
against which prosperity had backed
up. and he wanted to break it down
and let: it. 'flnd a. field greater than
Amanda itself." «
“governor Baldwm with greater
caution; said: ‘Ws could not justly
Ducklegltimate lbusiness into bank:
ruptoy. but we could justly reduce it.
to o. petition where it must compete
with drum in similar lines abroad.”
Committee, through its mouthpiece
Mr. “Palmer; admitted that 'it «night
atop a wheel or drive he smoke
from a chimney hero or ere. but it
' " d ubtdely, to some extent‘
l:
echoed that lnon‘uu
nouns mutt in mfl‘ maple buml
Jere tho here. while wd
‘tti the disappointment of their leader
’ "a harbour-ails leys and Mesa-l
, lnormed exports and '
artist-Mint or trade» wu‘ ‘
«that which on»: u
put forward lmldl) by the free trade
cit-men: of the (‘tllltlll growing states.
“it only remained for u liunury
and thirsty northern llclllot'i‘tir'y to
“'llllx struicht into the train which
With not for it. and for u lurgc num-
ltcr" of honest Progressives. filled
with a burning desire to sl'nuuithize
and in promote the policies which lie
naval-uteri. to act lndcllcndcntly of
their forliitr party associates. Many,
Republicans. for various rctisungfi
voted ‘iht- Dctnocrmic ticket.
“Hill of such .‘l combination of
('irf‘ulllliiullt‘cs. :1 strong (rec trade:
minority snatched success, and thei
cause of it true protection. which
had become committed to thc estah- I
lishniorlt of a permanent non- -partl-l
arm thrift commission. received a sot- l
back in this country for at least four:
3tnrs.
“it was not ignorance of Demo-
cratic intentions. but disbelief of
Democratic sincerity in cunning:
them out. which was the exuuse.
that many of their tcinlmlar3 allies
nil‘ct'cd. They know better now and
thc tuition is pining dcurl3 for their
incretlulilya so much for tithe post.
“hot of the Present?
“\\ but of the present”?
“We have now in the White House
u brilliant talker tum phrase-maker,
but u man who puts party leadership
above presidential responsibility. and
claims that his executive energies
are limited to those things specified
in his pnrti' platform. And well he
may for while he had an overwhelm-
ing maturity of his party 3'ote, he fell
short of an endorsement or n iris.-
Jortty of .the whole people. by more
than n million votes.
"We have now in the State depart-
ment, its premier of tho administra-
tion. a man who has achioicd the
distinction of being beaten three
times for the presidency. and Who
is now the scar performer for a
Chuumnpua vaudetville circuit.
34!”?! in Imme- '
“Think of tin advertisement gulch
as lately dppeared in a western news.
, paper: New York City Marine band:
A3011 ,Sketch cluh: English Opera
Qintet. Neapolitan Troubadors, Wil-
liam Jennings Bryan; Eliot :A. Boyle
Sears. the Taffy Man; Lorenzo
zwyckey; Ed. Amherst on. All the
supreme pleasure «this royal feast
is yours for the mere payment of a.
few pennies a session under the sea~
son tickot4plan." "
‘ "The story is current now that not
.. long ago theseorotary :was awakened
in the, night by the cry of William,
William. wake up. You are talking
in your sleep and losing money every
minute. "
It was at Bryan's“ instigation that
the resident named Pindell as am-
baspador to Greece. with the report-
ed understanding that they should
resign in a. year and so- "have n va-
nation abroad «and the. pillvllege 'of
cavortlng with royalty at the ex’penso
of the pnltnd vStataesp 44 4
. an alumni! “he in.
“It to site of the spooiitl features of
this Democratic administration that
fior the first limo» in all! Notary the
bird ranking official of the United
States has shamed the flatten obi-odd
so looked upon as a joke 4:;-
.Tlllnkh of Gladstone in England
Bismark in Germany, Seward and
13mm in the patted States. and
.tltmi ink of Briton! ‘
“But what about the law-making
' “Work Times,
a. “Democrfltlc paper. said
sue of atlas-oh 4. M34,“
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,Jl'hcn a Southern
’ . neared before a Vermont court and
. tax or nationally. and illicit the Free
, Traders of the South were in control
n torolln «WNW
a Democratic majority of two-thirds
:t {cw kccn politicians from the
South orgunlzed u secret part3 cau-
cus 33 herein thch cotton growing
states held absolute central. that
they took to themselves every impor-
tum committee ohaumanomp. and
,that from March 4,1913 till now
inn constructive legislation of any
kind has been conddorod until the
northern Democracy has been bound
hand and tool. in a caucus \ote on
it
Democratic .Tlu'cot.
"As I sat in the House when the
tariff bill passed and saw Oscar Und-
erwood turn to the Republican side
and shake his fist warningly, dc-
clnrinit in effect that if manufactur-
es took such steps as. in their judg-
ment were mood-can to protect
themselves from the disastrous ef-
fects of the measure there was a bur-
cuu of the go3ernment whose agents
had the power to walk into their
offices and ascertain thhc reason
why. I wondered upon what kind of
meat our new Caesars had been feed-
ing, during the previous two months
that they had been in «mum of the
Nation by grace of a political fluke
of the polls. .
The Good Old Dan.
"I was reminded of an incident
in what the Democrats still call
"the good old days before the war,"‘
Sial‘e-ow‘ner ap-
demandad poacossion of a. runaway
slave. His papers were ln dorm.
his proof and legal ownership was
clear. for then as now. in the mys-
tery of Providenoaand by the aid of
'.\ort.liern “Dawson" the south-
ern chi3 airy were makinz luvs for
thlie Northern mechanics. the "Mud-
sllls of creation" as they called them.
But the Vermont judge ultrahigh”
or law in mind. and declared than
every man who trod Green Mountain
soil was free. unless a. bill of sale
from the Almighty was brought to
prove right or ownership of human
flesh and blood. t
0 For More Backbone.
" 0 for more backbone in the
Northern Representatives.
"0 for at least one Democratic
Representative min Cormecticut like
Lewis Sperry from Hartford. who, inr
1894. when the Wilson bill: was up.
ioted against it declaring that "it
was intentionaly drawn to create a
deficiency, and to make an income
of the House" and that: he proposed
to stand by his constituents in Gon-
nectiout.
‘P‘Ehlnk of the allbllme “center!
of Oscar Underwood “in comm:
Northern manufacturers. and of
President ”Wilson denouncing is lot».
piglets one man :who ariatuto Attic
Mann's capital to try to keep chair
doom Romanians ‘
the Whole state of Alabama
with. double the populatiOu of Con-
motiout. than no but taunt) pet's-4
ons. engaged in monhfa bring Dur-
claws“ Honcho m'mra are
50 000 woman in Component tset-
orlos who hawo'
whatever in making
ought to protest
chance lor an hon
«d no voids, .
w‘s which 4
STGN
ua'tna-ua‘lvutna-n‘
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chulrman of the l-lnance committee
in the Senate.“ with practical power
to name the rate of wngcs in Con-
nectlcut and to fix thhe prices of tho
pr?dC.lmtd°f our factories
' au e Kitchen, a free trade
who declared in the House that the;
intended to continue their tariff leg-
islation so as “to compel the cotton
mills (it New England to mo3e to the
Southern states. "
"Wh3. Connecticut alone with only
one-quarter of the pOpulatlon of
North Carolina and Alabama has a
hundred million more dollars in\cst-
ed in manufacturing that both of
them put together. employs about
5 percent more men and women
wage earners than both of them find
pays annually 80 percent more wag-
es than the total payrolls of both
states
Lick The Dust “at Tlicir Fcct.
"And yet five Connecticut repres-
entatives for the sake of a little
contemptible patronage. humbly lick
the dust at their feet and allow the
welfare of their own people to be
sacrificed and the process of “Get-
ting even" with New England go
merrll3 on.
“What are the actual results of the
retenue tariff bill for which these
men \pted?
“I am not going into thd details of
unused cars, reduced traffic on rail-
roads, factories closed 'or on short
time, idle men and women, shrinkage
ofdstock values and- suapendpd divid-
en 3
"Every man knows his own un-
fortunate experience for the past
eight months better than another can
$011 it to Mm. But the President has
learned that when the dam is brok-
en down American prosperity flows
out. and the European brand of
prosperity which is not wanted here,
flown in maul a. common level is
reached.
'1‘ o
heory
Go3. Baldwin has seen his delight/-
fol theory of cheap food and pro-
tected factory products shattered into
«merits. Champ Clark realizes now
that the prosperity _ which he said
was to blossom like the roses the
idly-«the tariff bill passed. has chang-
ed from an American rose to a for-
sign skunk cabbage.
“Oscar Underwood finds that his-
estimate of receipts of 70 million at
dollars of revenue from the income
tax, has shrunken to one year of the
New Freedom. to about so million
and that anywhere nearly to meet
foreign deficiencies, it must be ex- ,
tended to the English basis of all
incomes in excess of 8600 per year.
thecies Unflllod.
"All of the marvellOus prepheclos
that wages would be raised and the
products of with: .reduced. are al-
ready turned copsyoturvy. by rt mass
4,, increased cost of living. and a.
greatly reduced earning, power. '
.“No man can point to any industry
.1 trigtho United States which'has been
benefited by this revolutionary
economic mlmout.d1 and I doubt it
there to a division. except
an im ‘ ’off loo-
lt. and
ill out
Who! ~{ville
4.:ll4l these
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Norwalk Chronicler