St. Louis Post-Dispatch
November 25, 1917

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And it ts be- i“ 8 ae They Prefer Se crecy out half of. the : | @ that frequently before he is sent to (Therefore it may be well to explain DWARD. MANDELL HOUSE of Austin ( iN lieved that he has yg ne in th HE anonymity of the “back-to-the-wall” ) »), the trenches, just as he is‘given his)to Americans just entering this Tex., and New York is now engaged in ui never “asked” the prod . 19 ro j British aviators is stimulant that | er eae were) Semen th ‘ t tous forei errand that : zi Preetdent’ for eng. xg it i one of the striking pervades Ger- work in the Euro- just what the the most momentous gn Gi : iyi thing. The ap- ‘Britain, recalling iden il tk el many. England is h “then 4 q | any American has undertaken since James Mon- AZ Yyjii) ian: eum tixet g . ey ; f bean training Po Or reeee one San cap 5 SHC | roe went to France in 1803, to buy the Louisiana % PE YY » Pot seenes °C! CNG Re oe ee all have done and are doing doing splendidly ‘! camp, after his fon were planned — Territory from Napoleon ‘Bonaperte. ‘ EG. Gi, 3 Cabinet members, ew with only the magnificent work, and they and is doing it i | course te acey ana executed by a : 7 ae to un- Mr. House, as head of the American commis- ¥ Bq 4 ahich are credited | English Channel are doing it without any de- quietly. But she st poeete oe enpend, sctentifio national mind. orsvane 2eTm="Y | sion to the inter-allied conference in Paris, ba eS fo Kje tnjluened, GTO Taal bee ead sire for the acclaim that am ae »* they trim him off These ‘raids were sent to one must under- believed to repre- {| would’ follow the-telling. of if her necessities . ‘1 with a hate ser- stand Germany’s|* ®°Pe of authority and responsibility and | jthe conflict, ap- ng nacre : a Spee pein keep an English army on mind. Two traits |{reedom from the control of his associates which. sont not” MOUGe's I) vesiates the.tre- their deeds The British “ na ag to | gate sie English soit and out of 4 * te the Ger-| Were described by the Bosten Transcript recent- requests of the || onaous task that aviatora know that their poignant as are | ‘ee edge France, and also to keep En- — ca ef — t ly in these. words: President, but his the United States comrades who lead their those of Germany. | one man mind; a vas Ste has yet : the Germans, to a pew wanes out of consuming ego- As the President's alter ego in Paris he will suggestions in re- 1 has in overcom- | men in going over the top RI . a ) keep the English Mandere. To keep English tism and an abso-| be greeted as the American “Premier without sponse to the Presi- | ing the Atlantic | "emain anonymous, because + asim soldiers and English planes 99 dent’s request for : t this ia racticall necessaril ol wea t and na- ) soldier on his toes . lutely material; Portfolio,” a high commissioner on special Ocean; and there Pp y v tional spirit. She’ : at home makes tt that much service, above and set apart from the Cab- such suggestions. are few of her so, the aviators themselves sgt | in the fight. No philosophy. Vani- , P realizes that -the | easier to win the war. And | fnet and the Congress, sole and supreme From a casual military men who wish to remain ,anonymous. wood of which'the | such sermon is ty and material. | ' sa acquaintance origi- y hei One them had 46 enem ” believe that t r of m y peac ' in the exercise of his authority there and no thought of women and needed for the ism have worked : , | French, nor for children being slaughtered out a Babylonian | subject only to the authority of the President nating a few years || new ally can planes to his credit up to a Dara res: | the Canadians by the bombs will stop the conceit and a Ba-| here. He is not accompanied, as was Mr. ago, the relations of reach anything few days ago. British re- ‘ais ert Pes | | 3 President Wilson like her full mo- serve has never been morc a po Dapeag Ra | Root, by other commissioners who shared his powers and had the right to exercise those powers by imposing advice and participating Germans from their scien- win this finely expressed than in thia war. A young naval off- bylonian ruthless- ness. At every and Mr. Ilouse have grown to that de- ‘mentum in France nor the Austra- in time for. the lians, nor for the ing ahead tow tiflc program to long struggle. She os ew Zealanders. war.. Germans have the crisis Germany have their only civilization. It is a reasons thus: Ger- in conclusions. He is accompanied only by } gree of trust. and smashing fighting cer has very recently re- Saltese the can | Stown private righteous act to spread it, man civilization| #des de camp who will take orders from confidence wherein {| that will charac- ceived the Victoria Cross. outstay Germany. | 14 itemioen. and to smear it on in the is not merely the him and serve him as a staff assigned to the the President feels || terize next spring Through a new form of cam- estes geaamedinnle Yet, barring the blood of noncombatants, greatest civiliza- performance of such duties as he and he only that he can trust his || and summer. ouflage he recently sunk may designate. He will have at his beck and friend in a high || Britain sees no three German submarines in — pt war cos whether of murses or doc- tora, or women and children tion in the world, it is the only civi- peace in 1918, as ‘things stand. Ger- one day, in a way parallel of Weddington's feat of sink- mission of state to be really and truly > colonial troops of _ the English and call not only the American Ambassadors to but Gen. Great Britain Be: France, Great Britain and Italy > the French chas- —makes no difference. The lization in the , ’ oe ahiened , Ms . ‘. go, acting |{' , , ; ¥ | peurs, one who | world if it is saved from its | world. The sec:| ee ws ecBieomesongpany — . as hd would at io" — ~_ ing three British cruisers in mg Sone pg ton -. travels up and highest efficiency must have ond proposition is | “onary force, an ce Admiral Sims, com- himself under sim. || Italy illustrates one engagement early in the . P I dee ‘the wactarn “Germany uber alles,” and that to spread| ™anding the American destroyer force. To EDWARD MANDELL HOUSE. ilar circumstances. || Most strongly the ware-the Abeuily, Ovecbu ent she is spend- oe . be the repository of powers of such sweep Drawn from a copyrighted photograph by the Press Illustrating Co, ! tremendous ad- ‘ ' ing about $33,000.- front of the allies there is no other thought in that civilization Wii: e | and Hogue. But whereas 47 speeches of the ‘‘mysterious influence of Col., Berlin dispatches, following his departure, ex-/| vantage she pos- Weddington at once became 000 a day, her and supremacy is a unique experience for high-water mark. finds no talk of the German mind.—WIL- in the world is sake ni Seuse at the Whits Mine.” | . hatred for the LIAM ALLEN WHITE. the chief end of an American in this or any other day. ea e 7 ite ouse. pressed the view that House had gained little new | 8esses in eing —and will ever remain-—- The President, in his speech at Buffalo last Like all Texans, House was interested in the \ jnformation. ‘able to fight : It was stated in \German . soldier. - man; to deny it, , ie! ; : ' | one of Germany's widcly C indeed, the En- to oppose it, to| week, sald: “I sent a. friend of mine, Col. , Mexican situation, which was the first matter of’ While Mr. House was in Europe, attention was | across a diameter known ¢ea heroes, the young ee ae t fos Tommies are prone to fraternize ) Question the shining superiority of | House, to Europe. He is as great a lover of peace international importance with which the Wilson | attracted to a paper-covered novel which ‘was| while her adver- British officer ndeiel ina un- oe ae 8 . to William J. Bryan, then Secretary of State, as (tor: a Story of Tiieiadiensh%92 rf) 1935. ” The book | pelled to fight oe 7 another 12 months | the few with whom the men Great Britain’s pe . Hun fares well. the allies against the Hun is not Canadians are Kind to prisoners once jother civilization {s even tolerable, is they come behind the lines of the allies, and. no one ever heard of a French . chasseur lifting a hand against « ‘German in prison camp— it he dbeyed the regulations. And so far as that goes the German is gen- ally giad enough to be a prisoner and does his work well. morning or coming home at night years of bitter hardship; has made : --@ soldierly, well-set-up man, gen-) Germany walk through death at Ver erally marching in squads, times in troops and never heavily } smiling; has made Germany send the pguarded. Those handsome fellows are | ># of the old draft-—-men captured in “/ the ‘first two years ot the war. " he draft today is a scrubbier lot. It marches poorly, it doesn’t do a good day's work—not because it is ugly about it. Heaven knows it is docile enough, but the work isn’t in it. Yet this draft, composed of the landsturm, and the boys anw the de- 7 , of the people back of the firing line ae the Hun, even the imprisoned (of epiritual degradation. The resentment of » on & peace mission; I sent him to take part in a conference as to how the war is to be won; and he knows, as I know, that that is the way to get peace, if you want it for more than a few min- utes.” a moral infraction which deserves ex- termination. Keep the fact always in mind that this not: the Kaiser's cult alone, that this is not the creed exclusively of the military feadalism | / of the Junker class, but that this f doctrine is the mainspring which has /| \ ‘held Germany together for three Power.in Texas Politics. Ou ~-. tt et ee ee a ae eee ee For 20 years, before the presidential campaign of 1912, Mr. House was known. as a Warwick in Texas politics. His father had been a Houston banker and cotton factor, and his holdings of Texas land and other property were estimated at $1,500,000 in value. He did not attend political conventions, and was not acquainted with poll- ticians of the smaller sort, but he was credited with having brought about the choice of three successive Governors of Texas, who were Culber- son, Sayers and Lanham. He had a New Yark residence and.a summer home at Magnolia, Mass., and it was in the East, and not in Texas, that he became connect- ed with the Wilson campaign. He had met Gov. In the some-{ dun, behind the stupid Crown Prince best she breeds to the shambles with- out wincing: has made Germany stalk unquestioning through famine which is cutting off the old people in winrows as a scythe and is with- ering the babies like a plague. Monumental conceit for German civilization and a moral sense blunt- ed to accept any deed which would seem to help that civilization, these jerman heart and reveal its depths ceils, were matters of- note in 1912, but it was after President Wilson’s inauguration that the in her war- | general public realized the importance of the po- scien- Germany is scientific ‘fare—scientific without mercy, tt at ee a a ee ee he was to President Wilson, and he is known to have been consulted by both in regard to Mex- ico. How far his recommendations were fol- lowed, however, has never appeared. It was be- lieved that he favored recognition of the Car- ranza Government some time before the Presi- dent was ready for such a step. John Lind, a Bryan man from Minnesota, was the President’s official envoy to Mexico during the Huerta regime there. Early in 1915, after the war had been in prog- ress six months, House went to Europe. He visited London, Paris and Ber!t{n, and talked with leading officials-of the British, French and Ger. man Governments. After his return, in the fol- lowing June, he said he had not gone on an offi- cial mission, and had not carried any peace pro- posals on the President's behalf. But, he said, he had been in communication with President Wilson, as {t was natural that “old friends’’ should communicate with each other. He said for publication, following his return, that there was little indication of an early peace. In January, 1916, a year after his former voy- age, House went to the three warring countries again, this time avowedly at the President’s re- | | in the name Mandell House, which was the scene of the occurrences described in the book. book was of revolutionary trend, and told of the defeat of a plan of a syndicate of millionaires to control a presidential election. Philip Dru. leading a revolt against the methods of the mil- lionaires, proceeds to reorganize the Government in the interest of the people. A new allotment of the Government’s powers, and new railroad and corporation methods, are reforms which Dru was pictured as establishing. Dru formed a peace alliance with England, “cleaned up” Mexico and united it with the Central into one nation. American republics : issued anonymously, but a clew was scented | ( Neither Affirms Nor Denies On his return, among many other questions, House was asked about “Philip Dru.”’ clined to say that he was or was not its author. “A good many things are attributed to me,” was his comment. “I never affirm or deny them.” Following his report to President Wilson, in unofficial inconspicuousness. The nearer ap- proach of the war to America, and the final en- trance of this country into the war, overshad- owed all personalities except those whose activity The | He de-' around the cir- /cumference of that diameter. Far greater re- sults are possible to the allies in 1919 than in 1918, and men ih high ‘history. ‘| Premier May Visit U. S. ' England’s Prime Minister, George, may cross for a short visit to Canada and the next year if events permit his ab- It is a possibility. comes America will understand him at once and it will like him immense- sence. Colonel's physical ally mentioning 1920 as the possible year for the peace conference. The United States must look ahead to two years of hard fighting at the very least, and the nation faces the hard- est task and the severest test in its as alert and quick as a boy. A few Sunday afternoons ago came the bad of the navy come in contact. Neither the name of the man nor description of what he did will be printed.—C. M. LINCOLN. and the gether. places are gradu- 000,000,000, national debt wil! be equal to the prewar national debts of France, Germany, Austria- Hungary, Russia United States added _ to- But Bonar Law out that Germany is in far worse state, having spent thus far §$23.- not amounts she has advanced to her al- lies. Bonar Law draws this picture points including the of the relative financial positiona of Lloyd United States If he heaviness. He Is the two countries: today Great Britain could meet her interest on the national debt and her current expenditure out of present revenue, whereas Germany woitild have to raise many hundreds of mil- lions or declare herself bankrupt. . Ask anyone in London when the If the war ceased ) , ter was first becoming a pres- “fectives, is treated decent)y by the/are the keys to the interior situa- Wilson when the lat ~ allies, and in spite of the bitterness ,tion in Germany. They unlock the |!dential possibility. His growing closeness to { Goes to See Diplomats } March, 1916, on the result of his observations and|!¥- Im some ways he is much like omaha going to end and you may get the candidate, and his weight in campaign coun-;\ consultations in Europe, House lapsed into an Roosevelt, especially in the matter aie: of energy. He has not, however, the { “Positive evidence have I none, But my aunt’s charwoman’s sister's Heard a policeman on his beat ~ : +..:. |Sition he had come to occupy. H both said th against the German soldiers, though )\tifie without the restraining Chris- quest. The President and House both sa e fi m as agents of German officialdom Ger- / tian conscience which has bound| Téxas, to all intents and purposes, got two purpose of the journey was to convey certain } was of the most public sort, and only an occa- news from Italy. A hurried confer- { 58y weir ro: os ae seen er i places in the new President's Cabinet. Besides {information to the American Ambassadors. The (sional dispatch told of House’s movement, until | ©@°® followed at the famous little That 4 > house at Walton Heath and Robert- frien ete = # man soldiers have done all the awful oe. “or the “Boche!” And neither stead of these restraints only mili- carries poison with it. s Hatred of Germany. ea how Burope does hate Germany merely the Kaiser; not even the Hohenzollerns; not even te Junkers alone, but Germany—all | % ° fee , the docile, stupid, hypno- }aecepted beliefs of the nation. | Germany that celebrated thes ; of the Lusitania, that en- jman egotistic ruthlessness fit the | dorse the submarine. that stands | ‘facts of the so-called German atroct. ag . the enslavement of captive French ities that it may be well to consider | : 2 in Belgian civillans, that applauded |in review for a moment these atroci- ) the’rs coke that has backed ;ties, not as the mad deeds of a blood- | House.” ’ of the war lords ‘crazed nation, but as the sclentitic | cae, ones ‘humanity together in certain accept- | P! Postmaster-General Burleson, who was officially ident of the Texas Agricultural and Mechanical College and a neighbor of ‘House in Austin. tary necessity. The military hus re. placed the civil consclence in Ger. many—not merely junkerdom but through the nation. The small group of protesting German pactifists does ( (not affect the actual conduct, nor the | to the House influence—that of Attorney-General Gregory, a Texan. *eeeeeeteneer Dubbed “Assistant President” } The President's critics had much to say about the quiet man from, Texas. Col. George Harvey, editor of the North American Review. who had | been known as the original Wilson man, but had ceased working at that occupation, devoted some of his wittlest paragraphs to “Assistant President Pe So exactly does this thoery of Ger- President in 1916, referred “in his campaign ; Continued (on Page {Ten. Later, a third Cabinet appointment ‘was’ credited Charles E. Hughes, Republican candidate for) Secretary for Foreign these Cogsultations has Dever been made public. { ~~~" Gontinyed on Page Five. Ambassadors could not leave their posts, and the The Lusitania issue, between the United States and Germany was then unsettled and the matter ‘of ‘American complaints agafnst British blockade methods and detention of mails was also a pend- ing issue. In London, besides his conferences with .officials of the. British Government, House talked with Count Wrangell, Swedish Minister (to England, as to the attitude of neutrals toward mail seizures, the question of such seizures being then an acute controversy between Sweden and Great Britain. In Berlin, besides conferring at Jength with Ambassador Gerard, House talked with Foreign Minister von Jagow, Chancellor von Betbmann- Hollweg and Alfred Zimmermann, then Under Affairs. The substances of a few weeks ago. explanations and qualifications. It was plainly stated that the President did not expect the war to end at any certain time, and that no expecta- tion of an early peace was indicated. All the same, many persons, in this country and in Ger- many, jumped at the conclusion that the Prest- dent was making @ move for peace. More explanations followed, and it was said that House would be expected to gather data on special problems of worl! reorganization, such as the intricate problems of the Balkans. the Polish question and the status of the Jews and Armenians, with many other matters which are bound to be of importance in the peace negotia- | The other a)- | tions, whenever they may come. ee Ne ee? Ste — Le a Tee ‘én George put his determination and convinced of the triumph of the al- lies. Events In England have made the ‘Prime Minister almost a man ed by a candie on elther side, Lioyd cares completely ; aside and for an hour gave himself over to the sonorous music of the old Welsh hymns he dearly loves. Later that night he wrote the speech which he read) in Commons the next afternoon in praise of the navy and the army of the empire—a speech which carried. comfort and insptra- tion into every home in England. He is a man of uncommon courage and he is absolutely In the streets of London there ate Who KNEW when the war was going deeds which have turned civilization ed kindnesses more or less for a thou- ' away from Germany in revolting hor- (sand years. Germany has aban- (Credited to Texas, it was realized that Secretary } President could not go to them, and he desired a/ In the middle of October it was officially an-| 8°, Britain's chief of staff, was to end.” w: _ yor. Im Europe at least men draw ‘doned the common restraints upon |Of Agriculture Houston, then a resident of St. {fuller statement of their views than he could get {nounced that House had been requested by Pres- | Tushed off for Itely. An hour or so It is-becoming an easy and increas- ef a a. mark between Germany and the barbarism which the human ciyi] | Louls, did not owe his appointment to any influ- )through the channels of correspondence. So )ident Wilson to gather information and data for later.the Prime Minister was sing- ingly tasty porstar way of answering the German soldiers. The Germans are ‘conscience has erected during the ence in this city or State. Before coming to St. (Houss’s errand was in a high degree one of dis- {use of the American commission to the peace| ing Welsh hymns for his guest. With | a “Huns.” The German soldier is Christian era. Germany knows in. | Louisa few years before, he had been the pres- )cretion and confidence. conference which should eventually end the war.|@ little old hymn book, propped up | | BS This announcement was made with all possible | on the small upright plano and light- Infinite Variety of Uniforms,”