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t All I A I HERALD. T'"TR8DAJ. OCT. 1A, 1917 the ALLIANCk HERALD Lloyd 0. Thomas, Editor John W. Thomai, Associate Editor Oeorge Edick, City Editor Published Every Thursday by THE HERALD PUBLISHING COYIPANY Incorporated Lloyd C. Thomas, President J. Carl Thomas, Vioe Pres John W. Thomas, Secretary Entered nt the dor t office at Alliance, Nebraska, ofr transmit- ion through the mailN bk second-class matter IN ADVANCK SUBSCRIPTION PKICK. 1.W I'KK If vour eonv of The Herald dor not reach yon regularly or aat lafactorilv. vou ahould phone 340 or drop a card to the office. The beat of service is what we are anxious to give, so don't hesitate to notify us without delay when you miss your paper One of the most remarkable features of the successive exposures of German plots is the evidence of the complete confidence on the part of both Ib-rnstorlT and his ngents that their plans would succeed tnd that their tracks would remain covered. It seemed to be assumed (hat the I'nited States could be readily controlled by Germany and that all those who assisted, whether foreign, naturalized or renegade, would share richly in the gn at reward. Such cofidencc ia evident in BcrnstorfT's telegram to his government on September 15 of last year, wherein, referring to the earlier "fruitful" operations of the "em bargo conference," he stated that the same was "just about to enter Xiipon a vigorous campaign to secure a majority in both houses of Congress, and requests further support. What the American pub lic would like to know is the total of these successive corruption funds, just how they were employed, who agreed to do the Kaiser a work, and how many reaolutioua in Congress, like the one explicitly mentioned, were the direct result. TRIBUTE TO AN ALLIANCE CITIZEN Lieutenant Governor Edgar Howard, in his editorials in th Columbus Telegram of October 5th, made some very complimentary remarks regarding an Alliance man who at the present time holds the office of postmaster. Postmaster Graham may blush a little when he reads the tribute of the gentleman who will soon bo governor of the state, but it is well deserved. The editorial reads as follows: I am a believer in and lover of men. I have often been styled a bore-worshipper, and the styling carries with it no shame. Yes, it is wickedly true that in the world are many men not worthy of worship, but also many in whose presence the very gods might appropriately stand uncovered. One day last week 1 visted ranch friends in the "potash" district in the sand-hills section of Nebraska. Much has been published about the marvelous development of the potash indus try in that section. Indeed that new industry has been bringing to many people vast riches as quickly as a Wallingford might seek to acquire them. I know one rancher who is now daily drawing a revenue of $2,000 from a sand-hills lake which four years ugo was regarded as a dangerous nuisance, ho dangerous that he had to fence his cattle away from its poisonous waters. But I started to tell the atory of a man 1 love, rather than a iiotash story. This man owns a large ranch n tar Alliance. On the ranch are many little lakes, al more or less imp; gnated with potash and kindred minerals. My friend is a cow man and not a miner, and so he paid little heed to tht potash excitement which has so enriched and excited his neighbor hood. But the potash prospectors continued to hound him for per mission to exploit the potash lakes on his land, and at last he verb allyally gave permission to a local company to put up a plant anc extract potash from the waters of two little lakes which assayed promisingly, the company agreeing to give him ten per cent of all potash values taken from the lakes. Last Wednesday evening I left the ranch and journeyed with my friend to his home town of Alliance. There he was approached by some wealthy potash operators from a distant city. They asked him if he had sold the potash privileges upon certain of his lakes. He said he had not, but also stated that he had told other parties he would let them work his lakes on a royalty basis. Tin upon the wealthy visitors informed him they would allow him th -mine royalty which the other fellows had offered, and addition oul ' pay him a cash bonus of ten thousand dollars if he would give th mi writing the same agreemeu he had virtually given to the other nspectors. And then the noble fellow replied: "Sure $10,000 is ;i , bit of money to pick up in a day, but of course I could not accept t.. money, because I gave my word to the other fellows." But th visitors insisted he had not signed any papers, and was entirely free to take the money and make a new deal with them. The only reply of my friend was: "You do not seem to under stand me. I told you that I had given my promise to the other fel lows." And so I am never ashamed when men call me a lover of men and a hero- ('shipper, and in the cateirorv of living heroes I behold none m ire noble than my ranch friend, Robert Graham, who would not break ' is spoken word for $10,000. SUBSCtllPTi OKI AN EVIDENCE OF GOOD NEWSPAPER A new spa r or magazine is usually judged hy its subscription list. A newspaper in a town the size of Alliance must he "there with the goods" i its subscription list will not increase The Alliance Herald has placed itself at the top in this section of the state by avoiding sensational methods and by continuing week after week, issue after issue, to give its readers all the news. That this is a paying proposition from a circulation standpoint is proven to out satisfaction by the constant and steady increase in regular sub scribers. None of the Herald's competitors even attempt to com pare circulation any more they were left far down the line long ago. But this has not caused us to lessen our efforts to give our readers all the news. During the week ending October L3th B total of 109 now sub scribers were added to our list. True, this was an exceptional week, but it is now a regular thing for the week's end to show a good, big list of new readers. We welcome these new readers each week into The Herald's family. We feel that every new reader adds to the field of inlluence of this paper. We know that it widens the market for our advertisers. And we intend to show our appreciation of our constantly increasing scope by continuing to give all the news each issue. THE SAFEST INVESTMENT A boy in Denver earning $10 a week has asked his employer to reserve $1 of it a week and buy for him a $50 Liberty bond. This is but one of many similar instances reported, revealing a patriotic desire among the poor and struggling to contribute a little toward the great fund for a vigorous prosecution of the war. But these inspiring examples of self-denial in the country's cause reveal also good business judgment. The bond buyer receives as well as gives; he not only comes to the aid of the government but makes a good interest-bearing investment, the safest that he could possibly choose. The bond he receives in due course is the best security in the world because iho promise to pay is backed by the faith and honor of the United States, the richest nation in the world. A government bond is the direct and unconditional promise of the United States to pay upon a certain date a specified sum of money in gold, together with interest at a specific rate, payable at stated dates until the bond matures or is called for redemption. The government of the United States has never failed to pay its bonds when due and never will fail. The great corporations and rich individuals arc investing billions in war bonds, seeing the advantage of so good an investment as well as responding to the patriotic im pulse. Their totals for the first few days are so enormous as to sug gest that the rich aac in a hurry to take the whole issue. But tin second Liberty loan is practically unlimited, and there is a chanc for all. Alliance, Box Butte county and all western Nebraska, foi that matter, is responding to the call and will be in the running when the final count is taken. Nine sons of Cabinet officers arc to furht and it is not arranged for them to remain skin-wholo either, aa in the case of the Kaiser's sons. Secretary Daniel's son, for example, is a private in the marine corps and all the others are listed to see danger in either the navy, the artillery or the aviation corpa. Six months ago this country was distinctly on a peace footing and the showing of the government's Official Bulletin in every par ticular sustains its assertion that the transition from conditions ol peace to those of war from the standpoint of rapidity and thorough ness is without precedent in the history of democracies." Our Ambassador at Paris warns his countrymen that "every word spoken in the United States which can be distorted into the semblanee of disloyalty or willingness for an indecisive peace quickly reaches Berlin, whpre it is misrepresented as evidence of dissension, thus tend ing to prolong the war and increase its sacrifices." At all events the Germans, who are so easily fooled, will pay the heaviest share of the penalty. It has beet) admitted in the Reichstag, with some objection, that mericans are beinir impressed into the Kaiser's armies. But there will be little concern at Washington or elsewhere in view of the fact these "Americans" are not only' German-born persons who returned to their native land with naturalization papers as a mere war-service shield but persons who for several years past have denounced" the United States and assured the bamboozled Kaiser that ilson and his press are not American." La Collet te is beneath President Wilson's notice, but the Presi dent has verv effectually branded as false the Wisconsin pro-Ger man's charge that the Lusitania was armed and that our government knew it. It is shown that La toilette merely repeated foreign Min ister von .lagow's earlier argument in this connection, which was laler abandoned because the baseless pretense could no longer be sustained. All the evidence goes to show that the British are scoring through superiority, not in airplanes, but in guns. TARRED WITH THE SAME STICK The Kaiser is said to have "exiled" Bcrnstorflf to Constantinople in punishment for misjudging President Wilson and the temper of the American people. The Kaiser's impotent rage can be readily understood, but when Bernstorff assured Berlin that the President would never do anything but write "notes" of a tine literary flavor and that the American people could not even be dragged into war he proved himself -to be no bigger fool than the average German diplomat. Everywhere the same story has been told. In spite of the boasted "efficiency" of tin German system, in all countries tin Kaiser's diplomats have seen only what they wanted to see and believed only what they wanted to believe, their overweening self- confidence and conceit blinding their eyes to any point of view but their own. They seemed to be convinced that ' ' Deutehland liber ulles" was not merely a policy of military Germany but an immutable law of the universe. Their confident effort to control American polities, to elect an American Congress, to defeat a candidate for the Presidency, to make the United States an adjunct to Germany, by Battering naturalized Germans and their children in the hope of becoming the aristocracy of this country when militant Teuton ism became all-dominating, by playing upon the European prejudices of other than German hyphen ates, by stirring up every secretly ant i-American element, by financ ing German-American societies, by raising successive corruption funds to "influence" Congress, by cajoling the weak-minded and stimulating the traitorously inclined of every name and order all this waa but a part of the game which they confidently attempted to play throughout the world. MORE DAMNING EXPOSURES Did President Wilson know a year ago that Jeremiah O'Lcary of New York was associated with the German plot to control our national election? Perhaps he did not know all that he knows now, but it is evident that he knew much even then, for when O'Lcary, the pro-German Irish agent, telegraphed the President that he would not vote for him, he received the following sarcastic and w ithering reply: "I should feel deeply mortified to have you or anybody like you vote for me. Since you have acceas to many disloyal Americans iind I have not, 1 will ask you to convey this message to them." THE DISLOYAL PRESS Even after they received due warning, many American news papers published in German and some published in English continue their efforts to create anti-war sentiment ami embarrass the govern ment in its course chosen by the will of the people. Those papers have frequently made such assertions as that this war is not for the rights and honor of the United States, but was arbitrarily precipi tated by the "English-American clique" in the interests of England France and Russia, the "three greatest highwaymen in history.' But the disloval press is growing much more cautious as a result of the government's crusade against them. It is stated that hardly a day passes now without two or more publishers, mostly of German language papers, being called before inquiring Federal officials to explain seditious editorial utterances, and, even if not indicted for treason ,as in the case of the editors of the Philadelphia Tageblatt, in most instances their mail privileges are taken away. In consequence many little known newspapers and magazines have quietly suspended, and this process will go on, for the postal officials are determined to continue a vigorous campaign against the seditious press. These suspensions of publications are said to be at the rate of two or three a day. All loyal America will approve of this good work well done. Let the seditious editors now our of a job go to their beloved Germany and publish their treasonable utterances there, or, more, appropriate still, let them risk their hides in the Kaiser's military service. WAR AND MATRIMONY It has long been known that "a woman loves a soldier," the fasci nation which a military uniform holds for both the young and old of the opposite sex having been remarked for generations. But it seems to have been left for this war to show that there is a sort of secret co partnership between fearsome Mars and gentle Cupid, for these, although SO dissimilar in all their characteristics, now seem to be heartily joining in team work "with a view to matrimony" on a va-st scale. Every American-community at all in touch with the war move ment has its expanding record, of sudden engagements and prompt marriages between adoring young women and departing warriers-to- be. I he girl who otherwise would demand to be wooed for months or veal's, or who could not be captured at all because she regarded the suitor as just an ordinary fellow, seems to capitulate without a struggle to the conquering youth clothed in the magic khaki. The observer is almost inclined to accept the view that Cupid soon more than repairs the ravages of the toll taken by Mars out of the world's population. This determination to marry on the eve of war despite every obstacle finds novel illustration in the marriage over the telephom of a young lieutenant at Camp Mills in New York and the girl of his choice at Bainbridge, Ga. Lieut. Taylor could not get leave and Miss Knight was unwilling to be married far from home. So the lieutenant and his best man stood at one end of a long-distance tele phone and the bride, her family and the minister at the other, the service being heard as read and the responses as spoken in both New York and Georgia. Love laughs not only at locksmiths but at a thousand miles, and Cupid smiles knowingly at the efforts of Mars to lepopulatc the world. nrmi'M ft ' " iiiiiinimiiiiiiiii Nebraska State Volunteer Fire men's Association President Harry J. Hauser, Fremont. First Vice President John W. Guthrie, Alliance. 8econd Vice President Wm. P. McCune, Norfolk. Secretary E. A Miller, Kearney. Treasurer -F. B. Tobin, Sidney. Chaplin--Kev. W. C. Kundtn, Crawford. Board of Control Jacob Coehring, Seward, chairman; C. H. Mas ters, Auburn: C. 8 Frailer. Gothenburg; H. H. Bartling, Ne braska City; Clyde Beckwlth, Crawford. A Department Ik-voted to the Interests of the Volunteer Firemen of the State of Nebraska Edited by Uoyd C. Thomas, 8tate Publicity Chairman. CONTRIBUTIONS TO THIS DEPARTMENT ARE ALWAYS WELCOMED Address envelope to: State Publicity Chairman Firemen's Asa'n, The Alliance Herald, Alliance, Nebraska 1 Mutmnm iiiiiiiii iniimi iiiiniiinninmminimiiiimmiiiiit PAYING RENT FOR TRENCHES We are so accustomed to the picture of an utter desolation in the war regions of France and Belgium, with all the land owners and agriculturists driven away, that it is surprising to learn by the far a round way of Australia that French ami Hclgium farmers of the occupied territory are receiving or are supposed to receive trench rent. The Premier of New South Wales complains that Australia has not enly borne the expense of equipping anil transporting 350,000 soldiers, paying each of them $1,50 a day, but is paying "land rent" to the British government for the trenches in which they fight. "This method of settling land rent," the Australian official is quoted, "is one of the most foolish practices of the war. The Belgian ami French farmers and laud owners, instead of going to their own governments, personally come to the British officers on the ground and haggle about trench rents and rent for other occupied territory. It is a poor business method and ought to be regulaily transacted between governments. I hope the American business instinct will put an end to it." A bad business method, no doubt, but it is good to know that though the poor French and Belgian farmers are get ting something from their ruined estates pending the time when a sufiieient indemnity paid by Germany w ill repay them for their losses. BRIEF COMMENT Whether it be $3 wheat or 30 cent cotton, the farmers want all they can get and are going to get all they can. p -i. The Philadelphia "gang" makes the Tammany tiger look a rather mild Inast. The Utter may frighten by its roar, but it stops short of murder. More hash and goulashes and other messes may eliminate much of the hotel and restaurant waste, but nothing seems to be abb' to stop advancing prices. New York will be shamed if the pro -Hermans and so-called pacifist are allowed to defeat Mayor Mitchell, who has done so much to pro mote the interests of the nation in this war. SANDERS' Sl'HMAKINE Sanders came from Canada, long befor? the war. Sandera was a river-rat, catty to the core. Sander never really felt much at home ashore. Put him on a cedar post, slippery and green. Seven inches all there was life and death hetween, m And he'd ride Niagara, if you'd bt a bean. Back again to Canuda when the trouble came Sanders beat it on a freight; gave the man his na.me; Soon put on a uniform and immortal fame. "Shove me In the navy, sir," Sanders said to him. Sanders," said the officer, "Sanders, can you swim?" "I could swim to Europe with an artificial limb." "Fitted for destroyer work," so the captain wrote; Shipped him over in a month with that little note; Two months' drill, a London week, then aboard a boat. Not a royal battleship, just a little runt With a pair of two-Inch guns putting up a front; Searching after submarines was the Spider's stunt Well, they ment one running low, with a forward gun. "Bang!" They missed. The Dutchman's shot was a lucky one. Seven minutes by the watch, settled by the Hun. Like a stone the Spider Bank. Every British tar Grabbed the nearest thing afloat. Sanders, swimming far. Paddled to the submarine, shaped like a cigar. Sanders climbed aboard the brute, stood upon the deck; Forward from an open hatch stretched a German neck. That a rope should stretch Instead, payment for a wreck. But a watery grave was near. Sanders, on the verge, Saw the hatch clang closed again, felt a sudden surge; For the German, with a laugh, started to submerge. When he saw the German trick, he was good and sore; No one else had ever rolled Sanders off before. (Sanders had his caulk-boots on that he always wore.) Sander.- started in to birl that old submarine; Sanders' legs began to work like a big machine; Slow and sure that U-boat started to careen. Half a dozen lively steps, while the Germans cursed, M Over keeled that submarine. As she was reversed, T Upward now she popped again, as she was at first. p Down below, the German crew tumbled here and .there; Someone shui the nitor off; Sanders, planted square, Had that German submarine biding now for fair. 11 Oil and Dutchmen, guns and food, mixed at every turn, rj While the party on the top churned them In a churn, ' Made a mess of sauer-kraut, kraut enough to burn Such a ride that German crowd pever yet had known. Slamming this way, ramming that, bruising every bone. Till a senseless heap of Dutch lay without a groan Sanders' legs at last grew tired. Sanders' feet grew sore; t Sanders stopped and laughed and laughed, Sanders' anger o'er. Than he potin led on a hatch for an hour or more. Captain Heinemann came to, opened up the hatch. Sauders grabbed him by the thro.it, gave his gun a snatch. Prisoners of war he made that whole shooting-match. I Picked his comrades from the sea. then, with gun in hand, ' 1 ' With some cussworls even Dutch seemed to understand, Made the Germans steer their blamed submarine to land. England rang with Sanders' praise, London blazed with lights; Said that it reminded them of the NelBon fights; Said, with Sanders, that they had the Kaiser dear-to-rights. Sanders got a furlough home for his bliBtered feet, So he's back here In the camp on the deacon-seat; But the story of his life gladly he'll repeat. J Some folks seem to doubt it some, sometimes there' a guy Who is sort of skeptical, winking on thsly; But Sanders tells the tale himself and woodsmen never lie. American Lumbermen. (AST IK NOW AT FORT R1LKV C. T. Nelson, secretary of the Plainvlew Volunteer Fire Department, advises us that Wm. F. Gast, former fire chief there and an exempt mem ber In good standing, has been drafted Into the new army and la now at Fort Riley, leaving for the Utter place on September 24th. Members of Nebraska departments will confer a favor by advlalat us the names of sny members who have joined the army or navy la any capacity.