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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
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John W. Thomas, Secretary
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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.
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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
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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.
