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drawn In tho light of tho roport of
tho comniittco on workman's com
pensation. "This moaHuro," said Socrotary of
War StlniHon, discussing Mr. Taft'a
order, "for tho flrat timo brings tho
fodoral government abreast of tho
moat advanced thought und tho ox
porionco of other countries in dealing
JUfltly with its omnlnvnH Jif n Hmn
when they and their families arei
most in need of justice; namely,
whon thoy auffer tho hardships of in
jury or death inevitable in the course
of modorn undertakings."
Such a scheme of compensation as
Is provided in the order Just pro
mulgated by tho president gives the
employes and their families the
needed senso of socurlty for times of
distress.
A dispatch to tho Louisville Cour-lor-Joumal
says: Tho Adamson bill
requiring tho Interatato commerce
commission to ascertain the actual
valuo of the proporty of railroad,
tolograph and tolophono companies
hns passed tho senate and goes to
conference.
Tho two-year Imprisonment sen
tonce of Ernest W. Gorbraeht, con
victed in tho Now York sugar frauds
cases, was commuted to thirty days
in Jut! by Presidont Taft.
Harold B. Faxon, sentenced Novem
ber 15, 1910, to five years in Jail
for tho embezzlement of $7,300 of
the funds of tho People's National
bank of Roxbury, Mass., was ordered
released.
Under stress of sickness and
financial embarrassment at homo,
Oscar It. Miller, railway mail clerk,
embozzled $200 from tho malls, for
which he was sentenced at Cincin
nati October 9, last, to eight months
In jail and costs. It was his first
offense and the president liberated
him.
. To enable Wallace II. Hopkins to
attend his daughter's wedding, the
president terminated the prisoner's
four years and three months' sen
tence, imposed at Chicago on Decem
ber 13, 1909, for using the mails to
defraud, a reduction of twenty-one
days.
Charles Fitzpatrick, who pleaded
guilty at Milwaukee of selling liquor
to an Indian, was relieved of his
sixty-day jail sentence, paying a fine
or $100 for his offence.
Instead of two, as recommended by
the committee, was carried.
Tho memory and attainments of
tho late Wilbur Wright wero honored
at Paris by a message from President
Taft and by speeches delivered by
many distinguished Frenchmen.
Paper mills in Washington and
California have appealed to the
treasury department to rescind its
order of some time ago admitting
paper from British Columbia free of
duty.
President Taft signed an order
which, in effect, abolishes the United
States land offices at Chamberlain
and Gregory, S. D., and establishes
a new land district with headquarters
at Carter, Tripp county, S. D.
Tho senate refused to make an
appropriation for the distribution of
garden seeds.
President-elect Wllaon announced
that ho will call . n extra session of
congress to convono April I and con
elder tho tariff bills.
An Associated Press dispatch tells
of President Taft's use of tho par
doning power in this way: Provious
good charactor of four fodoral pris
oners woighed heavily in their favor
with Presidont Taft. who commit tnri
their sentences to oxplro at once.
A favorable roport on tho bill
conferring citizenship upon the
Porto Iticans was made by tho sen
ato committee on Porto Rico.
Tho house of representatives
passed tho Webb anti-liquor ship
ment bill over tho president's veto.
Tho vote stood 244 to 95.
Congress remained in session dur
ing Sunday.
An Associated Press dlsnatch
says: Upon his arrival in New
York Dr. Frederick Friedmann
turned over for experimentation a
quantity of the bacilli which he
claims will euro tuberculosis.
The house of representatives, by a
vote of 119 to 65 passed a resolution
prohibiting the boosting of prices in
tho District of Columbia during in
augural week.
The house of representatives
authorized tho construction of one
battleship, six torped boat destroy
ers and four submarines. An amend
ment to provide for one battleship,
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FOR SALE
An Improved Texas Farm
I OFFER for Sale 240 acres of
- land, three miles from Mission,
Texas, on the Rio Grande, 200
acres are cleared and under irriga
tion. The improvements, consist
ing of a $2500.00 house with
barns, fences, etc., have cost over
$5,000.00. Easy terms will be
given on deferred payments. I
would not care to sell to anyone
unless purchaser makes a personal
examination of the property. Ap
ply to owner for price and terms.
W. J. Bryan, Lincoln, Neb.
THE GERMAN KItTEGERVEREIN
August Esser, a talented German
American, living in Lincoln, Neb.,
has written for the Lincoln (Neb.)
Dally Star, an interesting article re
lating to the Lincoln Kriegerverein.
Mr. lusser says:
The efficiency of the German mili
tary organizations in this country is
the result of the solidarity of their
members, a characteristic which ac
cording to the statement of the Ger
man imperial consul at the ninth an
niversary of the Seattle Kreiger
verein is the result of the military
training in the Germany army.
There is no doubt, that it would be
a blessingto tho present and coming
generations, to practice these mili
tary virtues, which produce will
power and self control, which charac
teristics in our age of effemination
are so essential to the welfare of
state and society.
The German Kreigerverein, as
well as the German Alliance, is not
organized for the purpose of estab
lishing a German commonwealth in
this land, as some people who have
not the welfare of the United States
at heart profess to believe, but for
tlie progress of the American people
The German-American alliance is the
defender of the German language in
this country, and is therefore in har
mony with all educated Anglo-Americans,
who are well aware of the fact
that the knowledge of the German
idiom enables them to study the
mother works of German exports
According to the Morning Post, Pall
Mall Gazette, Daily News and West
minster Gazette of London, England
tho German language represents the
key at least of half of all sciences in
the world. Those, who do not under
stand the German language are not
able to understand the great men of
modorn times and their works, and
have only a one-sided conception of
modern history of tho world.
7hi?iBe uZels of Lincoln,vho do
not like the German language ate
recommended to. read the works of
Bayard Taylor (translation of
Goethe's "Faust"); and Longfeilows
hymn about the city of Nuernberg
(Germany.) The Scotch, iff
Dutch, Germans, Italians, Danes
Russians, Austrians and French w
no desire to believe the fahl
longer, that this nation "Is an English
nation. Prof. Muensterberg of frnr
vard says the American nation is a
new people, -which, like other na
tions of this world, has originated by
a process of amalgamation of races.
Tho twenty million Gorman-Americans
know very well that they have
done their duty and consider them
selves as good American citizens as
the Anglo-Americans. Tho Irish
Americans have done their duty, just
as the Germans, and the fact that
such a' conspicuous place is given to
the Germans in this article is the
result of the efforts of the school nn
public opinion to Ignore the great
German-Americans of the past. The
following lines may illustrate the
deeds of some German-American
patriots:
"In recounting American ttofa. r
valor, the glorious fight of the Ger
mans, under Nicholas Herschheimer,
against the British and Tories at
Oriskany, N. Y., should not be for
gotten. The lirst New York bat
talion, like its colonel, Lasher, con
sisted largely of Germans, and Baron
Weisenfels, a German, commanded
other New York forces. Pennsyl
vania will never forget the valiant
services or Daniel, John Gabriel and
Joseph Heister, nor that grave Ger
man, J. P. Schott, and his gallant
dragoons. When the con
vention wanted a reliable printer, it
did well to select one from the race
of Guttenberg Heinrich Miller, a
German. Hallowed to every true
American is the ground where that
noble German, Baron de Kalb, shed
his blood, fighting that this country
might be free. And never can a
grateful people forget the services
of Baron von Stmihon. whn i,o,i
learned the art of war under Fred
erick the Great, and became the
drillmaster and inspector general of
the United States army 'the right
arm of Washington,' as he has been
called and whose memory our
grateful nation has honored with a
magnificent equestrian statue in the
city of Washington. In the winter
of 1776 the army of Washington-was
reduced to 3,000 men, and in that
terrible extremity he considered the
necessity of a retreat to the west of
uie Aiieghenies when, just in the
nick of time, the disheartened' rem
nant of his army was reinforced by
1,500 recruits, which enabled him to
win the battles of Trenton and
Princeton. It should be spread in
letters of gold upon the pages of
history that every man of them was
from the soil of fair Germanized
Pennsylvania."
These deeds of valor of German
Americans, who had learned the art
of war under Frederick the Great,
prove that the immigration of old
trerman soldiers is an acquisition for
this country, and I am sure that all
good Americans welcome also the
soldiers, who have served under the
successors of the great Frederick to
hT l r?S- , The Krei&erverein in
the Fatherland and in America work
Iihi same direction, namely: to .
mim ,patriotIsm and transfer
SJwaiV,rtue8 t0 theIr children, to
enable them to become good and re-
whilS ,c,"zenB an not weaklings,
SJfy are curse to any land
Sftl efforts of the Kreigerverein
with Sfnyaild America e crowned
lth splendid success and become
Sountr?pnB m,re a blessIng t0 oth
Smiwi Ud ,may thoso military
SlShin8180 bo succs.ful in
establishing the most friendly rela
tions between Germania and Colum
Dla AUGUST ESSER.
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