THE ALLIANCE HERALD, AUGUST 29, 1918
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JUST AMERICAN
Jiwt t'Mia) we chanced to meet
Down upon the crowded street;
And I wondered whence he came,
What wae onee hi nation 'a name. ,
8o I Aked htm, "Tell me true,
Are you Pole or Kuaslan Jew,
MnjrlUh, Hcotch, Italian, Rwwlan,
lleljrlan, Spanish. Swlas, Moravian.
Dutclt or (ireek or Scandinavian."
Then he raise! Itlahead on high.
Aa he save me thla reply:
"Whal 1 wan in naught to me,
In this land of Liberty.
In ray soul a man to man,
I am Juat American."
Author Unknown
CURRENT COMMENT
"The Republican Publicity associa
tion, which is collecting $1,500,000
from manufacturers to take congress,
away from the president," says the
Providence News, "has begun its
campaign of vtlltneatlon in u state- j
mnem seni uruiuu noi. w 1 "
president and the Democratic party
of using the war as a mask to find
Ink in the hihor denuriment for
tlal result is bringing new men und
leaders to the fore, men whose la
tent genius und abilities was hereto
fore not recognized, observes the
Ashland (().) Press. Promotions
wire never bo rapid, either in the
business or military life as during the
past two years. The demand or the
world Is for the man who thinks for
himself, who stands above the crowd
men who cannot find work elsewhere. of followers, the nufB who knows
The Republican attack is publish- what he is doing and goes about it
ed with the title, Under the Robe of j with determination.
War," ani insinuates thai the admin- Due ot the greatest barriers of hu
istration is blackjacking congress man progress is precedent. A man
tnto voting money for alleging war must hae courage and initiative if
.purposes, when the real intent is to i he is to act contrary to precedent,
Jnd jobs for the faithful. No Re-, which Is so dear to the crowd. Hut
publican senator would dare Nana , ttns is merely the (jualnies of a good
sponsor for this scurrilous attack uj
on the president and the labor de
partment, but the publicity associa
tion Is used to make it over the signa
ture of Jonathan Bourne, Jr.
"The real trouble is that this
leader, a leader who can see the ben
efits to be derived by repudiating
some set custom, and supplanting in
its Btead one that more fittingly
meets the demand of the occasion.
No better illu.v; ration can be found
money will be expedod by bureaus in ; lhan In the case of Josephus Daniels,
every state to provide labor for far-! secretary of the navy. Many of the
tories. Big employers will have to j antiquated systems he eliminated or
take men sent by the several state
bureaus instead of men hired by
strike-breaking agencies. The effort
of the government to bring labor and
employer toget er without the assist
discarded, as the promotion by seni
ority and the formal letter writing
between heads of departments. For
mer prejudices and red-tape were
eliminated. The result Is known to
American ships Is so common as ton
aafle by the millions is being produc
ed The (lerman submarine, vic
torious for two or three years, has
been already vanquished, and it is
only a question of a short time he
fori' this (ioritinn method of killing
may become a good deal of a low! art.
"Meanwhile more than a million
Americans have crossed to Europe
And another million will make the
voyage before the present year is
ended. Now, no one goes to Kurope
without gathering the impression
that it's really a short Journey not
so far as I expected. World democ
racy is certain to make ocean travel
cheap, and within ten years from the
close of the war. It is safe to predict,
that nearly half the entire American
population will 'see Europe.' The
ships are now being provided and the
price of a liberty bond will eventual
ly be enough for the journey."
The platform adopted by the Re
publicans of New York at -the recent
Saratoga convention contains a
thrust at Oen. Pershing, Gen. March
and all the other conscientious sol
diers who have been identified with
the regular army, says the Steuben
county (N. Y.) Farmers Advocate. In
the course of an editorial comment
ing on the platform the Farmers Ad
vocate says:
"Whoever wrote the plank on uni
versal military training In the Sara
toga platform, certainly went out of
his way to slap the face of Oeneral
Pershing. General March and all of
the other conscientious soldiers who
have been identified with the regular
army.
"That plank, It will be recalled,
read as follows:
" 'We call upon the United States
government to establish, without de
lay, a well-ordered system of univer
sal military training for national
service. A free nation
must be defended and represented
by a trained army of freemen. For
a democracy to hire mercenaries to
fight Its battles is as grotesque as it
would be to hire mercenaries to cast
Its votes.'
"The idea that General Pershing,
General Scott, General March and all
the other devoted West Pointers who
have built up our volunteer regular
army are to be set, down as "mercen
aries" is certainly pretty startling
doctrine, even for a party as hard up
for campaign issues as the New York
state Republicans seem to be It is
reported that Nicholas Murray But
ler drafted the planks of the Sara
toga platform dealing with 'national
Issues ; presumably then, Dr. Butler
drafted this plank. If so, he has
handed the Republicans more than a
little to explain with his to put it
mildly infellcitious phrasing.
"When this war is over, and we
know what sort of a world we face,
we shall have to choose, as Secretary
Buker has said, which system we
hall adopt. But, for the New York
state Republicans, pressing zealously
today for the adoption of the Prus-
Ml system as our permanent sys
tem, for the Republicans to denounce
our regular army as made of mer
cenaries.' is to tling the most gratui
tous Insult to a long line of devoted
and distinguished fighters. "
"Our Republican friends are losing
a good deal of sleep because Presi-
lcnt Wilson refuses to turn the gov-
mi.tent over to them," says the'
Vashuiirton (Iowa) Democrat. 'The
U ebster City Freeman-Tribune is
the latest to have spasms because
Wilson did not suggest that the gov
ernor of South Carolina appoint a
republican successor to Senator Till
man, which is a good Joke, but illogi-
al " In conclusion. The Democrat
sayp:
We honestly think that Wood row
V llson is more concerned about win
ning the war just now than he is;
about any other thing under the sun. I
He is going to win the war during his
I Through Fire I
li t
By John Elkins
IS
I
(Copyright. 1917. by W. G. Chapman.)
"I ought to have known better than
to marry an Englishman! His ways
re not my ways. I'm a thoroughbred
Yankee of the New England stock, and
we don't pull together."
Helen Birch had grown confidential
with her old friend. Grace Mead. She
seldom spoke of these things to any
one, but she knew her friend had no
ticed that the domestic machinery was
not running very smoothly, and that
relations between husband and wife
were not entirely harmonious. It real
ly was n relief to unburden to a real
friend the pent up misery of many
months.
"Well of course," temporized Grace.
"I can see that your early training and
views of life are different from his,
and vice versa. But It seems to me
that might be overcome."
"Life's too short for me to begin on
the job," said Helen with an air of
finality.
"Oh," put lo Grace. "I wouldn't any
that I
"Yon would If you were his wife,"
retorted Helen.
"But you love John, don't you?"
"Yes I did but It seems to be all
killed out now. I can't stand the way
he treats me. To begin with he thinks
a woman of secondary consideration to
(he great god man. She's nil right to
aaee of outside agencies is denounced every American
us a political steal. Under the new j
method no man need leave his state
to find a job. It will be found for
a. a V. IWa i . i .... 1 1 i t ii ri n t I I ,
mm bt ' -----:; campaign as may be. but it seems es
terni of the war. This is what Is . . ' . ..
rail hv the Renubllcan gen- i .
We are all in agreement that there
shall be as little "politics" in this
called
Ik. I.....I ,.f Will
ub,w, uue. - " ed next November. I ronton
Hays, of Indiana, have started out to J U r
get control of congress.
that a Democratic congress te return
Regis-
"Thls is only tne first attack in
many planned on the patient man
n the White House and his associ
ates, who are working out the prob
lems of the war. The stupid people
behind the scheme will hear from the
American people In November."
o i
Elon R. Brown. Republican leader
The Hudson (N Y.) Gazette
no' impress. d with the "keynote
speeches" by Republican leaders at
the reeeut state convention of the Re-
pubPcana of the Empire state.
Win the war. is the keynote to the
Republican state convention peach
es," says The Onset te. "That Is, of
course, what all Americans want, ii
In the senate, has announced that be I reapeetlre of parties, hut the Repub
will not be u candidate this rail, lie ; Ucans would have the American peo-
alves as his reason "the Dreaaaowu helieve that if they were in
of party government at Albany, with : charge thev would do it in a jiffy
. A a ..:...., la !.. 1 .. ...
A consequent toss ui eim u m iii hit ; tney woulu perhaps use some' magic
a . a . i . .:... 1, ....... ' ' . i . .
eonauct oi uie snaars i mi- incantations on the Huns. Mean-
-.Senator Brown is man who has , wi,lle. the best answer to all theii
been in a position to know what he . assertions is the splendid manner In
peaks about and Is an anti-Whitman Which the Americana are B (thing
man, as an be plainly seen vvaiei- ,Ilow on .tUe present front, and the
io (N Y ) Observer. great movement of troops across the
o , water. The great victory in which
the Americans bare laken part vsas
due, because they were ready; it was
no Bull Run affair of unprepared-
ness.
"Of course, the Republicans wan
to control ronuress, but when look
back on the shortcomings and
an this educational work. corruptions cenne, t. u with the hpan
The law affordinK insurance to our ish-Aineru an war the American peo-
tiahtine forces has well been called nle will doubt e. , feel t hat Innus are
k mn.i int and humane nrovision going W 'll. and thai change would
ver made by a nation for i s sol- b- for the worst."
diers and sailors The government : 9
and the American people recognize XtklA the present is an era of ships
the Justice of affording this protce- :(U(f ,iia, Inuaehinga are matters of
tion to the men who risk their lives ust ,jajy occurrence, is made the
for their country, and to their fam- rneaslon for an editorial by the Butte
tiles and dependents at home. It Is; (Mont.) Independent, Whlefe ISyi
only Just to then'selves and to their! . por at j,.as, ;, years the poll
families and dependents that our tieiaM have been pounding hot air at
fighting men avail tnemseives oi mis question of an American mer-
Secretar McAdoo has called upon
all local draft boards to acquaint !
drafted men with the provisions of
the soldier insurance law and to urge
eery drafted mun to take out this
Insurance. The boards have been
fiirniaheri with literature to aid) them ing
The Poor Fellow Waa Lying Very
Quietly.
amuse htm when he has nothing of Im
portance to do, or to SSj) ice on b'.s
forehead when he has a hei.dach". fie
never enters into a serious discussion
of any mntter with her because sh
hasn't brains enough to make it worth
while."
"If I were you." said Grace, "I'd
wake him up to the fact that It was
'worth while.'"
"Do you know how that works? Get
! the better of him In an argument, and
he smiles In a superior, toplofty way,
and says: 'I never argue with a worn-
term, and whatever benefit history j H considers the discussion closed.
and that you are reduced to a proper
realization of your Inferiority. You
see he doesn't play fair when It's a
woman."
"Thot Isn't exclusively an English
trait," smiled Grace.
"No, but you can't deny that It's
bred In the bone with them. Besides
they'll see a woman in the absence of
a servant slnve herself to death In the
kitchen before they'd demean theni-
vi'.ll give him, is his, and what blame
for lining done things wrong, will
tccrje to hnn likewise. The best
thine just now. is to make it a finish
light and be done with it."
IO i
Tin l e has been no playing of pol
itics or boosting or f 'Voring under
the present control of the war depart
meat," say the Woodland (Cal. )
Democrat. "General Pershing was
selected for his high command abso
lutely on his merits. The same prin-1 plva bv ph'klng up a broom, or taking
ciplc has guided the selection and
p.funt'tu n ot all other offi sera. Po-
I't'tsd cor s! derations have seeu - n-
t ii Igrcred. What a wonderful
M 'partnrp rhla has been from -.u past
prn" i iat. be appreciated on'.- hv
st plying the histories of our pre'.ur
w:irs
:o i
Tin- reply of Secretary Baker to
the request of the committee on mil
itarv affairs of the house for a sum
mary of our accomplishment since
the declaration f war is most en-
ican
more apparent than real. Had
aimed at making a quick showing on
a smaller scale, the thing could have
been done: but we think the secrettry
scores a strong point when he says
that, because the war depart uieni un
derstoOd lb magnitude of the task,
it realized that the time consumed in
the preparations for a vas-t army of
many millions, would, prove, in the
loug run. to be time saved. That
hand with the dishes."
"Oh," pretested Grace, "my father
was English, and he wasn't like that I"
"Well John is. I've been without a
niuid here sometimes, and Just ready
to drop, and he's never offered to do a
thing. Once when he'd brought a mun
up to dine, and I'd had to get the din
ner, ond do It all, I went out In the
kitchen after the company was gone,
ond started to clear away the debris,
and wush that pile of dishes. I was
so tired, I took a sudden resolve, and
went to the door, and called him. und
He
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than real Had we ' l,MMI 111 inHru.v nun cu-
icss. My dear, be said, 'l never wasn
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WYOMING HAS
ed a dish in my life. I'd be a first class
bull In a CBUUI shop. There wouldn't
be a plate left. Just leave them, and
get someone in tomorrow to wash up."
"You know I can't do that," I said.
He walked away and left me to do It
tlone.
"Afterwards I said to him: 'If ever
( have a son. he'll be taught Just like
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rate of nearly 300.000 men per
mouth."
IO
The most distinctive chat ai'eris-
tlc of our present national adminis
not going to sit and kick his heels
while he watches his mother or sisteJ
do all the work.' John looked at me
with thbt frozen dignity that always
rouses my wrath, and said: 'My moth
(ration la its sympathy with theler never allowed me or my brother In
opportunity.
Patriot.
Greensboro (N. C.)
The present war is merely a ion
test of Initiative and as a eondvquea-
ehnnt marine, and a year apo the
stars and stripi-s were uncommon
upon the ships on the Atlantic ocean
But how changed it has beronn- All
of a sudden the launchings of new
masses of our people," comments the
Frederick (Md) Citizen
John Shrinei. Ivan Aiheson and
bao Bnydsr returned home Monday
morning after spending a week in the
Black Hills.
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