Nebraska Newspapers

    THE 8EMI-WEEKLY TRIBUNE. NORTH PLATTE, NEBRASKA.
BIS OF THE WEEK
CONDENSATIONS OF GREATER OR
LESSER IMPORTANCE.
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OF EVENTS
National, Political, Personal and Othor
Matters In Brief Form for All
CldGses of Readers.
WAR NEWS.
A manifesto opposing conscription
1ms been Issued tit Loudon by a com
paratively small number of membors
of the. British parliament.
Tho Berlin war olllce announces
Hint during October more than 40,000
prisoners were captured on the Rus
slan and Serbian fronts.
Tho Petrograd correspondent of tho
London Dally Mall says Russia has
imposed a war tax of from 5 to 50
cents on overy theater ticket.
German financial authorities aro
preparing for a new loan of $2,500,
000.000, tho prospectus for which will
bo Issued In January, according to a
Copenhagen dispatch.
London reports that seventy-ilve
thousand British soldiers and 3,200
officers wore removed from Gnlltpoli
peninsula because of Illness between
April 25 nnd October 20.
At a meeting In London In bohalf of
tho fund for tho relief of Jewish vic
tims of tho war In Russia, it was an
nounced that there were 1,500,000
Jews starving In Russia.
Tho Liverpool Post publishes a list
of twenty German ships, aggregating
more than 38,000 tonnage, sunk by
British submarines in the Baltic sea,
between October 11 and 23.
Before the great European war be
gan Vladivostok had more than 100,000
Inhabitants. Today Its population Is
less than 75,000. so heavy have been
tho calls of the Russian army upon
the men of eastern Siberia.
A correspondent of the Berliner
Tngehlatt in Greece is quoted as do
claring that prominent Greeks are ex
ercised over the possibility that the
entente allies Intend to occupy Ka
vala, and that tho Greeks are increas
ingly resentful regarding the attitude
of the British and French in Saloniki.
The Canadian government has given
twt a statement of expenditures on ac
count of the war which says that Can
ada's war expenditure for next year
-will be very large. About $1,000 per
man is calculated as the costs of
raising, equipping and maintaining
Canadian troops at the front and un
der arms In Canada.
Sharp differences of opinion havo
doveloped in tho ILallan cabinet con
cerning the war. One of tho ministers
at a recent meeting of the cabinet is
said to have expressed the view thar.
Italy's best interests would bo served
by assisting a movement toward the
restoration of peace. Thhe cabinet
lias adopted General Cadoona's views
not to participate in the Balkan cam
paign. The Russian foreign olllce, in a
statement just Issued, places on rec
ord thnt Russia is ready to recognize
the' territorial enlargement which
Greeco needs In Europe and Asia
Minor, as well as tho Justice of Rou
manians right to realize its national
ideal. Russia Ib ready to proffer a
friendly hand to the Bulgarians when
they take their place on tho side of
the entente allies.
GENERAL.
Tho Now York budget for 191G will
bo about $214,000,000, or approxi
mately $15,000,000 higher than that of
1915, according to a Beml-ofTiclal esti
mate. Miss Blancho Walsh, actress, who
In private life was Mrs. W. II. Trav
crs, died at a hospital In Cleveland,
O. She had been playing In vaude-
vlllo In that city.
Herman Bidder, treasuror of tho
democratic national committee and
publisher of tho New York Staats
Zoltung, died suddenly at his homo In
New York.
New York, Massachusetts nnd
Pennsylvania defeated suffrngo for
women by overwhelming majorities
in elections hold Nov. 2. This was a
first popular vote on tho suffrage
question in tho eastern states.
Ilonieseekers have filed on 119,000
acres of tho 149,000 ncres in tho Gosh
en Hole district, recently thrown open
to entry. Tho tilings In that section,
it Is said nt Choyenno, are tho heav
iest in tho history of Wyoming, al
though much larger segregations have
been opened to entry.
Announcement was made In Boston
thnt tho Americnn Woolen company
had cloBod a contract for 1,000,000
yardu of bluo gray uniform cloth for
n foreign government, tho nnmo or
which was withhold.
Tho sixteenth son of President Yunn
Shi Kal of China was. born recently.
The president now has thirty-one chil
dren. Chicago Is to have a citizen police
forco of 20,000 members to co-oper-,
nto with tho police dopartment. It Is
proposed to seleot one citizen In each
city block to become- n citizen police
man. '
Tan Shi Van, a Chinese, convicted
in New York of opium smuggling, died
at the federal prison at Atlanta, Gu.,
of starvation, after refusing for near
ly two months to eat. Tan Shi Yan
refiiseil to eat from tho day he ontered
prison.
A countryside cducntlonal campaign
to cost $250,000 for the purpose of
teaching the public to use milk as a
means of decreasing the cost of living
and for improvement of health, was
authorized by tho National Dairy
council at Chicago.
The tremendous Increase In the
prlco of dyestuff duo to the war, was
indicated when a keg of Methyleno
Blue was offered at a sale In London
of lost property. Tho keg, weighing
150 pounds and worth $G0 before the
war, was eagerly bid in at $1,550.
Tho net profit of the Pannma-Paclllc
exposition now Is $1,110,873, It was
announced. Tho total Income of tho
exposition since tho opening to Octo
ber 31, according to tho report of tho
comptroller, was $0,048,129 and the ex
pense of operation aggregates $4,
G37.25G. The case to determine whether tho
state has the right to' enact and en
force state-wide prohibition legislation
was placed lieforo tho Colorado su
premo court at Denver with tho filing
of a reply brief of Fred Fnrrar, attor
ney general A decision Is looked for
In December.
A plea against militarism In tho
United States was voiced in an ad
dress at Topeka by Arthur Cappc
governor of Kansas. Governor Cap
per asserted that "In this wild hyste
ria for preparedness, the west Is keep
ing its head, but the nation ns a
whole has lost its balance for the mo
ment." SPORTING. '
Jimmy Reagan won a decision over
Battling Nelson In ten rounds nt Kan.
sas City. Reagan outpointed and out
fought his opponent all tho way and
the decision was popular.
The West Virginia liquor cases
testing the validity of the federal
Webb-Kenyon law restricting ship
ments from wet to dry states were re
stored to tho docket of the supreme
court for second argument.
'
The tests of the oil burners on
board the great superdreadnought Ne
vada, proved very successful during a
trial trip off the coast of Rockland,
Maine, it is the first battleship of
the navy supplied with oil burners.
In one of the greatest football up
sets of recent conferenco history, Chi
cago defeated Wisconsin 14 to 13 at
Chicago. A missed goal from 'touch
down with Eber Simpson kicking, ac
counted for the 1 point difference, for
eacli team scored two touchdowns.
Darlo Resta won the 100-mllo auto
mobile race for tho Harkness gold
challenge cup and $5,000 cash at the
Sheepshead Bay speedway track Now
York. His time for the distance, 5C:
55:71, establishes a new American
record, and an average of 105.39 miles
an hour.
Chamberlain broke loose In tho sec
ond period of tho Amos-Nebraska foot
ball game at Ames, la., and single
handed scored enough points to give
tho Cornhuskers a one-sided victory.
Nebraska won 21 to 0. As In tho
Notro Dame game, Chamberlnln was
most of the Nebraska team.
WASHINGTON.
The State department has received
word' that Brand Whitlock, tho Amer
ican minister to Belgium, is prepar
ing to return to the United States for
a vacation on account of 111 health.
Tho Kansas City federal reserve
bank failed again during the quarter
ending with September to earn enough
to pay current expenses, according to
a statement y mo icuorn' reserve
board. During that three-months' per
iod, tho Kansas City bank earned
$27,073 nnd Its current expenses wore
$2S,947.
President Wilson hus approved a
movement started In Portlnnd, Mo.,
for the Inauguration of a system of
nerial coast patrols along the coast
lines of the United Stntes. The move
ment has been started by private indi
viduals who proposo to place their
services at the disposal of the fodoral
government In time of war.
Tho Department of Justice lias be
gun preparations to Hie suits against
thoso persons who borrowed money
from tho United States with which to
escape from Europe at the beginning
of the wnr and who have since de
clined to pay it back.
Prosecution of Robert Fay and oth
or persons connected with tho alleged
plots to Interfere with the export of
niunltloiiB from the United States to
tho allies In Europe will be under
taken by tho department of Justice.
CONDENSED HEWS
OF INTEREST TO ALL.
Tho cornorflono of tho new Moth
odlBt church at O'Neill was laid re
cently. Work Is progressing rapidly on tho
now municipal electric light plant at
Ord.
Over 200 cars of potatoes have boon
shipped from Alnswoith so fur this
hfall.
A league of twelve teams for tho
winter's bowling tins been organized
it Grand Island.
Work on tho. now First National
tinnk building and on tho Pace Opera
house at Chndron Is progressing.
rians for a $10,000 high school
uulldlng nt Stewart havo been com
Dieted and work, will begin soon.
Automobile thefts In Hastings have
becomo an opldemlc, tho stealing of
four cars was reported last week.
Ground was broken November 2 for
'.he basement and foundation for the
lew high school building at Loup City
President Wilson has uppolnted
Samuel G. Hudson postmaster of Lin
:ohi. Ills selection was urged by W.
I. Bryan.
Thomas Murray of Dunbar was
elected president of tho Nebraska
bankors' association at Its session
it Omaha.
Tho proposal for the construction
jf a tabernacle In which to hold
evangelistic services In Norfolk, by
tho Evangelical churches, has been
Ibandoned.
On November 19 the people of
Dixon will vote on bonding tho vlllngo
for electric lights, the power to bo
furnished from the now plnnt at
Laurel.
Nineteen violent deaths, 13 of them
being suicides, 3 murders and 3 of
them accidental, were reported to tho
Omaha health department during Oc
tober. Two members of tho forco of tho
U. S. Department of Agriculture,
Washington, D. C, have been assign
ed to speak to the Nebraska Farmers'
Congress, which "meets in Omaha Nov.
W to Dec. 2.
Ground was broken Nov. 2 for the
ScottsblufT Creamery, which Is to bo
In operation by Janunry 1. Tho struc
ture, machinery and equipment wlil
cost approximately twenty-five thous
and dollars.
Tho Heartwell Water, Light and
Power compans. which was recently
organized has been granted a twenty
five year's fnmchlso and will begin
Iho erection of water and light plants
at once at that place.
William Tjobenz, sr., about sixty
years old, died as tho result of In
juries ho received when his horse,
frightened at an automobllo, upset
tho buggy nnd threw Mr. Lobenz on
his head near Humphrey.
Mr. and Mrs. F. ' H. Showers of
Morse Bluff celebrated their golden
wedding anniversary by entertaining
a lnrge company of relatives last week.
The old couple camo to Saunders
county thirty-three years ago.
Tho most complete nnd modern su
gar factory In tho world Is what offi
cials of tho Gerlng Sugar company an
nounce they will build at Gerlng
They have purchased a site, and work
What Is supposed to bo tho first
anti-hog cholera club has been organ
ized In Gage county. Tho methods to
be employed In stamping out the dis
ease are to disinfect and clean up
farms, Isolate Blck hogs, bury the
dead ones and vaccinate at tho prop
er time.
The will of tho late Church Howe,
who died at Auburn recently, consists
of the orlginnl nnd two codicils. Tho
estate consists principally of Nemaha
and Johnson county lands, bank stock
and bonds, with quite n little Auburn
property, of the estimated value of
$100,00.
The state of Nebraska has come
Into possession of a three and ono-
holf-fot alligator, captured In Ne
braska, nnd ho will in tho future be
one of the attractions at the state
fisheries. South Bend. Tho -reptile
was caught in a slough near Nebraska
City.
Work on the remodeling of tho Pad
dock hotel at Beatrice is progressing
rapidly, and It Is now planned to re
open tho hotel some time during tho
month of November. Bentrlco boost
ers are planning to celebrate the re
opening of tho hostelry by a big cele
bration and barbociv.
Tho names of half a dozen Nebros
lcann are Included In the list mode
public by tho United States treasury
deportment of persons who have de
clined to repay money borrowed from
the United States to escano from En
rope when war broke out last year, or
who have mnde no responso to Inqu1
des or cannot Ik? located.
The United Stntes federal court In
a decision handed down In Omahn, de
cided that the Missouri Paeltlc may
legally charge 3-cent passenger rate,
nnd ns granted a tomuornry restrain
ing order against tho Nobraskn State
Railway commission, preventing that
part of the state government from en
forcing the 2-cent law.'
According to assessment rolls of
tho county of Dawep, that county hns
almost 2,000,000 acres of land within
Its bordors, and of that amount 71,
000 acres are under cultivation.
Organization of nn Interstate league
composed of four teams In southern
Nebraska and four In northern Kan
sns Is to bo nttempted next spring,
according to reports from Fnlrbury.
Tho league will take the place of the
Nobraskn State league. It Is said, and
will operato as n Class D circuit. C.
W. Crawford, Falrbury, Is said to bo
bead of the project
Several ..uses of smallpox are re
ported nt North Loup.
Pawnee City Is agitating tho ques
tion of a sewur system.
Six homes In Bentrlco are now
quarantined for dlpthcrln.
The Orleans silica mines nre ship
ping twenty-live cars of tholr pro
duets dally.
Fire completely destroyed the big
(louring mill at Ashland, with a loss?
of $10,000.
Tho new library building Just fin
Islitd nt Wakclluld has been opened
to the public.
Corn husking has begun In Richard
son county. The crop Is said to bu
the largest In yearsi
More than 4,500 Nebraska school
teachers attended the fifteenth annual
convention In Omaha Inst week.
Nebraska Muster Builders' associa
tion will hold their first annual con
vention In Lincoln, Nov. 1G-17.
Tho postotllco nt Scottville, Holt
county, has been discontinued. All
nihil must, now bo sent to Dorsey.
Work has commenced on tho now
creamery nt Fremont. It Is to bo
owned and controlled by the Farmer's
Union association.
In an election at Tablo Rock for
the selection of a candidal for post
muter, Charles H. Carmlchnel roc-rived
the most votes.
The Bentrlce board of education has
votd to purchnso a plot of ground
150x150 feet, to he used as a play
ground for school children.
Ernest M. Pollnnl or Nehawkn, for
mer congressman, has announced that
he will bo a cnndldnte for tho repub
lican nomination for governor.
Work on tho Steward tnbernnclo
has begun In preparation for tho
union evangelistic meetings which
are to commence November 14. .
Mayor S. 11. Payne of Albion has re
signed his position. Mayor Payno was
elected on the llcenso ticket Inst
spring, succeeding n dry administra
tion. Two barns, n warehouse, six horses
and other valuable property were de
stroyed by fire at Burwell. The cauco
of tho lire is unknown. Tho loss was
about $G.0P0.
I Newel! of Mlnden believes that ho
Is the owner of tho world record
breaking cow. Sho Is a Durham and
has given birth, ho says, to six calves
In the last twenty-threo months,
The Stile ChristlamEndeavor union
in nMn s Mrfnii,
will hold n convoitlon nt Norfolk,
November 11-11. Dr. William Shaw
of lloson will be the principal spenk
er to the GOO delegates expected.
Tho annual fall reunion of the No
braska consistory and co-ordinate bod
ies of the Ancient and Accepted Scot-
tlsh Rltn Masons will bo held In
Omnha November 15, 1G, 17 and IS.
Tho demand for cornhuskers In
Dodgo county has greatly exceeded
the supply, so far. Farmers have been
besieging the free employment bureau
nt Lincoln In an effort to get "help."
After several postponements for
various reasons tho wrestling match
between Clarence Eklund nnd Anton
Stecker, brother of oJe, has been
scheduled for tho night of November
15, at Hooper.
Many farmers havo commenced
husking corn nround Fnlrbury. Tho
prlco for luiBklng opened nt 3 to 4
cents a bushel. Some cold wenthor
will be required to put tho corn In
condition to crib.
All candidates for the democratlo
nominations on legislative, stato and
congressional tickets are Invited to n
dlnnor to be given under the sponFor-
ship of the Nebraska Editorial associa
tion to bo held in Lincoln January 11
Elcht of the ten carloads of granlto
received for tho Fourth street paving
at Fremont have been rejected by tho
city engineers, nnd as a consequence,
a large portion of Fremont's fall pav
ing Job Is being held up, nt lenbt, tern.
nornrlly.
Fire of unknown origin consumed a
largo barn nnd contents on tho farm
of H. P Chrlstensen, near Weeping a standing forco hut would bo oxpoct
Water. Tho Iobs Is estimated at cd merely to undergo intensive train-
$3,500. The property burned Included
besides tho bam and ten toiiB of hay,
eight, head of horses, four setB or liar-
ness and one cow.
The Gugo county mortgage record
for tho month of October wns ns fol
lows: Farm mortgages filed, four
teen; amount, $5G,000; fnrm mort
gages released, twenty-four; amount,
$51,012; city mortgages filed, twenty
eight: amount, $19,504; city mort-
caco released, twenty-six: amount
$17,918.
Examination of tho hooks of tho
Gage county treasurer at. Beatrice by
the stato treasurer examiner disclos
ed tho fiict that out of over $i00.000
taxes for the year 1914, less than
$10,000 reninlned unptld, an excep
tlonnl showing according to 'the oxnm
Inor. One townshln In the county,
f'lntonln. has no delinquent real en
tnte tax.
John J. Spies, a traveling man llv
Ing In Kenrnev, while mnlclng his
route through tho county, wns struck
by the Kearney-Callaway motor near
Amherst, Tho car in which Spies
was driving was totnllv wrecked and
the passenger thrown about 100 feot.
He sustained numerous Injuries, nono
of ..which will prove fatal, It Is
thought.
M. C Miller, a Seward merchant,
has been awarded first prize by a Chi
cago concern, thnt was peeking tall
corn. Miller's entry inoaBitred 15 feet,
10 Inches.
One hundred dollars for the patriot.
Ic Nebraskaii who writes tho best ponm
on or about the state If the ponm
can be Ret to mus'c $100 moro w'll bo
given for the best tuno, John D. Hub
kell, Wakefield, banker, will pay tho
$100 for the best poem, tho winning
selection to bo recited or sung nt tho
semi-centennial anniversary celebrn
tlons of Nebraska's statehood in iui7.
I MUSI PREPARE
SMS
PRESIDENT
Larger Army and Rapidly Built
Up Navy Called For.
PLAN OF NATIONAL DEFENSE
Mr. Wilson, Addrcsslnn Manhattan
Club nt Fiftieth Anniversary Din
ner, Asko Support for Admin
istration Program.
Now York, Nov. 5. President Wil
son wns tho guest of honor and tho
principal spoakor nt tho fiftieth anni
versary dinner of tho Manhattan club
Inst night nt tho Blltmoro hotel.
Thoro was n groat gathering of distin
guished men, and tho chtof oxccutlvo
took tho occasion to toll them and tho
country what his administration Is
planning In tho way of nntlonnl do
fenso. Our ambition, Bald Mr. Wilson, Is
not only to bo free nnd prosperous
oursolrcs, but also to bo tho friend
and thoughtful partisan of thoso who
nro. froo or who dcslro freedom tho
world over. Wo shall, ho declared ho
bolleved, novor again tako another
foot of territory by conquest, or sook
to mako an Independent pcoplo sub
ject to our dominion. Bocnuso of tho
groat Europoan conflict, said tho pres
ident, "from ono ond of our own dear
country to tho other men aro asking
ono nnothor what our own forco Is,
how. far wo aro prepared to maintain
oursolvos ngalnst any lntc'rforonco
with our action or dovolopmont."
Though tho mission of Amorlcn In
tho world Is essentially a mission of
penco and good will among mon, do
clarod Mr. Wilson, wo fool Justlflod In
preparing ourselves to vlndlcato our
right- to lndopendont nnd unmolested
action by making tho forco that Is In
us rortdy for assertion.
Plans for the Army.
"And wo know," continued tho pres
ident, "that wo can do this In n way
V" uo 1 a,1 ulU8in u"" 01 V,,
American spirit. In nccordanco with
I l.n . . 111 1 u 1 1 1 . . 1 . I .
our Amorlcan traditions wo want and
Bhnll work for only an. nrmy adequate
to tho constant nnd lcgltlmnto uses of
tlmos of International peace. But wo
do want to feel that thoro Is a great
body of citizens who havo received at
least tho most rudlmcntnry nnd neces
sary forms of military trnlnlng: that
they will bo ready to form thcmsolvos
Into n fighting forco nt tho call of tho
nation; nnd thnt tho nation hns tho
munitions nnd supplies with which to
equip them without lolay should it bo
necessary to call them Into nctlon.
Wo wish to supply them with tho
training thoy need, and wo think wo
can do so without calling them nt any
tlmo too long nwny from tholr civilian
pursuits.
"It Is with this Idea, with this con
ception in mind that tho plana havo
been mndo which It will bo my prtvl
logo to lay boforo tho congress nt Its
next Bosslon. That plan calls for only
such nn lncreaso In tho regular army
of tho United States as experience bus
proved to bo required for tho perform-
anco of tho noccsBary dutlos of tho
army In tho Philippines, In Hnwnll, In
Porto Rico, upon tho "borders of tho
United States, at tho const fortifica
tions, and nt tho military posts of tho
Intorlor. For tho rest, it cn'IIs for the
training within tho noxt throo years
of n forco of 400,000 citizen soldiers to
bo ralsod In annual contingents of 133,
000, who would bo asked to enlist for
throo years with tho colors nnd throo
years on furlough, but who during
their throo years of enlistment with
tho colors would not bo organized ns
Ing for n very brief period of each
yoar. Their training would tnko placo
in Immodinto association with tho or-
gnnized units of tho regular army. It
would havo no touch of tho amatour
about it, nolthor would It exact of the
voluntoors moro than thoy could glvo
In any ono yenr from tholr civilian
pursuits.
"And nono of this would bo done In
such a way as In tho slightest degrco
to suporscda or Biibordlnato our pres
ent sorvlccablo and offlclont National
Guard. On tho contrary, tho Nntlonnl
Guard ltflolf would bo used as a part
of tho Instrumentality by which train
Ing would bo given tho citizens who
"onllBted under tho now conditions, nnd
I Bhould hopo nnd oxpoct that tho leg
islation by which nil this would bo ac
complished would put tho Nntlonnl
Guard ltsolf upon n bettor and moro
pormanont footing than It has ovor
D0i before, giving It not only tho rec-
uKiuuoii which ii uoBorvos nut a moro
doflnlto connection with tho military
organization or ttio nation.
For Development of tho Nnvv.
"It has been Amorlcan policy tlmo
out o mind to look to tho navy ns
"uo urst and chlof lino of dofonso
Tho navy of tho United States Is al
ready a vory groat and oillclont force
Not rnpldly, but slowly, with enroful
attention, our naval forco Iiub been
dovoloped until tho navy of tho United
States stands recognized as ono of tho
most oillclont nnd notnblo of tho mod-
orn tlmo. All that in needed In order
to bring It to a point of oxtrnordlnary
forco nnd efficiency as compared with
tho othor navies of tho world la that
wo should hasten our paco In tlio
- policy wo havo long been pursuing,
and thnt chlof of nil wo should havo
a doflnlto policy of dovolopmont, not
mado from year to yoar but looking
- 1 woll Into tho futuro and planning for
a doflnlto consummation. Wo can nnd
should profit In all that wo do by tho
oxporlenco nnd oxnmplo that havo
boon mndo obvious to us by tho mili
tary nnd naval events of tho actual
prcsont. It Is not merely n matter of
building battleships and cruisors nnd
submarines, but also a matter of mak
ing suro that wo shall havo tho ado
quato equipment of Ninon and muni
tions nnd supplies for tho vessels wo
build nnd Intend to build. Pnrt of our
problem Is tho problotn of what I may
call tho mobilization of tho resources
of tho nation at tho proper tlmo It lb
should ovor bo necessary to moblllzo
thorn for nntlonnl dofonso. Wo shall
study tho efficiency and adequnto
oqulpmont as carefully as wo shall
study tho number nnd bIzo of our
ships, nnd I bollovo thnt tho plans al
ready In part mado public by tho navy
dopartment aro plans which tho whole
nation can approvo with rational en
thusiasm. "No thoughtful man feelB nny panlo
hnsto In this mnttor. Tho country Is
not threatened from nny quarter Sho
stands In friendly rolntlons with nil
tho world. Hor resources aro known
nnd her solf-rcspoct nnd hor cnpnolty
to caro for her own citizens nnd hor
own rights. Thoro Is no fear amongst
ub. Under tho now world conditions
wo havo become thoughtful of tho
things which all rcasonnblo men con
sider nocossary for socurlty nnd solt
dofenso on tho part of ovory nation
confronted with tho great cntorprlso
of human liborty nnd Indepondenco.
That Is all.
"In tho fulfillment of tho program I
proposo I shall ask for tho hoarty sup
port of tho country, of tho rank nnd.
lllo of Amorlcn, of mon of nil Bhadcs
of political opinion, I would not feol
that I was discharging tho solemn ob
ligation I owo tho country wore I not
to spenk In terms of tho deepest
solemnity of tho urgency and necessi
ty of preparing ourselves to guard and
protect tho rights nnd prlvtlogos of
our people, our sacred horltago of tho
fathorB who struggled to mako us an
Independent nation.
Hits nt the Hyphenates.
"Tho only tiling within our own bor
dors that has given us grnvo concern
In recent monthB hns boon that voices
havo boon rnlsed in Amorlcn profess
ing to bo tho voices of Americans
which wore not Indeed and In truth
Amorlcan, but which spoko nllcn sym
pathies, which cnino from mon who
loved othor countries bettor thnn thoy
loved America, mon who wore par
tisans of other cnusos than that ot
America and had forgotten that their
chlof and only alloglanco wns to tho
groat government under which thoy
llvo. These voices hnvo not boon
many, but thoy havo been very loud
and vory clamorous. Thoy havo pro
ceeded from a fow who wore bitter
and who woro grievously misled.
Amorlcn hns not opened Its doors In
vain to mon nnd women out of othor
nations. Tho vast majority of thoso
who havo como to tako ndvantago of
hor hospitality havo united tholr spirits
with hors as woll as tholr fortunes.
Theso men who speak alien sympa-.
tides aro not tholr spokesmen, but nro
tho spokosmen of smnll groups whom
It Is high tlmo thnt tho nation should
call to n reckoning. Tho chlof thing
noccssnry In Amorlcn In order thnt sho
should lot nil tho world know
that sho is prepared to main
tain hor own groat position is that
tho real volco of tho nation should
sound forth unmistakably and In ma
jestic volumo, In tho doop unison of a
common, unhosltatlng national feoU
Ing. I do not doubt that upon tho
first occasion, upon tho first opportu
nity, upon tho first doflnlto challengo,
that volco will Bpoak forth In tones
which no'man can doubt nnd with,
commands which no man daro gain
say or resist.
"May I not Bay, whllo I nm Bpoak.'
ing of this, thnt thoro is another dan
ger that wo should guard against?
Wo should rebuko not only manifes
tations of rnclnl fooling horo in Anion
lea where there should bo nono, but
also -qvory manifestation of religious
and sectarian antagonism.
"Hero Is tho nation God has bullded
by our hands. What shall wo do with
it? Who Is there who does not stand
ready at all times to act in hor bohalf
In a spirit of doyotcd and disinterest
ed patriotism? 'Wo nro yot only In
tho youth nnd first consciousness of.
our powor. Tho day of our country's
llfo is Btlll but In Ub froBh morning.
Let us lift our oyos to tho great tracts
of llfo yot to bo conquorod In tho In
torcstB of rlghtoous pcaco. Como, lot
ub renow our alloglanco to Amorlcn,
consorvo hor strength In Ub purity,
mako hor chlof among thoso who
Borvo mankind, solf-rovorencod, soir
commnndod, mistress of all forces of
quiet counsol, strong nbovo all others
In good will nnd tho might ot Invln
clblo Justlco and right." .
To Stop Quarreling.
Instnllatlon of a phonograph In his
court room to rcduco to n minimum
family quarrolB Is tho plan of Pollco
Judgo JoBoph II. Brady of Kansas
City, Kan.
Hereafter when family quarrolB
como Into court,. Judgo Brady an
nounced tonight, a phonograph will
tako down each bit of testimony, re
cording tho Inflections and Interrup
tions of othor witnesses. Thon a fow
days Inter ho will summou nil who
took part In tho enso, produce tho
phonograph records nnd havo them
listen to tholr testimony.
"Thoro will bo no furthor need for
n judgo," said Judgo Brady. "Thoso
who took part will feel so ashamed
of tho entire proceedings thoy will
drop tho raattor right thoro. No por
son would qunrrol with noighbors If
thoy know how tho court proceedings
would appear to others."