PLATTSMOUTH SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL.
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I.IONDAY, SEPTEMEER 3, 1917.
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irBSCBIPTIOH HHICEi flJS
"Old Glory" is still there.
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The fighting French are there with
both feet.
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Xo one around here is looking for
a cooler climate.
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When a man has all he wants he
has entirely too much.
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lVace reigns again in Houston,
and the negroes have gone.
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The man who is itching for fame
is kept mighty busy scratching.
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William II. Hearst wants to be
mayor of New York." L!ut can he
be elected?
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It isoiext to impossible to keep
down a good man, taxes and the
price of hogs.
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Tope F.enedict can have the pat
isfaction of knowing t hat he gave
the entire world something to think
about.
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If nev.vpaper advertising didn't
pay the advertiser, you can bet your
bottom dollar there would be no ad
vertising. :o:
The Catholics of America are all
right. And when it comes to war
with another nation, they are not
jlIo'-v to speak out.
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(loMon rod is the flower of Ne
braska, fixed so by the legislature
in IS:.""). IWaybe most people have
forgot Uu it.
Somehow or another luck seems
to hang around the fellow in busi
ness who is a big advertiser. Did
it ever occur to you, why?
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If workmen with grievances would
everywhere follow the example of
the ship yards employes, there would
be ii3 reason to question the patriot
ism of workers anywhere.' They
.vtayed at work, with an affirmation
of loyalty, and President Wilson and
Sam (lompers are arranging an arbi
tration board which can be depend
ed upon to see that full justice is
done to men who ask for their rights
and go on working.
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"Whether the war be long or short
we pledge the undeviating loyalty
to our country of 3,000,000 Cath
olic men and women united in fed
eration." This was the statement of
1 'resident John Whalen of the Amer
ican Federation of Catholic Societies
in his address Monday to the repre
sentatives of those societies,"" gather
ed at Kansas City in their annual
convention. These patriotic words
were direct from the hear and spok
en to the representatives of class of
people who have always proved their
faith and loyalty to the constitu
tion and the flag of our country.
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Apain our old friend P.owlby, who
generally speaks advisedly, knocks
the bul!s-eye out as follows, and it
lj right to the point also: "The ring
which wants to run the Nebraska
Press Association has finally gone
over ot Iowa and hired the paid
secretary of that state to divide his
time in showing' editors how to con
duct their business, not only in Iowa,
but in Nebraska; but he will remain
in Jowa. mis is jusi wnat you
could expect of a bunch of smarties
who want to pull out of your pock
ets 5 to 10 dollars a year to pay
this Iowa field secretary of Donison
lor turning a wad of business your
way. Its about time the ring was
told go away back and sit down and
soak their heads. It is a reflection
on Nebraska intelligence to permit
the rins to rule and run the Asso
ciation, like they were it."
PER TEAR IJT ADTANCB
KULTUR SPEAKS OUT.
The world has not yet been fav
ored with an oflicial transcript of
the new German foreign minister's
inaugural, in which he appears to
have outlined the remarkable Ger
man discovery that international
honesty is sometimes the best policy,
but it is possible to construct what
the diplomatists call a paraphrase of
his remarks which would read about
as follows:
"Our international policy should,
of course, be based on right 1n so
far as the right does not conflict
with our policy of forcibly taking
rom other nations whatever we
have reason to think they are in
capable of defending.
"A policy -of might, unsupported
by right, is bound 'to fail in all cas
es where our might is not equal to
that of the enemy. This is some
thing we should guard against.
Where a careful analysis of the sit
uation discloses a doubt of our
might we should contrive to have
right on our side, unless a sure
means can be found to increase our
might.
"In our dealings with neutral
states (if any) we should be careful
not to invade their rights except
for military necessity. I lay it
down as a principle that a neutral
state never should be driven into
belligerency so long as its neutral
ity operates in our favor.
"The highest object of German
diplomacy, which is the most subtle
and delicate ever achieved by any
nation, should be to keep neutral
states from declaring war on us
while we destroy their commerce
and treat them otherwise as ene
mies. "The principle of neutrality is a
sacred one and should be respected
by us as long as states remaining in
that status supply us with food ob
tained from the enemy.
'The bonds of cordiality that bind
our ailies to us remain firm. The
leg by which we have Turkey
shackled is getting a little sore
and we may have to change the.
iron to the other leg, but this is no
more than we ought to be willing
to do for a faithful ally that knows
it cannot get away anyhow. Aus
tria and Bulgaria continue loyal
and devoted, doing exactly as we say
and suffering accordingly.
"Our policy toward our allies re
mains unchanged. It is to use them
to our best advantage as long as they
will stand it.
"In general the government is
following the same policy toward
the German people. Don't ask me
how long we can get away with it
because I just took over this job
from Doctor Zimmermann and in
his hurry to get away he forgot to
tell me." Kansas City Star.
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In accordance to past usages,
there will be no paper issued from
this office Monday Labor Day.
What if the food speculators
should go on a strike do you think
it would make any difference to tha
consumers?
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An Omaha man claims exemption
on the ground that he suffers from
cold feet. He ,is a bit more frank
than the others, that's all.
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The conscientious objector for
whom we are rooting is the one who
conscientiously objects to another
man doing his fighting for him.
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The difficulty is not so much with
our patriotism, as with the arousing
of it to a complete realization of the
dangers which confront America in
this world war.
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We hope they will come again.
FREEDOM OF SPEECH.
There is no more difficult, or deli
cate task in time of war than to de
fine the legal limitations of freedom
of speech and of the press.
Mayor Mitchel has undertaken to
do so in relation to certain orators
and newspapers of radical Irish
propaganda, but he has not been
altogether successful. These orators
and newspapers are frankly disloyal
to the United States. They preach
sedition. They oppose' the war poli
cies of the government. They try
to incite public opposition to the
seading of troops to France. They
are morally, if not legally, guilty of
treason; yet the words of Judge
Cooley in his "Constitutional Limi
tations" remain, perhaps, the wisest
words on the subject:
"Repression of full and free dis
cussion is dangerous to any gov-
ment resting upon the will of the
people. The people cannot fail to
see that they are deprived of rights,
and will be certain to become dis
contented .when their discussion of
public measures is sought to be cir
cumscribed by the judgment of oth
ers upon their temperance or fair
ness. "They must be left at liberty to
speak with the freedom which the
magnitude of their supposed wrongs
appears in their minds to demand,
and if they exceed all the proper
bounds of moderation the consola
tion must be that the evil likely to
spring from the violent discussion
will probably be less and its correc
tion by public sentiment more i
speedy than if the terrors of the
law were brought to bear to pre
vent the discussion."
We have no doubi that much of
this propaganda has been bought in
the open market with German
money, yet we can find no evidence
that it has proved anything but a
losing investment to those who fi
nanced it. This fact, too, must be
taken into consideration in estimat
ing the need of legal measures.
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Democracies are always getting
into trouble, as Elihu Root said, and
the scum is always rising to the
surface. But. after all, the least
dangerous thing that the most dis
loyal American can do is to talk or
scribble. Nothing serious is likely
to come of that, unless there is a
direct appeal to the use of force in
resisting the government. For such
appeals there is law in abundance.
The free play of public opinion can
be trusted in war as well as in
peace, and it is well to trust it.
When we sum up all the results of
this disloyal propaganda what do
we find? That the American peo
ple are beginning to waver in the
support of their government? Not
at all. Never in the whole history
of the United States was there rela
tively 6o great a body of public
opinion on the side of a war ad
ministration and so little opposition
that could command a respectable
following. The more talking there
is on the part of Germany's agents
ad assistant agents the more firm
ly resolved the country is to see the
thing through and crush Prussian
ism. What is needed is not stern sup
pression of all seditious and disloy
al utterance, regardless of law, but
a counter-campaign in the name of
patriotism and human freedom.
How can any government .consist
ently prosecute a soap-box orator
for uttering sentiments that are ex
pressed dally in the halls of con
gress and circulated at public ex
pense in the Conrgessional Record?
But it is as easy for patriots as for
traitors to organize public meet
ings. It is as easy to arrange
demonstrations in favor of the gov
ernment as against it, and the most
powerful weapon against disloyal
propaganda is loyal propaganda.
New York World.
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Talk about your brave men. Why
the bravest man of today is he who
drives a 1907 automobile. ,
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Now that the minimum price. of
what was fixed at $2.00 per bushel,
it is expected the majority of far
mers will turn their attention to
raising wheat.
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HIS VIEWS.
Editor Schaber of the Hudsonite
has Just made an 'address which is
quoted in part as an example which
many editors would do well to take
to heart. He- said in part as fol
lows:. "This is my country, and to her
alone do I owe allegiance, and when
ever the time comes that I can prove
my loyalty, and this allegiance, 1
will be glad to prove it, in any way
possible. All that I am I owe to
the protection of that flag. Do you
suppose that I am going to bite the
hand that fed me? This is no time,
for divided allegiance. You arc
either with Uncle Sam or you are
against him. The good book says
that you canot serve God and Mam
mon, which we interpret as God and
the devil, and you can not be loyaj
to these United States, and to that
dear old flag of ours and be a friend
of the kaiser. You are one thing or;
the other, you cannot be both, I was
born in Germany and I am not
ashamed of my parentage or the.
land of my birth. My people were
honest hardworking. God-fearing
people, who were good citizens i:;
the old country, and who were ever
good citizens here. We left the oh?
country because we could not live
under Prussian militarism, under
the overbearing domineering gov
ernment, which knew nothing but
war and preparation for war. We
were never kaiser worshippers. The
Schabers were always the great op
posite of that for as early as 1725
one of my forefathers lost his life.
because he was foolish enough t
think he could do his own think
ing and he thought, with a bunch
of other men like himself, that the
German people were all snia:
enough to govern themselves, with
out a king of kaiser. Well, he los.
his head by the headsman's sword
"In 1S4 8, my grandfather, my
father's father was implicated in tin.
little revolution in southern Ger
many. He thought that the south
ern German states should form a
confedracy of states, and be a re
public like America. The folks
down in that part of the country
hate the Prussians, and they want
ed nothing to do with then, but
their plot was also discovered there
were spies throughout the land jv-
en then as now, and my grandfath
er also lost his life. After that the
Schabers got out of that country as
fast as they could.
My father loved that old flag
of the United States best of all,
and this life he instilled into my
childish breast the first few months
that I was in this country, when
Gen. U. S. Grant in reviewing the,
troops in the city of Dubuque, Iowr.
gave him a chance to point out the
great American flag, and to tell me
a lad of seven what it meant am',
what it stood for. That old flag
means everything to me, for it has
protected me, it has given me a
chance, it has assured me a home.
'Europe is at the end of its re
sources, America must help. Do you
know what the big dailies in Ger
many are doing right at the pres
ent time that they have been fig
uring out the enormous indemity
this country must pay to Germany
when the Germans have whipped
the allies. This is not newspaper,
talk, it is an asserted fact.
"I was in Germany twenty-four
years ago, and when I spoke ot
their big military preparations, I
innocently asked what it was all
about. I was over there on a visit
I was 21, and I wanted to see how
her people made a living. I was
told that Germany was goiag to
whip England and France. Engt
land must be punished and France
must be again subdued. Speaking
of the American, in casual conver
sation., one day I was laughed at,
they told me to my face that we had
no army. I was'sneeringly inform
ed that they could take- 20.00A
soldiers and come over here and
whip the whole United States. And
to add insult to injury, they told
me further, that if they would come
GERMAN EDITOR GIVES
over here, that there were million?
of Germans who would meet them,
It is a wonder they did not-put me
in jail for life, after what I told
them, when they talked that way
to me. I told them that you bet
every German in America would bj
there to meet them, and everyone;
of us would have a gun in his
right hand and that we would shoot
at them and keep shooting at them
until every last one of us was dead
before we would dishonor ourselves
by allying ourselves with alien ene.
my, assaulting our shores. I hope
to God that the time will never corns
when German soldiers under the com
mand of the kaiser will set foot on
our American soil with hostile in
tent, but if that time ever does
come, I want to be right there to
take part in the ligfht. I may be
spavined in both knees, be half
blind and have only one foot to
go on, but I am going and take one
crack at those over-bearing minion?
of the kaiser, if it is the last thing
I ever do." Highmore (S. D.) Her
ald.
THE OLIVE ERAUCH.
Karl II. von Weigand, for sev
eral years an American newspaper,
correspondent in Germany, hails
President Wilson's answer to the
Pope as a powerful stimulus to the
liberalization of Germany, and s.
as the forerunner of an eirly air!
just and enduring peace. Writing
in the Chicago Examiner von Wei
gand says:
"To the great masses of Germaji
people as I know them President
Wilson's answer will come as a re
newed offer of friendship from the
United States. His indictment of tht
German government will be a hart
blow to the Kaiser and severely
shake the existing governmental,
syjVem.
'The German people have been
told President Wilson sought to sec
Germany crushed, annihilated, the
German people humiliated and an
opportunity for them to recover from
tlfts terrible effects of the war made
impossible. America, through Presi
dent Wilson, now givea the German
people assurances Germany shall
have equality with other nations i
they accept that instead of seeking
the domination preached by Bern
hardt, Reventlow and others.
"The German people have been
told since I first went to Germany
in 1911, and it has been continual
ly pounded into them, that coalition.
were being formed to force them
from equality with other great peo
ples. During this war one of the
greatest bonds which welded them
into unity with their governmental
system was the belief that they
were to be destroyed and robbed oj
their independence.
"The note will serve as an inspira
tion to the leaders of German lib
eralism, strengthen their influence
with the people and encourage them
to still greater efforts to bring the
government of Germany under the
direct control of the yeichstag, .
chosen representatives of the people.
Leaders like Maximillian Harden,
Theodore Wolff, George Bernhard
Richard Witting, Ballin, Erzberger,
Prof. Deldrueck, have been telling
the German people with great frank
ness what is necessary, in Germany
to bring peace with the world. Prei
dent Wilson has confirmed the
preachings of these men."
It was - Herr Scheidemann, lead
er of the German social democrats,
speaking at Monheim on August 7,
who demanded "a government really
representative of the German peo
ple" and said: "But this is still net
enough; we' want democratization.
The reichstag, with its peace pro
gram, has invaded the foreign pol
icy of the empire and brought a"bout
a complete defeat of the annexa
tionists. But now the fight is going
on over the decisive influence of th
people 'in empire and state."
This is the ferment that is work
ing and to which President Wilson
now adds the powerful yeast of his
assurances that a Germany in which
the influence of the people is deci
sive may have peace with honor and
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'afcty ami on terms of equality oj
riht au'l cp-.nt unity v.ith the ret
of the world.
Theodora V.'oli'i tells the German
people that thoy are not free citi
zeiis, but subj-jets, and belong to
the or.lv kultur naLicn in which this
feudal station still is maintained.
Prof. Hans Delbrucck of the Uni
versity of Berlin, a world-famous
Gir;na'.i tcholar, openly chalienrres
the good faith of the German gov
?rn:iu:it. lie asks why, if it has
really accepted the reichstag peace
resolutions as the basis of its pol
icy, it' failed to an.-r.ver Asquith's
inquiry as to Germany's readiness
to evacuate and restore Belgium?
As a matter of fact, he says, "Xeith
or the German nation nor the world
know v.hat the chaiieelior'3 policy
is." And he adds, cuttingly, that
the reichstag resolutions would have
had a different effect "if it were not,
believed abroad that the reichstag
is powerless and the chancellor i;
J o u b I e - i o n gv. e u . "
The nephew of Count von Revent
low deserts the German army, flees
to Switzerland, and there declares
that he "has no intention of return
ing to Germany to descend into a
militarist against civilization."
The'truth is breaking through the
barrier cf stel that a military auto
cracy has erected about Germany.
And President Wilson, in his inspir
ing message, has furnished the con
clusive evidence that it is the truth.
To the German people he holds out
the olive branch, but to the gov
ernment that enslaves them and has
made the whole world their enemy,
the mailed .list.
The President has struck the most
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compelling blow possible for a peace
that wjll establish the right and ren
store happiness to the world.
World Herald.
As the president said in Aprilj
and as he reiterates so splendidly
now, the wrongs against which
America has arrayed itself are such
as cut to the very roots of human
life. The right of democracy to
grow and bear fruit yes, even its
very right of existence is involved
in the present struggle, and can only
be maintained by the defeat of the
autocracies that have sought to de
stroy it.
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Prussian soldiers are now so
young that an army on the march
looks like a boy scouts excursion. Is
it to be ai appeal to pity?
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Ilitherto the national food dicta
tor has been the corner grocer, and
Mr. Hoover can hardly fail to be
an improvement on him.
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The surest way to delight a soap
box orator anarchist is for a sup
posedly sensible man to denounce
him from the sidewalk.
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