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tynffS FVVWWI'li 4mMM4Wfft3 .Y?U4&r. '1 li 14 The Commoner . VOL. 18,- NO: 1 .4$J& U.S; War Aims Told in Berlin A Philadelphia dispatch to tho Boa ton. J'oflt, dated Dec. 2, says Since the- roturn to Germany of bo many Gorman1 rooldonta of America, a gon ornl understanding of America and " America's war intontiona haa begun to porcolate through the German proBfl. Novortholoas, it ia remarkable to find In the conservative Krcuz Zo.ltung, pot organ of tho Eaat Prus sian junkers, tho following unvar nlahod atatomonto in regard to Amer ican affuira: V. 8. War Spirit Grown J'Prom time to time American no'wpapor accounts refer to increas ing, peace inclinations in tho United States, It is to bo justly assumed that in a nation of 100,000,000 thoro are many who nro peacoably Inclined, but wo warn against a too roseate vlow in this connection. Such optim istic oxpoctations are just, as, disap pointing as those prevailing In Amor lca In tho first year of tho war in connection with tho oxpected turn of public opinion in favor of Germany, which In reality existed only In tho Imagination of Gorman newspaper correspondents, "Anybody following tho trend of Rffulrs in the United Statos is no longor in doubt but what tho number of war onthusiaBts In America is .Constantly growing. This was also j'ocont,ly domonsifritpd by tho labor 'prganlzati6nsj Which aro to-a' greater ibxtont dotormlnod ,fork tho "yar than ihoirJEngllflh brethren assomblod at tho rbcont British Trades Union cou--groBB at Blackwood. " "Thoro tho dologato of tho Amer ican Federation of Labor, B. Lord, .declared that ho would not think of ' flitting at a tablo with representatives of tho central powers as long as 'that Gorman boast' remains in Belgium mid Franco. "Anothor dologato of this federa tion, Golden, accusod tho German labor loaders as olthor sympathizing with tho cruolties porpetrated or be ing moral cowards. Bryan as a Itolligcront "Just as bolligoront Is now Bryan, Wilson's formor secretary of state; who says in his Commoner, 'America Is now bound to win, for she could i TYPEWRITERS $10 up. ALU make. Completely rebuilt. Five yean uatntre. Shipped on trial. Write today Cor nur Special Trice Olter No. 148B. ?.J?,IJ,YBLV A UST p mccBST WAKGAINS. Full pattlcuUrs.Frec. WHITEHEAD TYPEWRITER CO. 186 N. USillc St. Chiaro, HI. IllIJElIMATISn Ilecipe I will gladly semi any Rheumatism suf ferer a Slmplo Ilorb Itceipo Absolutely Froo that Completely Curod mo of a ter nblo attack of muscular and inflamma tory Hhoumatlsm of long standing after pvory thing else I tried had failed mo. I havogly,on'ltn'0vany Sufferers who bo lioyod thoifr oases, hopeless, yet they found rpliof frttn their sufforlng by talcing those qimple hocbtf. 11;. also rolioVes Sciatica promptly, as Tvolf as Neuralgia, and is a wonderful btudU. pUrlilor. You aro most wolcomofta thls. JJcrb licclnc if you will qend fp&4.;ftWnpfc. I bollovo you will consider It a God-send aftor you have put it to the teat, Thoro is nothing in jurious contained In it, and you can soo for yourself, oxactiy what you aro taking. t will gladly send this Recipe absolutely , Eroo-to any sufferer who will sond name and address. W. A. SUTTON, iiunn MmbhoII Ave., Los Augelen, California. I , , t inrrii r .:?:. Jfcr"!i I IUK " 'MMMjyffjMM' not permit a foreign -power, Germany least of all, to interfere with Amer ica's destinies.' " 'Tho United States,' says Bryan, 'can not permit tho defeat of the en tonto, since such would be tantamount to America's defeat, unless tho United States contemplates to continuo tho war itself.' For these reasons Bryan demands the strongest possible sup port of tho government in all mat ters regarded by it as advisable. He says further, 'it does not matter how long tho war may last, and what tho cost may be; differences or opinion can only prolong it, while at the same timo the sacrifices in money and hu man lives grow greater.' "Who would have ever thought to hear that out of the mouth of Mr. Bryan? This is the same Bryan who throw his job at tho President's feet for foar that Wilson's energetic atti tude toward Germany might lead to war. At that time Roosevelt was also against Wilson, regarding him as act ing in a cowardly way toward Bryan and toward Germany alike. Now, how over, Roosevelt and Bryan blow one and tho same horn. Wilson combats, in words, Gorman militarism; virtu ally ho Imitates it. He would have the American army largo enough, If need be, to attain victories on the battle fields of Europe all by itself, or at least prove to bo the decisive .element. WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN, "THE MAN OP HOURS" From Tho Detroit Times. "The'Man of Hours." Why shouldn't William Jennings Bryan be called that? Or should this country be called "A Country of Hours," with that great son of Nebraska; that great leader of men and of a country, there ahead of timo, waiting for the hour that he foresees, always? Tho hour found him In the van guard, when with his "Cross of Gold and Crown of Thorns" he electrified a people a minority, so it proved but a great, representation of people waiting for the very solution of tlieir preuicamont which he urged as their delegate and spokesman. Those great principles of liberty and freedom and democracv which Jio expounded, even as the advocate ot arerorm promulgated by him most unhappily, from the standpoint of 'Jgood politics," could he have "sold tho truth to serve the hour," aro the very principles for which the country today offers its blood and its lives. A country always divided over Bryan, stand united today for those things to which he has consecrated his great talents, his energy and his 1110. It-is the hour for which Brfan has fought with all of his God-given powors .to fight another of the coun try's hours that makes it, onoe again, Bryan hour. There was Baltimore, to which a party, battered and torn and hopeless ly divided between its faction which would ser,ve God and that which would serve Mammon, 'dragged itself dosparlngly until it heard the great champion who told the party it could not servo both. Our country was in one of. its hours when the democratic party met in Baltimore in national convention in 1912. Its call was for a party to lead it out of bondage, but tho party had not heard until William Jennings Bryan's voice was raised in that con vention, in another of his hours, and the party told that it must become the jouii try's leader; that in order to "keep faith with the country, it must first keep faith with itself and the principles of Jefferson upon which it was founded. The Bryan hand outstretched from the speaker's platform, and which hushed the party's delegates at that hour, that his voice might carry far over the crowd and outside aird be yond the convention hall into the four corners of the states, was the hand of Fato, and it gave to the country a man of the hour for this very critical and very solemn time in the nation's history. Wo can not thank God for -Wilson without first thanking God for Bryan. That is undeniably so because it is political history. And now comes stil another hour still another Bryan hour. Authority has been voted for tho expression of the whole people In an hour that finds the country's senti ment overwhelmingly for a dry na tion and consistency with war, which embodies consistency with so many other things. It was voted in the lower nouse of congress Monday in ratification of previous, action by the senate, and in tne gaiiery they heard the vlcrnmns clapping of a man's hands. The hands were th.OBe of "The Man of Hours." He was there to see the completion pf that for which he had battled again in the forefront. He was there at another 'hour which he foresaw. Once again William Jennings Bry an has done his part. Country-wide prohibition is how the fight of the states and the people of the-states. urJ1 l8,11 the "Slit of Michigan, Our MIohigan," and we must and we will do our part. It is Michigan's hour! MB. BRYAN AT LEWISTON Lewiston Me., Journal, Dec. 7, JLiX 7 . J Hon. William J. Bryan, who in the minds of many is America's most gifted orator, last night held a Lew-iston-Auburn audience of 800 in fas cinated attention. He spoke two hours and ten minntes, but practic ally nobody left the hall. Just as each of "ninVmi'c. i in reality several novels in one, so this address by the great commoner was in reality several addresses in one. It was in part a plea for wo man suffrage, in part an economic treatise, in part a straight sermon and so on; he dealt with many sub jects, and each was pretty nearly a whole address in itself. But it was all beautifully blended into a cen tral theme, just as the Dickens' novels are, and the result was as sat isfying. It was an exceptional and memorable intellectual treat. Subscribers' Advertising Depr. This department is for, the benefit of Commoner subscribers, and a special rate of six cents a wOrd per insertion tho lowest rate has been made for them. Address all communicattpno to The Commoner, Lincoln, Nebraska. 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