CmiQa IrtMae. IxrUsst,'30. CfU 1311. ZtiU ö, I P,ltiische An,kistk. Kongressmann CHARLES H. SLOAN Kandidat für die Wiederwahl Csnglkßmnnn Zloou ut Neutralität Unter den jüngeren Abgeordneten, die sich in Washington bewährt ha den,, ragt besonders Kongrchmann 5hgrleS H. Sloan vom 4. Tiftrikt hervor. Er ist äußerst beredsam und ein fähiger Tebattircr, der nur dcmn spricht, wenn er etwas sogens werthes hat. Er ist einer der ar beit'anlitcn im 5d?naresz, und seine . Fähigkeit und sein Fleiß haben ihm rasch Ehren eingetragen, sodaß er jetzt Mitglied der wichtigsten Aus. schüsse ist. Vor allem aber sollten die Deutschen nicht vergessen, das; er eines der wenigen Mitglieder des Hauses -war, die. fest und uncrschüt terlich der vorgeschlagenen Gesetz gebung entgegentraten, welche die Deutschland 'feindlichen Alliirten be. TV! I f 'r V . 'j liJS&roV irrttT i2i 0 . J . x -s J- fchatzmeisters in der Höhe don einhundertundsieoentausend Dollars (ZtU7.lM0.lV). Im Jahre 18117 beantragte und sicherte ich als Staats, senator die Annahme des jetzigen Stadt-Eharter mit ausgeglichener L?l'?teuerung und zwang die Korporationen und groszen Gnmdeigen. thümer, ihren richtigen Antheil an der Stadtsteuer zu zahlen. Dieser preibries berechtigte die Stadt auch, ösfentliche Nutzbarkeiten durch die Ausnützung der Kräfte hervorragender Gebiete zu erwerben: Dieses ist Erwerb durch Snteignuns.Vkrshren. Dieses setzte auch besonders die Stadt Omaha in den Stand, durch EnteignungSverfahren die Omaha Wasser-Anlage in Besitz zu nehmen. Ware dieser, Freibrief strenger gehandhabt, die Kosten der Erwerbung der Wasseranlagen würden wenigsteiS die Hälfte betragen haben und Jahre des Prozesses erspart sein, . . , ' ttMi ttIT -. Clllf Tain G ity Express Co. S)ftSe I SJTt mt v 4 ttn ,kik Ih,hks ch ,l kzdl,. b,iikb,n,n, Ufettiitia t.ei ,,iIcht Oiflctp 131-4 Wo wfmrd r. Ombi Nlb. ?rMft!!,!i-, A r ' " 1 7 - . T.. ..,.,, w.irde und die da raus .bestanden, dasz in dem jetzigen niropäischen Kriege die Ver. Staa ten strenge Neutralität aufrechter. halten. Hienn war er der freudi gen Zustimmimg aller Teutschameri. kqner sicher, he stch sicher ihm letzt dankl'ar erweisen werden. Herr loan hat sich stetZ als liberal er wiesen, der alle Leute seines Ti striktes gern vertrat. ?'achdem er deutsch erlernt hatte, studirte er sorgfältig in 'Teutschland die dor tigen Methoden der Landwirthschast ,und legte vor dem Repräsentanten hause sowohl dies als auch die Vor. theile klar, die dem Farmer ein Ttudium dieser Methoden bringen würde., Ei - solcher Mann sollte unbedingt im 4. Distrikt die Unter sllitzung der deutschen Wähler sin den. ' Wahl aus 3. November JohnC.Barrofl (Advokat) Demokratischer Kandidat - (i'i - Staats-Reprässntant i l .own und ufgzoz, i Tougla Cfouni ED. E. HOWELL lZandidal für .JAATS - SENATOR : Wahl am 3. Nodember. Warum ich Ihre Beistand erbitte. ' Im Jahre 1894, als ich Mitgggd deS Stadtrathes war. entdeckte ich Unter schlaaungen in der Äbtheilung deS Stadt GerraaniFatcfuI Hounfe By KÜIfO FRANKE, Pref. es HUtory,;;7(ar7mw Ä päuie;i!y in oroorrnin utmureanauirioror th Cermnl Munmn. , HaTwd UnlTtrslty. It It eiy lo ie why Amtrleao pub 11 cpinion hould hat con dcmrted by n ovrwhf.liiin ma jority th diplomatic ci o Aus trt na uermany winen nave leert the iii.mtU.ji o( th frnfie xplotion whith pow thaktt th (rtundattoni ( the whul civihzed world. Auitria'i trek with fervia nd Girmany-'i viouiion cf lidirian nutrality the ne leadint to war betweea kuma nd Cermany, tht, str bnnjing l neland into th fray muit appear to ti uninitiated ai recklcii and indefensih! provoca tiont and aa vtanton attacka upon th Ui of aationa. Tb thouliiful cbierver. Iiewcver, ahould lonk beyond the immediate oc casion of th a world Conflict and try to undmtand it underlying causet. liy doing 10 he will, 1 belicve, come to th concluiiun that fundamental justiie ii to b found on the Gernian ide and that Crrmany has been forced to fight for her life, France Oppoaed to Unisication of Cermany. ' It is an unquestionable fact that the unisication of Cermany and the eitab lishment of a ttrong Gernian tmpir half a Century ao wer brought about against the bitter Opposition of france, and that the defeat incurre4 by France in 1870, in her attempt t prevent German uniScation, i at fhe botloni of the constant Irritation that has) ajjiuted Europe during the last 4.? years. Germany'i policy jtoward France during these 43 year has been one of the utmost restraint and for bearance. and has been dictatcd by the one desire of making her sorget the loss of the two prvince,, Ger man until the 17th Century and inhab itated largcly hy German atock, which were won back front France in 1870, Whether the acquisition of these pro vinces was a fortunate thing for Cer many may be doubted. The possci ion of Alsace-Lorraine has certainly robbed Germany of the undivided sympathy of the worl I, which she otherwise would liave had. But it is probably true that, from the military point of view, Alsace-Lorraine was needed by Germany as a bulwark against the repetition of the many wanton French tnvasion from which Germany has had to suffer since the time of the Thirty Years' War and the age of Louis XIV. However this may be, Germany has done her best during the tist four dc cade to heal tbe wountls struck by her to French national pride. Sh abetted French colonial expansion in Cochin-China, Madagascar, and Tunis. She yielded to France her oyvn well founded Claims to polilical iniluence in Morocco. In Alsace-Lorraine it seif she tntrodueed an amotint of local seif Government and home rule such as Fngland has not aecorded tven now to Ireland. While Irebnd stii) is waitinj? for a Farüament at Dwfe lin, Strassburg has been, for scveral years the scat of the Alsace-Lorraine Diet, a provincial Farüament based on universal suflrage. , And even in spite of the incessant and inflarqma tory French Propaganda which last year led to such unhappy counter strokes as the deplorable Zabern af fair, there can te no reasonable doubt that the people of Alsace-Lorraine have been gradually scttling down to wülinpr co-operation witS the Grrman adininistration an administration which insures thera order, justiee, and prosperity. Nothing is a clearer in dication of the peaceable trend which affairs have lately taken. in Atsace Lorraihe chaa the fact that the Na tionalist, i. e. French, party in th Strassburg Diet Las never been able to rie above insisnificance, and that, on the other band, a eonsiderable number of responsible Offices in the civil . administration, inctuding the highest governmcntal positions, have been occupied by n'ativi Alsatians. While Germany has thus repeatedly shown her willinsness and desire to end the ancient send, Franc has re mained irreconcilable; and particula ly the intellectpal dass of Fxance cannot escape the Charge that they have persistently and willfully kept ilive the f'ame of discord. It surely cannot be said that the restoration of Alsace-Lorraine is a vital necessity to Franc. With out Alsace-Lorraine, France during the last gencration ha recovered her prosperity and her Prestige in a manner that has been the admiration of the-world. It ia a mere Illusion to think that the recon quest of Alsace-Lorraine would add to her glory. It would have been a, demand of patriotism int the intelUc tual dass to eombat this Illusion. In stead of this, French writers, scholars, orators of whatever creed or party, except, the Socialist, year in and year out have been dinning into the pop ulär ear the one word revenge. And there can bo littte doubt that Prof. Gustave Lanson, the distinguished üt erary historian, voiced the sentimenta of the vast majority pf bis country men when in a lecture, delivered sorne years ago at Harvard University, h staterl that France could not and would not recognire the peace' of Frankfurt as a final settlement, and that the on, aim of the French policy of the last 40 years had been to forc Germany to reopen the Abace-Lof-raine question. If there were people in Germany inclined to cverlook er to minimize this constantlv increasing oienace from France, their eye rmist have. been epened when, in the French government, having previous ly abolished the one-year volunteers. raised the duration of active, military service for very Frenchman from two years to ihre, 'and. in additton to this called out in the autgmn of 1913 the recruits, not only of the year whose turn had come, namely, tbe re cruits born in 1892, but als these born In 1893. This. was a measurc nearly identteal with mobilization; it was a measure which clearly showed that France would not delay muck longer striking the deadly blow. !r no nation could possibly stand for any length of time this terrific train of holding under the colors it, entire male Population from the 20th to the 23d year, No wonder that the Paris Bioer wete tpeaklns; as Ions ago ti summer es 1912 of tne reglmentss tioned in th astern drp,irtmrnt ,, the "vangtiard of cur u Kiorioui ' rmy nd wer dvociiting doubl emuet nn tN ULA N II LUMMtU C1AL SUPREMACV Th econd foe now threatening th destructioa f Germany 1 ring land. Can it be truly said that Eng land'! bostility has been brought about ky German ax,re,ion? True. Germany hat built a powerful navy; but i hav Japan, th United States, frrnc and v Iy. lias Lng land feit any rnenace from these? Why, thn, ii th German navy -gled out (I t pecially smutcr threat to England? If Germany, in her icheme of nava.1 construction, ad out th main emphasis wpon the buiMing es fast cruiters, England might proptrly tav rrsented thu ai mnc to her commerce all over the gieb. Hut the German naval Programm' has aimed at nothing of th, kind, it has had )n view abov all th building of a fleet of battleshipt, that is, of öeet for coait defense. The eourse of the war thus far is a striking nroof of this defensive na ture of the German navy. Germany's weakness in fast cruisers has enabled the Fnglish flee to sweep German commerce off the seas: but th Ger man baltle fleet still guards success fully th German coast. Has th German diplomacy during th last gencration bern particularly nieuacing to England? Germany das acquired some colonic, in Africa an in the far easfc But what are Kain t.ln and Dar-es-Sala;itn and Kiao chau compared with the coloniea of tlie other great powers: v nere nas Cermany pursued a colonial aggres siveness that could in any way be compared with the Eritish subjuga tion of the South African republics er the Italian conquest of Trinoli or the French expansion in Algiers, Tunis- and Morocco? What recent international transaction es a more eurelv defensive character is the 0 record than th ceding to Eng land, in 1850, of the important Ger man protectorate of Zanzibar, in ex chane fr the barren little North Sea Island of Heligoland? Wherever Germany has made her influence feit on the globe she has stood for the orincinle of the oven door. Wher ever she has engaged in colonial en terprises she ha betn wllling to make compromUes with other na tions and to aecept their co-operation, notably o in the Bagdad rail- wav undertakinc. And yet the colo nial expansion of very other nation is kailcd by England as "benesicial to mankind," as "wrk for Civilisation"; the slightest attempt of Germany to take part in this expansion is ae nounced as "intolerajile aggression,' as vidence of the "bullying tenden (üe of the War Lord." What is the reason for this slngular unfairness of England toward Ger many; of this incessant attempt to check her and hem her in? Not so nmch the existence of a large Ger- man navv as the encroachment upon English commerce by the rapidly growing commerce of Germany has made Germanv Viateful to England. The navy has svmply added to this hat of Germany th dread of Ger many. But if there had been no Ger man navy, and conscquently no dread of Germany, this hate of Ger manv rnisht have come to an expio sion before now. For the history ,of the last 300 years proves that Eng land has habitually considered as her mortal enemy any, nation wmen dired to contest her commercial and industrial supremaey ftrst, Spain, then Holland, then France, and now Germany. As long a, German firms by the manufaetvre of artificial indigo keeo on ruining the English iropor- tation of indigo from India, and as long as the Harnburg-Anicricän Llue qnd the North German Lloyd keep oa outstripping the prestige of the Cunard and White Star, there can be no real friendship between England and Germaay. Although England has repeatedly propossd to Germany naval Agreements, these agreements wer avowedly nieant to pernctuate the overwhelming preponacrance ot England 1 hghting power, so lhat sne would at any Moment be in a position to erush German commercial rivalry for all time. She apparently thinks that thu moment has now come. RUSSIA CHALLKNGED CER MANY That Germany's third implacable enemy, Russia, is clearly the aggres sor, and not th defender o her own national existence, need hardly be demonstrated. Sh, xoss, as tne guardian of the Balka states. But is ther any caje on reeord where Rus sia das really protected the independ ence of maller neighboring cou tris? Has he not crushed out pro vincial nd ractal individuality wher ever she hat extendcd her power? Is it not th sole ain of her national policy to . Russianize forcibly every national! ty under her way? In Ein land sh has gone back on her sol einnly pledged word to maintain the Finnish eonstitution, and is ruthlessly reducing one of her iriost highly de veloped provinces t the dead level of autoeratie wile. In her Baltic prov ince she ia tryiug to destroy root and branch whatever there is lest of German ulture. Wherever the Rus sion fcherch hold dominion. ,intllc tual büght sure to foliow. Te think, therefore, that Russia would promote the frec development of a number of independent Balkan states under her protectorate, is to shut one' eye to the whole history of Russian Expansion. Ne, Russian ex pansion in the Balkans rneans noth ing less than the extinction es all lo cal independence and the establish ment of Russian despotisra from the Black Sea to he Adilatic. Not Fussia, but Austria. ! the nat url protector of the tqm'libriurn be tween the existing states en the Bal kan peninsula, an their natural guardian apaitut Russian dornination. Austria is their nearest eighbor; in deed, the possession of fiosnia and Heraregovina makes her Balkan state herseif. Bing herselk more than half of Llavie atock, he has very rcVson for living on good terms with the various Slav kingdom south of her. ' Bcing herseif forced, through the coflglomerateness of her popula tioj, to onatant compromises in. her internal affairs between covkicting nationilitici withia her border, he could not posiibly absorb larg ad ditional niount of foreign trrntory .Sh i, bound to respect the existing lins of politieal denurketion Z th haiSttu, and her sole Object can be through commercial treatics nd tan Irgislation to open up what ued to b Eurpcan Turkey to her trade and her civiliring influence. Jn hu sh, rnutt eleatly b upportea cy Germany. For only if Austria is ich free to exercise her natural protecto rat over th, Balkan täte tan the passsge between Germany and the near Orient, on of the niost import ant ronte of German commerce, b kept open. Fussia unwillingness, then, to allow Austria fre band in her dealings with Servia was an or)cn menace to Germany, challenge which had to be accepted. unless Ger many was repared t abdicat all her influence in the near Orient and to allow Russi to override the legit iiiiate Claims and piration of her only firm and fauhful ally. ENTEP.S JAPAN Thi formidable eoalition of th thre fjreatest European power, threatening the very existenc of Germany, has been joined by Japan, openly and baldly for the purpose of snatching trorn oermany ner one Asiatic oossession. If any additional proof had been needed to make it clear that Germany, if she wanted to retain the shghtest Chance ot extn cating hcrself from this world-wide conspiraey against her, had to sinke the first blow, even at the risk of of fending against international good manners.this stah in the back by Ja pan would furnish such proof. And now as to the tactical neees sity of the two aets which have, unde servedly, put upon Germany the od- mm of appearing as tue aggressor in war in which sne nas notning ia gam ana everyming 19 , which ske nas tne to siav on agam and again, war in which sh find, such overwhelming odds against her that, even if she fights "to the last breatk of man and horse," it is dim cult to se how she can maintain her seif. AUSTRIA'S EXuibNLtii THREATENED If Germany had prevented her ally Austria from th punitive expedition against Servia, she would imply hv helped thereby the dreaking up ot tne Austrian ernpire. For it is fully proved, it is openly acknowledged by the Servians themcelves, that the Greater äervia movement Kas no other im than the undermining of Austrian . rule in Croatia," Slavonia, Ualrnatia and other South Slav prov inces of the Dual Wonarchy, and the ultimate Union with Servia itself. Whether this Greater Servia move ment rests upen legitimst national aspirations or not, is a question which will be answered differently by the, advocates of the disterent causes now opposed to esfeh other. Certain it is that it constitutes peril to Austria so grave and portentous that it can be met only by direct counterstrokes of Austria, not by the rulings of a European court. To talk of arbitra tion to government which sees its sovereignty challenged within its own terrilory by another power, is likc promising the blessing of heaven to fcian whom you helg to p'.under, Gefmany was right in ssertmg that thi was a question between Austria and Servia only. It was not Ger many's fault that tl.rough . Russia's openly sidir.g with Servia, war be came inevitakle. EELGIUM A VASSAL STATE OF FRANCE The Belgian question is not a sim ple one. When the neutrality of Bel gium wau guaranteed in 1831 by in ternational treaty, Germany as a Eu ropean power did not exist, and Prus sia played only a minor part in inter national politics. The two powers which, at that time, watcheo each other jealously and by afeguardnig Belgian neutrality were hoping tu check each other, were France and England. And it was against Franc that in 1870 the declaration of tha English government, that it would consider a. violation of Belgian tern' tory a casus betti, was niatnly directj ed. Only from 1870 on has tbe main tenance of Belgian neutrality come til bo a burning question betweeil France and Germany; and from this time on it has been one thing ist the orv. and another in practice. For there can be no doubt whatever that France, while not openly violatin? in ternational agreements, has gradually succeeded in circumventing them by making Belgian territory to all in tents and pnrposes a part of th French line of defense against Ger many. The Belgian fortresse cov erin th main passages from Ger many into France were strongly for tified; the Belgian rmy, under French supervision, was brought up to the highest point of efficieney; all Bclgiurn was systematically imbued with French Sympathie and ideal and strong dislike nd fear es Ger many. so that in reality it has been for the last 25 year not a neutral state, but a vassal täte of Franee. ( As a tclling Illustration of thi state of things, it may be inpoint to relate an episode from thfe International Exposition at Brüssels in 1910, which can be given on unimpeachahle au thority. The German exhibit at Brüssels was a marked suecess, in decd one of the niost striking features of the whole exposition. But it. was a svecess very nweleom to th Bei gians and very grudgingly admitted, Indeed, when the German sectiet was the only one which opened pn ched ule time on the first of May, this fact was conimented upo in th Brüssels papers as an evidence f the "preci sion brutale" so characteristic of th German. And when in the latter part of the Summer a majority of the Exposition buildings burned te the ground, regret xpressed in pri vate and scarcaly wtthhold in miMie that the German, avillien should not have been destroyed also. Germany at the outbreak es the war found herseif in a position toward Belohnn very nutch like th one in which England found horself in 1807 toward Benmark. Napoleon by crushingt Prussi and Fweden had obtained a foothold on the outhern coast of the Baltic Sea, he had intim idated Denmrk nd was tbreatenin by the closing of the Danish Sound to shut out England, from the Balticj altogether. At this juncture, England proposed to Denmark an alliance. vVhen this propotjition w rei'ustd. " " "! .. ,,. .,,. I mmiwmm ,, läi " 1 '-H- f ) 'lrnci -".-W"' - V 'J zrsSy' ' - ''"; ,: "' --' jrSS- Tr""Vi , O. ( ) A ; ' Q'fa nV O k r"l fr i ' v.. ? ,'.-IrV'.,, O z . I K ;;VA x ; ' ti jt:p I inL Vx' -llj , . w - jt-i w. hw '7?'?' fP'rt'oSii; 0 n teX ' p ? ka : tuY h 1 x - - n v 'Kri Ylr $ w s: jVv ,as. lyy v v V ' ' ' V ,U , )2fcQ v1 vi rJ-C.r Das scuanste Baut bessere Geschäfte auf Herr Ladendes. her: Elektrizität, das schärfere Licht, baut nicht allein ein Geschäft auf, sondern eS entwickelt besiereS Ge schäft. Ein anziehender, gut erleuchteter Laden zieht nicht allein Käufer an--eS zieht gewinn bringenden Handel an. Die nach einem seinen Stück Seide Umschau haltende Dame kann die Waaren ebensogut bei elektrischem Licht al5 bei Sonnenlicht heraussuchen. Verlangen Sie eiue Vorführung. , , Telephonieren oder schreiben Sie unS heute um einen .Voranschlag der Jnstallationökosten für Ihren Laden. Es wird nicht viel sein und Sie können dafür zahlen, wie eS Ihnen paßt. Rufen Sie nur Douglas 1062 an und unser Vertreter- wird kom . men, Sie zu sehen. Omaha Electric Light & Power Co. . ' : V V '' ' ' . ' .'ijr mTr Erste Klasse Haar-Waaren Zöpft von nsgefsrnrntern Hase erferttgt Tel.: TulaS 2S70 1522 Diugla Str., h Mm 4 Riepen Deutsche Leichenbsstatter an English fleet without ay preeed ing declaration of war, appeared be fore Copenhagen, opened a bombard 'xnent upon the unfortiüed town which laid the larcer part of the city in rüins, and seized the whole Danish navy. ? The moral Indignation of the Eng fish government of today over the German Invasion of Belgium would be more impressive if one could feel sure that there would hav fieen the same moral indignation nd eonsequent declaration of war had (Belgium been invaded by France. I it not likely that England, true to her traditional policy of seizing the right Moment and of finding the niost plau sible arguments for effectiv action, would have applauded such an inva sion as a Step neces ary for the maintenance of Belgian neutrality? It ia time to drop these hollow phrases of Standing for the rights and liberties of the weaker nations. The svhole gigantic strug"gle.. of which we re made shuddering observers, is not tstruggle between right and mighti ut between menaced might and ien kcing might: and justiee lies ou th eid of that nation which has txied hardest to maintain peace. That na tion haa been Germany, not from any sentimental eure for the weif are ot pther nations, Kur from heter instinct Df self-preservation. For Germany knows that the Conflict into which sh now has been forced can add nothing to her present gr-eatness an may wreck her whole naticmjii exis erfte. ; . B. F. Wuk, deutscher Opti ker. Augen uiüersucht fiu Brillen 4135 Brandts Gebäude. 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