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THfc BKK: OMAHA. FRIDAY, J LINK 15, 1917. 3 America's Fight is For Freedom U.S. Fights to Keep World Safe and for Its Own Defense (Continual From Pag. One.) T above the hosts that execute those choices, whether tn peace or in war. And yet, though silent, it speaks to us speaks, of tl: past, of the men and wjmen who went before us and of the records they wrought upon it. "We celebrate the day of its birth; and from it birth unti' now it has witnessed a great history, has floated on high the symbol of great events, of the great plan of life worked out by a great people. We are about to carry it into battle, to lift it where it will draw the fire of our enemies. Fight is for Freedom. "We are about to bid thousands, hundreds of thousands! it may be millions, of our men, the young, the strong, the capable men of the na tion to go forth and die beneath it on fields of blood far away for what? for some unaccustomed thing? for something for which it has never sought the fire before? American armies were never before sent across the seas. Why are they sent now? for some new purpose for which this great flag has never been carried be fore ,or for some old, familiar, lifoic purposes for which it has seen itirn, its own men, die on every battlefield upon which Americans have borne arms since the revolution? "These are the questions which must be answered. We are Ameri cans. We in our turn serve America and can serve it with no private pur pose. We must use its flag as it has always used it. We arc accountable at the bar of history and must plead in utter frankness what purpose it is we seek to serve. German Aggessions Renewed. "It is plain enough how we were forced into the war. The extraordi nary insults and aggressions of the imperial German government left us no self-respecting choice, but to take up arms in defense of our rights as a free people and of our' honor as a sov ereign government. The military fas ' ters of Germany denied us the right to be neutral. They filled -our unsus pecting cuminumucs wim vicious spies and conspirators and sought to corrupt the opinion ot our people m their own behalf. When they found that they could not do that, their agents dilieentlv spread sedition amongst us and sought to draw our own citizens from their allegiance and some of those agents were men connected with the offjeial embassy 01 tne oerman government uscii nere in our cwn capital. "They sought by violence to de stroy our industries and arrest our commerce, hey tried to incite Mex ico to take up arms against us and to draw Japai. into a hostile alliance with it and tnat, not by indirection. but by direct suggestion from the for eign office in Berlin. They impu dently denied us the use of the high seas and repeatedly executed their threat they they would send to their death any of our people who ven tured to approach the coasts of Eu rope. Ana many of our own people were corrupted, lien began to look upon their own neighbors with sus picion and to wonder in their hot re sentment and surprise whether there was any community in which hostile intrigue did not lurk. What great nation in sue-h circumstances would not have taken up arms? Much as we had desired peace, it was denied us. .This flag under which we serve would have been dishonored had we withheld our hand. Democracy at Stake. "But that is only part of the story. We know now as clearly as we knew before were 6urselves engaged that we are not the enemies of the German people and that they are not our enemies. They did not originate or desire this hideous war or wish that we should be drawn into it, and we are vaguely conscious that we are fighting their cause, as hey will some kday see it, as II as our own. They are themselves in the grip of the same sinister power that has now at last stretched its ugly talons out and drawn blood fr.m us. The whole world is at war, because the whole world is in the grip of that power and is trying out the great battle which shall determine whether it is to be brought under its. mastery or fling itscl' free. "The war was begun by the mili tary masters of Germany, who proved to be also the masters of Austria-Hungary. These men have never regarded nations as. peoples, men, women and children of like blood and frame as themselves, for whom governments existed and in whom governments had their life. They have regarded them merly as serviceable organizations, which they could by force or intrigue bend or corrupt to their own purpose. They have regarded the smaller states, in particular, and the peoples who could be overwhelmed by force, as their natural tools and instru ments of domination. Their purpose has loning been avowed. Extent of German Intrigue. "The statement nf either native trt whom that purpose was incredible, paid little attention; regarded what ucuiian proiessors expounded in AN OMAHA FLAG DAY GIRL LucilU Thayer, daughter of Mr. Mrs. C. F. Th.v.r, 3528 North Twenty-eighth avenue, wet born on Flag day, June 14, eight years ago. The picture was poed spe cially for The Bee. LyMi e at peace. II will fall within Austria-Hungary was to be as much their tool and Dawn as Servia or Bul garia or Turkey or the ponderous states of the east. Austria-Hungary, indeed, was to become part of the central German empire, absorbed and dominated by the same forces and in fluences that had originally cemented the German states themselves. The dream had its heart at Berlin. It could have had a heart nowhere else. It rejected the idea ofsolidarity of race entirely. "The choice of peoples played no part in it at all. It contemplated binding together racial and political unit: which could be kept together only by force Czechs, Magyars, Croats, Serbs, Roumanians, Turks, Armenians the proud state3 of Bo hemia and Hungary, the stout little commonwealths of the Balkans, the indomitable Turks, the subtle peoples of the east. These peoples did not wish to be united. They ardently de sired to direct their own affairs would be satisfied only by undisputed independence. They could be kept quiet only by the presence or the con stant threat of armed men. They would live under a coivfmon power only by sheer compulsion and await the day of the revolution. But the German military statesmen had reck oned with all that and were ready to deal with it in their own way. Plan Partly Executed. "And they have actually carried the greater part of that amazing plan into execution. Look how things stand. Austria is at their mercy. It has acted, not upon its own initiative or upon the choice ot its own peo pie, put at Berlin s dictation ever since the war began. Its people now desire peace, but cannot have it until everything is granted from Berlin. The so-called central powers are, in fr.ct, but a single power. Serbia is at its mercy should its hands be freed; Bulgaria has consented to its will and Roumania is overrun; the Turk ish armies, which Germans trained, are serving Germany, certainly not themselves, and the guns of German warships lying in he harbor at Con stantinople remind Turkish statesmen every day that they have no choice but to take their orders from Berlin. From Hamburg to the Persian gulf the net is spread. Turning Point Here. "Is it not easy to understand the eagerness for peace that has been manifested from Berlin ever since the snare was set and sprung? Peace, peace, peace, has been the talk of its foreign office for now a year and more; not peace upon its own initia tive, but upon the initiative of the nations over whjch it now deems it self to hold the advantage. A little of the talk has been published, hut most of it has been private. Through all sorts of channels it has come to me, and in all s6rts of guises, but never with the terms disclosed which the German government would be willing to accept. That government has other valuable pawns in its hands besides those I have mentioned. It still holds a valuable part of France, though with slowly relaxing grasp, and prac tically the whole of Belgium. Its armies press close upon Russia and overrun Poland at their will. It cannot go further; it dare not go back. It wishes to close its bargain before it is too late and it has little left to- offer for the Dound of flesh it will demand. Teuton Power Breaking. "The military masters under whom their class rooms and German writers rt ,k,,. fn- k u i : set forth to the would as the goal of I If they fall back or are forced back German policy as rather the dream or minds detached from practical af fairs. as preposterous private con-Uouse of cardsv It is their power at ceptions of German destiny, than as the actual' plans of responsible rulers, but the rulers of Germany themseles knew all the while what concrete plans, what well advanced intrigues lay back of what the professors and these writers were saying and were glad to go forward unmolested, filling the thrones of Balkan states with German princes, putting German of ficers at the service of Turkey to drill its armies and make interest with its government, developing plans of sedi tion and rebellion in India and Egypt, setting their fires in Persia. The de mands made by Austria upon Servia were a nfcrc single ep in a plan which compassed Europe and Asia, from Berlin to Bagdad. They hoped those demands might not arouse Europe, but they meant to press them whether they Kd or mat, for they thought themselves ready for the final issue of arms. Peoples pnly Pawns. "Their plan vas to throw a broad belt of German military power and political control across the very cen ter of Europe and beyond the Medi terranean into the heart of Asia; and an inch, their power, both abroad and at home, will fall to pieces like a home they are talking about now more tha ntheir power abroad. It is that power which is trembling under their feet; and deep fear has entered their hearts. They have but one chance to rpetua: their military power or even their controlling poli tical influence. If they can secure peace now with the immense advan tages still in their hands which they have up to this point apparently gained, they will have justified them selves before the German people; they will have gained by force what they promised to gain by it; an immense expansion of German power, an im mense enlargement of German indus trial and commercial opportunities, "Their prestige will be secute and with their prejtige their political power. If they failed their people will thrust them aside; a government accountable to the people themselves will be set up in Germany as it has been in England, in the United States, in France and in all the great countries of the modern time except Qermany. If they succeed they are safe and Germany and the world are undone; if they fail Germany is saved and the world will be they succeed America the menace. We audi all the rest of the world must remain armed, as they will remain, and must make ready for the next step in their ag gression; if they fail the world may unite for peace and Germany may be of the union. Kaiser Uses Socialists. "Do you not now understand the new intrigue, the intrigue for peace and why the masters of Germany do not hesitate to use any agency that promises to effect their purposes, the deceit of the nations? Their present particular aim is to deceive all those who throughout the world stand for the rights of peoples and the self government of nations, lor they sec what immense strength the forces ot justice and of liberalism are gathering out of this war. They are employing liberals in their enterprise. They are using men in Germany and without as their spokesmen whom thev have hilherto .despised and oppressed, us ing them for their own destruction socialists, the leaders of labor, the thinkers, they have hitherto sought to silence. Let them once succeed and the men. now their tools, will be ground to powder beneath the weight ot the great military empire they have set up; the revolutionists in Russia will be cut off from all suc cor or co-operation in western Europe and a counter revolution fostered and supported; Germany itself will lose its chance of freedom and all Europe will arm for the next, the final strug gle. Dupes At Work Everywhere. "The sinister intrigue is being no less actively conducted in this country than in Russia and in every country in Europe to which the agents anil dupes of the imperial German govern ment can get access. That govern ment has many spokesmen here, in places high and low. They have learned discretion. They keep within the law. It is opinion they utter now, not sedition. They proclaim the liberal purposes of their masters; declare this a foreign war which can touch Amer ica with no danger to either its lands or its institutions; set England at the center of the stage and talk of its am bition to assert economic dominion throughout the world; appeal to our ancient tradition of isolation in the politics of the nations; and seek to un dermine the government with false professions of loyalty to its principles. "But" they will make no headway. The false betray themselves also in every accent. It is only friends and partisans of the German government whom we have already identified, who utter these thinly disguised disloyal ties. "The facts are patent to all the world, and nowhere are they more plainly seen than in the United States, where e are accustomed to deal with facts and not with sophistries; and the great fact that stands out above all the i est is that this is a people's war, a'war for freedon. and justice and self-government amongst all the nations of the world; a war to make the world safe for the peoples who live upon it and have made it their own, the German people themselves included, and that with us rests the choice to break through all these hypocricies and patent cheats and masks of brute force and help-set the world free, or else stand aside and let it be dominated a long age through by sheer weight of arms and the ar bitrary choices of self-constituted masters, by the nation ..which can maintain the biggest armies1 and the most irresistible armaments a oower. to wmcn tne world has attored no fiarallel and in the face of which po itical freedom must wither and perish. "For us there is but one choice. We have made it. Woe be to the man or group of n . that seeks to stand in our way in this day of high reso lution, when every principle we hold dearest is to be vindicated and made secure for the salvation of the na tions. We are ready to plead at the bar of history .d our flag s'.iu ' wear a new luster. Once more we shall make good with our lives and for tunes the great faith to which we were born and a new glory shall shine in the face of our pepple. Says School Ma'am Gave Him Forged Checks for Books James Elliott, giving his address as New York City, was arrested Wed nesday morning and is being held for Minneapolis officers. It is alleged he forged three checks, which were passed upon members of the Minne apolis Retail Dealers' association. ' When taken into custody at the postoffice here he said that the checks were given him by a school teacher in payment for books he sold her. He said she now was living some where in Tennessee. Sentenced to Prison for Stealing Irish Potatoes Harry L. Anthony, pleading guilty to breaking into a freight car in the Northwestern railroad yards and stealing three sacks six bushels of Irish potatoes, was sentenced to from one to seven years in the penitentiary by Judge Sears, sitting in criminal court. "A heinous offense these davs; just as bad as stealing three bushels of double eagles, your honor," said the prosecuting attorney. Robbers Eat Platter of Spaghetti and Take $100 Burglars ct the sere n from a rear window at the home of A. N. Carter, 4825 South Twenty-second street, a clerk ior the Woodmen of the World, and alter eating a large plat ter of spaghelti, rauatked the home of silverware, jewelry and more than $100 belonging to the Woodmen of the World, wlych Mr. Carter had at Ins home at the tinu'. 1 he burglars left some small change in the sack Imnu which ihey took the larger amount of money on the piano. Mrs. Carter was calling mi a friend at the time of the robbery. Next door, 4HJ7 South Twenty-second street, at ihe home of J. J. Chap man, die robbers repeated their day light operations by entering alter cut ting out lite screen iroin a bath room i istermg window. Mi. Chapman reported the loss of $4. His home, he said, had been ransacked. Man Who Failed to Register Says He Was Under Age Limit Harvey Kyner, 62.1 South Sixteenth street, arrested b) I'nited States Mar. dial Flv.. ... il.e rharge of not reg- was released Thursday morning after he had convinccJ the authorities that he was under regis tralion age. "I don't know how the thine; got started." Kyner said. "I told the I street car company, wher. 1 .- em ployed as a conductor, that I am 2Z years old. I had t.i do this so that I rould hold my job. As .natter jf fart I -m only 19 years old. How the rumor got started that I was a slacker is certainly a my;;crv to ." ! TEETH 'without urcs DR. McKENNEY Sayi: "It Hhould be your grave concern to selt dentists of known -.kill, ability and reliability. You will find we poa sea all of these qualifications." Heaviest Brfdft Work, per tooth, $4.00 Wonder Plates worth flS to 92S. 55. S8, $10 Best Silver Fill bife 50c 9est 22-k GeM Crowns $4.00 We please you or refund your money. McKENNEY DENTISTS Mtb and Farnam 1324 Farnam St. Phone Dougla 2872. nr IUf HOTEL PURITAN ConnnonweaJthAMkDoflton The Distinctive Boston House Tat Puritan Is one of the eiost homelike Mils ki the voiM. Usui Wtei'JM A very fine line of Fancy Scrims, In large assort ments, patterns and colorings, Drandeis Stores Net and Lace Curtain samples, In white, Ivory and Beige; worth to J2.50 the pair, special, each, at 39c Extraordinary o) O I Offerings in tha d) Extraordinary Specials in Ready-to-Wear Five bis bargains in this two-day sale, at m-irc that are tho smnllpst. this season. JUST THE AVEAKABLES you want, at savings that will make the right appeal to every prudent woman. 1,000 Women's and Misses' Smuttier Wash Dress Skirts, made to sell at $1.25 to $2.00. jvciy Bum is uun, ll-tu-UHtc styie, uig pockets aim lllgn Kelts, etc., made of Pique, Gabardines, Honeyeouib, Fancy Light and Dark stripe materials, etc. A lew ot them are slightly imperfect, not in any way to hurt the wear, but called imperfect by the makers for some small fault 88c 800 Women'8 and Misses' Summer Dresses, for porch, house and street wear, made to sell at ,$1.25 to $'3.0U. .Many different styicsTanili materials. They are made of good quality fancy stripe and figured lawns, tissues, fancy twills and suitings in sport styles, chambrcy, gingham, etc. Many are samples 88c 600 Girls' Right-Up-to-Date Summer Col ored Wash Dresses, high belt and waist styles, ages 6 to 14 years. They come in large new plaid ginghams, fancy figured, flow ered, and stripe lawns, etc. Pretty new frocks, many different styles, Q Q $1.00, $1.25 and $1.50 values OOC Hundreds of Pretty Blouses, many dif ferent styles, 75c and $1.00 values in fancy colored woven materials, novelty stripe materials, fancy cotton crepes, sport materials, etc. All new right-up- 48c to-dnte styles-, with big collars, at Hundreds rff Women's House Dresses, percales and ginghams, many different styles, all good quality percale and ging ham, all sizes, light and dark patterns, serviceable and with much good stylo and taste displayed in 'their 5Q making. $1.00 values at OOC Domestics, Dress Prints, Etc. 9Vfcc Beit gride pure Indigo Dye Apron Gingham, all checks, the yard at. 36-inch Dress Percales, pS-lnch Bleached Mus- Ilght aid dark grounds. ,"n" 8ft "n'"" , , staple brand; off the rr-.iovci- 9y2c 27-lnch X r c e r 1 s e d Poplin, all colors, full bolts to Select from, yard lJt 27-Inch fancy wah goods, printed Bitlate, Dimities, Lawns, printed Voiles, etc., In floral and conventional de signs; all pretty colorings; ton g thiol 6 yaFdsTTriday ydSC 27-lnch woven checks, the yard .. Tissue, neat ..stripes ) and fast colors, :.12c Mill Remnants and Remnants from stock, Dress Ginghams and Apron Ginghams, Frl- yard 7V2C 36-inch Curtain Marquisette and Voiles, SB-inch Sport Poplin Suitings, all the new stripes and figures, off the bolt, Friday, yd neatly 15c embroidered figures and stripet, special, yd. 1212C 36-lnch highly Mercerized Black Sateen, hand loom weave, off the bolt, yard 15c 27-lnch Fancy Printed Voile, neat printings, off the bolt, Q,q White, Colored Wash Goods 19c 36-lnch 811k and Cotton Foulards, whits and tan ground, special, per yard ,' Genuine Ripplette, fast colors, for House DreRses and Children's Rompers, Middles, etc., 1 1 27 In. wide, yd lUyZC Printed Windsor Crepe, wide, for Friday's tne yara. ol at 8V2C Inches sellings Whits Dress Material In Cords, Plaids, Checks, 8atln Strloea. for dainty summer dresses and btausea; exceptionally g good material, 36 to 40 Inches wide, the yard liC White Transparent Organdy, fme quality, 40 Inches 1 r wide, the yard liC 27-lnch White India Linon, itood quality, Friday,' . L t yard lUC Linens at Special frices Turkish Towel Ends, specially priced for Friday's j selling, at OC EXTRA About 100 doien bleached Turkish Towels, large site, heavy fluffy kind, also fancy colorings or blue, pink, yellow and lavender. A Friday special, each at 23c Padding, 60 inches table protection, this Is the fleeced kind, the yard, m v 19c Full Size Spreads, scalloped, cut corners or hemmed ends, tn the crochet kind, all pretty patterns, special for Friday, A rt 0 a $2.50 value, at 3 1 .9H Basement. Knit 1 Underwear Women's line cotton, lace trimmed Union Suits, all sizes, each.. 39c Women's cotton gauze, sleeveless, ribbed vests, all sizes, each..gc Women's Fibre Silk Hosiery, black, white and colors, all double heels, tnee Ann roIah. and lisle garter tops, seconds af 60c quality, at 3i for $1.00. or each at 35c Men's Cotton Socks, black and as sorted colors, in double heels and toes, the pair, at 12'SC Children's fine cotton gauze, seem less half hose, In black, tan, white, pink and sky, sizes 4 to 9, the pair, at 15c Basement Men's Furnishings ,85 dozen Men's Uale Ribbed Union Suits, white and ecru color, short sleeves and ankle length, all sizes. Exceptional values, the pair, at 50c and 69c 115 dozen Men's Madras and Cham bray work shirts, every shirt cut extra full, seams all feld and lined collars and cuffs, all sizes from 14 to 17, wonder values, at.. 50c 75 dozen Men's Sport Shirts, with neat stripes, patterns and plain col ors, made of good quality soisettes, percales and etiambrays, all sizes 14 to 17, sale price 65c 65 dozen Silk 4-ln-hand ujes, all new patterns, cut large and well made, sale price 19c Basement. Shoet 600 pairs Misses' and Children's Teiner Oxfords, good quality rubber lace style, sizes 8 to 2, at... 59c 300 pairs Misses' and Children's White Canvas Slippers, Mary Jane ankle strap, stlth sole, sizes from 5 to 2, at 98c 2,600 pairs Misses' Barefoot San dals, the best $1.00 Sandal now on the market, sizes 4 to 2, at, . . -69c 250 pairs Children's Shoes, made of light hand-turned soles, viol kid, button sboes, patent or plain toe, sizes 1 to 6, the pair at.-65c 150 pairs Infants' White Canvas Mary Jane Pumps, ankle strap, band-turned sole, plain toe, sizes from 1 to 314, at 39c 1,600 pairs Women's Pumps, made up In Patent Colt, Vlci Kid, White Kid and Canvas, hand turned and welted sole, 1 and 2-strap and plain pump atyle, sizes from 2k to 8. All in one big lot, Friday and Sat urday $1.98 Basement Summer Hardware-House furnish 'gs Enamelware One lot of odds and ends in enamelware, con. -j-nfl of MiiBerrinKel ties with enamel covers, 12 qwrtteTjalls, 2uart Coffee Pots, Walef"PaTis", Dish Pans, etc., at half price. 49c A fine line of Picnic Baskets, at One lot of odds and ends in Enam elware, consisting of 6-quart Ber ia Kettles with tin covers, Hi quart Coffee Pots, Preserving Ket tles, Large Mixing Bowls, Large wasn uaslns, eto., aa at half price i)C "Polly Prim" Floor Polish, 1- quart can (one to each customer), at 1-quart Cans of Screen Paint, green or black, at. Best grade Grass Shears, at Hand Garden Weeders, very Bpecial, at. 35c,45c8nd55c 59c 49c 50c 7c One lot of Paint and Varnish Brushes, worth Uf 30c, t r at 19C A good band-forged steel Dande lion digger, at Garden Trowels, very special, at i-burner Gas Plates, an unusual JJ.98 value, re duced to Basement 25c 7c $3.29 A very high grade Lawn 4-blade 16-inch, Mower, with strip laid steel cutter bar, at.. $4.98 Boys9 Clothing Splendidly tailored suits in neat pattern ef fects. 2 pair pants with each suit. Oreat wearing fabrics; pants fully lined with reinforcement at knees and seat. A, $5.00 value, QCJ 2 tables of extra values In the newest of sTyles of wash suits. Plain colors or fancy stripes. In all colors and com- m j" blnallons, at OC Lots of Sport Blouse Waists, with fancy collars or fancy stripes in different colors. Sizes 6 years to 14 years, at Wash Knickerbocker sassai tan with dark stripes and aizes to 16 years, f"f at OiC Wash Pants for little fellows, plain colors, also stripes in bluo and brown, sizes 3 to 8, fi 4 at 21C 21c In grey and plain colors. Corsets Friday we offer Ihe following special items lhat will mean a saving of money for you; Corset for large figures, medium bust, long hip, with wide elastic gore set in at back, extra wide front steel, a wonderful corset for ' 98c Summer Net Corsets, medium low top, long hip, with 4 garters at tached, rust-proof and well boned, an ideal corset for warm weather, at 49c Rug Specials Guaranteed Carpet Sweeper, regu lar $2.60 value, j gg Hit and Miss Rag Rugs, nr $1.00 value, at OOC Blue and White Rag Rugs, size 25x tu, regular Boo value, J) Rag Rugs, 4x7, regular h 17Q $2.50 value, at pl.i urex Hugs, 18x36, regular 75c value, at Basement. Notions Large pieces of Elastic, each at K0 Shell Hair Pins, box, at 314,5 Notion Boxes, each, at 5C Slightly Soiled "American Maid." Betsy Ross and O. N. T.. (no mall or phone orders), specially priced, tne ball.,., Scissors and Shears, the pair.'lfjn Cedar Bags for storing clothes, oae lot, each... j Children's Skeleton Waists, all sizes, the pair gOc Sanitary Aprons, 39c -value. eicl1 ....90 Cable Cord, 12 yards for 5C 63-inch Shoe Laces, 15c value, the Pair g0 Best Brass Pun and Safety Pins. the card Fast Colored Darning Cotton, all shades, 3 for. ... , jq One big tot of Bias Tape 'and othe braids, .11 .iighny iolled pw ;2C Basement ..39c Men's Clothing Men's and .Young Men's Suits, tn extra good selection in dependable suits, all newest styles for men and young men In worsteds, caesi- SfSJ" tWfed8' 0ther tore k $15.00 and more for these same - $10.00 Men's and Young Men's Pants in 3 Big; Iota $1.98 $2.98 $3.98 Hundreds of pairs to choose from. Medium weights, fancy striped ti steds, dark and I medium colors, belt loops and deep hem for cuff, well made and perfect fitting, sizes 30 to 44 waist. Men s Knaki s-OV Pants, special, $1.00. 285 Men's Slipon Raincoats in 3 Big Lots Lot No. 1 1 Lot No. 2 Lot No. 3 $2.98 $3.98 $4.98 Omaha Exclusive Distributors for Cashart Overalls. Basement VTA 1 3