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WORLD DECEIVED
FOR TWO DECADES
BY TEUTON MYTH
HUN HOAX NOW FULLY EXPOSED SHOWING HOW
A GERMANS HID WAR PLANS BY SOCIAL AND IN-
DUSTRIAL PROGRESS CAMOUFLAGE; GER
"MAN PROSPERITY BASED ON ROBBERY
OF INVENTIONS IN OTHER LANDS
New York, Nov. 2. One of the
iiiost-startling indictments of Hun
, trickery and deception is contained
in a statement issued today by
Ralph M. Easley, which exposes,
fully and for the first time', how Ger
, many for over two decades imposed
upon the world the most colossal
fake in history. By a deliberate
scientific propaganda, in Avhich she
was aided and abetted by certain
paid orunpaid American" writers,
Germany actually succeeded in put
ting across the claim that it had
done more for the laboring classes
than any other country; that it led
the world in industrial efficiency,
scientific inventions, medical dis-
coveries, and in music, literature
ana an. iur. casiey s siaiciuciii is
based upon an investigation of Ger
many's claims to supremacy in so
cial progress by Gustavus Myers,
the research expert and historian,
an analysis of Hun claims to leader
ship in scientific invention by Ben
nett Chappell and in chemistry by
vTownes R. Leigh, and on a studjtaf
Teuton claims to pre-eminence in
music by John C. Freund, editor of
flusical America, and in literature
and art by T. Everett Harre, the
novelist.
Long Hours for Laborers.
! Instead of having done more for
the uplift of the working class than
any other nation, as she has claimed.
Mr. Easley proves that German
v - workers labored tor longer hours
and for shorter, pay than those of
any other country; that the much
vounted German social insurance
schemes, netted the beneficiaries less
than $1 each week, and that .the
.farm loan scheme's benefited chief
ly the Junker landlords; that in Ger
many poverty abounded and the ap
'palling rate of infant mortality and
&hild suicides was equalled only in
the Austro-Hungarian empire and
Russia. Germany is shown to have
.been far behind other nations in
science, medicine and the arts', and
v her much-extolled-prosperity. Mr.
v Easley declares, has been based'n
the robbery of the inventions and
. i discoveries of other nations. r
' . " "While Germany was preparing
armies 'and manufacturing cannon
' for her intended onslaught for
world dominion she was engaged at
the same time in a 'peaceful offen
sive' designed to win from America
an overwhelming and subservient
admiration and esteepi which should
disarm our indignation and render us
inert when the time tor her first
blow came," says Mr. Easley. "To
camouflage her baleful preparations
and sinister intentions, Germany,
during those years, presented her
self as a nation, which by industry,
thrift and the practice of homely
virtues, had not only become pros
perous in peaceful industry, but
had evolved a social paradise for the
working classesl". - t .
Insurance and tLoan Systems Farce.
Mrfc.asley - presets tacts con
cerning Germany's so-called social
insurance laws, and snow,s mat. ac
cording to" the Amtliche' Nachrich-len-
des Reichs-Versicherung-Amt
of Berlin, the ""average invalidity
pension in 1913 was $46.51 a year
less than $1 a week. The average
sickness pension was $48.45 a year
also less than $1 a week. The aver
age old age pension was $39.75 a
year about 76 cetrts a week. The
average widow's and widower's pen
sion was $18.49 a year about 35
cents a week. The average widow's
sickness pension was $18.59 a year
and the average orphan's pension
$19.07 a year. These were the pen
sions in a country where the poor
est paid adult, livina on the lowest
possible scale, needea at least $140
tp $155 a rar for the cot of the
barest subsistence.
The mutual farm loan associa
tions, according to official German
figures, benefited chiefly the feudal
baron or Junker landlords. Farm
work in Germany has been largely
none by women, who earned 38 yo
48 cents a day, and by children who
were paid 24 cents a day.
Small Earnings 6f Workmen.
"In the United States the 10-hour
workday was established in 1840
and the eight-hour workday re
ceived congressional sanction in
1869," continues M. Easley. "Up
to the very beginning of the war the
general workday for highly skilled
trades in Germany was ' 57 to 60
hours a week and in other trades
12 to 14 hours a day. The average
yearly earning of unskilled work
men fn Germany was $310, and of
skilled workmen $373. Against these
earnings, the average annual fam
ily expenditure, according to the
Germar imperial statistical office,
was $531.70. , -
Overworked, underpaid and un
derfed, the mass of German workers
lived in foul, wretched tenements.
Against an infant death rateof 105
per thousand in New York in 1912,
the infant death yte in German
cities averaged 130 to 258 pef thou
sand. In Saxony there was an aver
age of eight child suicides to every
one in the United States, and in Ber
lin 15 to every one in New York
City. Against the claim that there
was no poverty or unemployment
irt Germanv. Mr. Easley gives fig-
.k.iin that hefore the war
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there was an averace of 171 appli
cants for every 100 jobs and that
pauperism as a general condition in
creased year nv year imuusuuui iv
German empire.
What Germany Has Not Done.
In refutation of Germany's sweep
'.u;ia tfiat it led the world in
invention. Mr. Easley quotes an ar
ticle by Bennett cnappen. m wmiu
it i shown that America has led in
the inventions which have revolu
lifp AmoflK Atner-
ican achievements Mr. Easley cites
the following: Submarines, air
i imaJnec automobiles, nien
explosives, machine trims, teleerapn.
telephone. harvesting macnincry
;.,e railroads, tvnewrjters.
electricity in all its form?, and mod
ern printme nresses.
riormor.., tins rlaimed pre-emi
nence in chemistry, yet. according to
Townes R. Leigh, most oi inc grr-i
chemical discoveries were made bv
the scientists of other nations. Al
though Germany exploited, and1
grew rich on, coal tar dyes, the
production of coal tar dyes
the work of an English chemist. W
H Perkins." Mr. Frs'e" mnte Mr.
T eieh as sayifrer. "An Englishman.
I.ightioot. in 1863. produced aniline
black rVerquin. a French chemTs'
produced the dves known as ma
genta and rosaniline. while the im
portant discovery of the sulpnm,
dve was also the work of French
men. Croissant and Brittonpiere
When we look over a catalogue of
the chemical elements we are ai
once imnrecsed with the very small
number of useful ones discovered
by Germans. Not a component of
the, air he breathes was discovered
by a German. Oxygen is credited to
Priestley, an Englishman; nitrogen,
first recognized by Rutherford, a
professor in Edinburgh university;
carbon dioxide, isolated by Black,
a Scottish chemist and physicist;
helitim, krypton, xenon and neon,
discovered and first studied by Brit
ish subjects, Lockyer, Ramsay,
Crookes and Rayleigh.
' "It is true that Germany forged most nefarious assaults upon the
ahead in the manufacturing of dyes,
an4 that in 1913 it exported 12 times
as much synthetic color as was
manufactured in the United States,"
Mr. Easley comments. "But in this,
as in other industries, it simply ap
propriated and battened upon the
genius and work of others, and.
while covering its malfeasance and
thefts with impressive boasting,
continued its outlaw career as ca
mouflaged highwayman among the
natipns."
v Germany's Place in Arts.
Mr. Easley quotes from an arti
cle by John C. Freund, editor of
Musical America, who shows that
the finest musical performances in
the woHd are not given in Ger
many, as has been asserted, and that
and maligned by their own country
men, v The German government util
ized its musical prestige to gain ac
cess through musical conductors and
musicians to the innermost circles
of life in other countries. "Not only
all over Europe, but in this coun
try," says Mr. Freund, "and as we
know through the internment of Dr.
Muck of the Boston Smphoyny. and
Dr. Kunwald of trie Cincinnati Sym
phony, they used, this power not
only for propaganda. Put tor the
very welfare and liVcs of our peo
ple. . .
Poor Showing in Literature.
Germany's place irf literature,
philosophy and art is dealt with by
T. Everett Harre, the novelist. Mr.
Harre admits hat Germany has con
tributed one new note to fiction
"the morbid analysis of sexuality
and sexual aberration." But in its
entire history, however, Mr. Harre
says that Germany has produced no
single novelist, dramatist or poet,
who equals the masters of France,
England, Italy, America and Rus
sia. The story of Parsifal and the
Holy Grail originated with the
French, and, that of Tristan and
Isolde with the ancient BritonsXThe
mythology which Wagner made the
has produced great sculpture. Let
this at once be admitted. Its arch
eologists v ent out to Greece and
Asia and with their picks and shov
els produced from the soil statues
hewn thousands of years ago by
the ancients, which they carried off
"to- enhance jhe royal palaces and
museums of Berlin. It is a ques
tion whether this was inspired so
much by a love of beauty as by a
lust for loot."
of the musicians and composers basis of his "Niebelungenlied," it is
whom Germany has claimed, the shown, originated with the Norse
majority tiave been Hungarian and ! and Scandinavians. Of Germany's
Austrian. The musicians whom
Germany did produce, Liszt, Schui
bert and Wagner, were neglected
place in art, Mr. Harre is quoted
by Easley as saying:'
"Germany has declared that it
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For Sunrpvme Judge
RE-ELECT JUDGE LETTOfJ
To Supreme Court
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Judge Ernest B. Perry
OF CAMBRIDGE
TO OUR FELLOW CITIZENS:
We earnestly recommend for
vouf favorable consideration
Judge E. B. Perry of Cambridge,
Nebraska, who is a candidate for
our Supreme Court.
Judge Perry was raised and
educated in Nebraska. He has
always lived in the western part
of the state where he is now
serving; his second term as judge
of the Fourteenth Judicial dis
trict.
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we Know Judge rerry. He is
a, true American, a splendid law.
yer and a man of unflinching
integrity.
We unhesitatingly ask that you
vote for him.
Respectfully,
LUTHER DRAKE, President
Merchants National Bank,
Omaha.
W. T. AULD, Corn Exchange
National Bank, Omaha.
NORRIS BROWN, Lawyer and
former U. S. Senator.
JOHN L. KENNEDY, Lawyer
and former Congressman.
EDWARD F. LEARY, Omaha
M. MORSMAN, Omaha Law
yer and Legislator.
D. RINGER, Police Commis
sioner, Omaha.
W. R. PATRICK,Omaha Lawyer
and Legislator.
J. A. C. KENNEDY, Omaha Law-
yer and Legislator.
HOWARD BALDRIGE, Omaha
Lawyer and Legislator.
FRANK A. DEAN, Cashier
Phelps Count Bank, and for
mer State Senator.'
M. WEIL, President National
Bank of Commerce. Lincoln.
GEORGE BURGET, Vice Presi-
dent City National Bank, Kearney.
PAT WALSH, President McCook
National Bank, McCook.
C. PETRUS PETERSON, Lawyer
and Legislator, Lincoln.
R. W. DeVOE, Lawyer, Lincoln.
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J. W. JAMES. Lawyer, Hastings,
P. E. BOSLAUGH, Lawyer,
Hastings.
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MICHAEL A. HARTIGAN, Law-
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C. G. LANE. President Exchange
National Bank, Hastings.
TO THE WORKING MEN OF
NEBRASKA:
As vou are aware, one of the
candidates for Supreme ffud(?e at
Tuesday's election is Judcre E. B.
Perry of this district. We know
.Tudtre Perrv. He has been our
District .Judge for the past seven
ears. He is on the sauare.
Whether on the bench or off the
bench he is our friend. Vote for
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There Is another candidate whoie eapabilitles are so fine, whoss per
sonality is so Bplendid, whose record is so clear that this newspaper cannot
refrain from speaking in his behalf. We refer to Judge Charles B. Letton,
now of the supreme bench, and a candidate to succeed himself. Admittedly
- Judge Letton is one of the strong men of the Nebraska bench. Ha possesses
the judicial temperament, the character elements of fairness and impartiality
which designate the successful judge. 'He has serl the litigants and the
citizens of Nebraska faithfully and well. Many years of capable service are
still within his ability to give. The voters of Nebraska should make sure
a week from next Tuesday that such high and faithful service is secured
for the people York Republican. 7
From every source we hear that Judgs Charles B. Letton of Fab-burr.
ablest members of the bench. Bloomington Advocate.
Charles B, Letton of Fairbury, seeks re-election. He has a fine reputa
tion for legal ability, and is of such unimpeachable honor that the slogan, '
"He would be a distinct loss to the state," is justified. Fremont Herald.
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Mabel C. Johnson
Non-Partisan Candidate
for
Superintendent of Schools
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Cut by 1. P. E. U. 408 w" ww"0 """V
I hold a first -grade teacher's certificate. .
A teacher in the schools of this county for 14 years.
I know the conditions 'and requirements of the
schools of this county. -
Reared in this county; my family has paid taxes
here for 50 years.
- Your vote and support will be appreciated.
FOR SUPREME JUDGE
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GRANT G. MARTIN
Ten Year Devoted to the Legal Business of the State,- Now
Helping the Supreme Court to Clear lU Docket.
The Examiner, says: "Grant G. Martin is an able lawyer and on
who does not believe in the law's delays. He is a persistent
advocate of speedy termination of litigation in order to cut
down expense both to litigants and the state. That's the
kind of a judge the people want on the Supreme Bench."
The Nebraska Federationist says: "One man among the list should
; receive the support of all voters, and that is Grant G. Martin.
He is progressive, is a hard worker aW knows the neeJ of
speeding up the rendition of decisions in the Supreme Court
and puts that knowledge into practice."