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The Herald RICHARD B. SWENSON Editor & Publisher Entered u .emud-cUM matur SwUmto 8. 1. tht pott offite t Mmimouth. Onto, under U Act of March I. ISSUED EVERY FRIDAY Subscription Ratei One year Six months Three month 75 eta 50 cU MONMOUTH, OREGON FRIDAY, DEC. 7, 1917 Monmouth Meditations ?J E 301 Winter appears to bring no let ud in the succession of heavy blows which the national contes tants are dealing one another in the European arena. In the pre vious years of the war, the com ing of winter and snow has sig naled a cessation of hostilities as the contestants sheltered them selves from the elements and prepared for the coming of Bpring and summer. Nothing of the sort now. The Germans ap pear to be animated to the strength of desperation. Their 1 actions speak plainer than words: "If we are going to suc ceed, we must strike and strike I'lfectively now". Just as Napo leon struck at Wellington's troops at Waterloo, seeking to overcome them before Blucher arrived, now the Germans are seeking to overcome the Allies before the arrival of the Yankees. Hard and steady fighting has been the rule in France and Italy and more and still more may be ex pected in the near future. The forces of the Allies have held their enemies steadily so far and have even gained on them on the western border. There appears no reason why they should not . continue to hold their own. This being the case, why are not the prospects for peace by spring, good? Despite incidental deflec tions of aim that may have aris en, this is a war for gain. Ad ditional territory, additional com merce, prestige, wealth, these are the ideals that actuate the central powers. This being the case, when the bolt has been shot and the target missed and this is so appurant that all can hq it, why not the result be peace. Up to now the Germans have had a fighting chance. When they realize the chance is lost, the fact that their aims are mercenary will act to stop them from spending more money on a lost cause. When the reality of war taxes begins to pinch there are those who can secure consolation in comparison. The civil war cost three billions, a mere trifle when the cost of the European war is considered but it took a great deal of persistance and all sorts of schemes to raise that sum. One of the schemes resorted to was a tax on slaughtered ani mals. W. H. Steinburg brings in this week a receipt dated Nov. 2nd, 1864. Steinberg, Sr. was at that time backing a local butcher at Crete, Illinois, and for the month of September a tax of $3.20 was charged them for slaughtered animals. According to the reading of the receipt, if not rjaid within ten days ten r - per cent was added and if pay ment was evaded a penalty of $10 upon each head was exacted; all of which goes to show that it did not pay, at that time as well as now, to oppose the government. Not all the dead in this war are killed in battle nor die in the military hospitals.- No one who thinks is free from the mental strain which war talk and activi ties involve, and without a doubt, old people, or people physically weak find the load too much for them and succumb sooner than they would otherwise have done. Logically, a s a democracy, when we get ready to declare war upon Austria the demand should be initiated by the people, with a thorough discussion of a step of such grave importance, or as an alternative Congress should originate and carry out the matter. . Instead, the decis ion, which is a practical declara tion, comes from the president, and so careful is he lest the peo pie find out what he is about to do, that the matter is kept from the press until the last moment while the press agencies of for eign countries were served in ad vance. 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In degree f$ he has her power, but not her love. He has her persistance, but not her prescience. He is swollen, like a drowned puppy, with a pride that stinks. "He never wrote a letter nor a message wherein he did not speak of God as if the" Creator were waiting to see him in the lobby. 'God is with us'-'God is destroy ing our enemies'-'I am praying our God to be with you' 'I am accountable only to my conscience and to God.' This belief that the maker of the universe takes H(c special interest in him marks the man as a meglomaniac, and the idea that the nations were aying for him' is the true symp tom of paranoia. In Germany all the progress of the last 43 years lies in a jum bled, tumbled mass of fears and tears in the dust and dirt of the gladiatorial arena, All the wealth gained in that 43 years is already ost, dissolved in a mulch of feS' tering human flesh. Caligula, that royal pagan pervert, was kind compared with the kaiser. Nero, the fid dling fiend, with his carelessness in the use of fire, never burned property in all his pestilential career wortn one-nair mat ae stroyed when the kaiser's troops applied the torch to storied Lou- vain. "What has been done may be done again. The 'Thirty Years' I War' reduced Germany to canni- i balism. The old and crippled I were knocked on the head and eaten. v "Our hearts are with Ger- any the Germany of invention, science, music, education, skill but not with the war lord. The emperor does not represent the true Germany. He symbols the J lust of power, the thirst for blood. The crazy k'aiser will not win. The wisdom, of the world backs the allies, and Saint Hele na waits. It must be so." And here is an extract from the Zeitung of Frankfort, Ger many of nearly two years ago: "With the fall of England, however, Russia and France will automatically collapse like the organs of a body whose heart has been bored through. Then also America will remain isolated and must for her part accept any conditions which we impose, be cause in the peace treaties with our European foes we can, among other things, also demand the handing over of all large battle ships and submarines, whereby our fleet would become seven limes the American navy. Then America would be simultaneously compelled to surrender, and as a matter of course would be com pelled not only to give up all the interned German liners, but also to pay all war expenditures of the Germanic powers and their allies." It appears that sugar lactones do not always stay built when lo cated and constructed. The fac tory at Grant's Pass is being tak en to pieces and will be shipped to a city in Washington. The factory located through the local enterprise of Grant's Pass has never been near the center of sugar production. Building Materials rarv-rnr-ioaysnrirrr From Roof To Cellar Willamette Valley Lumber Co. Phone Main 202. 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