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Meditations
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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
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per cent was added and if pay
ment was evaded a penalty of
$10 upon each head was exacted;
all of which goes to show that it
did not pay, at that time as well
as now, to oppose the government.
Not all the dead in this war
are killed in battle nor die in the
military hospitals.- No one who
thinks is free from the mental
strain which war talk and activi
ties involve, and without a doubt,
old people, or people physically
weak find the load too much for
them and succumb sooner than
they would otherwise have done.
Logically, a s a democracy,
when we get ready to declare
war upon Austria the demand
should be initiated by the people,
with a thorough discussion of a
step of such grave importance,
or as an alternative Congress
should originate and carry out
the matter. . Instead, the decis
ion, which is a practical declara
tion, comes from the president,
and so careful is he lest the peo
pie find out what he is about to
do, that the matter is kept from
the press until the last moment
while the press agencies of for
eign countries were served in ad
vance. Without a doubt this
step is a military decision, duly
considered and passed upon, even
to the secrecy, which would have
value as a military precaution,
but it certainly does play hob
with logic.
In these swiftly changin
times it is a good thing occasion
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the stuff that has survived and
seasoned for a few months. Here
are a few remarks Elbert Hub-
uaru iiiuuett bhuh tunc uciuic us
met his death on the Lusitania:
"If any one asks, Who lifted
the lid off hell? let the truthful
answer be: William Hohenzollern.
'Bill Kaiser' ha3 a withered
hand and a running ear. Also,
he has a shrunken soul, and a
mind that reeks with egomania.
He is a mastoid degenerate of
a noble grandmother. In degree f$
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."
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