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GERMANT AND KINGS
Nearly tour years of it already,
with millions of casualties, and still
tha manhood of the German nation
pours out Its blood like water. The
losses In the past month during the
present German offensive have been
appalling, but the kaiser and Hln
denbnrg and Ladendorff continue to
end their men Into tha shambles.
A recent order by Ludendorff, how
aver, shows that the Germans rea
lize now that the heavy, massed for
mations are little more than bales
of cannon and rifle fodder, and has
Instructed the use of more open for
mation. - '
In this last grea battle Germany
has shed a sea of blood and shed
It apparently, with as much willing
ness aa the first red drops split In
the exultation of the 1914 campaign.
The men fallen In this greatest of
battles have been animated, no
doubt, to a large extent by. the
thought of peace. They were led to
believe that It would be the last ef
fort, leading to victory. But that
alone would not account for the fer
vor with which they threw them
selves, In dense masses, against the
devastating guns of the allies, it
was the old war fever of a martial
nation, whose dominant Ideal la that
of war. And It made the menace
clearer than ever to all the, rest of
the world.
There Is a striking passage, of the
same tenor. In James W. Gerard's
"Face to Face .with ( the Kaiser"
written before this campaign began.
Pointing out the essentially militar
istic, warlike nature of the German
race, he says:
"If the Prussian people themselves
cling to their gods of war:., if the
kaiser and crown prince fulfill their
ideals; if the Prussian leaves the
reins in the hands of these warlike
taskmasters and refuses to join the
other peoples In stamping out the
devil of war, then the conflict must
go on go on until the Germans get
their stomachs full of war, until they
forget their easy victories of the last
century, until their leaders learn
that war as a national industry does
not pay, until their wealth and their
trade have disappeared, until their
ons are maimed and killed and their
land waste, until the blinders fall
front their eyes and they sicken of
emperor and crown prince, ot the
almost countless kings and grand
dukea and princes, generals and ad
ulrale, court marshals and chamber
lains and majors and adjutants, cap-
taint and lieutenants, who now, like
Tat, green, distended files feed on
the blood ot Germany."
It is hardly necessary to explain,
in America, that there la no advant
age In offensive war for anybody ex
cept those "men ot froth at the top
and that, aa Mr. Gerard says, "it is
this Infernal king business that Is
responsible."
The whole nation Is guilty, and
still persists In tta evil course. But
if It were not for warlike rulers.
Germany would not have remained
warlike. It ia kings and kaisers,
wielding Inherited power, and ambi
tious to maintain the martial tradi
tions of their ancestors, who prevert
the naturally aane, kindly hearts of
their people and keep the masses
from rising out of the brutal war-
lust into the light ot genuine civilisation.
If only those royal and Imperial
gentry could be placed In the front
line trenchea and mowed down by
machine guns, as the men who die
for them are mowed down! But they
play safe. And so the rank and file,
and plain Germans, must be slaugh
tered and alaughtered until, the les
son sinks home to the heart of the
chastened nation, and by much
blood letting Germany is freed from
the Incubus of kings, and democracy
elsewhere can live without fear.
British casualties were consequently
increased. Although the desperute
fighting lu the breakwater resulted
in severe casualties, the lossva In the
desuerate exploit ot sinking our
ships In the entrance ot the canal
were very light, owing to the skill
with which the relief ships were
worked."
London. Apr. St. In the British
attack on the Belgian roast, accord
ing to reports from the frontier
transmitted by the Rotterdam corre
spondent of the Dally Telegraph,
several German batterlea at Ostend
and Zeebruggee were silenced by the
bombardment from the sea. There
also waa much aerial fighting. The
attack began at midnight, the report
saya and until I o'clock In the morn
ing the German batterlea fired con
tinuously. ,
NOTICE OF DISSOLfTION
OF PARTNERSHIP
The partnership heretofore exist
ing between G. H. Carner, Ed. H.
Allen and H. U Stonaker, doing
business under the name of Cranta
Pass Lumber Company, la thia day
dissolved by mutual consent, Mr. Ed.
H. Allen retiring from the Arm.
Hereafter the business will be con
ducted by G..H. Carner and II. L.
Stonaker under the name of Grants
Tats Lumber Company, who will re
pay all debts of the company. .
celve payments of all accounts and
Slgnvd, 0. H. CARVER,
ED. H. ALLEN.
H. L. STONAKER.
Grants Pass, Oregon, April 23,
1918. , '46
COrXTV TRKASl KKR'8 CALL
FOR GENERAL WARRANTS
People who continue to Inquire
why, when corn is so much more
plentiful than wheat, we cannot ship
corn to Europe. The principal rea
son, as explained by the food admin
istration, Is a simple one the corn
germinates and spoils on an ocean
voyage, and the wheat doesn't.
BMEESMM1
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All Josephine county general war
rants Issued prior to September 1st.
1912, and protested prior to that
date, are hereby called In, and are
payable at the county treasurer's of
fice on or after the 25th, day or
April. 1918, on which date Interest
will cease.
GEO. S. CALliOUN,
5 County Treasurer.
that nothing should be viewed as lm
possible until it has been tried out.
London," Apr. 24. The return .of
a damaged British cruiser with its
decks torn open Is described in dis
patches from Dover. Few of , the
crew escaped injury of some kind,
while many bodies were brought
back and placed reverently In a tern
porary Mortuary.
The survivors were greeted with
hearty cheers from excited crowds
who had sought news of the light
since they were awakened Monday
midnight by the sound of the heavy
gunfire. While the action was in
progress, the tremendous explosions
were violent enough to shake build
ings in Dover, v
King George has telegraphed his
congratulations to Admiral Keyes.
Londan, Apr. 24. Two destroyers
got inside the mole at Zeebruggee
and Mew up the dock gate, the cor
respondent at Dover of the Dally
Mull reports. The feat, he says
seems" Incredible, but there appears
to be, no doubt about It. . Some of
the men who took part In It nay tliey
saw the waters of the Bruges canal
running out after the gate was des
troyed and the vessels In the dock
straining at their hawsers.
Reviewing the raid the Dally Tele
graph correspondent says:
"It was smooth and the wiid fav
orable, but unfortunately the wind
changed after the operation was be
gun with the result that the ingen
iously devised smoke screen was less
effective than was hoped for and the
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( HALL this little girl grow up in the sort
of American home we know, healthy and
happy? Shall she have the advantage of
living and learning in a free land, under free in
stitutions ? Shall such children develop into the
Liberty-loving citizens that a free America may4
be proud of?
For over two hundred, years Americans have
fought valiantly, and died gallantly, to win for
themselves and hand down to their posterity the
blessings of liberty, justice, self-government and
equal opportunity. This precious heritage, bought
at so great a price, is now threatened.
The question which today confronts America
as a nation, and you as an individual, is
whether or not a free America
is worth fighting for
Are American children in this and all future
generations to receive unimpaired the legacy of
freedom of which we are now the custodians, or
shall their country be turned over bodily to the
brutal, rapacious, power-mad enemy which has
forced us into this war?'
This question cannot be answered by word of
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