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i If If. j t, i i - Straight, Truthtu , Direct Entered as second class matter Due. 12, l)i2 at the post oilice at Richland Oregon, under act of March 3, 187(1. Monitor Oregon Stitto EiHtorutl Association ONE YEAR t -THREE MONTHS SUBSCRIPTION - $1.50 3iX MONTHS - : .5ti sample ccJpy .75 FREE RICHLAND, ORE., THURSDAYjJIAR. 28, 1918. Vol, 6. No. 20. r - This paper has enlisted with the government in the cause of America for the period of the war IT DEPFNDS ON YOU! "The fate of this nation may 'depend upon the ability of the people to urasp the vital facts of the War Savinps plan,' and their willingness .to put this plan into effect," says JohnS. Drum, pres ident of one of the largest cor porations in the west. Less than 10 per cent of the people of this country subscribed to the twor Liberty Loans; the war will never be won by the support of only 10 per cent of the people. We all know that prob-; ably 98 per cent of the people in this country want the United, States to be victorious. It is now ! the time for each one to ask him self: "Am f one of the 98 per cent or ore of the two per cent' There can be only one legiti mate excuse for anyone not lend ing their financial aid to the gov ernment and that is" lack of money. How many are there in Eagle Valley or in Baker county who cannot save $5 during this year? With the present scarcity of help, of all kinds and the high wages paid,, their is no one, unless he or she be totally unable to work, who cannot save ar.d lend $5 to the United States be it man, woman or child. . The quota is $20' for each per son, but if you cannot lend $20, lend $5.00! Do something be sides talk! Begin now buy at least one 25-cent Thrift Stamp! How's This? f W offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any case of Catarrh that cannot bo cured by Haifa Catarrh Medicine. Hair Catarrh Medicine has been taken by caiurrh sufferers for the past thirty live years, and has become known as the most reliable remedy for Cntarrh. Hall's Catarrh Medicine acts thru the Blood on the Mucous surfaces, expolllnir the Pol--on from the Blood and healing the dis eased portions., , - . After you; hajre taken nail's Catarrh v "ino for-n-short time you will see a ..reuw Improvement In your ccnoral health. Start taking Hall's Catarrh Medl cine at once and set rid of catarrh. Send or testimonials, free. P. J. CHENEY fc CO.. Toledo. Ohio. Bold bv all Drij -.-Ists. 75e WHY WE ARE AT. WAR WITH GERMANY By EPHRAIM DOUGLASS ADAMS Executive Head, History Depart ment Leland Stanford Junior University "The object of this War II to deliver the free, peoples of the world from the menace ana ine actual power or a van military establishment controlled by an Irresponsible government, which, having secretly planned tq dominate tho world, proceeded to carry out the plan without . German, agents and rpies are everywhere, listening for news concerning, our armies. Be care ful what you say. 7 If Uncle Sam wishes to increase he revenue, we suggest that he put a heavy tax on politicians, j. .Soluble. SujRbur for Spraying for sale at Richland. Drug Store. reoard either to the sacred obllaatlons of treaty or the longestabllahed prac tices and long-cherished principles of In. ternatlonal action and honor; . . . This power Is not, the German people. It Is the ruthless master of the 'Herman peo- Rle. . . . It Is our buslrtes-T to see to : that the history of the rest of the world Is no longer left to Its handling." President Wilson, August, 37, 1917. THE GERMANS AS A CHOSEN , PEOPLE. . i The foundation cause of this war Is Germany's Arm. belief that she alone has tho right to direct tho progress of the world and to exploit its resources. For the last thirty years the military autocracy of Germany has seen to it that this belief was taught in the schools, and today that autocracy is reaping the benefits of a blind obe dience to its will. German political writing of recent years is full of the idea that the German people Is "God's chosen people, destined to imposo its Kultur upon all other peoples." Tho German soul is the world's soul, God and Germany belong to one another." "Germany is the center of God's plans for the world." "Wo hope that a great mission will bo allotted to us Germans . . . and this Ger man mission 1b: to look after the World." "Germany lo chosen, for her own good and that of other nations, to undertake their guidance. Provi dence has placed tho appointed pcoplo, at the appointed moment, ready for the appointed task." "The German people Is always right, because it Is the German people, and numbers 87,000,000 souls." "Kultur is best' promoted when the' strongest in dividual Kultur, that of a given na tion, enlarges Its field of activity at t,he expense of the other national Kul tun." "Tho attempt of Napoleon to graft tho Kultur of Western Europo upon the empire of the Muscovlto ended in failure. Today history ha made us Germans the inheritors of the Napoleonic idea." "Tho further wo carry our Kultur into the East, tho tnoro and the more profitable outlets shall wo And for our wares. Economic profit' is of 'course not the main motive or dtfr'Kultur-actlvIty. but it is no un welcome by-produot." "Our belief is that tho salvation of the whole Kultur ofi'Europo depends upon tho'Tictorj which German 'Militarism' is about to aciil'ovo.' Thcso quotatlous nro hut a few of htlndrcda of llko expression, and tho last ono cited la from n manifesto jMffncd by thirty-five hundred German professors and lecturers. Reduced to alinplo terms, tho German bollcf at tho beglnulni; ot this war was: "God di rects Germany. Civilization ndvanccs ' only by combats between Kultura Inl which tho stronger nnd God-dlrccted olio has tho. right to prevail nud must prevail. Tho immediate nnd preterit tfliject is to make our kultur nrovnll ill the East (In 'Muscovy'), and In no cotnpllslung this wo shall also gain economic, advantages. This" la ,ttio first stop itt our world domination." Where docs America stand in ttild theory of a "chosen people"? Atucrlcn denies that theory; she denies that God has chosen nny ono pcoplo as Ills own; she assorts rather that there aro many civilisations, each wltli Its own merits aid. deft'etd, nnd that to each must be left the working out of Its own problems; Wo Americana aro (innblo to under stand, or sympathize with, n pcoplo who concclvo of themselves as a chosou people, chosen, of God a people to whom nil things and fictions, however Inhuman or brulnl, nro, regarded as permissible, oven holy, because of a faith lu tholr suiwrlor msslon and civilization. To us such h belief is direct evidence, not of a leading, but of a lagging civilization. This German Ideal, when expressed merely In theory, even though taught In Germany for tho last thirty yonrs, stirred but indifferent Interest In other European nations. In this war Ger many has revealed In tho application of her theory a lust for world power at the expense of other peoples, n lack of good faith, a brutality that have stomped Her Uieory na Involving a re turn to barbarqm.. Dy the application of, Gerntan theory wo were forced, unwillingly,- to go to war. iiut today wo know that lhoro was no escape from a war between two contradictory Ideals. Germany's eco nomic objects are many nnd large (they will bo pointed out), but tho basic cause of this war wns tho German Ideal of a dominant nation. That Ideal, by Germany's own challenge. Is on trial In arms. Against It wo must jiroVall, or we shall perish. This Is thefl(s of a i series of ten articles by-Professor Adams. ' DRY GULCH DITCH COMPANY. RICHLAND, Off. NOTICE. There is (leliiiiiu moii the fo'low ingtlwcrtbcd stock, on account of am-BF-ment l-vied Fob. 3, 1017, tin nnioiuit set opposite tin) following shareholder: M. 1). Sltnonic, i-ertlilcato No. 19, 89 47 Shares 70.-IS and in accordance with law nnd the Ar ticles of Incorporation and HyLaws cf inil corporation, eo many shares of tho above parcel of slock, as may be necess ary, will be sold at the homo of J. Hotcoe Lee, Sec., on tho Ulli day df April, 1018, at or about - o'clock p. m., to pay the de'inqtient assessment thereon toKether with tho cost of advertising and expenses of the sale. Ji KOSC'OU LEE, Secntary, Itichlalid, Oregon. M7-AI NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION. I'ubliaher Department of the, Interior; U. S. Land Ofilcp at La Qrando, Ore ioiij February 2nd, 1018. Notice is hereby given thnt John M. 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