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AMERICAN TALK
NOTHING WRONG WITH THE
GOVERNMENT IT'S PEOPLE
There is nothing wrong with the
government the government is all
right. Whenever one hears a fellow
whining around about the govern
ment, doing this and doing that, the
trouble is not with the government,
but the fellow who is doing the whin
ing. It is the individual citizen, nat
the government at fault Yes, sir;
the government is all right, regardless
of the fact that it has to stand for all
the lambasting and denounciation
whijh one hundred million people can
heap upon it at times.
The government is what the people
make of it. The better the individual
citizenship, the better the government
the better the results of govern
mental activities. When you hear a
fellow chest-up and begin to wallop
the government, put it down that the
government if giving him as good as
he deserves a 'bit better, in fact.
The American people have always
been very free with their criticizing
of the government. They "have knock
ed the city government, the county
government, the state government
and the Federal government until they
honestly believe that, in large meas
ure, this is what a government is
made for. The government is not
yet devised, will never be established
by mortal man that will serve to
please all the people, all. me time In
fact if it pleases a few at times it
reaches about the crest.
In times of peace, when the mind
of the average man runs to partisan
politics, we da not ,pay any attention
to these American characteristics
e accept them as a matter of fact,
listen to it with one ear and as quick
ly forget it. But now that the nation
is at war serious war, and will have
to fight a serious and stubborn fight,
perhips for its very Kfe, certainly
for the principles which are our all
and in all it is time to seriously con
sider the government in a different
light. Loyalty demands that this
critical whining, repeating lies that j dent at the allied conference. As
pro-Germans have started and hur- hag been the cust0m of the Presi
ded along, be stopped and in its stead dent he notice of
there spring up a real self-sacnficing I . . ddrfaa eoniyregs in this
Americans ready and willing to sap- , aeSlre l, &aax I COngTess, in WIS
port the government regardless of the , case a Sufficient time to per-
fauits and shortcomings. , niit his leaders to make the ar
The complaining, hard-to-please
American who wants a $1.00's worth
of service from the government for
13 cents, ought to remember this one
outstanding facthe lives under the
best government on earth. He gets
more for his taxes, his service than
any people on earth. He would not
swap with any other on earth (if he
would he is a fool). Now when his i
government is attacked, the very prin-
cipies upon which it is established are .
threatened, he should acknowledge it
the best and step out in line to pro-
I a X- I a T a Iv
to do this he does not deserve the
one-half his government assures him.
A man can look in a glass and see
his mug as others see it, wrinkles',
grouch fae and all that. What a
-ity these grouchy, whining folks
who are complaining about taxes,
governmental demands and rtquests
could not tret a deep, "inard" glance
and sse self as others see him.
If pvery man and woman and child
in America- would step out to the front
with a smile and a determination to
sweep the Kaiser of his feet by a
wholehearted support of the govern-
ment, the war would be won m one
half the time it is going ta take with
a lot of our people faultfinding, whin
ing and dodging their duty.
Everybody try it for thirty days.
A striking contrast is to be seen
in two distinguished ex-Presidents.
All hands, all American, everybody
are praising Mr. William Howard
Taft. He is going everywhere, doing
everything, working anywhere, all
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to aid his country, support his gov
rarnent. Anofher big man and form
er President, Colonel Theodore Roose
velt, 'big man that he is and valuable
U-i losinir much time in useless fault
finding, in making of himself the
mouthpiece of the compalinera and
faultfinders, until many of his friends
feel like taking him in hand and mak
inghim sit down. Mr. Taft is making
his magnificent influence count one
hundred percent. Colonel Roosevelt is
threatening to make himself a hin
derance. Try forgetting the search for
faults and try a wholehearted sup
port. All together for licking the
Kaiser.
RUSSIA DECLAR
President Goes to Com
PRESIDENT
WILSON TO
cons
Mr. Wilson Makes Address Which
is in Reply to the Speeches Re
cently Made by German Chan
cellor and Austrian Premier
Sees a Considerable Difference
in the Tone of the Two Ad
dresses America Has No Dis
position to Impress Her Will on
European Affairs.
(By Associated Press.)
Washington, Feb. 11. Presi
dent Wilson at 12:30 today will
address congress on the attitude
of the United States to the recent
speeches made by Von Hertling,
the German Chancellor and For
eign minister, Count Czernin, of
the Austrian government.
The President's decision to ad
dress congress on the subject fol
lowed several days of conferences
with Colonel E. M. House, the per
sonal representative of the PresI
rangement lor a joint session or
the two branches. Only a short
time from the time the notice was
given that the President would
speak before he began to address
congress.
WILSON MAKES NOTABLE
SPEECH BEFORE CONGRESS
Washington, Feb. 11. Presi-
dent Wilson addressed Congress
in joint session at 12:30 0 clock
today and replied to the recent
speeches bv .the German Chancel-
lor Count von Hertling, and the '
Austrian Foreign Minister, Count
C2Wnin Chancellor Hertling's
VV . tL j j j ,
statement, the President said, is
very vague and contusing ana
leads to practically no conclusion.
It is very different in tone from
that of Count Czernin, which' the
President 'said a very friendly
tone.
President Wilson t reiterated
that the United States had no de
sire to interfere in European af-
&nd would disdain to ; take
i advantage of internal weakness
J or dirorder to impose her own
jwill on another people. All the
way through his address the Pres
ident drew a parallel line between
the pronouncements of Chancel
lor Hertling and Count Czernin
sion tnat tne rresiaent aeciaeaiy
considered Czernin 's utterances
as being more .favorable than
those of Chancellor Hertling.
. "Czernin seems to see the fun
damental elements of peace with
eye. and floe, not seek to
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obscure them," said the Presi
dent.
"Count Czernin," said the
President, probably would have
gone, much farther had it not been
fot embarrassing the Austrian al
liance and he dependence upon
Germany."
Again the President reiterated
that the United States was in the
war and would put forth her en
tire strength "in this war of
emancipation."
The test of whether it is possi
ble for the belligerents to go on'
rnm Darin or viitwa th President
(Continued on pag .) '
LIST NOT YET
War Department Has No List
That Can be Given as Final and
Complete on Losses.
MANY MEN FROM TUSCANIA
MAY YET TURN UP SAFE
The List of Saved Shows That
There Are Numbers Yet
Unaccounted For.
"
(By Associated Prss.)
Washington), Feb. 11. From the
1832 American soldiers saved from
the torpedoed Tuacania thus far re
ported to the war department, the As
sociated Presses today unable to give
the -names of more than 300 aboard
still unaccounted for. No reports
have reached the department to
change the statement that 113 Am
erican soldiers were lost and are miss
ing, though it is expected that addi
tional names will come in slowly and
thus givt little assurance when the
list is complete.
The names already received at the
war department check'ed against the
sailing list shows 345 unaccounted
for, but a list of 35 mas shown today
which did not appear in the list pub
lished last night, names which did not
appear on the sailing list, and it is
true that members of the crew may
hive been counted. It is thought that
many soldiers may have gone aboard
the ship without their names hv:ng
been checked up on the ship's sailing
list
Many May Yet Be Accounted for.
Washington, Peb. ( 10. Eighteen
hundred and thirty-two names of
American soldiers rescued from the
torpedoed liner Tuscania had been re
ported tonight to the wir department,
leaving 345 of the soldiers on board
unaccounted for. No official report
has reached the department to change
the estimate that all evcept 113 of the
men were' saved, but the names have
been coining in' very slowly over the
cables and there is no assonance as
MADE ACCURATE
' BE IT EVEK SO HUMBLE.
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The Former Champion's Pet- Horse
Dropped Dead Day Following Bur
; ial of His Master Bulldog, Cow
and Two ColHes Die Within Short
Time.
(By Associated Press.)
1 Abbington, Mass., Feb. 11. Death
has laid a heavy hand on John L. Sul
livan's animal friends at his home
here. The day after the former cham
pion was buried "Colonel" Corn his
favorite horse dropped dead in his
stall and the next day another con
stant companion, a bulldog, given him
by "Yank" Sullivan, of Syracuse,
died. To complete the list the ring
hero's eow and two 'Collie dogs in
which he had taken great pride died
last night.
wss
Dr. Carl Van Pool, son of Dr. C.
M. Van Poole, has been called irto
service of the medical corps of the
army and has gone to Jacksonville,
Florida, where he will be connected
with the base hospital at that place,
being commissioned a first lieuten
ant. to when the list will be complete.
From the names so far received
and the passenger list of tht lost
steamer, the Associated Press has
compiled the record of those still not
reported. Probably more than 200 of
the men whose names appear on this
record are safe in Ireland and miV
be so reported soon.
The preparation of the list, even in
its incomplete form, represents an ag
gregate of 140 hours of labor. The
war department has only issued an
official roll of these on the ship. The
committee on public information has
msde no effort to complete a list of
the missing, merely issuing lists of
survivors. In order to corn-pile a list
of missing- and unreported, it was nee"
esssry t search for each name in
both lists, 4 laborious prtcess in deal
ing with more than 2,000 names.
ress in
Russian Wireless News Agency
Reports France and Great Brit
ain Taking Note of Republic.
WASHINGTON KNOWS
NOTHING OF MOVEMENT
Official Statement Says France
and Great Britain Have Sent
Diplomatic Representatives.
(By Associated Press.)
London, Feb. 11. The remarkable
statement that France and Great
Britain have recognized the Ukrain
ian republic and sent diplomatis rep
resentatives there is considered in
an official statement sent out by the
Russian Wirless News Agency and
iksued here through a press bureau.
The statement reports the pro
ceedings of the Brest-Litovsk con
ference on February 1st at which M.
Sevruik, who apparently is the new
chairman of the Ukrainian delega-tion-and
says he is reported as say
ing that by an act of the Ukrainian
Rada November 7th the Ukrainian
republic declared these diplomaic
representatives had been appointed.
Washington Has no Knowledge of
Matter. 1
Washington, Feb. 11. The gov
ernment here has no knowledge of the '
report that France and Great Britain j
had rcognized the Ukrainian repub-j
lie and sent diplomatic representa
tives. I
The United States as a co-beliger-l
ent has not been consulted and offi
cials are inclined to- doubht the re
port. WSS
The total cost of the war to all beli
gerents is now said to be at least 15,
000,000,000 a month.
WSS
We ars sore to get the better of
fortune if we do but grapple with
her. Senmca.
WSS
The wonder is always and always
how there csn be a mean man or an
infldeL Walt Whitman.
REPORT IRANIAN
GOV
RECOGNIZED
WAR
Me
ssage
RUSSIA GOES OUT OF WAR; ORDERS ;
ARMY, COMPLETELY DEHOBELIZED
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While no Peace Treaty Is Signed Official Announcement
is Made That Russia is Out and all Her Army is to
be Demobiltzed-Uhiainians Out; and' Roumanla its
Isolated.-Bolshevtid in Control of Russian Situation
RUSSIA DECLARES A PEACE.
By Associated Press.
Amsterdam, Feb. lL-Russla has declared the
state of war to be at an end and has ordered the
demobilization of all . Russian forces at all fronts,
according to a dispatch received here frontBrest
Litovsk under. datb of Sunday. . . j':,
(By Associated Preu.)
Amsterdam, Feb, 11. Russia
has declared a itatt of war to be
at an end and ordered the demob
ilization of fighting foroet at all
fronts, aoocrcUnr. to a dispatch
received here todar from BrestU3"Zt IaZhZZ
Lttnvslr A A tinnaw - " democratic
Litovsk dated Sunday,
The dispatch iayi:
"The President of the Russian
delegate, at today's session stat
ed that while Russia desisted from
signing a peace treaty it deolara
that a state of war to be ended
with Ctermany, : Austria Turkey
and Bulgaria simultaneously, giv.
ing order for the complete demob
ilization of all Russian forces at
all fronts."
I Russia thus step, formally out
of the war by act of the Bolshe
vik! government which seized the
rein, of the government lart No
vember and almost immediately
began peaoe negotiation, with the
Central powers. The authority
of the Bolsheviki government in
the north seem, undisputedly es
tablished and with a peace with
the Ukranians the long line of
front in the east is removed by the
peace which now come.. By this
step Rumania is isolated com
pletely. r- . s' !
Although cutting little figure in
the war for nearly a year past
Russia's vital interest in the war
comes vividly to mind as the
events of the past year, are
brought into review.
(By Associated Press.)
Russia Hss Declared Herself Out of
War.
Without formally signing a peace
treaty she has, through her represen
tatives at Brest-Litovsk, declared the
state of war with the Central pow
ers at an end and ordered her troops
on all fronts demobilised.
This' news, coming through Berlin
today, follows 'quickly the announce
ment of the signing of peace with the
Ukranians.
With Rumania Isolated and help
less the war on the eastern frfh-t may
now be said to be at an end.
Peace negotiations between the Cen
tral pdwers and the Bolsheviki gov
ernment ithich seized power in Petro
grad in November were opened De
cember 23 last after the way had
been paved by signing an armistice
on December i, ,
Many times reported broken off, the
negotiations have been in progress
with brief intervals ever since, cul
minating in the announcement of to
day. It hss been recognized quite
generally that some conclusion as
that now reached was Probably inev
itable, as Russia, through interior
disorganization had virtually pat it
out of her power to continue fighting.
The Bolsheviki, moreover, have held
r to the peoole the idea that the peo
ples -f the Central powers would not
permit furtier- attacks by their arm-
loiolay
ies upon Russian proletariat and that
these powers, and In fact the entire
world, soon would be in the throes of
i revolution similar to that of the"
proletariat in Russia in which the es
tablished order oujd he overthrown
j?eo-
pies government set up.
American Patrol Ambushed by Ger
; mans in Force.
With the American Army in France
Saturday, Feb. 9 (By the Associat
ed Press.)' Five American soldiers,
are believed to have been killed, four"
are missing and one was , wounded,
when an American patrol was' am
bushed in No Man's land last night
by a superior force of Germans. ,',
The spot where- the encounter oc-'
curred is an isolated one and reports
concerning the casualties inflicted by
both sides are meager. 1
Only one American is known to
have escaped the trap or the Germans
which was laid in front .of our wires.
The one survivor,' who crawled back
to the American lines with a bullet in
his chest, is unable to talk. -
Our artillery immediately laid a
barrage around the ambushing Ger
mans and some are believed ta have
been accounted for. The infantry ac
counted for others, as it is certain the
attacked .patrol fought to a finish, ae- "
cording to Information trickling in
from the frontline. - ' ,
Our (patroltng soldiers were walk
ing in front of our wire entangle
ments when a big enemy patrol that
had been divided into parties which
took up concealed positions,' opened
fire at close range. The night was
clenr and the forms of the Ameri
cans made the best possible targets
for the hidden Germans. There is ho
doubt that the Americans battled gal
lantly until completely overpowered.
The artillery duel in our sector con-,,
tiinued (today. Scores of airplanes 1
were out observing and -making pho
tographs. The men in the line were
thrilled by a number of air duels high
in the skyover their heads.
VON MA'GKENSEN SENDS "
ULTIMATUM TO RUMANIA
Rumanian Told to Begin Peace Net r
gotiatiene in Four Days Ruman
ian Cabinet Resigns.
London, Feb. 10. The Associated .
Press learns that confirmation has
been received in Russian quarters' in '
London of the sending by Germany
of an ultimatum to Rumania. Thess
advices say the ultimatum was pre
sented Tuesday and expired yester
day. ' - iy' .
The foreign office has received word -
that the Rumanian cabinet resigned
Friday. !: ; . . ; .'.;- -
Most Begin Peace Negotiations. --.
SaseL Switzerland, Feb, 10. Ger
man newspapers arriving bare say
that Field Marshal von Mackensen .
sent ah ultimatum to th Rumanian
government February 4,, ; demanding '
that peace negotiations be begun with
in four days. ; The Rumanian cabinet
thereupon resigned. ' 7 ' ; ; ' "