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; SATURDAY, JANUARY 26, 1918
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of gratltiHl to Ifreaident WIJ-
hie entirely U(hraMed and
tuensage tfo oongreee last
. It went ta to eet at reet
caueed tn fcaany quarter Vy
epew;n to the Aeeo
f UrUteh Triidee uolons on
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. bectii. t"r8"eadduBwi waa Intended
that nnii V-aujtfKmm. it aimed
. '"' 7" in - jFf their opposition
; It. 'CJO . ' fy drain on the man
proceed i ' j,-i ire -whlrh ha been
touch wlilir Jby the military elutf
lution cou oJr. will and support of
eommUtee.V, rrhortpeneable to the Kiiocewt
draw a her r:an of the war, elnce the
tion trail," jf Acj la obliged to rely on the
expressed & hot only for (rune, amma
marketa er 'rmmtary eiupplies, but aleo
tocK arof thajbforcement of the armies.
hoped hitne uriusn uies nad in
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of thi worklnenien at rent.
rsre aucceeded, and for the
the rood will and coopera-
bor are assured In carrying
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a ciistake, however, to coui-
atrue hla speech aa a manifesto to the
world of the policy of the British em
pire and to close one's eyes to the pe
culiar conditions that had necessitated
Its delivery. In this sense It was
bound to give rise to misgivings. In
th first plce, those who were un
aware of the difficulties that had con
fronted IJoyd George in the labor sit
uation could :.ut understand why he
should have ;oken of peace. It
seecned 111 timet., in view of the pacifist
propaganda of the German govern
ment and of the well established fact
that peace now, could ornly be a pence
without comptete victory. Then, too,
it seemed to indicate a recession from
the claims which he, h weill as other
members of the Britieh government,
had repeatedly put forward as the
Irreducible minimum of the demands
of Great Britain and of her allies.
Thd settlement of the future of
A lance and Ixrralne was referred to
as necessitating the "reconsideration
of a great wrong," as if the restora
tion of the two provinces of France
admitted of discussion- The future
tlmato aspirations of Serbia and of
Hou mania, aa well aa of the Slav races
of Austria-Hungary and of Italy, were
to all intents and purposes ignored.
The message of the president, how
ever, indicates an. advance and a
stronger determination than ever to
carry on the war until its supreme
aime have been achlved and Ger
many's military terrorism and mania
for the political and economic mastery
as well as for the enslavement of the
universe are crushed out of existence.
President Wilson la rapidly assum
lng the leadership of the entente In
the war. He speaks with a greater
amount of authority and weight than
any of the executives of the allies, and
It is no exaggeration to assert that
they are looking to him more and
mora for guidance. It la fortunate,
therefore, that steps have been taken
to give his add ress on Tuesday last an
even still greater amount of publicity
than that of Lloyd George. It Is much
more etnvphatlc than the speech of the
British premier.
No Peace Without Victory.
President Wilson's massage conveys
an assurance to the other powers of
tne entente, aa well as to Germany
and her allien, that the war will be
carried through to the bitter end, until
all the alms which he has set forth
have been accomplished, and that
there will be no Inconclusive peace
without victory; a peace which would
enable Germany to begin rebuilding
her mUMury might and reforming her
plans to subjugate the world under
Hohenzpllern despotism.
It contains such demands upon Ger
many just demands that ehe will
not grant them until vanquished
either In the economic field or on that
of battle. Thoro was a danger until
the president's message that fVrelgn
Minister von Kuehlmann and Prince
But'low, who although without office
rale ot Mesopotamia and Syria, now
In possession of Kng-land. was to be i is In real control of Germany's forelrn
left to or. international ppnioo congress. policies, might have accepted Lloyd
All the enormous depenlencle of the George's speech as a, "basis for dis
kalftcr in Africa were to be disposed cussion" and have called for an arm is
o.f in a similar fashion, while the legi- tice, which would have given time and
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excuse for the German pacifist agen
cies in the countriea of the entente to
bring their nefarious activities to a
head-
It may be recalled that when Count
Bemetorff left the United States he
argued in favor of negotiations be
tween this nation and his own "on
any basis whatsoever." For he realiz
ed that once negotiations were started
again the peril of war would toe defer
red and perhaips averted. If Prince
Buebow could have brought the en
tente to the International council table
for negotiations of a peace by accept
ing Lloyd George's worklngmen'a
speech as a basis for discussion he
would have considered that he had
saved his native land and that he had
secured for It a draw.
Able and Unscrupulous.
Prince BueloW Is without any excep
tion the most able If the most un
scrupulous German statesman of t he
present day, head and shoulders in
the former respect above any of his
countrymen. He is the least Teuton
Of German statesmen and diplomats
that it has ever been my lot to en
counter. He is much more of a Ma
c hla velli than a Bismarck. He has not
one atom of principle, and his blows
always suggest the delicate Italian
rapier of the middle ages rather than i
the modern German sabre. He has in
a marked degree that most .un-Ger-man
quality of delicate tact- He has
also an exceptional fund Of ilnmior and
it is lust because of hla refusal to take
things too seriously that he has suc
ceeded in skimming without mishap
over political ice so thin that it would
have given way under the weight of
a statesman of a more ponderous
mind.
While he Is not a great orator, he
is one of the most fascinating speak
ers In Europe. His touch is ever light,
no matter what tho subject His ut
terances are always interesting, re
plete with delicate Irony and oddlv
humorous touches. Epigram follows
epigram and with gonial cynicism and
wit savoring of I'aris rather than of
Berlin there Is plenty of worldly wis
dom, and practical common sense,
which relieve his remarks of the
charge of superficiality.
No one can state a disagreeable
Tact more blandly or pay a compli
ment more neatly. He has no trace
of the sentimentality that Is so dlT
tlnigpuished a trait of the German
character. Nor could any one be less
of a doctrinaire, than this grand
nephew of the famous Von Humboldt.
He openly scoffs at altruism; has no
sympathy whatsoever with wild goose
chases for the benefit of humanity,
or with any other Quixotic undertak
ing; glories in the fact, and has eiver
before him not what Is best for the
world at large, but what is best for
Germany. For that he would cheer
fully sacrifice everything, even the
kaleer and the Hohenao-ern dynasty.
The one all dominating object to him
to which everybody and everything
else is always subordinated. is
Deutschland ueber Alles.
Independent of Uk Kaiser.
Enormously rich, and therefore In
dependent of the kaiser, from whom
he has nothing to expert In emolu
ments or rank, he resigned the chan
cellorship when no longer able to
agree with him, and withdrew to
Italy. But when the war broke out he
placed his services once more at the
disposal of the German nation, and
after having succeeded for many
months in delaying the entrance of
Italy Into the war settled In Switzer
land, at Lucerne. There he has made
his headquarters ever since. He oc
cupies one of the most teautiful villas
on the lake and his staff monoDolize
two large adjacent hotels. Thence he
directs not the espionage but the iro-
German pacifist propaganda In ..ie
countries banded against Germany,
nd the GennanoDhlle interests in
neutral countries.
His cilia and the hotels that hartor
hie staff have been rather aptly de
scribed as "Prince Buelow's Poison
Gas Factory."
Buelow's poison gaa la primarily the
propaganda of pacifist sentiment
among the nations at war with Ger
many. And for thla work he has ap
parently unlimited means, furnished
not only by the Berlin government,
t-ut also by the rreat buslneea inter
ests of Germany, to which It Is a mat
ter of life and death that the war
should be brought to a speedy close.
f.ver since the summer of 116 far
a'ghted Germans such aa Buerow have
realized that it waa useless to look for
the realization of the pledges made by
the kaiser of a victory so com-plt
that after entering Paris In triumph
he would sign In London a treaty of
peace which would ttlaoe the United
Stiver at hla mercy In a political and
economic aense.
Buelow said that the best that could
be hoped for waa a drawn game, and
that the most likely way of achieving
this end waa not on the battlefield but
by stirring popular sentiment In the
entente In favor of a peace either
collective or aeparate. Ha Inaugurated
In Great Britain, la Franca, In Italy,
tn Ruaata and In th United States the
taost insidious, insjanious and ar
reaching propaganda with to-ia pur-
pose In view. Every conceivable
method was adopted to foster the Idea
that the entente power Immediately
concrned waa 'wasting its blood and
its treasure, besides sacrificing its in
tercets, to satisfy the Just of conquest
of allies who were In no sense grateful
It cannot be denied that in many In
stances the prince was successful In
thua sowing mistrust and in Impairing
that mutual confidence which la nec
essary for united action on the battle
front aa in 'diplomacy.
Centered on British Labor.
In Great Britain the Beuiow poison
gas was devoted In the main part to
the working classes and to the labor
unions. Ever since the summer of
1915 the British government haa been
obstructed and hampered In the war
by labor unrest, which last' fail as
sumed so serious a form that the Lon
don Times and other leading .organs
devoted whole columns to dlacuaslon
of what was declared to be the peril
arising from the growth of revolution
ary sentiments among the working
classes. Strikes were started on the
most frivolous pretexts, and -although
the government had secured legisla
tion to punish strikes under the de
fense of the realm aot It did not dare
to apply the penalties.
it was not that the cabinet dreaded
the loss of support of the labor ele
ment in parliament but because the
ministers knew that any Interruption
In the output of munitions and war
supplies would paralyze the British
armies. The British labor unions
would have taken part in the aborted
International labor conference at
Stockholm a year ago, organized by
Prince von Buelow's agents with the
object of demanding a premature
peace favorable to Germany, had not
the English Seamen's unions refused
to convey any Brrttsh labor delegates
to Norway or Sweden.
Prince1 von Buelow's agents also
found many useful allies in their paci
fist propaganda In members of the
house of lords, such as the Earl Rus
sell; in certain members of the house
of commons and In the ranks of the
educated and well to do classes, even
among the members of the English
press. These pacifists actually em
barked on crusades to encourage man
to resist the draft and argued against
the wickedness of squandering British
blood and treasure for the defense of
foreign nations.
In Italy, Prince Buelow's poison gas
agents have diligently spread far and
wide the idea that the nation was
forced against Its will and against its
best interests Into the war, by threats
of Great Britain to bombard the coasts
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Specific Co, Dept. H Atlanta. Ga,
newspapers either printed in (Austria
or by Italian socialists, giving fright
ful but wholly 'false descriptions of
conditions at home. Faked copies of
the Glornale d'ltalla of -.mm were
circulated broadcast among Cadorna's
troops . telling of revolution and of
sanguinary riots In Rome, Naples,
Palermo, even In Florence, and at
Genoa, with English and French
troops shooting down the rioters. No
wonder then, that the Italian troops
with their minds thua poisoned, gave
way in December at a critical point
and at a critical moment, along a
stretch of thirty miles, necessitating
the retreat from the entire 400 mile
front won by Cadorna after two years
of the hardest fighting.
It was Prince Buelow, rather than
any Austrian or German general, who
was responsible for the disaster to
Italian arms last month.
In Russia when Prince Bulow real
ized in the autumn of 1916 that no
matter how many Gcnmanophile min
isters there might ben in office under
the czar nor how string the Teuton
Influences at tne court of Petrorcrad,
the Duma would never permit the
government to abandon the entente
and conclude a separate peace, his
agent devoted themselves to stirring
up the forces of socialism, of anarchy
and of Nihilism, with ...e result tuat
the entire country is now in a state of
indescribable chaos and ha? ceascu to
be a military factor. Indeed, the
kaiser has been enabled to transfer
most of his picked troops from the
Russian to the Franco-Anglo-Flemlsh-Amerlcan
and Italian fronts.
With regard to France the Buelow
poison gas has afrected the labor ele
ment there much less than in Eng-
l-jnrl ITrAM-h lahn. 1 1 a U I.- U
of the peninsula. Stories to this effect , pepo as a whole, remains intensely
i. ,7 , Tr o. . , " patriotic and resolved to push through
Italians in the United States by men the war t0 tne bltter en(f But
whose identity is no secret, and who . who na,vo fallen a prey to this poison
lESJ ikZ.L S v wnuvfn0; ! aro crtaln etlons of the socialist
count because they have been playing , elemelvt as weU as a certain number
nrT!ln8!lSrni'!r;, H.ffl,it., of unsavory political financiers anu
Then, when owing to the difficulties HnaTW.i-i ii,ii i,ij j
2f.JmJl3.-VSL.T2f .re: i tv nge .of shady adventurers,
f Th n.n.iJ . .iTStl I DUt usually provided with more or
a5kC?ai1; the B UelOW,re?.?J?; ! authentic letters of naturaliza
slsted that it was purposely withheld ! u)n as citllens of entente or neutral
v..c. "i . nations.
the United States to spare Austria-
Hungary at the expense of Italy. In
corroboration of this story it waa
pointed out that America had re
frained from declaring war on the
dual empire. Nor was It until con
gress proclaimed war a few weeka ago
on Austria, that the Italian people
could be convinced that the United
States was really their ally.
Then, too, the Italian troops on the
northeastern front were flooded in last
November and December with Italian
Awaiting Motherhood
Woman. a I m s t
without exception, are
prone ts narvoua ap
prehension when on
the road to mother
hood. A woman knows
that however nany
people there are close
or dear to bar, ah
must face us
alone.
Thar la Both tits' to
day prepared for wo
men at snek a time that receives auesj
heartfelt expraaaiona ot gratitude aa does
.the abeotutely aafa. triad and rallakra
preparation, "Mother'a Friend".
By the uaa of this penetrating manga.
the expanding muaoles of the abdomen re
lax: naturally whan baby arrtvas. Tha
inervea, Ugamants and tendons beneata
kha akin are soothed; tha tendency ts
pnomlng nausea la avoided, and the ex
pectant soother enjoys days at ehairfut
iBiaa. The nights are net disturbed wita
nervous twitohlncs sad tha ertaia Is ens
(of great happlna and lass pain.
' Oat a bottle from tbe dragglst and
-writs the Brad (laid Ragu later Co., Dept.
N. S Lamar Building, Atlanta, Oa foe
their tntaraetfr.g little hook. "Mother
Ihood sad the Baby". It win be seat with
out charge ts any woman, "Mother's
Friend" to a wsoderful help ts aatmrs and
iuatjr tt herself aUfct aa4 imju
The scandals In connection with the
ownership of the Paris Journal, of the
Bonnet Rouge and of other organs of
this Buelow engineered and financed
propaganda have 'been recently aired
In all the criminal investigations fol
lowing the arrest of Bolo a asha. The
culprits that Is to say. the Instru
ments of Buelow's manoeuvres to
create popular sentiment 1n -favor of
a separats peace oy France at the
expense of Great Britain and of the
United States are now being brought
to Justice. It is unnecessary to recur
to the matter again here, save to con
gratulate America's ally and oldest
friend. France, on the presence at the
hehn of the ship of state at this Junc
ture of such a fearless, capable and
patriotic premier as honest old Geor
ges Clemenceau and on the wholesome
condition of public sentiment in
France.
It would be superfluous to call at
tention to the activities of Prince
Buelow's pacifist agents In the United
states were it not for the extraordl-
prtjts ' nary xasnion in wnicn the board of
itmrpenince, pronrDiuon and public
morale of Methodist church appears
io raw rem risen 10 nis manoeuvres.
perna-ps qune innocently.
-me bumow poison gaa seems to
resk In every line of the clip sheet
wnicn ins ooara nas op read broadcast
throughout the Union, alleging that
"drink and the devil of syphllcs are
whipping American soldiers who have
reached France into the guardhouses
and hospitals by ths thousands." And
further on, "Throughout this countrv
a feeling of bitterness, dangerous In
ths extreme is arising with menacing
eyes toward France. The mothers
who have reared sons, strong and
clean, and who have given V em with
glad If aching hearts women who
have loved France and glorified her
are now muttering that our boys are
wanted for the profits of their de
bauchery, and not to take thetr deaths
tn strength and In cleanliness."
While these words may not fcavs
bssn Instanted by Buntow'a
they assuredly serve his nefarious
For what Is mors calculated
to create 11! wtll between ths people at
tHese two sister and allied republics
than ths assertion issued with tha
authority of this board of the Meth
odist church that France was wanting
tho American soldier boys not for de-.
fense but for "the profits of their de
bauchery?" Ths departments of war and of the
navy at Washington and ths generals
In command of the American troops
in France are all bitter in their repu
diation of those assertions denouncing
them as a shameful calumny of the
United States troops in Europe and
aa an abominable Insult offered to
France. But It Is greatly to toe feared
that their denials will not reach as far
as the Methodist clip sheet, and that
the harm done by the latter will Ls
incalculable, especially in the rural
districts of the United States.
If Prince Beuiow Is so anxious to
force an early peace by means of his
poison gas pacifist propaganda it la
because he, like his former secretary,
Richard von Kuhlmann, now minister
of foreign affairs, Is united with the
great business interests of Germany
In ths determination to bring the war
to an early close, no matter how pre
mature from our point of view. He
knows, and they know, that tns longer
the conflict lasts the more difficult
will it become to Inaugurate that great
plan of the business Interests, with
the support of the government to re
build the 'formerly vast oversea trade
of Germany.
The organization for this far reach
ing campaign is already completed.
Upon its success Germany depends to
escape the horrors of national bank
ruptcy. But it can only be put Into
execution after the war if ths powers
of the entente refrain from closing
their porta to German shipping and
trade.
Have your good shoes repaired
at the Boston Shoe Store. It
WHEN THE DAY IS DONE.
I have eaten a 'bale '
O-t spinach and kale,
And I've never raised a row
I have swallowed a can
Of moistened bran
And I feel like a brindled cow,
I am taking a snack
In the evening shadws gray.
And I'm glad, you bet, '
At last to get
To the end of a meatless day.
Washington Star.
aiick King, the Australian middle,
weight now in California, announces
that he is fit and willing to inset any
of our scrappers In his class.
Let Cnhcnra Save Yocrflair
V" retiring, comb the hair qrf straight.
tnen make a parting, rentW rubbing in
Luticura Ointment with the end of the
mger. Anoint addinooal partings until
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the next morning shampoo with Cuti
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