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*W "Kfl! lit-, $\\ W\ 'f H- #A ft. f: %,• I |'':. f' 11 Jj'V It tv :••,• %'i\- I I k-J r-LlGHT• •t /Of House Porch Driveway Barn Dairy Stable Garage* etc* County House Stores Churches Grange Halls Schools, etc. i'#. 1: Electric Light is the best light Electric Power is the best power You can have electricity right in your home. This plant brings you the many labor saving devices the city dweller enjoys. It gives you light—ready fur use every hour of the day and night. The snap of a switch floods the house and barn with as much light, as you could wish for. Snap another switch aiul the motor turns the washer and wringer. It's easier to snap a switch than it is to fill and clean oil lamps. It's safer and better light, and it saves a vast amount of work when electricity docs the washing and the other distasteful tasks. Install a Western Electric FARM LIGHTING PLANT Begin right now and enjoy this boon of electricity. 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We solicit special orders for weddings and parties CITY BAKERY Phone 30 Hi HP'jfflW.wg!' iinn»fiw«n r-POWER—i for Washing Machine Vacuum Cleaner Dishwasher Sewing Machine Fan Electric Iron Running Water Churn Separator Fanning Mill Grindstone Feed Cutter, etc. WRITES ANENI Minot Attorney I'ulls Daily News Up With a Jerk and at the Same Time Gives a Comprehensive View of the War Situation. The following communication was presented to the Daily News for pub-! lication on Friday, April 12, but was declined: To Editor Minot Daily News: The article published in the News last Tuesday evening, and the editor ial which appeared in its columns last Wednesday, both having reference to Mr. Cashman's Monday evening ad dress at the Presbyterian church,1 ought not to go without a protest from every truly loyal citizen of Mi-! not and Ward county. That both ar tides have been condemned by hun-! dreds of our people is a fact easily established, and what is to be said now is to voice that sentiment of condem nation. The Tuesday evening article con tained a fair synopsis of Mr. Cash man's address, but the first paragraph of the article contained words that were not only unwarranted, but were a direct insult to Mr. Cashman. In it1 refei-ence was made in slurring terms to former President Taft, and by plain inference the National Security League came in for criticism. Now, Mr. Cashman came to us voluntarily to present facts tended to arouse the people to a sense of duty at this crit ical time when the government is again making an appeal to the people to aid it and themselves in the pros ecution of the war. Without compen sation from any source Mr. Cashman is giving valuable time in service to the country, as thousands of other men are doing. He gave clear, un varnished statement of the truth, and because he presented the truth in a form intended to impress on the minds of our people the real dangers which 1 soldiers to fight, and their country men to support them in the poetic language of "sunshine?" How many men would feel rtloved to put their last available dollar into a war fund, by being told that the enemy was "down and out that our army was to be equipped merely to attend as on dress parade and watch our allies put on the finishing touches, and make the final count which determines the contest Surely the logic of the I News writer is unique more than that—it is counterfeit. But the News was not satisfied with its greeting of sarcasm and ridicule tendered to an enthusiastic, patriotic and worthy servant of the country's cause, it felt called on to draw from its superior fountains of knowledge in an, attempt to show not only that Mr. Cashman was a pessimist, but that, through ignorance or malice, he was telling the people falsehoods was sounding a false alarm. So the Editor indulges in that amazing edi torial review of the speech in ques tion which appeared in Wednesday's News. Note the opening paragraph of the editorial: "Lest the gloomy address deliv ered in this city Mfffiday evening -by Joseph Cashman of New York have a depressing effect upon the optimistic spirit which is necessary for the successful sale of liberty bonds, it may be well to point out_ some of the fallacies in his logic and some errors in his con clusions." In the paragraph quoted the News editor seeks to excuse his unpardon able affront offered the city's guest and to the intelligent citizens of the city, by the gauzy pretext that it was in the interest of the liberty bond sale. But the pretext will not serve the purpose, nor will the editori itself satisfy the public that the attack on Mr. Cashman was anythii.g tut the venting of a little editorial spleen, provoked by some unknown, but mani festly unworthy motive. We do not charge the News nor its editor with disloyalty, but its course in this in stance justifies a quotation from the New York Morning Teiegraph: "It seems easy to abolish German-made Aviation-goggles, but when it comes to the editorial eye-glasses it is hard er to detect the Hun trade-mark, or to correct a distorted view-point." The editor's agit4tion seems to have been caused chiefly by Mr. Cash man's statement to the effect that "Germany is stronger today than she has been since the beginning of the war." T)iis statement, the News says, is untrue, and then offers the most surprising attempt at argument that -Tv the News has made within my recol-j lection of its career—and that is say-' ing not a little. Tht premises are un sound at every point, and in delving in the field of facts the editor has lost himself entirely. Mr. Cashman made the statement substantially as quoted above. He was speaking of Germany and its allies as a fighting power today, and the facts bear him out. Let us follow the edi torial. First it is said that Germany "mobilized every man within the mil itary age at the first rush," meaning that every man was pushed to the field immediately on the commence ment of the war. Nothing is further from the truth. She did "mobilize" her men of military age but that is quite a different thing from putting them into Immediate action. Her en tire army was put on a war footing, equipped, and in camps, but it was nearly two years after the "first rush" before they were all actively engag ed in the conflict. Everybody who haa read knows that first One class and then another was called to the front, and at considerable intervals. There were millions that were not called in to the field until long after Germany made her "first rush." The editor tells us that Germany has thrown in to the present battle "her last avail able man and her last ounce of mili tary resources." If that were true we might indeed tremble with fear of the probable results of this supreme effort, for if all that power is now being thrown at us, we must realize that we are outnumbered and may be overcome, for her resources are enor mous. But the statement is not true. What are her military resources? It is not only man-power. It consists of equipment, munitions, food, fuel, gun and amunition foundries and fac tories, transportation facilities, and last and most important of all, these things are concentrated in a compara tively small area, with no seas to cross, no submarine fleet to interfere with the movement of any arm of her great machine. She is entrenched as no army ever was before and there fore prepared for defense as no na tion ever was in that respect. When Germany and Austria began the conflict they very soon had the armies of Russia, England, France Belgium, Serbia and Italy in the field against her. The battle front was more than 2,000 miles long. Think of the man power necessary to defend that front. Rumania joined against the central powers, and the front was extended. Within a year Turkey and Bulgaria joined the Teuton forces, and are still with them. When the first great rush was made against Serbia, Belgium and France,, victory did not follow as was expected, and the central powers began to husband and conserve every material resource, and extended to the utmost every means of production both natural and mechanical. The editor "reminds" us of the limited territory of Germany— 208,000 square miles, and says we "forget that that limited area must produce food enough to feed a popu lation of 70 million." He says that "Germany did get a considerable quantity of food through the neutral countries But those supplies have been exhausted." He admits that the 1917 grain crops of Rumania and Russia are available for Germany, but that Rumania cannot sell of hers without starving her own people that the Russians will not allow Germany to rob her of her food supplies." 1 now threaten the country you charac terize him as a "pessimist" and a "Gloomy Gussy." No socialist, or I.. W. W. or Victor Berger,, Hillquit or LaFollette utterances have ever met: with such criticism in the columns of I the News as you have poured out on Mr. Cashman, a man who comes to us to point out the menape found in the teachings of these misguided sup porters of our national enemies. No man who, in whatever language, has preached the doctrines of prepared ness and national unity in this war period was ever accorded such a re ception by a newspaper in any loyal community. In such times what the people want and ask for is the ever lasting truth, and when it is given them, and is accepted and approved by them they, and those who serve them, have something better due them than insolent ridicule from a newspa per whose chief grievance appears to be that the message was not up to the rhetorical standards of its hypererit ical reporter. Our people are urged, I just now. to liberality in subscrip tions to the Third Liberty loan. Is it not exactly the correct thing for a speaker on the war to show up the real seriousness of the situation, even if it be clothed in the "shadows" of the besetting peril? 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