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"Get Right With God" j
The caption of this paragraph is
a slogan sometimes used by itiner j
ant evangelists It's a good motto,
even if a bit slangy. There is an-:
other motto, a much older one,
which reads like this: "The voice
of the people is the voice of God "
Well, the voice of the people is not
the voice of God, but it is the only
deity which some people seem to
fear, and Populi is the only god they
know. The members of the Ameri
can congress have heard from the
people now, and they know what
to do. One thing to do is to repeal
that infamous and absurd postal
law zone repeal it in toto, and
repeal it at once. It has worked a
needless harhship on every newspa
per in the United States. The Dem
ocratic Congress should repeal this
silly enactment at the short session.
They should not wait for the Re
publicans to do it. The Democrat
ic party cnn get a worse drubbing
in 1920 than it received in
1918. That is not probable, but it
is at least conceivable. Missouri
Message.
Let Them Stay
Over 100) draft evaders, many of
them from wealthy families of the
north and east who fled to Mexico
when the United States passed the
draft law are waiting along the
border of Texas for an opportunity
to cross, according to information
reaching officers at D dlas, Texas.
Some have written to officials that
they tire readv and willing to re
turn to the United States and en
ter services.
That there will be no leniency
in dealing with these evaders is in
dicated in statements made byJ
local officials. They declare that
all persons who fled to Mexico to
evade military duties must remain
in that couutry or face the full
consequences of the ant. This they
declare means such persons will be
compelled to serve long terms in
Federal prisons.
All poin's along the border are
being watched.
As a friend and admirer of the
late Napoleon Bonaparte, we de
mand that thoughtless editorial
writers cease classing him with the
late Kaiser. Napoleon went forth
to do or die with his legions. With
them he suffered the hardships and
privations of camp life and with
them he faced the enemy on every
battlefield. History records his he
roic deed at Lodi, where, after all
efforts to stem the tide had failed,
he seized the flag and led a desper
ate but victorious charge. And
. when the decisive battle of his ca
reer was fonghr, Napoleon was with
his meo, leading and directing their
assaults. All this was quite ia con
trast to the Kaiser, who sent rail
lions of other men's sons to their
death but kept himself and his own
sons in places of safety through it
all, and finally deserting in the face
of danger and taking refuge behind
the skirts of tlolland. Really, the
man who mentions Napoleon and
Wilhelm the same day should be
sued for slander. Paris Appeal.
England is discussing the prob
lem of deporting all enemy aliens
Those in authority over there say
if people who partook of their hos
pitality duriog the great war do not
think enough of their country to
become citizens of it they should go
wnere tneir nearts are - And we
say, Amen! If a person comes to
America 'and does not think
enough of this country to become a
working citizen, let him . go back
where he belongs. We have seen
and felt the effects of these under
"hand brigands. Now let's give them
what is coming to them.
League of Nations
The St. Louis ' Globe-Democrat
offers a substantial contribution to
the general fund of misinformation
in regard to the proposed League of
Nations by stating that the idea
was first suggested by Theodore
Roosevelt ia 1910. But, iu point of
fact, the idea was first suggested
(in modern times) by Henry IV of
France, the greatest and undoubt
edly the best of the Bourbons
This was poioted out by the Mes
sage several week ag ) . The sug
gestion, therefore, was made about
three hundred years before Roose
velt was born, and was a fruit , of
that period of idealism known in
literature as the Age of Shake
spear. Most probably the idea orig
inated with King Henry's great min
ister, the illustrious Duke de Sully.
The divergent views prevailing in
regard to the proposed League re
mind one very much of that fam
ous poem entitled "The Three Blind
Men and the' Elephant." The propo
sition cannot be intelligently oppos
ed or endorsed until something is
known of its details.
What nations will compose the
League?
What is to be the basis of repre-
BPnfnrinn?
Will each nation have one vote
io shaping its policies.
What nation will be the head of
the League?
Will there be a common fund out
of which to meet the Leagues ex
penses? Who will have the key to the
treasury?
Are all controversies between the
signatory powers to be djcided by j
the League? j
Will there be universal disarma
ment, or will there be a common
army and navy and ifso, who
will be ia command?
What rights and powers ar i to be
wholly reserved to the individual'
powers composing the League?
What kind of a tribunal is to ad- j
mioister the aff iirs of the League?
Thre are but a few of a hundred '
questions that could be reasonably j
asked by any intelligent and patri- j
otic American before either giving j
unqualified assent or entering the i
lists of the opposition to the League
.la other words, we are unable to
say, from any word which has es
caped any of the principal propo
nents of the League, whether it is
to be really a confederation of na
tions with some central governing
authority in - international matters,
or merely a stupea lous trade and
arbitration treaty.
We are mindful alike of the fail
ure of the Greek confederacies and
of the modern idea or arbitration
as a preventive of war. We believe
absolutely in President Wilson's
breadth of scholarship, ia the puri
ty of his designs 'and in the pro
fundity of his statesmanship. We
trust be may be able to find some
way to safeguard the future of the
world- We are determined to sup
port rather than criticise him in his
efforts to do so. . But for all that.
we are inclined to believe that the
world's best assurance of peace dur
ing the next one hundred years
will be no league or covenant, but
the fairly- general acknowledge
ment of the fact, learned from bit
ter experience that war is a thing
never to be sought and by all hon
orable means' to be avoided. The
world for the present, at least, has
bad its -fill of human blood. Mis
souri Message.
The fellow who has been writing
the "to Hell mit der Kaiser" poetry
may now rest from his labors and
start goirg to Sunday School again.
"If thine enemy is hungry, feed
him." . All right, but give him corn
bread and meatless days, and wool
less st cks. and sugarless days and
costless days for a long time to pay
us back what we spent to lick him.
Eighty ears of corn were recently
found stored away in a muskrat
hole io Warren county. .Possibly
a case of hoarding for an advanced
price.
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CHRISTMAS
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WHEN you give candy, be sure to give the best.
There is none better made than you will find
here at our store. We were lucky in getting
this big shipment of selected candy, and
lucky again in getting it at a price so that we may
sell it to you for less than anyone.
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and Glassware
The . biggest stock of china and glass in
Monroe County, and we make prices that
absolutely obliterate competition.
Fresh Groceries and Vegetables
Always on Hand
Bert
Bull
Monroe City, Missouri
Works!
Money, saved and deposited in a bank is wealth that -
works. Wealth that works is capital. Unlike brain
..and muscle, it does not wear out or deteriorate it
grows and improves. -
Capital at worl pays wages, which, when saved, creates
more capital. Savings bring independence. A savings
bank is a public servant?
MONROE CITY BANK
MONROE CITY, MISSOURI
Xmas is the time to fiave the home com
fortable; furniture is the most noticeable of
REilL (OMfORT AND CONTENTMENT
Contentment in Surroundings is
Contentment in the heart
Good Furniture makes a Christmas Home a place of
Perfect Pleasure the Whole Year 'Round.
OUR CHRISTMAS SELECTION IS
COMPLETE IN HOLIDAY SPIRIT
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