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range by the weight of the missels thrown; lut
then ho added that the real gun must be rifled,
and that the Americans had been for years prac
ticing just how much rifling was necessary to
make the most effective guns in all the various
sizes from the smallest to the utmost caliber.
If this is true, when the first enemy assails
the United 'States there will be cannons to meet
that will equal, if not excel, the best that the
enemy has. It is further stated that the United
States has more effective powder than any used
by any other foreign power. And so it would
seem that wo will get along all right if the war
comes.
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Utter Desperation
HE sorriest indictment against Germany to
yJ date is her sinking of relief ships carrying
food and clothing to starving, overwhelmed Bel
gium. This will come nearer than anything to
bringing on a rebellion in Germany herself.
A woman reached New York from that dis
tressed country recently, and is reported as say
ing: "Wo should have starved if it had not been
for the United States." Tliat the power which
brought this fearful calamity upon Belgium should
sink relief ships carrying to that starving people
the absolute necessities of life, is something which
all nations and peoples recoil before.
It shows how desperate must bo the conditions
in Germany and Austria, and makes one instinc
tively think of a shipwrecked crew in an ppen
boat, the remnant living upon the corpses of those
who have died.
A Treacherous Idiot
yPtfANY indications point to the fact that Car
L ranza of Mexico would, if he dared, openly
declare his friendship for Germany.
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That shows his innate treachery and, at tho
same time, his want of horse sense.
Suppose it possible in tho war's upheaval for
Germany to land a great army in Mexico; how
long would Carranza bo considered? And when
does ho imagine ho would ever get that army out
of Mexico;
Has ho forgotten when a French army landed
there to uprear and support a throne for Maxi
milian, how that army re-established tho throne
and restored all of the old oppressions of the peo
ple; and how helpless Mexico was under that rule
until the United States sent Sheridan with a por
tion of the Grand Army of the Republic down to
the Rio Grande, and a message was sent to Louis
Napoleon that tho United States believed that tho
health of the French soldiers Avould be improved
by their taking a sea voyage?
Military Training
XN tho eve of probable war, how different
would we all feel had all tho boys in our
higher grade public schools and the boys in the
high schools had regular military training as a
part of the curriculum during tho past twenty
years. Regrets are idle, but we should heed tho
warnings that come to us and begin to prepare
to make the future as secure as possible.
Wars are decided, as a rule, by the men behind
the guns; and surely it is due them that they be
given every needed accomplishment in case the
call comes to them to go out and make of their
bodies of breastwork between their country and
their country's foes.
What are our schools for save to fit the youth
of the land for life's duties?
HINGS have a look as though Germany, in
viz the event of a war with the United States,
plans to make Mexico her base of operations on
this side. But how is sho to got any forco there? H
Wo might ask the samo question of such Amer- H
icans as are predicting that an American army H
will go to Franco. If wo had tho army to send, jH
how could wo send it, when wo are not oven ablo H
to send a shipload of food there for her starving H
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JjHE peasantry of central Europe are adopting H
i iron money. Tho little republic of Cuba is H
contemplating issuing scrip as its measure of H
values. Tho aristocracy of tho United States H
shrink from having two quarters and a half dollar H
of silver in their clothes, lest their backs bo H
broken by the great weight of the coins. It was H
old Billie, was it not, who made Fuck explain: H
"What fools these mortals be?" H
"JHE argument that Germany put out, plead- H
y ing that Great Britain having blockaded H
her own ports against enemies, she is justified H
in sinking all ships approaching those porta, will H
not long carry the approval of the German p'eo- H
pie themselves. It ibegins to look as though H
"whom the gods would destroy they first mako H
mad." H
(55(0 Mr. Gompers protests against the decision H
KZS of tho supremo court of tho United States in H
the Adamson case. H
It is not necessary. Tho court was certain it
Avas right, even before its opinion was confirmed H
by the filing of the protest of Mr. Gompers. H
XF Villa offers to agree not to make tho M
United States trouble in case our country H
becomes involved in real war with Germany, the H
agreement, to be of any account, should 'be under- M
written by Japan's allies, Great Britain and M
Russia. M
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