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Show EMERY COUNTY PROGRESS. CASTLE DALE 'UTAH r.iURDER OFNATIOn BY RUTHLESS HUMS How the Poles Were Slain and Starved and Frozen During the German Drive. The President Smokes Propagandists Out of the Grass F. C. Walcott Telle of the Scenes of Horror He Witneaeed Along the Road From Warsaw to Pinsk Million Persona Homeless. LLT EVERY UTAHN WHO LOVES HIS COUNTRY READ THIS APPEAL J? It is now known that former President Roosevelt, the recognized spokesman of the Republican Party, who has been sending instruction to senators and representatives of congress, interfering with peace negotiations in which eight other nations are vitally concerned, RECENTLY ADVISED REPUBLICAN MEMBERS OF CONGRESS TO REJECT THE 14 PEACE CONDITIONS TO WHICH OUR ALLIES HAVE LONG SINCE AGREED! J ; Thle I have seen. I could not believe It unless I had seen it T through and through. For sev- eral weeks I lived with It; I went all about It and back of It; inside and out of It was shown to me until . finally I came to T realise that the Incredible was 4 true. It is monstrous, It Is un-thinkable, but It exists. It Is , the F. C. Prussian system T Walcott - j BECAUSE OF THIS UNWARRANTED INTERFERENCE WITH INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS, AT A MOMENT OF THE MOST DELICATE TENSION IN THE HISTORY OF THE W ORLD, PRESIDENT WILSON HAS ISSUED AN APPEAL TO EVERY, AMERICAN TO STAND BY THE GOVERNMENT. The President calls upon those who have been nagging and knocking and rocking the boat to come out in the open and let the world see who they are and what they mean. He knows who has been hindering the work of the government and now he wants the people to know. IT WAS FOR THIS REASON THAT HE ISSUED HIS APPEAL TO THE PEOPLE OF AMERICA, KNOWING IT WOULD SMOKE THE PROPAGANDISTS OUT OF THE GRASS! AND OUT OF THE GRASS THEY CAME! The following Is a statement by F. C. Walcott, who served as an assist-- , ant to Mr. Hoover during the time America was doing all that was possible to feed the starving millions of Belgium and Poland and northern France. In this work he was brought In direct contact with German military officials, and saw the conditions which the German Invasion had . created , among the civilian population : I went to Poland to learn the facts concerning 'the remnant of a people that had been decimated, by war. The: country had been twice devastated. Frst the Russian army swept through It and then the Germans. Along the rondslde from Warsaw to Flnsk, the oresent firing line. 230 miles, nearly half a million people had died of hun ger and cold. The way was strewn with their bones picked clean by the ' crows. With their usual thrift, the Germnns were collecting the larger bones to be milled into fertilizer, but finger and toe bones lay on the ground d and with the clothing. Wicker boskets were scattered a'ong the way the basket in which the baby swings from the rafter In every peasant home. Every mile there were scores of them, each one telling a death. I started to count, but after a ' little I had to give It up, there were so many. ,vThnt Is the desolation one saw along the erent road from Warsaw to Tinsk, mile after mile, more than two hundred miles. They told r.ie a million people were made homeless in six weeks of the German drive In August and September, 1916. They told me four hundred thousand died on the ; way. The rest, scarcely half alive, got through with the Russian army. SMany of these have been sent to the. whom iberia; it is these people Paderewskl committee Is trying to relieve. In the refugee camps, 800,000 survivors of the flight were gathered by the Germans, members of broken, families. They were lodged In Jerry-buil- t un- hnrrnrks. scarcely water-proollghted, unwarned in the dead of win ter. Their clothes, where the ouixons were lost, were sewed on. There were no conveniences, they had not even been able to wash for weeks. , FUth and infection from vermin were spreading. They were famished, their a piece dally ration a cup of soup and of bread as big as my fist. In Warsaw, which had not been destroyed, a city of one million Inhabcititants, one of the most prosperous the war, the before ies Europe s streets were lined with people in and Famished of starvation. -- Americans, you know now who has been fighting the President. You know now who originated departmental inquiries which placed valuable information in the hands. of the Kaiser. You know now who it was that secretly opposed every move the President made since the !war began. In a single stroke, the President has exposed their ambuscade rain-soake- mud-cover- Fellow Countrymen, don't let the Hun game be played here as it was in Russia. This is no hour to strike at the President! A vote that will at the United States of America. repudiate the President is a direct blowwould it bring in the Kaiser s circle! Contemplate a moment the great joy . THE WE ARDENTLY BELIEVE THAT UTAH WILL NOT FORSAKE WILL UTAH CRISIS! RATHER, GRAVE THIS IN PRESIDENT POLITICIANS STAND WITH HIM AND REBUKE THE UNTHINKING WHO HAVE SOWN DISCORD AND DISTRUST! who tonight is in the mud Fathers, Mothers, as you expect your boy, to be of loyal to his commander, fields the on Picardy, of Flanders or ! Match his loyalty with Commander-in-Chief so you be loyal to your that know world your own! And let the whole Utah Will Not Fail the President Now! i f, DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET For Congressman, Second District For Congressman, First District JAMES H. MAYS MILTON H. WELLING j ; For Judges of the Supreme Court VALENTINE GIDEON S. R. THURMAN . A. J. WEBER tt DEMOCRATIC 5TATL COMMITTLL W. rT WALLACE, R. B. THURMAN, Secretary Chairman the-pang- they souatted there, with their elbows on their knees or leanfeeble ing against the buildings, too to lift a hand for-- bit of money or -' morsel of bread if one offered' it, perlshlng of hanger and cold. Charity did what It could. The rich, gave all that they had, the poor shared their loot nmst. . Hundreds of thousands were perishing. Day and night the people pictures is before my eyes starving, a nation dying. min-annke- a 1 (Paid Political Advertisement.) mi m IBB JS-x- War Funds Go Up in Smoke, Take Huns Along With Them 1 $50 BOND WILL BUY high explosive tor 100 StoKes Trench Mortars. shelL h WILL BUY trinitrotoluol for one WILL FEED 1 soldier 350 days. 4 $50 BONDS WILL BUY 5000 rifle or machine gun cartridge. 5 $50 BONDS WILL BUY 2 light Browning machine guns summer and 6 $50 BONDS WILL BUY complete clothes and underclothes, 5 for winter, caps and shoes (but not OTercoats and slickers) loaded shell, 7 $50 BONDS WILL BUY 5 loaded 155 mm. shells, 1 75 mm. 1 and loaded shelL and propelling 8 $50 BONDS WILL BUY trinitrotoluol priming charge, 2 $50 BONDS 3 150 BONDS WILL BUY .. . - - munition (enough to run it 10 minutes if fired continuously). of TO shell and exploding charge $50' BCX4DS WILL BUY 1 trinitrotoluol. h Don't Forget Your War Savings Stamp Pledge 1 The above statement by, Mr. Walcott is a terrible arraignment of the Hun, but no more terrible than he. What has nappenea wdeserves. Poland, In Belgium, in nortnera' France and every other, country ma has been blighted by the Hun's presence would happen in America should the allies, by any chance, fail to winn this war. It would mean the ensiave-msnf American men. the starving and death of American women and chil Either the Hun or numanuy dren. must perish. w. a. a. You owe it to the Boys Over There Buy W. S. S. Today , |