Show LETTERS TO THE EDITOR J S ThoM mOM to 10 tw be American wt b r ma ull eln t to In th the he edi J T Tb e may Iy u s well eU rigid row now I t bat bit tin the nut cut paw paper Is for tor web rich tr tin On n. n ain to te t bo be ent but It t U IJ ebony and end unqualifiedly American u an 4 1 U tt wm m not on ces 00 Un lIu thit that In an uj w u tr iJ iff U tb Ib lb time Ilam m c c of t tt u. tha ed SUM ot or tb Ib the lam lonI mm in who bo u are ar it at the of Ui lilt ib 1 Letters Letter to the editor must b bo be on one side of the paper CI they cannot ot be used and will be thrown I n the waste r aper paper basket THE KAISER CLINGS TO L 4 HIS DIVINE RIGHTS I Editor Telegram I r C Despite the tight German censorship hip i i upon news enough has i l leaked aked to show the hopes of the plain people were raised high the other day only to be pashed Cashed to the ground by the Kaiser alser himself speaking through his chancellor c Things have been moving swiftly inGerman in German Germany The conviction is spreadIng spreading spreading spread- spread I Ing among the people that submarine f. f warfare crippling England will not ff starve her and was a a terrible under z in that It brought America into the 7 war ar The folk who have to do the theS S 7 fighting taxpaying and starving real- real j I. I ize England is still very much in the f. f game that the United States is moving moving moving ing with a swiftness they ther did not expect ex expect ex- ex j and that Ru Russia sia is once more hitting hitting hit hit- ting out with vim and vigor Internally the people have demanded demand demand- ed cd electoral reforms Externally they i J have been hoping and praying for a f peace founded on no annexations and r no indemnities The Socialist party rJ i has always been In favor of this prot pro- pro t I 1 gram am Recently representatives of the thet t- t t great reat Catholic Centrist party went to r r Catholic Austria anxious for peace t- t ff Shortly the Catholic South German 4 papers took the for Internal c- c up ip cry reform re- re Z 4 form and peace fc 4 Then Mathias Erzberger great Cen- Cen r c L trist leader who had learned recently k If In Switzerland what England and America were doing flayed the gov- gov I tt eminent in the reichstag g. 7 Thus a bridge was formed between I i the le two biggest parties Socialists parties Socialists and Centrists for the most part at i daggers' daggers points They menaced the J continuance of a parliamentary block I t that would the Kaisers Kaiser's K support cab cab- cabI I f- f met inet I If f fH Here if ever seemed a time when H t the would have to sing small i But those who thought this did not i know their Kaiser Speaking through his chancellor he proclaimed In words remarkable for S their audacity and insolence I 1 repeat that th thE formula of peace S without annexations is unacceptable to ff We Ve cannot declare us S our terms of peace We Ve must fight and conquer I Here taU talks s the man who still believes believes be- be 1 G in his divine divite right as a king 4 ii i All the terrible years ears of the war have haveIt 4 It him taught nothing The sufferings of l S f V 4 1 his people the losses in men and j j V treasure the hatred of th the whole world I have taught him nothing Standing on what seems the brink of an abyss he dramatically defies Socialists and C Catholics the Catholics the of his people But he does more With the same gesture h he defies the entire world Besotted Besotted Besotted Be Be- In his belief drunk with power clinging to all hl hi his ancient and outworn Imperialistic idols he still madly thinks s he can crush the aspirations of S his own people and impose his will upon a world arrayed in arms against him The duty Is plain The allies must fight on until with starvation and ruin staring them in the face the German people will tear the Kaiser from hl his throne burn the Imperial eagles and substitute democratic government for the one-man one rule under which they now suffer and from which the civilized civi world suffers A. A B. B CiVI 1 C. C RICHES BEGIN AT HOME Editor Telegram Henry Astor over 85 years of age sole surviving son of William B. B Astor one of the founders of th the Astor fortune fortune for for- tune is one of the best examples ex extant ox- ox tant of what economists call the unearned une unearned un un- un- un e earned Increment Henry Astor never did anything much to earn an an increment or anything anything any any- thing else He didn't even please his hiR millionaire father When he married the daughter of his fathers father's gardener he was disinherited And Anti for years yeal'S he has hs been living in obscurity on a farm But If you must be cut off oft with a pittance persuade your father to make it a pittance of land When William Villiam Astor In 1834 created a trust of real estate for his IsIs son he thought he was assuring him only enough to live on comfortably But this is 1917 And today and for some scores of of- years back the income has I been that of a prince If anything is indestructible it is old Mother Earth Also nothing Also nothing not even money grows unless it has Its roots in the soil solI D. 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