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Show UTAH THE WEEKLY REFLEX. KAYSVILLE. SGORES TIE KAISER Hicy have regarded the tnu.bf states In particular, and the peo; lv m could be overwhelmed by force, in their natural tools and Instruments o' domination. Their purpose has long TO BE NEUTRAL. FILLED COUNTRY WITH SPIES Failed in Attempt to Spread 8dditlon German People In Grip of Same Sinister Power That Hae Drawn Blood From Ua. -- The demands made by Austria upon Serbia were a mere single step In a plan which compassed Europe and Asia, front Berlin to Bagdadl They hoped those demands might not arouse Europe, but they meant to press them whether they did or not, for they thought themselves ready for the final Issue of arms. nt Washington.' June Wilson In a Flag day address dtllv-erehere on Thursday d win red .that we were forced Into the wot war hy the extraordinary insults and a ggressk ns ofj lieiui ta ry. masters of Germs uy. The president's address in jnrt is as LV-rres- ldf d ld-wi- 1 1 follows: My Fellow Citizens: We meet to celebrate Flag Iay because this flag which we honor and under which wr serve is the emblem of our unity, our power, our thought and purpose as a nation. It has no other character than that which we give it from generation to generation. The choices are ours. It floats in majestic alienee above the hosts that execute those choices whether In peace or in war. And yet, though silent, it sjeak to us sjwahs to us of the past, of the men and women who went before us and of the records they wrote upon It. We celebrate the day of its birth ; and from its birth until now it has witnessed a great history, has floated on high the symbol of great events, of a great plan of life' worked out by a great people. We are about to carry It into battle, to lift It where it will draw the fire of our enemies. We are about to bid thousands, hundreds of thousands, it may be of our men, the young, the strong, the capahle men of the nation, ,to go forth end die beneath it on fields of blood far away for what? For some unaccustomed thing? For something for which it has never nought the fire before? American armies were never before sent across the sens. Why are they sent now? For some new purpose, for which this great flag has never been carried before, or for some old, familiar, heroic purpose for which It has seen men, its own men, die on every battlefield upon wldch Americans have borne arms since the Revolution? These are questions which must be answered. We are Americans. We in our turn serve America, and can serve her with no private purpose. We must use her flag as she has always used it We are accountable at the bar of history and must plead In utter frankness what purpose it is we seek to serve. United States Forced Into War. It is plain enough bow we were' forced into the war. The extraordinary insults and aggressions of the imperial German government left us no choice but to take up arms in defense of our rights as a free people and of our honor as a sovereign government. The military masters of Germany denied us the right to be neu-- . trab They filled our unsuspecting communities with Tlclous spies and conspirators and sought to corrupt the opinion of our people in ihelr own behalf, When they found that they could not do that, their agents diligently spread sedition amongst ns and Nought to draw our own citizens from their allegiance, and some of those agents were men connected with the official embassy of the German government itt self here In our own capital. hy violence to destroy our Industrie and " arrest our commerce. They tried to incite Mexico to take up arms against us and to draw Japan Into a hostile alliance with her and that, not by indirection,- - but by direct suggestion from the foreign office in Berlin. They impudently denied us the use of the high seas and repeatedly executed their threat that they would send to their death any of our "people who ventured to approach the coasts of Europe. And many of our own people were corrupted. Men began to look upon their own neighbors tnil-llon- - ....-- a self-respecti- Citizens of Ephraim are phtnmDr mr'l M' 7 Vast Emplro Planned. -- suns ESCAPE FROM TORPEDOED STEAMSHIP E .. been avowed. PRESIDENT SAYS MILITARY MASTERS DENIED U. S. RIGHT ' LAST-MINUT- I m cr Ueunmi-natio- n , Their plan was to throw a broad belt of German military power and political control across the very center of Europe and beyond the Mediterranean iny to the heart of Asia ; and 1 was to be as much their tool and V pawn as Serbia or Bulgaria or Turkey or the ponderous states of the East. v .e v The dream had it heart at Berlin. I fc f ML' could have had a heart now here bef of It rejected the idea of solidaritye j race entirely. The choice of peoples 's f played no part In It at all. They ars. "; ; af, dently desired to direct their own Vv ' fairs. would be satisfied only by undisv puted Independence. They could be j- V; ' ? ' .rfW kept quiet only by the presence or the vV constant threat of armed men. The V- C' w ' ' W,y.kv.w f German military statesmen had reckoned with all that and were ready to One of the most mnurkable pictures, depicting the horrors of being torpedoed In midocean, to reach this country. deal with It In tbelr own way. vessel sank by tne And they have actually carried the The photograph was taken after the steamer had been torpedoed by a German submarine. The finall boat Is pu last as the down the een can be Men rope water. sliding greater part of that amazing plan into bow, her atern lifting kIowIj out of the execution! Look bow things stand. tng away. The aplaah of one of the men hitting the water can be seen. Austria is at their mercy. It has acted, not upon Its own Initiative or upon the THIS FRENCH FAMILY SMELLED GERMAN POISON GAS choice of Its own people, hut at Berbewar lin's dictation ever since the V,),ww--W'y;'-';y gan, Its people now desire peace, but cannot have it until leave is granted central from Berlin. The rmwers are In fact but a single power, Serbia is at Its mercy, should its hands be but for a moment Treed. From Hamburg to the Persian gulf the net Is spread. Austria-Hungar- 71 - v '7 A . V"' " 4 T V-- -- 7 'V ao-call- Why Berlin Seeks Peace. la it not easy to understand the eaghna been mani- erness for peace that fested from Berlin ever since the snare was set and aprung? Peace, peace, peace has been the talk of her foreign office for now n year and more; not peace upon her own initiative, but upon the initiative of the nations over which she now deems herself to hold the advantage. Through all sorts of channels It has come to me, and in all sorts of guises, hut never with the terms disclosed which the German government wonld be willing to accept That government still holds a valuable part of France, though with slowly relaxing grasp, and practically the whole of Belgium. It cannot go further; It dare not go bock. It wishes to close its bargain before it Is too late and It has little left to offer for the pound of flesh It will demand. . Gas masks are not used exclusively by the fighting men. v Tills unusual photograph shows a w hole family In a The military masters under whom Germapy Is bleeding see very clearly village near the front lines In the Aisne sector wearing their masks, as German poison gas has just been smelled. to what polpt Fate has brought them. The people of the section carry them around In their pockets and at the first sign of a gas attack put them on. If they fall hack or are forced back an loch, their power both abroad and YOUNQ LANE AN AVIATOR PORTO RICAN REGIMENT ON DUTY at home will fall to pieces like a secan house of cards. If they cure peace now with the Immense advantages still In their hands which they have up to this point apparently gained, they will have Justified themselves before the German people; they will have gained by force what they expansion of German power, an Immense enlargement of German Industrial and commercial opportunities. If they fall, their people will thrust them aside; a government . accountable to the people themselves will he set up in Germany as It has been In England. In the United States, In France, and In alt the great countries of the modern time except Germany. If they succeed they are safe and Germany and the world are undone ; If they fall Germany Is saved and the world will be at If they succeed, we and all peace. the rest of the world must ' remain armed, as they will remain, and must make ready for the next step of aggression; If they fall, the world may unite for peace, and Germany may be of the union. Seek to Deceive World.-- The present particular aim of the masters of Germany Is to deceive all those who throughout the world stand with suspicion and to wonder In their for the rights of peoples and the hot resentment and surprise whether of n atlons; for they see there was any community in what Immense strength the forces of Intrigue did not lurk. What justice and of liberalism are gathering great nation In such circumstances out of this war. would not have taken up arms? Much The sinister Intrigue Is being no less as we had desired jeace. It was denied actively conducted In this country --than us, and not of our own choice. This in Russia and lu every country in Euflag under which wo serve would have rope to which the agents arid dupes of been dishonored had we withheld out the Imperial German government can hand. get access. No Emnity Toward German People. United States In War for Freedom. But that Is only part of the story. The great fact that stands put above We know now as clearly as we knew all the rest is that this Is a Peoples before w e were ourselves engaged that war, a war for freedom and Justice and we are not enemies of the German peoamongst all the naple and that they are not our enemies. tions of the world, a war to make the They did not originate or desire this world safe for the peoples who live ta "hideous war or wislr that we should be it. and. Imre made It fhetr own. The drawn Into It; apd we are vaguely con- German people themselves Included; scious that we are fighting their cause, and that with us rests the choice to as they will some day see it, as well as break through all these hypocrisies and our own. They are themselves In the patent cheats and masks of brute force that tmd help set the world free, or- - ehe grip of the same sinister-powe- r has now at last stretched Its ugly tal- stand aside and let It be dominated a ons out and drawn blood from us. The long age through by sheer weight of whole world Is In the grip of that arms and the arbitrary choices of try) vs.. WUtbe great battle to? vd otatstr ?&? by a which .shall determine, whether rtis to uhtch-mmaintain- the biggest armies be brought under Its mastery or fling and the most irresistible armaments ' ltslf free. a power fo which the world has afThe war was begun by the military forded no parullel and la the face of masters of Germany, who proved to be which political freedom must wither also the masters of and perish. These men have never regarded naFor us there Is hut one choice. We tions as peoples, men, women, and have made It. Woe be to the man or children of like blood aud frame ns group of men that seeks to stand in themselves, for whom governments ex- bur way In this day of high resolution isted and in whom governments had when every principle vw hold dearest their life. They have regarded them is to he vindieuted and made secure fot treulj as serviceable organization the ,ihution of the nations. We are' which i l,t y could ly force or intrigue rh to at the bar of history bend or tojrupt to their 'own purpose. anddyour plead fh;g shall wear a new luster r t!l tUj if? v tk ilallV1..,. k ill , i' - I ' - OllBgD.i5!SBiAS&siHail ' ' ' They-sough- -- i r-j- yn hr " s - e which-hostil- povv-er,ep(lii- s, seif-i-oas- tkec-.naika- n -- Austria-Hungar- - ti Porto Rican regiment marching through the streets of San Juan, Porto Rico, before boarding the transport w hU h took them to a certain highly Important military post of the United States, relieving regulars for other duties elsewhere. The whole city turned out to bid farewell to the men. , Like other sons of cabinet members, Franklin K. Lane, son of the secretary of the Interior, has entered the armed service of the nation. He 1$ a member of. the aviation-divisio- n sntF Is here shown In-- VOLCANO THAT RUINED SAN SALVADOR his flying costume. " He Knew. Silence reigned in the luxuriously furnished room where young Poorleigh was asking a rich old manufacturer for the hand of his fair daughter. The lover waited in deadly anxiety. btevs- Wtmld thi .him , I He loved granted-J.- o lug Ethellnda, but he felt that he was no match for her. Then the old man spoke, slowly and thoughtf ujly, Tut, my dear hoy, Pm afraid you couldn't support her. Im rot rich, replied the Reader ardently; but Im not doing badly. What makes jou. think I ctmldnt sup- maidens father sank aek Into Jhis armchair. "The difficulty Tve had in doing it myself, l.e replied frankly. Canadian . Homo 7-r- r week. The task that confronts iffi- committee in charge of the !:.) campaign in Weber lountj iv t tain at least a dollar from oe: Utah-Iilab- I uts-v- . f the city of Kan Kahud..r aad ,,K o (i.hxtr-vatio- n for $23,000, because of the drowning of his two sous, Walter and Jiun lu the Kaysvllle city reservoir la t year. Contracts have lieen let by the l'tah Cereal Food company at Ogden for the construction of a new elevator at the companys plant, the elevator tojmve a capacity of 300.000 bushels of grain. In an endeavor to secure live Oder for $16,000 worth of text books that the Ogden board of education will place before school begins next fail, fifty text book publishers are making J bids. The body of an unidentified man, about 40 years of age, was f( uul hy boys playing near the Weber river at Ogden. The Itody apparently Imd beeu in the water for more tlun a week. Having been assessed $10,000 ai their portion of the amount to be raised for the Red Cross, a live committee at Provo is on the job, and say that Provo will easily raW that amount The crop situation In Utah, India with respect 'to fruit and vegetable, is the best in the history of the state, t according to Hr. W. G. Peterson, 'of the Utah Agricultural college, . pretu-den- at Logan. The state department of public instruction lust, week apportioned . the special charity fund for the non school districts. The gifts of the year to the poorer districts vult total nearly $10,00U. Running true to form in so far a size is concerned, but rather late in the season, Weber county straw berriev have made their a ppeu ra nee on tht market, the flavor of the berries being up to the usual stands rd. Charged with having killed Oonnie Mack, a woman of the Ted light district at Bingham, on the night of le cemlier 24, 1916, Mike Morris wrs convicted of voluntary manslaughter, following trial at Salt Lake. On Sunday the Red Cross campaign opened vvlth a whirl in Dnvis ccnittty, from the pulpit of every chunk the pastors urging contributions by those present, while in some of the churches substantial contributions were take Through the mediation of TV. of the state industrial commit slon, the controversy between ib mine surface workers at Park City and tlieir employers was adjusted week, and the strike brought to close. Mrs. Lou McConnell, of Joplin. while visiting her daughter in lake, aud despondeut ov er . t" niif j cide, tykia j troubles, attempted to the hohurried poison, but was will re" she believed and is it spital cov er, y: !.With the idea of linprovlng tbeTocili,,efrom Beaver to the Nevada an special comrulttee of 'Milford with Beaver citizeus conferred ty commissioners of Beaver last wee The iniprov ement will aadoubtedly h The annual convention of the mountain serle. Fraternal Order WeEagles, held in Ogden, Tuesday. attend was dnesday and Thursday, by more than '200 delegates Ing aeries In Idaho, Nevada, Bjon113 and Utah. The harmful Canadian thlt!e i be run out of the rich Cache va!7 ha'i? 1 the fanners of that gun a war of extermlnatKm ajn thistle which It has beeu proven r.? dtive- ou?tiie' hardy years tlma. It ws announced lest w eeknl steel construction work on tbe rtl pie's Sugar company plant at had been completed. With the idea of rutting s a ' idie land in rrops as of Iudian lands in Uintah ing made at the present time. Interest In the home garden 11,0 mem in Utah is being showti In ? section, both by the S.m!r u men merchants and busine sire to keej- the iiitere- -t test un.l foe doored n . - wbi.-- itf The Sugar onip.tnv lag announced a competitive copicm. tu close September tlii. that great r may be entered in the of Utah's fnnt crop for V.U7. Samuel B. Kusliford last week matle a demand upon the dtj of Khj- - die lo--- n Volcano San Sahador, ( dent of the county. A resident of Goshen wa h.v vwk sentenced to serve sixty laj u Uw been com .1 ted Jail, connty af having carrying liquor Into dry terr.t n ; nd also being guilty of lrunkeniie-- s pof-lble- 1 Joii-r.ai- Moah section will soon be ihMumi an estimated exjiense of $4iumu. . "Shadow" Green, a truMie it n,e state prison, serving h seuteii.e burglary,escfl ped TrrmrTltr- - - port her? The fair 1 liTu ae-tk- le wearily . huge patriotic celebration on ttt Fourth of July. Bright outlook for the l'.17.(.rp . the re;sort that comes from ev ( r tlori of the state. Thirty Liberty bonds of $: were purchased l. b( ;10uj children of Murray. are b tl;; ,0N Ogden young ganized Into groups for mili:..ij rrii;u ln as physical culture. A pioneer plumber of ft: James, died at his home in K. Tr list week at the age of ! t. A tract of .BOW acres down )n t)f, ! |