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Show NEBRASKA'S FALSTAFF. i I C olonel Bryan is perhaps the silliest ! I soldier that ever bore that title. His1 I ! j ideas of war would be one long scream i in comic, opera. j ' ' Second, if we mu.-t have a wa r, ' 5 : remarks the colonel, 1 it is better to postpone it until aft-r this war is over, j Tli en it will be ou:- war with the na-1 na-1 tiou with which we have our dispute. and we can decide when to go in and when to come out. ' ' ' Let us suppose that when Russia and France became involved in the war with , Germany the English had decided to post one their fight for principle uut il they could make it their war. If each of the allies had taken that stand Ger-j Ger-j many would dominate the world today. Moreover, this is not our war, in the -rn.-.e that we have done anything to I bring it on. If it comes, it is Ger-jmany's Ger-jmany's war. And because it is not our war we are not going into it with any ! Bryan istic idea that valor requires us to wait, until the enemy can attempt an jjnvndon of our country. We will enter the war, if we do, for the definite pur-po.ao pur-po.ao of protecting our nationals upon the high sea, and, if neeesnarv, of si ri king down the power that murders our men, women and children. We ran not protect thein by postponing the war. Nevertheless Hie war cannot only be postponed, but it cim be prevented altogether. alto-gether. It is up to Germany. If German Ger-man y will alum don her law I en1-; naval warfare Germany and the L'oil.ed States ! -.'. ill remain friends. ! "We can decide when to go in and jwiVn to come out;' says the intrepid colonel who has advocated unprepared-nrvs unprepared-nrvs in the face of many a serious etuis and ho now advocate uiiroudinesi in fa- i- oi n war, A few weeks ngo iryan, after preaching disarmament, for years, indorsed our puuili vtj expedition into Mexico. Had the nation heeded hit pa 'ill'- tic, preachments we would haw, had no soldiers to send into Mexico; we would not even have had enough to prevent pre-vent Jhr Mexican from commit t ing re. Ie:,te. atrocities like, that at ' olumbu, N. M. j I '.iv an ha- Loe , , r- j t e. I finally in i ! his own stale. His decorative gifts as j a .spellbinder till win him personal : rccognit ion . but his principles --it' his bundle o)' inconsistencies can he called principles and his candidates have been ! repudiated. The rest of the country ! long ago took the correct measure of :his shallowness and demagoguery. |