Salt Lake Telegram | 1917-09-09 | Page 24 | Letters to the Editor

l LETTERS J TO r t THE EDITO Those persons protesting professing to be Americans American who con COlI latently tend send anti-American anti letters to le Ui the e sifter editor a Telegram may as u well understand right now that the w waste ute paper papa basket baskot Is yawning fawning for war lUeb Telegram desires dashes to be absolutely absolute Independent but It i Is wholly and unqualifiedly American and 1 18 w knowingly publish ore one line that flat In any anya a way affect t the hs seed good name honor or oC thet tt or the loyal loal men who vho are at the helm cf of the tiro government ment 1 Letters to the editor must be written only on one side of the paper oth the they nicy y cannot cot u be ue us used ed a and n nu d will win be uc thrown o w n i In II i the inc waste paper uda ck basket CL M the they nicy y cannot cot u be ue us used ed a and n nu d will win be uc thrown o w n i W WITHOUT DISARMAMENT M N IBY I BY BY GERMANY THERE CAN BE NO PEACE Editor Telegram There is only one way to end the war wa r that that is to end the German autocracy There is only one ono way to end th the e German autocracy that autocracy that is to disarm it The men who above all others know what constitutes the strength of ot th the e German autocracy are the Germans German who have fought It They are th the e small minority Socialist faction formerly for formerly merly led by Liebknecht now now headed by and Haase Then men have presented a real basis hasis for peace in the tho plan they ha have va adopted as their platform It is not surprising that the very first thing in their program is disarmament And disarmament ment is the very last ast thing the German autocracy will agree agree to The only real basis for peace in the popes pope's recent proposal is ment Disarmament is th the keynote in every one of President Wilsons Wilson's utterances utterances utterances utter utter- ances on peace and the issues of ot the tl war But Dut actual disarmament is meant meant- not a promise to disarm from a government government government gov gov- that has shown it keeps no promises That is why President Wilson will continue to demand that the German autocracy give security in the shape o of f evacuation of ot France and Belgium o othe or orthe r the Ule Instant cessation of submarine warfare before any peace conference e meets If It that security Is given peace might come tomorrow on the understanding understanding under under- standing that disarmament not not t merely the formation of peace leagues league s or contracts but actual scrapping a athe of p the armies and navies navies navies-Is is to take place plat e at once With the mailed fist cut off th the e dynasty nasty would be hard put to It to survive even as a social ornament In Germany The whole pan pan- German menace of a middle European Europea n empire or Berlin to Bagdad would woul d evaporate as the armed forces o of f Prussia melted away Disarmament is the key to world worl d peace Peace reace will never come until Germany agre agrees s to disarm and gives give s actual security for or the instant fulfillment fulfillment fulfill fulfill- fulfillment ment of tho promise Observe this vital difference between be between between be- be tween the real peace plan of the real German Socialists and the fake no ro annexations no indemnities program put t forward here and In Russia by the Ii ag agents of or This thing thins is a mere sham designed I i to fo save nave the autocracy ar 1 preg preserve the Prussian military I system under the sonorous pretense prete-nse of J j leaving every nation to work out Its own destiny I Russia for tor a time was duped an i price she paid was fearful The debt I is not all ai t i liquidated d yet et Th The best st proof of ot the pro Prussian pro rr j I ism hm of the American pacifists pacifist and inn ma- I Socialists is that their peace peace plan I is directly opposed to the peace ce 1 plan of tho the real Socialists in Germ Ger- Ger many m Lafollette's lIe tes resolution re and the a whole tole output of pacifist pacifist- In this I country coincides exactly with the e pro pro- program gram ram Pf of the Socialists in Germany I Iwho who are arc denounced by the real Socialists So- So I st there there- therea a as kaiser Socialists l I Evidently there thero are are Germans who I dY even Y n If Americans Americana kno know the breed breed- d- d even find some difficulty I in spotting it M. M R R. a k c II i the inc waste paper uda ck basket CL M WHEN IT RAINS BLOOME Editor Telegram jj J A tornado swept Ellis cou count count sas the other day When it Had Hadon on one farmer found his bar b I mill and chickens had bee beeby c cz bi by y the enemy And in part payment the s 's or left one left one pair of bloomers bloome rent in A No 1 condition condition sl The owner of the farm w wear t I George whiskers has served we wein in the state legislature serve dole an am I pressing need d of bloomers It is typical of Natures Nature's metho methol scatters gifts enough nough but s sto she to need a traffic manager to- to toof to-rOl of freight All of us often receive reCel e 1 ers when we want windmills Some hav have too much mone II a enough children And vice versa versa have health and no wealth wealth ant more vice versa Some are of insurance companies when would prefer being bemp farmers offs am ri wield the hoe when they would WOUd be wielding the golf stick i ami We re all aU want wart what is on our bors bor's farm instead of what Is c own And no man can figure of Dame Nature parches the wheat and floods the city streets l leaves all aU the children on the Ea Eai instead of on Riverside drivel drive they wouldn't die for far wan pl of milk milli why she leaves bloom bloomers erg folk want windmills I But Dut it is nothing to be peevish It is an ill tornado that blows r good Maybe the owner of of th the bloomers came from badIo wife and needed a windmill 0 Or the Ellis county legislator who t I to have all the good things of the except a wife is going to ge lD I though he himself does not yet yeti lit it and will find the bloomers i Just because with your puny 1 I intelligence you cannot nude nde Dame Natures Nature's traffic schedule I on that account conclude Jude shun sh new shipping clerk She know knows Instead of quarreling with lief h rt find Lad out what she means by he heThey I They rhey will Invariably lead you joa CIU toa toaN 1 PI- PI 1 and more fruitful life tf a amay b may lead tho the Ellis county f 1 altar JJ r