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Show iCltn Goocfwms IVoqAIii I qJV HE decks are rapidly being cleared for J 3liMk acon n anticipation of the big drive (L J JfflSf or tne secon Liberty Loan. The Ha 1 JEy campaign wilji in all probability be I "igBr launched on the first of October and S&lfiB continued throughout the month. An- i-wrKSsrj nouncement of the size and terms of the new bond issue is withheld pending the approval of congress of the administration's program. In the meanwhile all the machinery at the disposal of the national and state governments is being mobilized mobil-ized and made ready to start at a moment's notice. It is estimated that the issue will aggregate $4,000,000,000, which should fix Utah's j quota at approximately $12,000,000. This will prove a gigantic un dertaking, notwithstanding the heavy over-subscription of the first issue, and those who will have charge of the campaign in this state fully sense the difficulty of the task. Considerable misapprehension existed during the first campaign and much of it unfortunately still remains to be cleared away. There need be no cause for alarm over the state's ability to meet the demand of the nation, however, provided the citizens are brought to a full realization real-ization of their duty. This will require a carefully conducted campaign cam-paign of education reaching out into every hamlet and home in Utah, and we understand that the committee in charge is already considering consider-ing ways and means to set the plan in motion. Utah people as a whole do not comprise an investing public; they do not sense the desirability of purchasing government bonds, even when they can easily afford to do so; and there is a current misgiving about the whole proposition that must be corrected. This accomplished, the campaign is bound to resolve itself into a garrison finish with the state responding in substantial sub-stantial and generous fashion. Regardless of personal predilections, we are in the war and it must be fought to a finish. To accomplish this requires the use of men, money and materials on a gigantic scale. The government looks to the great rank and file of the civilians to furnish the money. In view of the sacrifices that the men in uniform are called upon to make, the solicitation for subscriptions to the Liberty Loan is a mild demand. But it is more than this : in a moral sense it is the citizen's solemn duty to honor the demand to the full extent of his ability. If he does this he will not only perform a special service to his country but will profit from a sound financial investment. The time is short but the people must be made to see the advantages of investing in the Liberty - Loan. When this is accomplished the flotation of the bond issue will be an easy matter. THE PRUSSIAN IDEA. Tr-'N amazing bit of information has come to our attention in the JL form of an excerpt from the court records of a case tried in Missouri some years ago. The suit was brought by Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany against the estate of a former German subject who had m died in Missouri, in an attempt to recover money. Among otherij j things the imperial plaintiff alleged: "That he is the absolute monl I ! arch of the kingdom of Prussia, and as king thereof is the sole gov- 1 i ernment of that country ; that he is unrestrained by any constitution! or law, and that his will, expressed in due form, is the only law off that country, and is the only legal power known to exist as law." 5 To Americans such a declaration as this is incomprehensible, but' ' not so with the German people. The fact that they have not only cheerfully acquiesced in the arrogant claims of their exalted ruler in times of peace, but just as cheerfully pour out their treasures and life-blood in defense of his worthless hide when war wages about them, is proof positive that they subscribe to the damnable doctrine J, -TljllMIHlljlBMIggg unconditionally. Another interesting character study of our enemies comes to us from the pen of Frederick Harrison, the dean of English M Letters. He says in part : M "The Prussian people are of one mind with kaiser and army. In ' H all the world's history no race has been so drilled, schooled, sermon- M ized into a sort of inverted religion of hate, envy, jealousy, greed, M cruelty, and arrogance. Man and woman, girl and boy, have been M taught from childhood this inhuman vainglory and lust of power. It JM has grown to be their sole Gospel, Creed, Hymnal and Prayer-book. M Britons and Americans cannot comprehend how a great and intellec- M tual people can have come to a cult so Satanic." H This is the most clear and concise appraisal of the German char- M acter that has yet come to our notice. If we are to believe it and M why should we not? then the real peace problem presents itself. We M hope to ultimately make peace with the German people themselves. M This, however, entails just about the same degree of risk as making M peace with the kaiser. One doubts whether they will be competent in M character to negotiate and keep a lasting peace until they are con- M verted in the light of a new culture and a higher civilization. So long M as they deem sacred treaties as mere scraps of paper, to be set aside M when it serves their purpose; and are willing to wage war against the whole world upon a flimsy and false pretext, it is rather M risky business to deal gently with them. On just this one point do we i M differ with the president. Would it not be well to forget all this fool- j"? fl ishness about whitewashing the German people and prepare to bend '4 them to their knees ? It is preposterous to think that a change of J M heart will come to them of its own accord. Cold steel and starvation j is the argument most likely to convince them that thqir kind of kultur ,1 M will not work in this enlightened age. 1 M fl BIG TOADS IN LITTLE PUDDLES. i m jHE great American game of politics owes much of its pictur- t M J esqueness to the pranks of that type of public servant who I H would rather be the big toad in a little puddle than a little toad in a . j H big puddle. These poor, benighted chasers after cheap renown pro- H ceed on the theory that the calibre of public men is determined by the , H sound of their croak and the splash they make in shallow waters. H They would be right, at that, if they only reversed the rule. And still H they serve a useful purpose; their clown-like antics tend to amuse H their fellow citizens and lend color and comedy to the scheme of pub- H lie affairs in general. H The muddle at Washington over the persistence of the militant H suffragists in picketing the White House is affording some of these ' H fine fellows a splendid opportunity for masquerading as the chivalric H defenders of the "martyrs." J. Ham Lewis was the first to step to H the front. He even condescended to visit the unfortunate women in H prison, thereby taking a chance on spoiling his pink whiskers and his H pretty clothes. At that, he came mighty near losing his reputation; H the suffragists misquoted him outrageously and his colleagues in Con- H tggress gave him a loud horse-laugh. That was all the thanks he got 4 H f tfor his pains except the notoriety, of course and it goes without j H Hfsaying that the gallant senator from Illinois is a sadder but wiser H Tjrman. H ffl Now comes Dudley Field Malone. In him the equal suffrage -4H 3" cause has recruited a crusader of no mean proportions. Malone is an H ' Irishman and a fighter, and is no doubt very much in earnest. Else H why would he resign the remunerative office of Collector of the Port H of New York City? It is true that he can now wage war against the H administration if he cares to, and be consistent about it, but affairs H have come to a sorry state when such a course becomes necessary for H any apparently sane man. We have no quarrel with the dear ladies H . who1 seem to love the franchise as much as they, do life itself, al- H though it does appear to be a bit preposterous that they should per- H ' sist in making their cause the paramount issue at this critical time M in the nation's affairs. H In the meantime, the lady from Montana, Miss Rankin, seems to H have forgotten her sisters altogether. At least, her time has been H mostly occupied in an endeavor to compromise the labor troubles H in her home state in such a manner that the 1. W. W. will not get the H worst of the bargain. The probabilities are that she is heartily H ashamed of much that the militant suffragists have done to date but H doesn't consider it good politics (policy, perhaps, would be a better H word in her case) to openly disapprove of the propaganda. H And speaking of those who like to splash around in shallow wa- H ter, what about Vice-president Marshall? It has long been known H that all was not harmony between him and President Wilson although M it was not expected that he would openly criticise the administration. H Yet he did more than this ; he opposed the president's program in con- M grcss. time and again, and in a manner that did not become one in his H exalted position. Then, when he had been balked at every turn, in- Hj stead of accepting the situation in good grace and standing solidly be- M hind the president, he gave vent to a fine flourish of words and went M away from Washington to spend the summer. Since then he has been m sulking in his tent. But why make further observations? The text H covers everything we have in mind to say. H A VOICE FROM THE PAST. CHIS nation has a banner, and wherever it streamed abroad men saw daybreak bursting on their eyes, for the American flag has M been the symbol of liberty, and men rejoiced in it. Not another flag H on the globe has such an errand or went forth upon the sea carrying m everywhere the world around such hope for the captive and such H glorious tidings. The stars upon it were to the pining nations like the M morning stars of God, and the stripes upon it were the beams of morn- M ing light. And wherever the flag comes and men behold it they see in H its sacred blazonry no rampant lion and fierce eagle, but only light, H and every fold significant of liberty. H Let us then twine each thread of the glorious tissue of our coun- M try's flag about our heartstrings, and, looking upon our homes and j catching the spirit that breathes upon us from the battlefields of our H fathers, let us resolve, come weal or woe, we will in life and death H stand by the Stars and Stripes. j The foregoing has such a striking and direct application to our present day affairs that one could readily believe that the sentiments H were uttered by some gifted contemporary. They are quoted, how- M ever, from Henry Ward Beecher who gave expression to them at a time when the nation was facing a similar crisis. And yet how pert- H inent the utterance is today. Need we longer wonder why we are at B war or what is our duty as a nation? This tells us in language so clear that it permits of no further controversy. And if we would hold H true to our traditions as citizens of the great Republic, we will H hearken to this gifted voice that comes to us out of a glorious past. H TIME TO FORGET IT. H SOUTH CAROLINA contemporary takes Colonel Bryan severely sev-erely to task for this rqcent utterance in support of prohibition : H "Beverages that contain but a small percentage of alcohol will un- H steady the nerves and impair the productive value of the drinker, no H matter what his occupation may be." "How about Thomas Jeffer- H son?" the fiery southern editor inquiries; "He drank wine every day. H Would Mr. Bryan say that the nerves of the author of the Declara- H tion of Independence and the father of the Democratic party were B 'unsteady?'" A rather pointed question, this, but we doubt that it H will stump the Commoner. H ' Then we are reminded that Washington was a whiskey drinker ; H so was Andrew Jackson; so was General Grant and so was Grover H Cleveland. Also, that Napoleon Bonaparte drank wine daily and had H f wine distributed to his soldiers as a part of their regular rations. The H't 1 outstanding exception, so we are told, was Abraham Lincoln, and even Hi 4 he a strict teetotaler in reply to some of Grant's critics who charged the general with drinkjng whiskey, said: "I wish some of you fellows would find out the particular brand that Grant is using and drink a, little of it yourselves." l All of which is probably true. At least wc have come to accept the tradition as based more or less on the truth, and while we think none the less of these great Americans who indulged in intoxicants in their day, we most certainly do not consider this an acceptable argument in favor of the use of alcoholics in the present generation. Who knows but what these are the very exceptions that prove the rule? We must confess that the more we see of prohibition and its effects, the better we like it. It goes without saying that this country coun-try could make excellent use of a few Washingtons, Jacksons, Clcve-lands Clcve-lands and Grants just now, and if whiskey-drinking would produce them out of our present generation we might be willing to give it a trial. In the absence of such assurance, however, the best thing to do is to forget it. ' WHAT AN OFFENSE! VJHE diplomats seem to be having a merry time picking the presi-V presi-V dent's peace note to pieces and speculating upon the probable J impression it will leave on the minds of the German people. Last week we ventured the prediction that the message would make them mad as hornets, and that they would begin to fight as Germans never fought before. We are still of the same opinion and reports from across the seas appear to bear out the prediction. One diplomat of prominence, speaking of the reception of the Wilson note in neutral circles, says : "Some incline to the belief that despite careful wording the answer would be construed as a 'command' 'com-mand' to the German people to change their form of government, regarded re-garded as interfering with the internal rights of a sovereign people, and bitterly resented." In other words, we are to believe that the president has offended the dignity of the German people, and are warned that it is bad policy for us to do or say anything that might give the Germans a sense of humiliation. How sensitive our enemies have become of late: We wonder if it has ever occurred to them that they have suffered humiliation in the opinion of mankind ever since they so ignominiously subjected themselves to the absolute dictation of their savage war lords. It is inconceivable how even the slightest sensibility of honor, dignity or common decency could possibly remain with them after all their outlandish out-landish acts. We had come to think of them as a shameless race. But if sufficient of the finer sensibilities remain to make possible their ultimate ulti-mate redemption, the realization can come only through their own self-rehabilitation. And President Wilson has pointed out the way. There is no other. AN EXTREME WAR MEASURE. XNASMUCH as cleanliness is said to be next to godliness, and the kaiser claims to be in close partnership with the Almighty, we wonder how the second member of the firm will view the recent dictum dic-tum of the war lord respecting the sacrifice of sanitary customs in the interest of war economy. It is reported on good authority that the emperor has recently promulgated a series of sumptuary laws prohibiting pro-hibiting the use of napkins on all tables unless made of paper and forbidding the use of tablecloths of any fabric whatever. Guests in hotels and lodging houses are limited to one towel a day, save on rare occasions they are allowed to use a soiled towel while taking a bath. Also, in the exact translation of the royal edict, such guests, "as a fundamental principle, must make their bed linen serve for at least a week before it is changed, and the rule may only be broken in extraordinary extra-ordinary circumstances." Some of these imperial decrees, stringent as they may seem, are not without a touch of humor. For instance : newly wedded couples ar", by grace of his highness, allowed double food rations during ' their first six weeks of married life. It goes without saying that the placing of this premium on war marriages in Germany has its own peculiar advantages, |
