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Show In Canada they are agitated ovur what is there regarded as u probable organization and mobilization of several hundred hun-dred thousand German-Americans in the United States for the invasion and seizure of Canada and a presentation of it to the Kaiser as the contribu-i tion of his royal subjects in1 this country. It is impossible to say just how profoundly stirred the Canuck has allowed himself to become over this talk. What we know is that the matter has been discussed in some of the public meetings in the Dominion. Probably there is no class of citizens in the United States with a keener keen-er realization of the value of neutrality as a means of quickly quick-ly restoring the prosperity of this country than the Germans. It is a noticable fact that while Frenchmen, Austrians, Russians' Rus-sians' Servians and some Englishmen Eng-lishmen have voluntarily returned re-turned to offer their services, " the German has stayed here and contributed his part to the assistance of the country of his .'idojiiion. "Wherever his sentimental sen-timental inten st in the fatherland father-land may be, his practical interest in-terest is all in the brotherland, and that is the interest he is keeping an eye on. To think of him arminsr himself and sw."rming over the Canadian ; border to capture a prize for the Kaizer by smashing the neutrality of the United States ; into smithereens is to conjure j np before the mental vision one . of the most amusing sights in the world to make believe. Editors should remember the commandment, "Thou shalt not bear false witness," even s'when speaking of such outre people as the Mormons. An exchange whom we forbear to name, speaking of the death of Joseph Smith, head of the ' Reorganized Re-organized Church, of the Latter Lat-ter Day Saints," said he had twelve wives. Had the editor investigated he would have learned that Joseph Smith was all his life "opposed to polygamy. polyga-my. When Brigham Young " led"- th o "' Mormon exodus to ). Utah in 1 845 there Avere some who would not follow him. These remnants were gathered and organized by Joseph Smith and in 1860 their headquarters head-quarters Avere established at Independence, Missouri. They never practiced polygamy. East Texas Register, Carthage, Texas. The more we try to solve the problem what the war is about, the more we become befuddled. The plea that is being made for the Belgians in a foreign land, will cause many of our own people to sutler and starve in the midst of plenty. There are thousands of persons many of them little orphans in our cities who seldom enjoy the pleasure of a full stomach, and many of them will sit during dur-ing a large part of the long evenings this winter by a stove that is cold. It is no credit to the people of America that many of them can see nothing unless it is called to their attention at-tention by a brass band or a battery of artillery. The man of very limited income in-come can scarcely meet the expenses ex-penses of his family and hear their fretful complaints because be-cause they are not better dressed, dress-ed, or more expensively housed and he feels dejected and discouraged dis-couraged and thinks the addition addi-tion of a few hundreds to his income would remove all his troubles ; and yet, next door, or on the next block is another man with five times his income in precisely his fix and in the same state of mind. Lord Kitchener says that the war will continue for about three years, and he is in a position posi-tion to know. |