Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1912-07-25
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MILITANT SUBJECTS
Recent Speech Designed to
Curb Desire to See Flag
Float Over Morocco.
HE UPHoLDs IT'S HONOR
Deepest Known Spot in Ocean Dis.
covered in NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Suffrasists are Wrought
UP.
HE UPHoLDs IT'S HONOR

Berlin. Special: Emperor William
mas just made u speech designed to
curb the too aggressive spirit of those
Germans who wanted to see the Ger
man flag raised over Il part of Morocco
last year. This speech. which was
made at Il yacht regatta banquet at
Hamburg and was largely addressed To
Hamburg merchants. contained u
pointed reference to- the Agadir Incl
dent The passage in question was AN.
follows: LAS you all know, gentlemen.
The :tag must I'VE in honor, and it
must not he recklessly spread to the
breezes or hOisted where we are not
sure that VIC can defend il. You will
understand why l have practiced self
restraint I'm spreading the German flag
AT places where many persons perhaps
long To see 1t floating. l was governed
ON the town ham at Lubbock: The lit
Tie flag Is easily bound to- the staff. but
il costs much to haul it down again
with honor"
The emperor went on to say hat he
could claim that. during his reign, the
honor OF the German nag had never
been insuited from any quarter: then.
addressing himself TO the Hamburg
merchants present. he added: Il
pledge you, and ! stand for IL. that my
i'N6 WIZ LOlIOM you Wherever YOU leAQ
the way This latter remark shows
that the emperor does not believe In
the old political maxim that trade fol-
lows the flag. He is less aggressive,
and is content to nave the German nag
follow trade.
The German navy's surveying ship
Planet has discovered In the vicinity Of
the Philippines the deepest known spot
in the ocean. $3.50 meters, or 406 feet
more than six miles. This record
sounding was made, according to y
cable received at the admiralty
here. about 40 =, = miles of the north
coast of MindanaO. The greatest depth
hitherto known, 1886 meters-just un-
der six miles-was found by the United
States cable steamer Nero. in 1901, to
the south OF the island Of Guam.
Woman s~uffragists. the socialists and
other advocates OF the equal-pay-for-
equal-work doctrine. are much wrought
up over a plan OF the imperial postal
department. just announced. whereby
$500 male employees are to be replaced
by women on the score of economy. II
Is estimated that a yearly saving OF
about 100000 marks. or practically
1900. 900, will be effected. The salary
Of some $500 Of the posts to be filled
with women will be $50 marks q year.
This makes SASS a month.
Inc OHlUeU States mas reached It's
period of decline, is by Ra-
ron H.. O Barnekow, Il widely trav-
eled German who contributes to the
Reichsbote, a Berlin newspaper, an
article summarizing Impressions he
gained on the latest of his many visits
to America. Articles OF this nature are
not infrequent I'm the German press.
but ordinarily they are written with
such IL manifest aninus that they de-
serve no notice. Baron van Barkenow.
on the contrary, writes i'm a matter of
fact way, without "A trace of anti
American feeling. and appears genu-
inely glad to be able to see some hope
that the decline may be arrested.
That this decline has begun. writes
the baron. must he observed by any
person who visits America after an alb
sence of a few years. The change for
the worse has been very rapid. The
scenes that have attended the repub-
lican campaign for the presidential
nomination are but one indication of
the change, which lis marked by q hith-
erto unknown Indifference, a tendency
tn let things take their course: by an
unhealthy and excessive self-apprecia-
ton and 81 general co~arsening of moral
views. All these, says Baron Won Bar
lekoW, are products OF the last few
sears. The moral c%oarsening has
worked down from the top. from the
newly rich. Another Indication of de-
cay is the alleged fact that the Ameri-
can intolerance or the ufO1e. OF tha
gentleman of leisure, is beginning to
disappear. Suggested as a possible
contributing cause OF the decline is the
fact that the birtllrate among the old
American families lis falling off. while
j, remains high among the South
European immigrants. The old faini-
Hes of the New England states OF
The soutE have as vet been less affect
el by the d~emoralizing tendency OF
present American affairs than the peo-
plr of any other section.
II is. however. in the farmers Of snc
United States that Baron Won Ps.ne-
kov sees a possibility OF ar'ast;ng the
downward movement. a. Set. he says.
they have o been .~a.ned by the
moral decline. ~, iwellars in the
country. he dee:s,es. represent today
throughout the republic the dependa-
BILE. conservative element. IN which an
upright Christianity and Il high stand
ard Of family life have been preserved:
they represent the most Industrious
and deserving portion of the whole
population of the country Al espe-
cial word If praise is. spoken for tho
German-Ainerican farmers.
A Distinction and . Difference.
From the Arsonaut.
VEG the late Stilscn HutchingS owned