Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1914-12-04

What? Getting the war on to The
Sacred Soil' of the Fatherlandl Bet.
ter get used to the idea.
The President still insists on strict
neurtality.-World.
He ought to send about two hun.
dred and fifty embossed copies of the
message to the half-baked American.
| German professors occupying chairs in
our colleges that should be filed by
natives"
For forty years Germany maintain.
cd peace.-Prof. Zeisberg in Herald.
Yes but Lord. how good and ready
Germany was when she BROKE" il.
Not far cry from the Belgian
border acknowledgements.
Only u few days march from Ant
werp. where the expcditionary force
should be organized. A Belgian in
command and the rank and file all
Ec!ginns. The whole place should be
piowed up with lyditc and sown in
salt.
English women active in the war;
Headline.
Not only English. The ex-Empress
Eugenie has turned her palace n,
Peterborough Hill OInE.) into a hos
Dlta! for thc wounded soldiers of hc,,
.'dopted country.
Did not the blowing up of the bat
ylcship Maine at Havana cause wal
with Spain Mrs. Tabor in Indie
pendent.
Certainly not, though possibly CON
tributory. The United States based
its declaration of war on the potent
fact that Spain didn't Know how to
treat her colonies. Then we took her
colonies and paid her for them, though
setting Cuba up in housekeeping ut IL
cost Of twenty-five millions, and by
tho way, we are going to keep" the
others, including the Philippines.
The Socialists are for peace-IIand-
book.
Tell that to the Marines. In 1912
when the Kaiser wanted to increase
the army and levy tax on his rich
subjects to pay the cost, the Social
lists who never lose an opportunity to
open their mouths and insert their
feet, declared that call classes would
bear the buden."
What is the Law and Contraband.
and was the Declaration of London
Sun Cor
There is no law of contraband and
the Declaration of London, which
classified, contraband of war, cond-
tioml contraband, and "no" contra
band, was never ratified, and is Just
n scrap of paper" International
law has been Il set of "dogmas" set
up from time to time by the "strong-
est TO tic the hands of the weak. Ii
is II myth.
Not up on Ncstizchc on Treitochke
or Schopenhauer.-Lit. Digest.
We read their books (when trans
lated) but it's little too much to asl,
us t0-mcntion them.
The great corporations, the great
corporation lawyers and the bosses are
now merged together as representing
rule over the peoplc.-Roosevelt IN
Outlook.
Not right now Colonel; in your time
they were, and with all your fuss and
feathers you din't "jar" them, and
some do say that you didn't try TO-
That was left for surc-enough
nickel plated and copper rcvcted pro
gressivc, the first letter of whose
name is Woodrow Wilson.
We read of lady Of Massachu-
sets, who recently went to Europe
to study "Poace, "-Wortor, in Out
look,
Wonder where this devoted lady
went to take lessons. and whether any
rude man disturbed aer studies by fir
ing nasty gun at his ncighbor across
the line fence. This beats going to II
goats house for wool, or attending
Il funeral just for fun. But the dear
old girl might have acquired what Ar
temus Ward called few devastated
ideas in Belgium.
And now the German Crown Prince
is saying that England did it.-Post.
Does the young man accuse Great
Britain of levying a tax on wheat
sent to the starving Belgians, or
what?
Floating mine found off the New
York coast in the track of vessels
Press Dispatch.
Will one have drift up the Potomac
on the tide and blow up the Dolphin
before the foreign Office ventures a
wild protest?
Miss Autumn il carrying on some
thing awful with Old Man Winter
Evening Journal.
Was seen lingcrin' in his lap early
this morning.
The timid vaccillating policy of the
| President.-Root.
And this of the first President in
fifty years with the courage to bacl;
up righteous demand for fair treat
ment to the railroads, and the first
since jackson to declare that the peo.
pies morey should be held in trust
for the peoples use.
a lady writing to HarDcr's says she
can't see what Princess Lequoya sees
to admire in that fat old Croker.-Ex
Maybe she likes 'cm fat.
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