Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-11-04

Germany. with her usual lack of diplo-
macy, began to swagger and then Rus
STA took a hand ana exposed the Whoie
We ali of us have a lender spot in our
heart for old England, Ireland and Scot
life has been made SO real to us by their
many gifted writer's that. it seems IKE a
part of our own life. Dickens laundering
foolish characters with their Wnoieso nnie
enjoyment of everyday life, Scott 8 heroic
characters and inspiring pictures OF Scot
lands beautiful scenery and the keen IN
sight into human nature of Burns. nave
made Great Britain very near to us, and
it is that part of her that l hate to- see
get hurt. The government with its Per
fdious Albion diplomacy 1 have never
admired. 1t has enslaved the home people
to establish q vast empire abroad. L hon
estly believe that the nation that gets
whipped and stripped of its colonies Will
be the gamer in the end. Germany and
England both are making great sweat
shops out of their home countries to man
ufacture the material produced In their
home.
A Milk Fed Tiger.
! l think Jane Addams made a great point
when she called attention to the fact that
the greatest harm that this war was do
ing was in brutalizing the people. undo
ing the work of many years. SO many
writer's make the mistake of thinking
that the horrors of this wal will prevent
another. but such writer's are not very
close observers of human nature. Civil
ization is a milk fed tiger. 1t is as soft
and gentle as a pet kitten as long as it is
kept on a milk diet. but let it get a taste
of blood ard 1T is the savage Jungle cat
again.
1t requires the public killing of about
four men j~udiciously alternated between
two opposing factions to turn the most
civilized body of men that live on earth
today into a pack Of bowling, snarling
savages ready, to sacrifice life, home and
fa voi1N tn tho 111cf for Ei11inr
The assurance that Wilson will keep us
out of this war as he did out of war with
Mexico is not as reassuring as it might
be, for I fear IL he gets US as far into
Europe as he has in Mexico we will not
get out again. and l am afraid the CASUAL
ties will be greater.
good nature by inf1icting you with my
p~essimistic views. Out here on the ranch
l have more time to think than I do to
write or talk SO when 1 get wound up I
usually say too much, and as I am rather
radical in my views I usually manage to
step on somebody's toes" often, quite a
lot of somebodies, although quite uninten@
tionally.
Now if in my flights of fancy I have
dropped some bombs on any of your ca
thedrals or hospitals it was not inten-
tional. 1 was trying to hit the enemy. So
please toss them back as the only way
we learn is by our mistakes and I prefer
some criticism to too much praise as the
latter is usually not very sincere and 1t
does us harm instead of good, while criti-
cism strengthens us. If We are wrong it
teaches us our errors and if we are right
it makes us strengthen and fortify our po-
Sition.
1 used to say when I was a girl that if
some rich uncle would die and leave me
a few millions | should invest it into a
daily paper and run it as i wanted to.
but 1t would take a few millions to keep it
out OF the receivers hands and me out of
Jail. The uncle didn't die as yet so the
public has been spared one af1iictton. But,
seriously, 1 think there is no greater edu-
c%ational institution than the daily paper
ard it depends on the paper whether the
education is good or bad.
I am afraid that you will have difficulty
in reading This as / am assisted, by two
babies now and they insist on assisting.
Hoping that America is big enough and
wise enough to grasp her chance to carry
onward the ensign of civilization and leavs
Europe to her fate in the pit into which
she has thrown herself. 1 am. very sim
cerely, j. ri.