The Cordova daily times., 1915-12-30
OUR FRIENDS WHO ARE ENEMIES

feeng frlendslD changed contempt caused in part by American sending France paper shoes and worthless shells but mostly because of our Presidents proclamation of neutrality and because did not fight when the Lusitana sunk.
 Those mpeuous people forget that of the of their defeat by the Germans in the FrancoPrussan the worthless ammunition supplied their army by their own tneving contractors
 England too is sore toward do openly espouse the of the allies and crbes position to love for the almighty dollar Germany is dsgruned because she claims have favored the allies to her disadvantage
 This that they all fearfuy wrecked by the war would if they could lay the blame for it other shou ders than their
 At such a time were it worth while the United States might easily establish that in the past the United States has
 higher honorable record than of her trans Atlantic accusers.
 Except for the steadfast of justice of the English queen and the invention of the little Monitor republic would have fight both Great Britain and France just when it fighting for life the Southern Confectionery In this connecticut too the part that Russia played in preventing England and France from precpatng that must never be forgotten As the story of the Alabama from the time she, English ship, armed with English guns and by English went out to prey upon American merchant sps until the final of her officers by an English yacht when the pirate ship sent spntered and its grave by the Kearsarge ought to parayze English tongue when it praes about the lack o honor part of and people. When the news of
 the sinking of the Maine reached Berlin and read every officer the army staff only the emperor expressed the belief that the sinking of the ship by the Americans to supply for stealing Cuba.
 When government declared against Span, Am orleans pushed from the sidewalks in both Paris and and in other nsuted while the of southern and Europe in unison eXued over the anticipated work that Cerera fleet would make of the paper navy of the United States.
 As to the American the almighty dollar during the past thirty years American travellers must have spent
 three and half billion dollars in the resorts of Great Britain, and on the continent-n Great Britain, France, Germany Austria Italy and Switzerland During the past year they have spent ten million dollars in charity in Belgium and France every battle line in Europe and Asia If the record does establish that the American people are higher and uer than any o the accuses then 1acS prove nothing
 In the fifties if a maured horse five years old driven across the plains California; turned and broken spirited then caught up the next spring. found that he had grown half hand in height It due to the pure air of the table which he had been driven and the soft climate that received him in the Golden State In the same way millions of foregn-bo who would never have been heard native countries have made great fortunes and exalted this side of the because their coming this land opened to them all opportunities and bade them go and do any legitimate thing they pleased to-
 a taking the experiences of the past year, our people and government should determine to rest until our fortified arsenals filled with munons our depo ready with all needed railway connections nvenon merchancs and chemistry exhausted to produce instruments of death navy in all branches increased to the point of real efficiency air ships increased and i'm proved people, strained to to be ready n case some alien combination ot shall, when ther peace home is made try to recoup their empty treasures by loot ing our country, to be ready to meet the storm.
 While this preparation going must with zeal carry the works of peace dealing frank and fair with all peoples providing labor for those who need york; open new charities those who helpless and need hep schools for the children of the poor who come to us live without of fense before and nations and do what good
 But n despite efforts those beyond the sea, some pretext force quarrel upon and send their armies and wiring tribute from let be ready to welcome them with bloody hands hosptabe graves n sol that breaks upon coasts and make clear that liberty and justice exaeth nation and that while the flag of our republic symbols peace also symbols irresistible power. t.. m4-..-.4. j. 4~.--~..