Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-10-26
WORTH WATCHING.

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WORTH WATCHING.
Pacificists tell us that there is no
hanger whatsoever that any other ma
Hon will attack us; that as long as
We mind our own business we will
have nothing to fear from abroad
The militants tell us that we must
Se prepared at all times to defend our
telves from attack because there is
10 way of keeping our country in
violate except through show of
power. They seem to fear two pow
hrs In particular and advocate pre-
paration against them.
The chances are that this country
IS in little danger; it may be that the
pacificists are nearly right, and yet
here are enough indications of com
ing trouble to convince the majority Of
The fair minded people of the country
that the nation should prepare to re-
pei any invasion. There is just
chance that there might be an invas-
lon.
Where there Is lots of smoke, there
Is tAften some fire. Because of this
tact, the United States should not pass
pver too lightly such bits Of informa-
hon as is contained in the following
dispatch from a correspondent OF the
Associated Press in Paris.
The subjoined curious communica-
lion written on thick official-looking
folio paper without any indication of
Its origin has been delivered by mes
senger at the Office of the Agence Hav-
Ps, the principal news agency in
France:
.'The United States as the prize for
settlement Of the present European
conflict.
1T is stated on high authority that
suggestions have been made in the
diplomatic circles of European chan
celleries declaring that the easiest
solution and the one most acceptable
to all the warning nations would be the
partition among them of the United
Etates Of America. The United States
bf America are most inviting prize
Is compensation for the sacrifices rem
dered by these nations, and an ar
rangement on the basis of the respec-
live relations of the different nations
Is surprisingly practicable.
$50 far from being a visionary
scheme for solution of this great
4,
harent that only small part of the
ehArt expended in the sanguinary
struggle, now raging, would have suf-
Bpectivo ambitions.
"A noted diplomat declared his sur
prise, that this idea of the partition of
lie United States had not emerged
sooner, because the land Is so largely
80 OF IF al q
warning nations.
"The tentative plan to satisfy thus
The national ambitions of the European
Ing the internicene struggle, is broad
" outlined as follows:
"Great Britain is to occupy New
England, Maryland, Virginia, North
md South Carolina, Georgia and
Florida.
'sFrance is to get the French parts
Of eastern Canada and the states Of
Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, ARK
ansas, Tennessee and Kentucky.
Germany is to occupy the states OF
New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, In
diana, Michigan, Illinois, Missouri,
Iowa. Wisconsin and Minnesota.
Japan is to take the Pacific coast
sncluding Lower California.
sMexica is to be compensated for
Lower California by ceding to it Ari-
roma, New Mexico and part OF Texas.
Russia will receive Alaska.
'ANhe Panama canal will be declar-
cd free. whilst the western states,
North and South Dakota, Nebraska,
Kansas, Oklahoma, Washington, Mon
tana, Wyoming, Idaho, Utah and COLO
RADIO will be consolidated into an I'M
nerial crown-domain Of the German
empire.
aThough these 'satisfactions' are to
be acquired in concerted campaSsn'
each of the several nations is to erect
the occupation of it's own allotted ter.
xatory.
| met the rights and interests OF the
different nations of old Europe, as 1t
would safeguard their nationals under
their respective flags.
"Whatever be said about this bold
solution it should be appreciated that
in many ways it is more feasible imam
the three successive partitions or
poland, which nevertheless are MS
toric facts. ~,
fiction. This alleged tentative under
standing of the powers at war may be
RELOCATED to imaginative fiction, but IT
is surely not stranger than the SOBER
truth, and it might easily take It's
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