The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1916-01-14
A MILITARlsTlc PIPE DREAM
tBy Savoyard, in The Columbia, S.
STATED

"
! [By Savoyard. in The Columbia, S. c.
State
or all the crazy visions even the pres
ent war has produced the bloodiest and
| most destructive of human history, the
daftest. 1t would appear that the belli-
| gerent powers over yOnder have nothing
in particular in the way, of malice against
! one another Our Uncle Samuel is the
man they are after, din his lands, tene-
ments and hereditaments, goods and his
| chattels, rights and privileges, are to be-
come the spoil of embattled Europe, that
| Is now merely in training to lick US, as
| your Fttzsimmonses and Jack Johnsons
get in trim for a prize fight. Here is this
| pipe dream:
Great Britain is to occupy New Eng
land, Maryland, Virginia, North and South
Carolina, Georgia and Florida.
France is to get, the French parts of
eastern Canada, and the states of Loui-
siana Mississippi. Alabama, Arkansas,
Tennessee and Kentucky
Germany is to occupy the states of
New York, Pennsylvania Ohio Indiana,
Michigan, Illinois, Missouri, Iowa, Wis
consin and Minnesota.
Japan is to take the Pacific caast, the
state of Oregon, upper and lower Cali
fornia
Mexico is to be compensated for low
er California by ceding to it Arizonia,
New Mexico and part of Texas
Russia will receive Alaska.
THE Panama canal will be declared
free while the western states, North and
South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Okla
Idaho, Utah and Colorado will be consol-
idated into an imperial crown domain of
the German empire"
Well, they leave Uncle Sam the Dis
trict of Columbia. That helps some.
This pipe dream appeared in the news
columns of Washington paper one Sun
day morning and l doubt if its like ever
was printed before. London and Berlin,
Paris and Vienna, Petrograd and Con-
stantinOple, Rome and Sofia are no more
thinking, of a conquest of the United
Lfat4 haV F,f
dition against the planet Jupiter.
1t may be deduced from the idiocy of
the conception that some fellow imagin-
ed the stuff and put it in the paper hop
ness" That is likely for our glorious
land is full of folk who believe in haunts
it laid down that Germany does not COW
ct Belgium New York is what she is af-
ter, and Calius she cares not a continen-
tai for if she can get Chicago. 1t seems
of the great divide, though Mexico will
be allowed to regain Texas and some
other states round about. England is not
interested in destroying the German navy
and sweeping the German merchant ma
rine off the seas She wants New Eng
land and the south end of our Atlantic
seaboard. France is not after AlSace-
Lorraine She covets French Canada and
that part of the United States Thomas
Jefferson bought of Napoleon Bonaparte.
Russia is perfectly Indifferent about
Alaska, which she sold to William II,
Seward at an enormous price as the
trade was then estimated by the public,
Japan is to put up with our Pacific slope,
and other far wester nchips and Whet-
stones laying about loose in Uncle Sam
backyard are to be gobbled up and made
into an imperial crown domain for the
Kaiser.
This is the most extravagant and the
crazy dream that the war has
produced so far as my observation goes. |
Mrs. George Weber, East Livings
ton street, narrowly escaped the loss
of her right eye in peculiar acct
dent last Saturday, She was using
a nail file and in attempting to brush
her hair away from her eye, the file
struck and cut the eye ball. She suf-
fered intense pain and Sunday it
was thought she would have to be
taken to specialist Her condition.
however, was much improved Mon
day and IL is now believed she will
get along all right and not loose the
sight.