Omaha daily bee., 1916-03-18
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CAMDEN. N. j.. March Ito the Edi-
tor Of The Bee; I am n republican OF
the Abraham Lincoln type. believe I'm
thorough organization. read the phiIa-
delphia North American because IL pub
fishes the truth about the administration
through Angus Mcsween. The North
American Is for Roosevelt, but I find
wherever ] go the people are for Hughes.
The enclosed cutting read in the North
American. and / read II with much re-
Jotcing. because your purpose Is directly
In accordance with public demand. II
the nomination is placed on Hughes with
out consideration Of his wish, he will
not for a single instant lose sight OF the
truth. that his mission is divineiy en-
dowed He can more quickly and ef-
fectually reunite the good thinking peo-
plei return the controlling power OF this
country into the hands OF the party.
whose legislation made us. OF ali others,
the greatest country known to civiliza-
ton, the grand old republican party. and
thereby restore to our nation the honor
OF our country and flag. which through
the vacillating policies OF the present ad-
ministration have lost TO US as Ameri-
cans.
Let the delegates from Nebraska 20
into the convention and name Mr.
Hughes as candidate, and a stampede
will follow such as never before was
known TO occur. We can elect him hands
down, and would be willing to ada to
my itinerary any work that the national
committee might feel Justified in placing
upon me. l am for the successful candi-
date OF the Chicago convention. but let II
be Hughes. Ills denomination removes
all doubt. Hoping you may be crowned
with success in executing your purpose.
am, GEORGE r. sTARN.
History By Jeremiah.
FREMONT. 'Neb.. March Ito the
Editor Of Tho Bee: am very much In
terested in the article on army conditions
| by Major General George II. Harries in
yesterdays Bee. and especially so on his
remarks about the history Of the future.
| That history is already written-written
5s5 years before Christ by one of Jeho-
vah's historians. jeremiah looking down
through the ages in this time of spiritual
Babylon foresaw the situation and gives
us to see the result OF our unprepared-
ness.
Now II Is waste OF money and effort
to undertake TO put the country into
sufficiently prepared condition for dc.
|
my judgment that prophecy OF jeremiah
l-l2 will be history within eight years.
He says that we. the United States, or,
in his words, "the hindmost, the last to
arise Of the nations. shall be a wilder
ness" II the people could only get awake
to the fact that all Of the nations OF the
earth are to partake Of this time OF shak-
ing and quit figuring on which ones
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gold. then there might possibly be a
chance for more of them to escape the
awful time in the future. There Is stili
thirteen years OF this time of trouble.
| This present war will probably end by
the middle OF 1917 base this conclusion
on the fact that before 1919 there is 20 be-
formation OF a ten-kingdom confeder-
acy In Europe. covering the Same terri
tory OF the ancient Roman empire.
That which we now see ends the ottoman
or Turkish government ana opens the
way for the return Of Israel and thes,
kingdom II. WINTERSTEEN.
or Course, Wooster's Agfn IL.
SILVER CREEK, Neb., March i7-ro
the Editor OF The Bee: I venture TO az
firm that not one solitary loyal. patriotic
citizen in the whole United States, IL we
would stop TO think. should approve of
wilson's order that our troops should
Invade Mexico in pursuit of villa ana his
band OF cutthroats. and for many raa-
sons, few OF which I here state in
brief:
/. President Wilson, as the matter
stood then. and as IL now stands, has no
lawful authority whatever to order our
troops into Mexico. congress not having
declared war. The passage OF our troops
into Mexico for such purpose and under
such circumstances. would be an act Of
war which none but a nation utterly
weak or utterly pusillanimous would for
an instant tolerate.
q For this unlawful invasion of our
territory by villa and his band. Wilson
should first demand full and complete
satisfaction from the Mexican govern
ment which he. himself had only re-
Gently formally recognized. In the event
of failure to obtain such satisfaction.
then would have been time enough to
talk about taking the matter into our
own hands.
8. Such an invasion OF Mexico would be
a piece OF blank idiocy. villa and his
men would not be caught by our forces
but at the expense OF millions Of dollars;
many more Americans and many inno-
cent Mexicans would be killed and,
finally. in all probability we would be
forced to make another ingiorious sneak
out OF Mexico without having accom-
plished our purpose just as, Wilson
sneaked out of Vera Cruz in 1915-either
that or to remain for the purpose OF
overrunning and conquering the entire
country, which. incidentally, would put
us in a most excellent state of prepared
ness, TO resist an attack from England
or Germany at our back door. What a
beautiful opportunity. too, IL would af-
ford Japan to seize the Philippines and
the Sandwich Islands and to send an
army corps to help the Mexieans resist
US In consideration OF a slice of Mexican
territory.
4. As Mexico is weak and defenseless,
so should we be great and magnanimous.
And why. for the lawless act of a bandit.
should we swell up and play the part Of
big bully toward our sister republic.
when, for the equally lawless act OF q
kaiser, as watson would look at II. in
sinking a great passenger ship. we can
only bluster and talk and dawdle and