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El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-06-04

80 EN- who go to Juarez to es-
MI cape registration are more
= = despicable in my sstima-
ton than the 'slackers' who married
in the hope OF securing exemption"
said James J. Watts. People are
saying that this war has not the
heart interest for the American peo-
pie that the Spanish war had. That
may be true. But there Is a thous-
and times more at stake for the
American people today than there
was in '9s. have heard It said that
. number OF young Americans have
crossed to JuareE lately 10 escape
registration Personally. I don't be-
lieve any OF our FL Paso boys would
be so unmanly as TO do a thing like
that"
1T IS not only the moral nature Of
the soldier that Is injured by the i'm
moral conditions existing near the
training camps, but the physical
body as well, and the usefulness OF
the soldier depends much upon his
physical ability to execute marches
and endure fatigue, otherwise he Is
an encumbrance to the army" said
Howard B. Durkee. Not only is the
physical condition impaired. but
pc son who INDUCES in vicious habits
jeopardizes his life and assumes IN
necessary risks, which. at this time
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-06-04

s1RANcEs." Viva had said that
morning, do you know l
l. haven't told you just how
much ! appreciate your begging off
school for me the rest Of the term?"
Frances smiled In her opinion she
had done an act OF kindness for viva.
That finishing school where she has
been sent By her parents had certainly
almost finished the child. Frances
had intended. ever since she had been
successful in persuading Carp to ask
II viva could not extend her visit
with them in New York, 10 try to get
Viva away from the school altogether.
She had talked over the matter with
Helen, who had agreed that the school
and the girls who were sent there
were responsible for much Of WAS
nonsense.
Besides" Helen went on. 7 have
seen flashes Of sweetness in WAS
character. But won't IL be a dread
full care for you. Frances? I really
don't think you ought TO make things
unpleasant for yourself"
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-06-04
Germany's Bid To Japan

FROM Copenhagen comes of the most significant Of
II recent war dispatches. 1t reads:
"FrOm article in the Vossische zeitung of Ber-
lin appears that Germany has reconced herself to the
loss of Kiao Chow her former Chinese possession and the
South Sea island colonies which captured by Japan
Commenting regarding difficulties between
Japan and Russia the newspaper declares Germany
doubtedy ready cede the lease Of Kao Chow in dct
negotiations with Japan in return for the millions spent in
making German base in the east and is also willing to
discuss the disposition of the South Sea islands"
you realize what that means? Recall the tenacity
with which Germany clung to Kiao Chow and her island
possessions and the flame Of hatred which burst out In
Germany when Japanese troops finally stormed and cap
tured Kiao Chow.
The day of reckoning is to when Japan shall pay
in blood" That the of the German sentiment
which found expression in the public press Of that country
But Germany according to the Vosssche Zeitung Is
ready spirit of amy yield to Japan all claim to the
naval base in China and the South Sea islands
Why? Because Japan might thus be made an ally to
perform the triple service of slackening down her aid to
entente menang the back door of Russia and passvy
OF actively threatening attack the United States
VIII Japan rise the bait? Most certainly not Japans
future nov at any rate is bound up with that of the
entente Japan viii not rock the boat Moreover why
should Japan agrees pay millions for that which she has
taken by of Japan nothing for Germauy
willingness to cede Kiao Chow end the South Sea islands
Why should she? She already has them.
In this just another example of the short sighted
ness of Berlin's diplomacy
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-06-04

this linen coat as the one stolen from
your" he said to q complainant
Yes, your Honor"
How do you know Il Is yours?'
you can see that IL is Of n pecu-
liar make. your Honor" replied the
witness THAT is the way I know
it"
Are you aware, sir" shouted the
Justice, turning TO a closet back of
him and producing g similar coat,
"that there are others like lit"
Indeed J am" replied the witness,
still more placidly. Il had two
stolen"
There are those who don't believe
the story applies to Charlie, although
he was once q passenger conductor
on a railroad
Louis Fishbein discovered : new
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-06-04
THE MOONEY JURY MAY NOT
BE SECURED TILL THURSDAY

san Francisco, Calf June A.
From a new venire OF 100. an effort
was to be made today to secure the
necessary four jurors 10 fiji the box
for the trial OF Mrs. Rena Mooney.
Mrs. Mooney is charged with murder
in connection with a 5Smb explosion
which killed ten persons here last
July II was believed that the panel
would not be completed before We'd
nesday or Thursday.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-06-04
Liberty Bonds

YOU believe help the fight
II
IN way liberty Now you've chance
liberty bond
coin time Of day7 Then liberty bond Its
And when the you'll proudly tel what have
liberty strong
Uncle Sam ang hast bought thy liberty bOnd7 Oh talk cheap
be good old liberty
produce your poebook
liberty this land should
liberty
to nations bond
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El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-06-04

in and really help. Make friends of
girls ana find out things for myself"
Frances was thinking rapidly. She
and Helen had taken Viva to the
night court, and with no idea that
things would come out like this. But
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-06-04

THE noiseless contribution box at
the Hog Ford church has been
abandoned and the old fashioned
tin one put back in use. Now the
preacher can tell who all has a soul.
=
Summer is the time of sunshine and
sitting down.
If you want to get good line on a
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-06-04

Lesson in writing office statements: If you succeed
In capturing and holding trench, it's notable advance
You are driven out it's successful raid you attack
and fail to make any Roadway at all yOu say the
enemy was held in check.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-06-04

It was of fortunes cruel raps when man named
Tanke not allowed to fill himself in Harvey house
because his train carried diner. BE went away he
came, empty Tsnke-
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-06-04

They do say that some Of those old soaks In Arizona
have consumed the state went dry, much water
that they think they ought to throw in little of the
Southern Pacifics boiler compound
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-06-04
sHARK ATrACKs MAN.

savannah. Ca June Fear OF
repetition of last summers prevail
ence Of man eating sharks along the
Atlantic coast was felt here today as
the result of an attack by q shark
on Wallace J. Pierpont. jr. son OK
Ssvannah's mayor, IN Conbogue
sound. Pierponts arm was badly in
jured by the shark. which came close
to shore.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-06-04

Nearly all the constructionai iron WORK
srs in France are women
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-06-04

Mrs. Raymond Teal recently en-
ployed a Mexican servant girl who
could not understand any English, at
least very little, and the girl did
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-08-04
KINGS VS.. PEOPLE NOW
By CHARLES EDWARD RUSSELL.

The kings of the earth conspire to
keep monarchy still throned upon the
worlds brain. The people of the earth
arise and kick all these schemes and
devices into forgotten fragments.
One of the most colossal of these
astute plottings went to pieces when
the Russian people got tired of the
fanastic yoke of the king business and
cast the poisonous thing far from
them.
Ever since that great day in July,
1889, when the Bastille fell in Paris,
there has been a royal trade union to
keep the kings on their jobs.
Whatever their countries might be
forced to do, or seem TO do, after that,
all the kings of Europe have been
bound together by a secret alliance
and the ritual of their trade union.
One way to promote trade inter
ests and keep the jobs was to link up
the thrones by carefully made mar
riages.
Hence the German rulers, having
an over supply of princeling parasites
on hand, started in early upon delib-
crate fixed policy to Germanize Europe
and keep it faithful to the wornout
fantasy of monarchism.
After q century of that policy the
result is seen in the fact that every
king IN Europe is either q German or
has much German blood in his veins.
Wherever an heir TO throne has
been sighted as approaching the mar
riageable age a German has been
picked out for a consort.
To mention only few of the
achievements the king of England is
a German. For generations German
has been the household language of
the British royal family. Queen Vic
toria spoke English with a marked
German accept; German was her ma
tive tongue. Even Edward VII. was
not perfectly at home in the language
of the country he ruled.
Three members of the British royal
family are now bearing arms against
Great Britain because they are Ger
man princes as well as British and
their German allegiance naturally
seems first to them.
The queen of Belgium is a German.
The queen of Holland is of German
descent and is married to a German.
The poor, little man just taken by the
scruff and lifted from the throne of
Russia is seven-eighth German. His
empress, who had to be hidden from
the indignant Russian populace, was
one of the vast army of German prin-
cesses that have been distributed
about Europe. The king of Italy is
largely German. The king of Spain
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-08-04
A WORKINGMAN'S SOLILOQUY
By CLINTON BANCROFT

1 the blind giant
of the incomprehensble mind of the universe
l am the who first conceived the pow.
My hands fashioned its rude shears OF wood and with turned
the soil
1 raise the grain that feeds the armies of
And walk to and fro thruout the land seeking Master
Il build factories and mills and palaces for him.
My children toll and in his service; live in hut
delve the earth and the coal and that
mankind dominion over brutes
build roads of and Steel and bridge the torrents and
chasnls that divide the mountains
build great ships DER the then bring them
safely into laden with and meeky lay it at
Without loyalty Masersp ignorance poverty would
vanish from the Garth
And still / feel the goad
OF human needs and bend beneath my load
The Master rubs the Ring
I fight the battles of the king.
At his would and say my fellow worker without
sink destroy that
which have built.
The tabled powers of ove the zephyr, path
the skies
I my car among above
Beside me the grim reaper sits and grns
AS l hurlt thunderbolts of
Upon the children OF the land-for hire.
Then back on earth creeping and crawling
BY dyke and trench thing of filth and slime,
/ wait the dreaded hour o sally forth and kill.
Stated with OF and the torents OF the
damned
I envy the eon his prison life and easy death
a who feels
Upon his neck the crush of iron heels
have made the lightning and conquered time and
speak tongues herald
the Pentecost of War
Listen a message you o fellow vvorkingnan!
Thy brothers blood crieth from the ground
Thou shalt kill.
And above the awful raging Of the storm Of war and battle
hear voices saying, Peace, be STILL
'Tis weeping of the Mothers and the children;
'Tis the broken-hearted sisters crying peace;
But when speak the word. war shall forever cease
The scales falling from my
think see light arise
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-08-04

dislocating the industries Of the coun-
try, have been carried on at the insti-
cation, with the support, and even
under the personal direction of Off
cial agents of the imperial govern
ment. accredited to the government of
the United States.
Even in checking these things and
trying to eXtirpate them we have
sought to put the most generous inter
probation possible upon them because
we knew that their source lay, not in
any hostile feeling or purpose of the
German people toward us, twho were,
no doubt, as ignorant of them as we
ourselves were,) but only in the selfish
designs of government that did what
it pleased and told its people nothing.
But they have played their part in
serving to convince US at last that
that government entertains no real
friendship for US, and means to act
against our peace and security at its
convenience. That it means to stir
up enemies against us at our very
doors the intercepted note of the Ger
man minister at Mexico City is elo-
quent evidence.
I'VE are accepting this challenge of
hostile purpose because we know that
in such government, following such
methods, we can never have friend;
and that in the presence of its organ
lied power. always lying in wait to
accomplish we know not what pur-
pose, can be no assured security for
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-08-04

with n profound sense of the SOL
emn and even tragical character OF
the step am taking and of the grave
responsibilities which it involves. but
in unhesitating obedience to what l
deem my constitutional duty, / advise
that the congress declare the recent
course of the imperial German gov
ernment to be in fact nothing less than
war against the government and peo-
pie of the United States; that it for
mally accepts the status of belligercnt
which has thus been thrust upon il;
and that it take immediate steps not
only to put the country in more thoro
state Of defense. but also to exert all
its power and employ all its resources
to bring the German empire to terms
and end the war.
while we do these things, these
deeply momentous things, let us be
very clear, and make very clear to all
the world, what our motives and our
objects are. My own thought has not
been driven from its habitual and
normal course by the unhappy events
of the last two months. and l do not
believe that the thought of the nation
has been altered or clouded by them.
/ have exactly the same things in
mind now that had in mind when |
addressed the senate on the 22d of
January last; the same that / had in
mind when l addressed the congress
on the Sd of February and on the
26th of February. Our object now, rs
then, is to vindicate the principles Of
peace and justice in the life of the
world as against selfish and autocratic
power, and to set up among the really
free and self-governed peoples of the
world such concert of purpose and Of
action as will henceforth insure the
observance of those principles.
"Neutralitv is no longer feasible or
desirable where the peace Of the world
is involved and the freedom Of its
peoples, and the menace to that peace
and freedom lies in the existence Of
autocratic governments, backed by
organized force which is controlled
wholly by their will, not by the will
of their people. We have seen the last
of neutrality in such circun stances.
We are Mt the beginning of ar age in
which It will be insisted that the same
standards Of conduct and Of responsi--
bility for wrong done shall be ohserved
among nations and their governments
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-08-04
PRESIDENT WILSON'S WAR MESSAGE
BEFORE THE CONGRESS OF THE
UNITED STATES, APRIL 2, 1917

that are observed among the individ-
ual citizens of civilized states.
I'VE have no quarrel with the Ger
man people. We have no feeling
toward them but one of sympathy and
friendship. 1t was not upon their i'm
pulse that their government acted in
entering this war. 1t was not with
their previous knowledge or approval.
1t was war determined upon as wars
used to be determined upon in the
old, unhappy days, when peoples were
nowhere consulted by their rulers and
wars were provoked and waged in the
interest of dynasties or of little groups
ambitious men who were accustomed
to use their fellow men as pawns and
tools.
"Self-governed nations do not fill
their neighbor states with spies or set
the course of intrigue to bring about
some critical posture of affairs which
will give them an opportunity to strike
and make conquest. Such designs can
be successfully worked out only under
cover and where no one has the right
to ask questions. Cunningly contrived
plans of deception or aggression, car
ricd, it may be, from generation to
kept from the light only within the
privacy of courts or behind the care
fully guarded condolences of n narrow
and privileged class. They are happily
impossible where public opinion COM
mands and insists upon full informa-
ton concerning ali the nations affairs.
"a steadfast concert for peace can
never be maintained except by part
nership of democratic nations. No
autocratic government could be trusted
to keep within it or observe its cove
nants. 1t must be n league of honor,
n partnership of opinion. Intrigue
would eat its vitals away; the plot
tings of inner circles who could plan
what they would and render account to
no one would be corruption seated Mt
its very heart. Only free peoples can
hold their purpose and their honor
steady to n common end and prefer
the interests of mankind to any mar
row interest Of their own.
"Does not every American feel that
assurance has been added to our hope
for the future peace of the world by
the wonderful and hcartening things
that have been happening within the
last few weeks in Russia? Russia
was known by those who knew it best
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-08-04

to have been always in fact democrat
ic at heart in all the vital habits of
her thought, in all the intimate rela-
tionships of her people that spoke their
natural instinct, their habitual attitude
toward life. The autocracy that
crowned the summit of her political
structure, long as it has stood and
terrible as was the reality of its pow
er. was not in fact Russian in origin,
character or purpose; and now it has
been shaken off and the great, gener-
Gus Russian people have been added,
in all their native majesty and might,
to the forces that are fighting for free
dom in the world. for justice, and for
peace. Here is a fit partner for a
league of honor.
"One of the things that has served
to convince us that the Prussian autoc-
racy was not and could never be our
friend is that from the very outset
of the present war it has filled our
unsuspecting communities, and even
our offices of government, with spies
and set criminal intrigues everywhere
afoot against our national unity of
counsel, our peace within and without,
our industries and our commerce. In
deed, il is now evident that its spies
were here even before the war began;
and it is unhappily not a matter of
conjecture, but fact proved in our
courts of justice. that the intrigues,
which have more than once come peril
ously near to disturbing the peace and
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-08-04
THE SMALL TALK OF SEMAPHORE SAM
Being Chronicles of a Crossing Keeper.
BY c. WILES HALLOCK.

'Twxt the tolin' tides of traffic
At the station of Stop an Go,
In the grind an glare of the thorofare
Is the seein'est spot know.
'Tis the middle of the maelstrom-
OF the maestrom of Movin Mobs;
Where us handsome fops known traffic cops
Gives the signals that makes obs
The sights you from the sidelines
On the edge of the Passin' Show
May seem grand an good-which it is they should
So far as the looks of it go!
But the aspect of the sidelines
Amt the view you get from within
An the kings an queens of them shftn' scenes
Is just DANES an dubs in the skin!
The birds numb up from the necktie
Amt decrcasin by leaps an bounds;
But the traffic squad by the grace of God
Can detect EN- by signs an sounds.
An they amt all drivin' coal trucks,
Nor they amt all pave FOUNDERS, too;
An there's mental wrecks 'mongst the weaker sex,
Tho compared to the males, they're few!
There's many Mercer managed
On the upkeep cost of a Ford:
An there's lots of hicks drives big twin six
On pay-a you enter hoard!
There's many snobs pave -poundin'
AS is lollin in limousines;
An there's trails who'll flirt if you keep alert
An are onto the ways an means!
Well this Maelstrom of the Masses
At the crux of the city streets
In the grind an glare of the thorofare
Is congress of cosmoplites;
They belong to three big classes
I've observed an I've found it
There is lots of knobs-an there's snobs an slobs-
You take it from mel KNOW!
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-08-04

is one Of the big-jawed Hapsburgs.
The queen of Greece is the kaiser's
sister.
To do the work of reaction, uphold
German influence and help along the
great work of Germanizing every
thing, the female of this species was
far more deadly than the male.
1t was the German queen of Greece
that ruined that country in the inter-
est of Germany. She kept Greece
from observing its treaty with Serbia;
kept 1t from its obvious policy, which
was to join the allies, and finally drove
its king to plunge it into its present
state of pitiable wreckage. There is
a very ugly story afioat in Europe
about the means she used to force the
king to commit these historic blunders.
Maybe 1t isn't true. But anyway she
had her will, her grim Teutonic will.
1t was the German empress of Rus
STA that led and inspired the pro- Ger
man party there thru the most as
founding drama of intrigue, treacher-
les and betrayals that was ever known
among men.
All the time the government of
Russia was pledging faith to the al
lies and the soldiers of Russia were
ostensibly fighting on that side, the
real and unseen power behind all this
WIS WORKING 1Or germany.
1t was the pro-German party, COW
ertly employed, that armed the Rus
sian troops with sticks and crowbars
for guns, provided their cannon with
ammunition that fitted German artil-
lery, but not their own, sent them to
destruction or defeat, surrendered
them by the thousand, and soaked the
soil of Poland with their blood, need
lessly sacrificed.
The extent of this colossal treason
staggers the Imagination and makes
all the fiction in the world look tame.
1t has greatly prolonged the war, cost
hundreds of thousands of lives, wasted
millions of treasure and laid upon the
patient people a burden under which
they will stagger for generations.
All for the sake of the Hohenzol-
lerns and the supremacy of the kings.
And now all this. or most of it, is
revealed as come to naught.
Russia has awakened from its filthy
monarchial trance. A democracy at
last, she has now taken her true place
with the other democracies, fighting
the mad dog of monarchism, now in its
last lair.
They sang the Marseillaise in the
streets of Petrograd. and at the news
all democrats around the world sang
with theml
They had reason to sing. These
democrats have left Germany and
Austria the only autocracies in Europe.
They have made the issue of this war
so clear that no longer can either a
liar or coward side-step it.
Democracy against autocracy, the
people against the thrones!
The last great struggle, clean cut,
sure, unmistakeable. The world for
the kings or the world for it's people!
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-08-04

peoples as shall bring peace and safety
self at last free.
"To such task we can dedicate our
lives and our fortunes, everything that
we are and everything that we have.
with the pride Of those who know that
the day has come when America is
privileged to spend her blood and her
might for the principles that gave her
birth and happiness and the peace
which she has treasured.
"God helping her, she can do no
other"