Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1917-06-14

Editor Register have always been
wondering what Captain Won Papep,
the former military attache OF Ger
many in Washington, meant when he
wrote to his wife" "these idiotic Amer
leans" but since | saw what pnrports
to be a poem, entitled 'hal-
SER Wilhelm and Fieldmarsbal Won
Hndenburg," believe | have found
the clue to his remark. May ogr
country be delivered Of authors Of
this kind | should say, wherever the
Stars and Stripes are noating o:r sa-
cred emblems Of Freedom and Justice,
there people should alsn be free from
Injustice. faIsanood; hatred and Nltu-
peratiun. We may not be able to
'love our enemies" but as gentlemen
VIZ can afford to be fair to them.
Inyour editorial, addressed to the
potosi journal, you use the following:
"Germany hates US as tree people,
and has hated us ever since she has
been Prnssianized. Her hatred was
shown in Manila Bay when Dewey
fought the Spanish fleet there.
The Imperial cad, Prince Henri, in
command Of German cruiser, want
ed to interfere, but desisted when
Dewey told him to keep out OF his
way or he would blow him out An
English war ship was there, too, and
its CAPTAIN counseled the Prince to
abstain"
We, as Ameri cans enjoy self-glor'
tication, and these words Just luolN'l
from last weeks REGISTER sound very
inspiring to us. In fact, TREY make
my heart Leaf faster; the only trouble
about the whole business is there is
not word true about 1t. In the first
place, Imperiai Cad, Henri" was moi
In charge Of that "German cruiser: .
in Manila Bay, but Contre- Admiral
Won Ditrichs was the commander
Prince Henri never in his life was in
Manila. And in:the second place, the
story about any German interference
on that memorable first of May i,
Manila Bay was onlya lie, made ur
and sent out over the wires by thai
very English warship q am not pre-
pared to say whether Captain or who
that was there. Our great and vener
ated Admiral made the mistake OF hi
life whenHhe failed to promptly con-
tradict this charge, and 1t was not un'
til he was called before the Congress
to explain, when he was forced to ad
init OF its falsehood, and then statet
that the German commander had II
no way interfered with operations bu
acted perfectly correct.
Besides, MIR. Dewey would have
known better than to try "to bio"
him out" for the simple reason tina
he actually had barely enough ammu
milton to handle that decrepit Spanisl
fieet. Who did not smile at the dis
patches telling how Admiral Dewe.
broke off the fight and retired som
distance, ''to let his crews have coffe
and lupchr? and then resumed tn
fight. Think OF a commander stop
ping battle for life to let his mel
lunch. Not facts are that from th'
magazines the warning had come tina
the ammunition stores were running
low, There had not been any per
ceptible i'm preston made on IN
Spanish, and the possibility OF yin
stead OF being the hunter Dewey
fleet might become the hunted," a
one Of the Admiral's captains after
WHrub pun IL, bVhEou h'hI ~ Wv ."S>
So he retired from the fight to hav
stock taken Of all the ammunition tl,a
was left, and he severely censured b
gunners for not hitting any better
The gunners, however, had done bot
ter work than had been 80 far detec,
cd; for presently, or soon after, fir
broke out on several Spanish ship'
and, resuming the fight, Dewey CON
pleted his victory. u. !,
But, unfortunately, this British y
has passed into history and IL apt
create hatrd to ward Germany for
long time to come. But that belong
to British diplomacy, TO create enm
ty amongst her competitors. AM
though that was nineteen years az
see how we'll they are repaid Tor
now--as the rate Of s5oO,0oO,ooo
month.
Yours, for peace and good will n to q
OTro LUEDDEcKE.
Pilot Knob. Mo-, June 4, 1917. Z"
Ed Read. the expert wagon MAKE