Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1917-06-21

| ing n vote lOI NiioOh 70 VIZ
for peace; a vote for Hughes is a
vote for war,
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Roosevelt's npeech at Lincoln
will bear rereoding. II was the most
stirring address delivered in Amer
lea in months. Had Rooseyelt's ad-
vice been taken two years ago, be-
fore Germany had by notes and in
trigue kept the United States quiet
until II could manufacture enough
U-boats for real business, had there
been at least some preparation OF
this nation for the struggle the
war would be ended this summer
II II had not been before.
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Tom McNeal is with US on the
righteousness of DR., Hills story
about the Germans collecting in
demnity from the Y. S. He says;
"No more utterly preposterous story
has been printed since the war be-
gan, and II Doctor Hills has no
more sense than to believe it he GER
tainly hasn't sense enough to fill
the pulpit once filled by Beecher.
AS much as | have it in for the
leaders in Germany l give them
credit for having some brains"
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Abilene should be proud to have
so fine a head to Co. II as Captain
Charles II. Browne of Horton. He
has been one Of the foreeful and
conscientious newspaper men of the
state for many years, from his Of
flee four young men went to the
border last summer. He has won
his promotions thru merit and serv-
ice and will make an officer who
will rank among the best in the
Third regiment You will hear more
of Captain Browne before the war
is over.
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President Wilson's Flag day ad
dress is not only the most startling
statement he has ever made, but it
is a vigorous indictment of the Ger
ran empire. But chiefly it is start
ling in the picture drawn of our
future. Says the president: eve are
about to bid thousands, hundreds
of thousands-it may be millions
Of our men--the young, the strong,
the capable men of the nation-to
go forth and die on the fields of
blood far away" This is terrible
call, but one to which the young
manhood of America will respond.
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A reader asks the Reflector how
the present Liberty Loan com
pares with the Civil war debt and
if the latter has been paid. The
Liberty Loan is for billion dol
lars and another issue of billion |
will be floated soon. In August, |
/ sos, the total interest bearing debt |
outstanding was $2,3S1,53o, 294, as
against $64,640,S3S at the end of
the fiscal year 1860. BY the middle
of 1892 this debt had been reduced |
to $5S5,031, 900, Notwithstanding |
the issue of 1922, O00,0 900 new loans
in the intervening period, such as
the specie resumption bonds, for
other purposes than refunding of
prior loans. Inasmuch as the sink
ing fund has operated largely dur
ing the period since 1892, it may be
said that the entire Civil war debt
has been paid off.
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There was what newspaper men
all human interest" in the letter
written to the Reflector by Mrs
Good of Oklahoma concerning her
iather. The love and tenderness of
her father, his evident manliness
md the helpfulness that he spread
along the pathway of life were inn
ledded in the heart of his daughter
md she could not forbear to tell
he world how good he had been to
his own and to those around him.
The man does not live and never
las lived to whom 1t was given to
udge of his fellow man and the j.,
lay has passed when any can so
Judge and have the approval of the A.,
,ublic. This is a world of com
'lexities, and prejudice has no
,lace in it, What it does need is :.
harity for all and good will to
men with a remembrance of the
Message Judge not that We be not :
Judged"
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Secretary McAdoo is justly en- a
tiled to, and will receive, great o
redit for his energetic prosecution o
4 the I fhartx. / ,o, :