Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1917-08-30


out of Moldavia within three weeks,
and last Monday the Germans began
an offensive in the Riga region that
forced the Slavs back toward that city.
At the south end of the line the Rou-
manians still are making valiant efforts
to hold back the invaders. There is.
no longer any doubt of the bravery of
the Russians or of their desire to keep,
on fighting the common enemy of the
world, but 1t seems that they cannot by
themselves surmount the great eco
nOmic obstacles that confront them.
The governmental troubles of Rus.
sia also are approaching crisis. The
"eXtra0rdinary national cOuncil' being
about to meet in Moscow, the constitu-
tional Democrats, discontinued busi-
ness men and dismissed generals, gath
cred there ready to demand radical
changes. On the other side stand the
cabinet and the Socialist left. In pre-.
liminary discussions Prince Trou-
betskoi, Generals Alexieff and Brus-
siloff and others attacked the cablnet,
exceptIng only ,Kerensky. and declared
the government had fallen into the
hands of corrupt men of Petrograd,
who think only of their own inter
ests. The Socialist orders that de-
stroyed discipline In the army were
bitterly criticized.
AS had been fOreseen, the pOpe's
peace proposals were received decently
by all the belligerent nations, but with
more than an undorcurrent of skep.l-
cism by the allies. No definite reply
to them has been made at this writing
by any government. but representative
speakers of the different parties in Ger
many all indorsed In general the Vati.
can plan, and II Is believed Berlin may
90 so far as to offer autonomy to Al
sace-LOrraine, which of course would
not In any degree satisfy France. Aus
trla. too, as was expected, approves the
proposals, but insists any settlement
must include the abandonment of
Great Britaln's naval bases ut Gibral-
tan Malta and the Suez canal. Can
ons Imagine Great Britain willingly dis
4 mantling these guardian posts of the
route TO her immense domains in the
Orient? The vOciferous assertions OF
4 the German press that the pope's pro
posals were not inspired by Germany
tand the lntimations that they really
We're due to British suggestions car
only be considered as more "bunk" ant
serve TO confirm the suspicion that thC
plan had Its inspiration in Teutoni'
sources.
German Poison Gas in America.
The poison gases emitted by the pro
German press and all the other traitor
GUS agencies In America are not grow
Ing noticeably less In amount of viru
lence, but Uncle Sam is beginning t,
apply the antldOte with considerable
vlgor. In many cities "soap box" OF
hptors are being gathered in by fedora
agents and several more rabld paper
have been denied the use of the mails
The Gerinan-American press of tn
large cities Is still too clever to sui
Ject itself to that penalty, but IL
keeps on Its present course doubles
some means will he found to suppress
II. Regretfully II must be said that
dlsgracefully large proportion of tn
Germans In Amerlca-naturaGZe &
not-is proving dlsloyal to the land {
their adoption. This is shown by sue
Instances us the annual picnic of III
Schwabenvereln in Chicago, where fl
several days the assembled German
occupied themselves In denouncln
Americas entry into the war, abusin
the president, sneerlng at our armC
forces and making fun of the draft an
the National army. The same thh
Is going on all over the land. whel
, Teuions get together, but they are pr
! pairing to reap harvest of woe {,
, themselves, for the men of the depar
ment of justice are cognlzant of the
words and acts. 1t is comforting
believe that the great mass of Germa
, Americans ure truly loyal, but tho
sands of the more Ignorant are led In
disloyalty by the falsehoods of GernlS
secret agents and by the utteranc
3 of the La Fonettes, the Reeds, Il
:. Masons and the William Hale Thon
a sons for whom all nNtlve.born Amei
i cans blush.
l. Former Ambassador Gerard. Seer
l. tary Of Commerce Redheld. and 9th
o prominent men found opportunity In
,, week to den"nnce bitterly the cowar
Il IT, treachgms pro.Germans and pu
Il lanlmous pacIhas who arc doing ,
). tihcy ran to make the world unsafe +
n democracy.