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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-30

phia Public Ledger" that the German
diplomats lie so vigorously and intrigue
so contemptbly abroad for their country
And it answers its question thus: "They
do this at the Kaiser's behest; they must
of necessity put on double face while
he is intriguing with crowned heads, male
and female, behind their backs and the
backs of the people involved"
"The Omaha Bee" has this to say:
"Bernstorf has earned the high esteem
placed upon him by the Kaiser, to whose ser
vice he devoted himself so intellectually.
but he also shows to what depths Of infamy
a man must sink to secure that esteem. Ger
man diplomacy is surely being stripped OF its
pretence at statecraft. and stands before the
world in its true colors, that OF organized
and INSCRIPTIONS espionage, to which no oh
legation Of accepted hospitality or disnter-
ested friendship laid II bar"
"The Pittsburgh Journal is not less
sweeping in its judgment. II writes:
"The revelation is in exact line with what
has heretofore been disclosed Of Teutonc
chicanery and unscrupulousness in America.
An exalted representative of a nominally
friendly power is here seen ignobly planning
to poison the very springs Of legislation at
Washington. No spot was immune from his
Vaccinations, no consideration Of honor or
decency restrained him. lie was willing to
submit himself to any unrighteous bargain
ing. any personal degradation, if in so doing
he might serve the conscenceless German
autocracy."
THE Christian Science Monitor" has
this passage:
"The gentlemanly, courteous, ingratiating
Won Bernstorf was OF the same piece with
the rest; of the same piece with the double
minded. double faced, double-dealing repre-
sentatves which Germany has scattered over
! the whole world. And it could scarcely be
otherwise. since all have received instruc-
ton in the same school"
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because he is patrotic-that Is, he will not
kick if the government makes the other fell
lows, the fellows who make and sell all the
farmer has TO BUY, also give up their
profits But the farmer will object to being
singled out and alone made to suffer by price
regulation. And he will object if the profits
taken away from him are not made by the
government to benefit THE ACTUAL CON
SUMERS, and not simply TO benefit millers
and mddlemen"
Even Hoover is not spared by "The
Leader" which sees him as an honest man
surrounded by profteering assistants, who,
under the guise of patriotism, are helping
regulate food to their own benefit. 1t
writes:
"The influence Of the Big Interests-organ-
lied Big Business the government in its
food control policy has been tremendous.
Hoover and the President have surrounded
themselves with a group of plutocrats, on
the theory that it is better to get the 'patri-
otto cooperation of these fellows than TO
have to fight them to force them to disgorge
profits. while the country is sending its man.
hood to the front TO fight 10 eradicate autoc-
racy from the world. Due 10 the influence OF
these interests, the government has found 1t
easy to regulate the price the farmer is 10
get for his wheat-has found it easy to con-
fiscate practically all the farmers profits.
But the government is finding it hard, if not
impossible, 20 lower or regulate the prices o.
things in which organized Big Business is in
terested."
Hoover's good faith is virtually attacked
by 1.-The Leader" in the matter of -four and
bread. According to THE Leader" FOOD
Administrator Hoover told farm editors
that he was going to fix the price
of -four, allowing millers only 25-cent
Profit per barrel. He also said feed prices
would he regulated so the millers would
make only 80 cents ton profit. He made
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Is There in All Germany
| an Honorable Manp

THE Columbus Times Dispatch" even
raises doubts about the honor of all Ger
mans, thus:
80 many corrupt things have been laid at
J the doors of German diplomats, and proved
one wonder, if there is not in all Germany
single honorable man. Is there not in the
empire one man who respects law? Is there
not one who will refuse TO take part in the
most daboical plots? Has not Germany
bred single man who has n spark of honor
in his breast? Has Prussanism bighted
a whole race of people,
THE Brooklyn Daily Eagle" says:
His offence was just part Of the Prus-
sian system. but it proves Count Won Bern
storff 70 have been as devoid Of honor as his
government"
The New York Tribune is moved by the
Bernstorf message to say that it calls
attention once more TO the German idea
and the German spirit as it has worked
out in the last few decades. The bust
ness of German diplomat, his chief occu-
patton, is to intrigue against the govern
ment which receives him in the interest
of the country which sends him. He hires
assassins, he hires pickpockets, he hires
agents prorocdteurs, he mobilizes the UNI
derworld to attack public officials of the
government to which he is accredited. This
is the German diplomat. AS for German
diplomacy, it is used as the facade for
murder"
"The New York Herald" concludes from
the incident that there is no infamy to
which the German government and its
agents will not resort. As it is Of the very
essence of the 'kultur' that absorbs them
that a crime committed for the state is a
virtue, the more fragrant the crime the
greater the virtue
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-30

their methods the half full ones, where the
farmers just plugged along the best way they
could without bankers first aid to farming.
"Bu. better than all else was the unerrlng
financial instinct with which the bankers PUT
first and foremost in the blank forms num-
Der Of pages for entering mortgages. notes
and miscellaneous debts. No one knows bet
ter than the bankers how big part OF farm
ING these things are. No one of the other
blank form makers thought of putting IN
such things At any rate it is smileworthy
comment on the prosperity of farmers in gen.
orc
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tripping Away the Last Shred
~ of Character

The Chicago Record Herald says that
the Bernstorff message strips away the
last shred of character with which the
German Ambassador managed to get out
of this country" and THE Wheeling In
telligencer" writes: 1T will forever con-
sign the name of Bernstorff to the deepest
opprobrium of American citizenship
1.-The Richmond Times-Dispatch' merely
registers the verdict as follows: What
the public more than suspected has turned
out to be an officially declared fact-that
Count Won Bernstorff was the head and
centre of German intrigue and propa-
ganda of lawlessness and violence in the
Western Hemisphere"
Even the Socialist New York CALI
from which such harsh verdict would
hardly have been expected-dspatches the
ambassador in these words: eyes, to be
sure, Bernstorff is a scoundrel in the
employ of scoundrels who constitute a
scoundrelly government"
But Bernstorff, it is generally empha-
sized by the press, is but one cog in the
wheel; Bernstorff is what he showed him.
self here to be because he is but an
instrument of the Kaiser and his govern
ment
Like master like man." writes one
newspaper, and "The New York Globe, y
in an article entitled "A Rotten Crew, y
speaks out its mind in this fashion:
an both warp and wool German diplomacy
is not honest. Its agents are spies. Its
methods are those Of the sneak AS thu
methods Of the German military establish
ment are those Of the highwayman with n
slungshot, so those of its Foreign Office are
those OF the assassin"
as it surprising" asks "The Philadel-
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n 4 aintaining That the Scent
wi Loaf Is Possible

Hoover's statement that a fourteen
ounce loaf of bread would no longer be pos
sible for five cents, but rather sixteen
ounce loaf at from eight to ten cents, Is
refuted in 1.-THE Leader Quoting Dr.
f. +. Laid, a member of the wheat price
fixing committee, "The Leader" MAINTAINS
that the five-cent loaf can be mace. More
over. "The Leader" points out, there ap-
pears to be as yet no guarantee that the
rice of -four will be reduced in proportion
to the cost of wheat. Eighty cents cut on
from the price of wheat should mean so.oo
reduction in the price of barrel Oh nour'
No such reduction has taken place. lhere
is fear that no such reduction will be made
II it is left to the milers themselves 1t Is
highly improbable that it will be made.
In general, then, the whole tone OF lhe
Leader" is that of a paper representing
class of people who feel they are beng eX-
ploited bv some one. This attitude colors
practically all its contributed articles as
well as its editorials. This sarcastic rel
erence 70 bankers who had sent out some
free literature to the farmers appears;
THE first dozen pages Of this book were
taken I'D with rules for farming. Bulletnized
done telling farmers when to fall plough "heh
20 spring plough. when to disk, wnen 10 mar
row seed. harvest and thrash, were ehli'eheu
with lifelike representations OF iull sachS a'u
half full sacks. The full sacks illustrated
tho results where the farmers banserizeu
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-30

TIME plight in which Justice Daniel
F. Cohalan is left by the disclos-
ures made by Secretary Lansing
was extensively discussed last week by
New York state and city papers. Justice
Cohalan is represented as having nego-
tiated with Bernstorff in an effort to
secure the Kaiser's support of the Irish
against England. That he is thus left in
at least an exceedingly awkward position
is generally held, and he is reminded thtt
he should not delay in making a more
satisfactory explanation than the one al
ready put forward by him.
"The New York World has been very
aggressive in dealing with the justice. 1t
reminds him that
"An American capable of such a relation
ship with the paid spy of foreign govern
ment which is now at war with the United
States should not be permitted to hold a
judicial Office under the government of New
York. 1t is plainly the duty Of the
Legislature to exercise its constitutional
power at the earliest possible moment and
remove Cohalan from the bench"
In another article THE World" says
that if he is "at all solicitous as to the
reputation of the Irish race, let him pre-
pare his defence against the day when he
will be put on trial before the Legislature
at Albany"
Judge Cohalans explanation that "the
British authorities were determined if
possible to destroy me, as they would like
to destroy every well wisher of Ireland"
has not been found satisfying by all edi-
tors. "The New York Sum-" for instance,
asks:
Does Justice Cohalan expect the world to
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-30
srThe Leader Attacks Coal
l Regulation and Hoover

Corollaries of THE Leaders" demands
for consistent treatment of the farmer are
attacks on coal regulation. OF coal THE
Leader" sarcastically says:
"The government has fixed price on
wheat, but all the other interests so far have
got away, except the coal producers, whose
price was also regulated But this regula-
tion Of coal prices at the mine was followed
by AN INCREASE IN THE PRICE OF COAL
TO CONSUMERS The farmer will not kick
at being compelled to give up all his profits,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-30

but it will attempt to guide public opinion.
There must be change in this attitude.
This is the peoples war The people are
putting up the lives and the money and they
intend 20 have voice in it. They do not in
tend to be brushed aside as the German peo-
pie have been ruthlessly brushed aside by the
German autocracy. They intend to have more
Of voice in the war than the rulers Of Ger
many have permitted the German people to
have. With official Washington the people
of this country deplore the fact that the Ger
man people have been unable to express
themselves, and they do not intend TO LEI.
Official Washington FORCE The SAME KIND
OF A GAG on TIE AMERICAN PEOPLE"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-30
II erman Enjoys in Neutral
" Countries Affected

"The New York Sun" thinks that the
Bernstorff and Zimmerman notes, to-
gether with the Luxburg dispatches, form
an Infamous triad of Teutonic treachery
sufficient to put every German envoy to
neutral country under suspicion; and
"The Baltimore Sun" says of the Bern
storff exposure that it adds another item
to the overwhelming mass of proof that
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-30

But Nero was a pagan. and Christianity was
supposed to have precluded reversion 10
the Neronian type in the highest places. We
know better now"
And the moral to be drawn by Ameri-
cans from this revelation of the true char
acter of the German government? The
Brooklyn Daily Eagle gives this answer:
$50 far as we are concerned, no conditions
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-30

had so habituated its underlings to think
in terms of dishonesty and treachery and
remorselessness that Zimmerman and
Luxburg and Bernstorf could believe that
their acts Of incredible baseness were an
acceptable service to the Kaiser"
Not less sweeping is the verdict Of "The
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-30
n demanding d Statement
II of Peace Terms

"The Leader" also goes into the matter
OF peace terms, and ventures to refute a
statement made by "a British statesman"
TO the effect that mo peace terms will be
stated by the Allies except to "a Germany
free or a Germany crushed" a phrase
which, says THE Leader" lis being par
roted by the American press" II goes on
to say:
at is such statements that are doing more
20 break down the confidence of the peoples
of the Allied governments that this is a Just
war than all the speeches and writing of the
pacifists Of all countries put together.
IF history teaches anything it teaches that
form of government cannot be forced on a
people from the outside. Governments are
reformed from the inside. No matter how
badly Germany is beaten, the Allies can never
succeed in forcing 4 permanent form OF
government on her All the Allies can do
toward German freedom is 20 take a position
Of fairness toward the German people tina,
will encourage them 10 reform their own gov
eminent. The first step in encouraging Ger
riany to throw off ksiserism is for the Allies
TO state frankly and definitely what terms
Germany is expected to bow to-" 4
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-30

90 SINGS contributor to "The Non
- Partisan Leader the official weekly
of the National Non-P Partisan League,
published at Fargo, n. D., and, with its
more than 100000 circulation per week,
the organ Of the cooperative movement of
the Northwest that has sent a farmer to
Congress and another to the Governors
chair.
An examination Of two copies Of this
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-30
New Orleans Times Picayune,' which
writes as follows:

1.-THE supreme tragedy Of this war does not
consist in the colossal loss of cash, property
and life. but in the total depravity which the
representatives of highly educated race
have almost invariably shown. The lesson
has been taught before, but never so clearly,
nor on so grand scale. Nero was moral
monster, though educated to the fnser-tips
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-30

these statements to the editors perfectly
plain and emphatic. He even explained
that if these margins gave the millers
too much profit they would be cut down
later"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-30

of peace can be discussed until the sponsors
Of such acts rs those committed by Count
Won Bernstorff are powerless. There can Dc
no compromise on this proposition, no mat
ter how long the war may last or what II
may cost"
"The New York Times" votes the same
ticket, and The New York Tribune writes
place. so also are all thoughts OF peace
and reconciliation. Either Germanlsm
must die or civilization must die, and 1t
is better to die fighting the German in
the trench than to live in the world where
a German knife and German poison are
an ever present danger for those whose
rights and whose liberties interfere with
the supremacy Of Germany in the world"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-30

Germany under its present rulers simply
cannot be dealt with by decent nations"
"The New York Evening Post" is of the
opinion that the ambassadors disgrace
falls chiefly upon a government which
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-30
What Was Bernstorf's Pro-
w gramme of influenced

The question remains to be asked: How
did Bernstorff mean to influence Congress?
The answers Of the papers vary, some
concluding that he actually hoped to bride
members, while by far the larger part
infer that he only meant to exert an in
direct influence by means OF letters and
kilograms from pacifists and pro-Germans
to their Congressman. Among the papers
constituting the former class "The New
York Call" puts the charge of bribery
in the most concrete form, thus: 1.-The
golden stream filtered into the thirsty
sands of the United States Congress and
disappeared from view forever" 1.-The
Detroit Journal" asks who are the crooks,
prods the State Department for names,
and adds: CAS- for the crooked Congress-
men, no mercy of silence should be shown
them"
"The Syracuse Herald" says this lat
est exposure "justifies the opinion that
some members OF the pro-German clique
in Congress have been guilty of personal
turpitude of the deepest dye, and it will
be great pity if the government is unable
to follow the trail to the doors of the
scoundrels who sold their birthright for
a mess of Prussian pottage." And 1.-The
Birmingham Age-H Herald says that "von
Bernstorff's plain intimation was that
some of the gold he was disbursing went
into the pockets of congressman"
"The Ashevile On. CO. Citizen" remarks
that "the German evidently held his Con-
gressmen at cheap price,; "The Pitts
burgh Journal" asks What members of
Congress had already been seen by the
German Ambassador" and, "The Mime
apolis Journal" writes:
"Thc pro- German clique in Congress now
finds itself in q most embarrassing position
by reason of the latest Lansing revelation,
What must we now think of this faction OF
unpatriotism, when we learn that the Ger
man Ambassador was spending his govern
ment's money to bring about just the sort
of things it was doing in Congress"
But the most influential section Of TIE
tress rejects the idea that direct bribery
was attempted or even intended. 1.-The
Springfield Republican" considers the sum
involved "ridculousIy small, while the at
tempt if made would almost certainly have
been exposed" "The New York Sun re-
,ects the idea of bribery because 1.-The
stimulated kilograms sent to Congress in
the DAYS preceding the war cost easily
more than $4,000" "The st. Louis Re-
rublic" also rejects the idea of bribery,
hut asks: What is the difference between
bribery by actual money and bribery by
means of paid propagandists, cooked-ur
kilograms, packed mass meetings and the
lke?"
And "The Charlotte On. c. Observer"
is Glad to indorse Lansing's assurance that
the Bernstorff telegram "in no way re-
fleets upon any member of Congress
1.-THE Boston Journal" dismisses the idea of
bribery as "unthinkable, absurd" and the
opinion of 1.-The Chicago Tribune dis
misses the thought that $4,000 could buy
favorable opinion in Congress. THE New
York World" is not willing to give Con-
eress quite so clean bill of moral health,
remarking: Except possibly in a few eX-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-30

will excite surprise. Still, the demand is
nut forth from every quarter that Secre-
tary Lansing clean up his docket.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-30

treme cases, there need be no suspicion OF
German money in Congressional pockets"
But it has this to say about the members OF
the House and Senate who are embarrassed
by the Bernstorff revelation:
"All Of them knew the kind Of company
they were keeping, and the fact that some o.
them have continued to vote for Germany on
every measure that has arisen since the be-
ginning Of the war is merely proof that the
German Ambassadors confidence was not
wholly misplaced
"The Milwaukee Sentinel" too has some
lingering doubts, and expresses them thus
Congress may, as we fervently hope and
as the presumption is, be throughout as
clean as hounds tooth in the matter.
But get the lid off"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-30
THAT Mysterious Organization
That You Know or

Much curiosity is manifest throughout
the press as to "the organization you know
Of" To what concern did Bernstorf refer?
4 very urgent demand for its name is put
forward by very many newspapers, while
not few venture, on their own part, to
indicate the direction where the ambas-
sador's guilty helpers are to be looked for.
The following from 1.-THE Ithaca Journal
voices the opinion Of many other papers
This German money was undoubtedly
used to finance that group Of anti-war agita-
tors who made such hulabaloo at the time
Of the break in international relations, be-
fore war was declared, and which is active
even now. That fund went into the pockets
Of some Of The pacifsts and German agents
who first sought to prevent war, and since
that time have been aboring to embarrass
and cripple the war programme of the United
States, to prevent this country from taxing
any effective action against Germany
1.-THE Pittsburgh Dispatch" has this to
say about German propagandism in this
country:
"The payments for propagandism confirm
the charges that those engaged in defend
ING the Kaiser were bought 70 do IL. Under
the thin guise of neutrality they were doing
the work of Berlin for which the Kaiser paid
them"
"The New York World" puts the follow
ing direct question:
"How many pro-German newspapers in the
United States failed to get any OF the
Kaiser's good money!
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-30
Justice CohaIan Is Also In.
voIved in the Bernstorff
Disclosure

THE plight in which Justice Daniel
F. Cohalan is left by the disclos-
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1917-04-07
Order for Hearing Final Account and
Petition for Distribution.

mo. lSSOO
State of Minnesota, County of Henne-
pin. In Probate Court.
In the Matter OF the Estate of George
w. Young, Decedent.
On receiving and filing the final ac-
tate of said decedent, and his petition
praying for the allowance of said ac-
count and for decree assigning the
residue of said estate to the persons by
law entitled to the same;
1t is ordered, That all persons in
terested in said estate appear before
said Probate Court on Monday, the 10th
day of April, 1917, at ten O'clock in the
forenoon, at the Probate Court in the
Court House at Minneapolis in said
County, then and there to show cause,
should not be allowed and said estate
Should not be distributed as prayed for
in said petition.
And it is further ordered, That no
tice of such hearing be given by pub
fishing this order once in each week
for three successive weeks, prior to
said day of hearing in the Irish Stand.
ard, newspaper printed and published
in said County, and by mailing a copy
of this order to all the irs-at-law
of said decedent when their address
diligence, at least fourteen G4) days
before the date of said hearing, unless
notice is waived.
Dated at Minneapolis this Goth day
- -'-@' " BY the Court:
JOHN A. DAHL,
Judge of the Probate Court.
RICH. TATTERSFIELD, Atty.
March 24-31-April Z.