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The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-06-15

We are fighting Germany, for one
thing, because Germany, having split
the world In half, is now seeking to
devour the halves separately. She
has driven wedge straight through
the heart of Europe, and into Asia,
and is seeking to extend it to the Per-
sian gulf.
This is no accidental happening, due
to the downfall Of Russia and the sud-
den shifting in the fortunes Of war.
Germany planned 1t all decades ago.
She made no effort to keep the plans
secret. She told us all about 1t. She
had a reputation for making plans
and sticking to them, from one gener-
alton to another; yet the world paid
no attention. 1t seemed too prepos-
ferrous even for Germany to attempt.
As long ago as 1895 a pamphlet,
"Pan-Germany and Central Europe
About 1850" was published in Berlin
and had wide circulation. It laid the
whole Mitteleuropa plan bare as fol-
lows:
"Poland and Little Russia 1.-THE king.
dom to be established at Russia's eX-
pense) will agree to have no armies
Of their own, and will receive in their
fortressss German and Austrian garri-
sons. In Poland, as well as in Little
Russia, the postal and telegraph serv'
Ices as well as the railways will be In
German hands,"
In 1911 Tannenberg's book, "Greatel
Germany" was published. This was
only three years before the war, but
1t showed that the idea Of German
Mitteleuropa had not been allowed to
languish. It says:
'sThe new kingdom Of Poland is
made up Of the former Russian por-
ton Of the basin of the Vistula, and Of
Galicia, and forms part.Of the new
Austria"
How the plan has grown since then
Russia's collapse dropped whole prov
inces into the lap of the kaiser, and
now Germany plans its empire on a
scale which would dwarf that Of an
cient Rome. It is to embrace the orig
inal Central Europe, inhabited by
some 100000 Germans, make the
Black sea German lake, and extend
clear to the Persian gulf through the
vassal states of Bulgaria and Turkey.
The German government started to
put its scheme for Mitteleuropa In
to effect years ago when 1t began the
construction Of the archaeological
railway. Little Serbia stood in the
way, 80 Serbia was attacked and the
world was plunged into war. In the
opposite corner of Europe Belgium
was invaded and crushed. The world
then thought that this was only be-
cause Belgium offered the easiest
route to France; but study Of the Nit
teleuropa plan Of years ago shows that
Belgium was included in the scheme
of conquest.
Elbow does all this affect America? r
one may ask. Germany was late
conner In the family Of great nations.
Most Of the uncivilized world had been
pre-empted by other nations before
she arrived. Germany wanted col
onies. To get them she would have
to take them AWAY from someone else,
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-06-15

After three days Of fighting In which
the Germans have incurred a serious
wastage of man power, the general sit
uation remains unchanged. The enemy
has failed to reach Compiegne his
immediate objective. His advance on
the right bank of the Disc is not suf-
ficient to place in jeopardy the allies
position on the other bank between the
Disc and the Aisne. AT the other ex-
tremity of the battle line-the Mont
didier plateau-the situation has not
been changed.
Ground Heaped With Foes Dead.
The ground over which the French
advanced In their counter-attack was
literally heaped with German dead,
says the Havas correspondent at the
front In retaking Belloy and reach
Ing the southern outskirts of St. Maur,
the French surprised the Germans,
who until then had thought they were
masters of the situation. The Ger
mans retired In disorder and brought
horses to the first line at full gallop
In order to carry away their guns.
The ardent and valiant counter-at-
tack, the correspondent says, proved
that the French have not lost their
hitting power.
BY their counter-attack the French
stopped the enemy from carrying out
his plan and at the same time assured
themselves Of I better line of defense.
The Germans now are obliged, M.
Bidou believes, to keep their effec-
tives on the firing line and to dip into
their stock of reserves for fresh di-
visions.
The German plan for the present
battle, says Marcus Hutin of Echo de
Paris, In reporting the statements of
prisoners, included the attacking and
storming Of Compeigne by the cavalry
Of the guard under Gen. Won Schoeler
on Sunday evening. Now the Ger
mans not only are not at Com
piegne, but they show great deal
less vigor in their efforts. except on
their left.
clemenceau Treasures Senators.
A reassuring impression has been
produced by statement given in the
senate by Premier Clemenceau on the
situation at the front. He said that
decisive results had been obtained at
certain points with minimum forces
and minimum losses, while the enemy
losses had been enormous. He laid
great stress on the resources of the
French army, which at certain times
had crushed the German offensive. De-
tails of the admirable American eff
fort to send new forces to France
were given.
! The Echo de Paris says there were
crack divisions from Gen. Won Hutier's
army In the enemy's forces which
were forced to retreat In the
French -counter-attack between Rubes-
court and st. Maur. In the center. d.
visions of the guard commanded by
Gen. Won Schoeler were repulsed.
The Petit Journal calls attention to
the fact that the appearance of GER
tain elements of Prince Rupprecht's
army mingled with Gen. Won Hutier's
men indicates that the German losses
we're heavy, as the German staff is OPP
posed to mixing forces from two diff
ferent army groups.
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WELL, WELL, LOOK WHO'S HERE
Germany Files Protest Over Lynch
Inu Of Praeger at coIllnsvllIe, Ill,
Says Amsterdam.

Amsterdam, June 13.Germany has
lodged complaint in Washington and
asked for safeguards against excuses
as led to the lynching of Robert P.
Praeger at Collinsville, ILL.,, on April
A, according to a Wolff bureau tele-
gram from Germany quoting Privy
Councillor Simons in replying to a
question asked by Herr Mueller Of
Meiningen In the reichstag.
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MEXICO MAY JOIN THE ALLIES
Editor SAYS If Nation Takes UP Arms
Il VIII Be on That side-Peo-
!! pIe Get Wilson Views.

New York, June 18.--The Mexican
people are much impressed with Pres
ident Wilson's views on international
affairs, and If they decide to take up
arms it will be with the allies, de-
clared Manuel Carpio of Yucatan, q
member Of the party of Mexican edit
ors who are touring the United States,
when he and his colleagues arrived
here ON their way to New England.
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REWARD MONEY IS RETURNED
Springfield (Mass.) Policemen VIII
Not Accept Pay for Arrestlng
Army Deserters.

washington, June 13.-secretary
Baker has received from the chief OF
police Of Springfield, Mass, check
for s79.52, representing q reward PAID
70 member OF his command for ar
resting two deserters from Camp Dew
ems. Aver, Mass. Springfield police
commissioners decided no police officer
would be permitted to accept any re-
ward for the arrest Of deserters.
Send rs vesr Job Printing.
W IA lob PrInfinF q r@G rrssse
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Another Peace Bait.

Amsterdam. June 18.-The central
powers will shortly issue war aims
statement, but they do not intend to
make any fresh peace offers, accord
ing to news agency dispatch received
here.
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BRITISH ON ITALIAN FRONT
English Air Forces Destroy Twenty
One Enemy Planes, Says Official
Statement.

London, June 18.-Twenty-one en-
envy airplanes have been destroyed on
the Italian front by the British air
forces operating there, according to
the war office statement reporting
British operations In this area.
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Dutch TrawIer sunk.

London June 13.-The Dutch
trawler Helena has been torpedoed
with the loss of three lives In the
North sea off Dogger bank, said an Elk
change Telegraph dispatch from Ann
sterdam. Six survivors were landed.
Wsss eaysAe
~ sseznA ana beyond wAatevee y
sgsapAAonal and illustrious In humaa
N stretches that which Ia average
and unpercsivs4.
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Two ships Fired on,

Norfolk, Va. June Is. Crews Of the
steamers Walter d. Moves and the
Pajos, upon arrival here, reported that
they had been fired on by submarines
Sunday night off the Virginia coast.
Sand Us Your job Printing
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Why We Fight
Because Germany Having Split the
World 10 Hall 10 Row Trying
to Devour the Halves
BY CLARENCE L. SPEED

Prepared Especially for the Hermitage
Club Of Nashville.
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THE "WAR LORDS" END

The fall of the kaiser, Emperor
William II of Germany brings to the
close reign that began on June 10,
1888, upon the death of the then
emperor, Frederick III, father OF the
kaiser who has abdicated. Fred
erick III reigned for but three
months. He took the throne upon
the death of his father William J.,
who had been proclaimed German
emperor at Versailles, France, at the
close of the German victory over
France in the Franco-Prussian war.
William | had become king OF
Prussia in 1861 upon the death OF
his elder brother, Frederick William
" who was childless. William l
was born in 1897 and consequently
was 64 years of age on becoming
king and was not made emperor
until 10 years later, at the age OF
"A.
William | gained great prestige
in Germany just prior to and during
the Franco -Prussian war. Bismarck
was his chancellor and held
position of vastly more power thah
the chancellors have had in recent
years. Bismarck was virtually the
lead of the German empire, William
I having given him full sway. Upon
the death of William | the then
crown prince, Frederick, assumed the
throne. He was in Ill health due to
a throat trouble and lived but three
months. William II then. ascended
the throne and at the start appre-
hension was held throughout Europe
from the fact the new emperor did
not possess the liberal spirit Of his
father but possessed strong leaning
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WHAT WE MUST FIGHT FOR.

Ex-Premier Asquith touched the
fundamental issue of the war when
he said our main objective is ito
destroy Prussian militarism." The
ousting of the Hohenzollern is not
the main purpose but only a corol-
larry of it. The cornerstone of the
Hohenzollern is, and has always
been, militarism. The power OF the
Hohenzollern can be swept away
only by destroying the foundations
on which it rests.
The world will not be safe for
democracy" if militarism remains
undestroyed, and militarism will not
be destroyed by an exchange of notes
with Berlin. The thing that started
Germany on her peace drive was not
the internal political situation, but
the many weeks of steady defeats
Marshal Foch has administered to
the armies. The best answer to her
hypocritical and unrepentant appeals
for peace is the drive on the western
front.
The German army must be
smashed to smithereens. Marshal
Foch can do it, if we give him time
and back him up. When the German
army is completely defeated and
forced to an unconditional surrender.
when the German people have been
convinced that militarism has led
them to destruction instead Of to "a
place in the sum-" the Hohenzollern
will go of necessity. On this clear
ground a German democracy may be
erected.
Let us not becloud the issue:
We are not fighting for anything
else than as Mr.. Assuith says, Ito
destroy Prussian militarism." When
that has been destroyed, no Kaiser
will have the despotic power to order
out. at "a hours notice, an army of
ten millions to fight for something
they know nothing about.-Leslle S.
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GREAT EXPECTATIONS.

The West Coast shipbuilders are
not worrying about the future,
whether they should be agitated or
not.
One Oregon concern has finished
a $4,000 restaurant building so that
its workers could have cozy place
for noon-time lunch during the six
wet months of the year.
From San Diego to Vancouver,
B. c.. ship yards, steel furnaces.
wharves, docks, railroads. lumber
plants are being established that
must depend on world trade for
their maintenance and these dozens
Of capitalists apparently are risking
their fortunes on something more
substantial than war orders.
Down south on the gulf the same
far-sighted program is beisg carried
cut, and the eastern seaboard is. of
course, just as a great human hive.
Whenever the German Jill falls
down the hill and Kaiser Jack goes
tunbling after, the L. S. of A. will be
found prepared for a world trade,
for its work in world rehabilita ion,
and for the due share of commerce
that never again will be carried
from our shores in foreign bottoms.
and tribute paid to the tune of
s40O, 100000 a year to foreign ship
ping monopolies.
America may have done lot Of
slumbering before it aroused itself
to it's opportunities; it spent three
generations conquering continent
to live in, but the wars end will find
it ready for a worldwide business,
and equipped for it besides.
The American youth of tomorrow
is going to have the greatest chance
the world ever gave son of Adam.
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THE MELANCHOLY DAYS.

We don't know where the autumn
winds come from, nor what vocal
culture they had that gives them that
mournful, lost-soul. heartsiek tremor
to their whisperings and sighings.
but each fall we are impressed anew
with the voices Of the winds that
sigh and cry and fitrergibbet about
our house.
Some day that started out like
any other day of the year there will
be different feel to the air; of a
sudden the hillside naples have
donned their alter garments and the
woodland choirs are chanting dirges
and vesper songs.
And then along comes the first
wind of autumn; it comes with
hesitation, its hat in its hand, and
draped in deepest gloom.
1t mourns through the night under
the caves, and rustles at dawn with
Ndli III tltC ldliiHS iCuNOS.
1t doesn't have the howl of the
winter wind, nor the gusty brazen
defiance of the March bravo; he
must be the tough lad of the wind
family.
No, the autumn wind seems old
and creaky and full of woe.
He prophecies dire disaster; not
just common, cheap, disaster, mini
you, Dut dire, deep, deadly disaster.
He has certitude of grief that is
most depressing, and his scale of
sorrow runs from the wall of sick
babe to the howl of moonstruck
coyote on a desert hill.
And generally, durn him. he's q
true prophet, for along with him
arrives the annual batch of street
and sewer assessment notices; the
coal bills, the fall clothing and school
bills, the autumnal toothache, the
frenzied wrestling with the furnace
and the scratch Of wool underwear.
Melancholy days is right.
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Affecting as it does every com
munity, the Spanish influenza has be-
come a matter of universal concern
second only to the war. Is 1t some
thing new or simply la grippe OF
1890 in more virulent and epidemic
form, and what has caused it, While
the causative organism of the dis
ease, according to medical journals,
remains matter of dispute, it
sweeps on unchecked Doctors are
not agreed as to the best treatment,
but facts are established that all
people should know.
The infection is carried through
mouth and nose. Everyone in a
public place who is compelled to
cough, sneezc or expectorate should
do it in the handkerchief. This will
check lie spread of the disease If
cold is taken the simplest precautions
should be followed until physician
is secured. The bowels should be
kept open, the patient should be put
to bed and every precaution used to
prevent chill, while the diet should
be light and fresh air abundant.
Alcoholic stimulants should be avoid
ed. If these simple directions are
followed and pneumonia does not de-
velop, the prospects of a rapid re-
covery are good, but if pneumonia
supervenes, not frequently the case
if care is exercised, the matter Is
more serious.
BY the observance of good general
hygiene the power of the body's re-
sistance should be kept up, for 1t is
lowered resistance that makes one
susceptible to the disease. The pa
triotic response to the Fuel Admins
tration's request to save coal, result
ing in leaving homes and schools
without heat during the cold, rainy
days of late September and early
October, caused thousands of colds.
With resistance thus weakened many
succumbed to the germ when brought
into contact with it in crowded cars
and other public places.
The Anthracite News points out
that many Pennsylvania collieries
have had to close down because of
influenza, which is cutting down the
monthly output of anthracite by over
one million tons. Under war con-
ditions this is a great loss, but 1t is
nevertheless poor economy If the
saving of fuel in homes and schools
is in effect adding fuel for the
spread Of the epidemic.
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towards militarism. After a time
this impression was reduced some
what but later events, eliminating
in the present war proved that the
early day view of the kaiser was
correct.
In 1878 an attempt was made
upon the life of the then Emperor
William l by an assassin. General
Grant was in Berlin at the time and
with others expressed regret at the
deed. In a conversation between
Grant and Bismarck the latter is re-
ported as having said of William l:
He is quite distinguished from
those born in so high a position, at
least most of them. You know that
people of his rank. born in the
purple, come to believe themselves
different from their fellow creatures.
They attach little Importance to the
wishes and feelings of Others"
Ten years later when William II
ook the throne the words of Bis
marck to Grant came true when the
new kaiser humbled the Iron Chan
2elor by so depriving him of power
hat Bismarck resigned.
The island of Heligoland, the
treat German naval base about
which so much has been heard dur
ing this war was secured by Ger
many in the second year of the last
kaiser's reign. The island was
occurred through treaty with Eng
and and in compensation England
was given the German consent to an
English protectorate over Zanzibar.
The kaiser has always been known
as a man of almost insane egotism.
He evidently dreamed from the start
of world domination and doubtless
he acquiring of Heligloland was one
of the first steps in the program that
has finally been the complete un-
doing of Germany and the downfall
Of the kaiser.-E. 0.
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WE WANT SALES REPRESENTA-
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PEACE WITH VICTORY.
Peace is at hand!
Peace WITH victory.

Peace is at hand!
Peace WITH victory.
Peace that proves Americans are
NOT to proud to fight when the in
terests and rights and ideals of the
republic are at stake.
The stone which the builders re-
jected has become the chief corner
stone of the temple.
The boys over there and the
people over here have proved to the
world that the spirit of '76 and 81
and '98 is not dead. but that it lives
in determination for unconditional
surrender of an enemy whose brutal
might was a menace to the world.
They were for peace ONLY with
victory,--and in this government of
the people they have had their way!
If this war had ended with this
nation neutral, triumphant mill
tarism would have made the Ameri
can people understand that the
causes and consequences of this war
DID touch us. Unprepared despite
the clamor of anxious souls" we
would have paid in blood and treas
ure the price of disastrous and dis
graceful defeat at the hands of
swollen power. with the wealth and
resources of the rest of the world at
its disposal.
And IL Americans HAD been too
proud to fight. the name of the land
of Washington and Lincoln would
have gone down to perpetual dis
grace. Today it grows with a new
luster, and no one longer doubts the
power of the great republic to hold
its own with any foe on any field of
conflict.
To the men in the uniform of the
republic, marshalled beneath its flag,
the people of America owe an un-
dying debt of gratitude. Theirs is
the chief glory of the hour. In their
hands largely tests the future of the
republic in whose behalf they have
offered the patriots full measure OF
devotion.
But to every American of all the
millions, whose heart has Loyalty
followed the flag in this heroic epoch
in the nations life; to every citizen
however high or humble, comes a
share of the credit and part of the
glory that is the republics. Now, as
never before in history, the worlds
highest title of nobility lies in the
words: 81 am an American citizen
The victory has cost the nation
little in blood. The cost in treasure
the struggle has entailed is as moth
ing compared to what it has bought;
the respect and admiration Of the
world; the revival Of the old Ameri-
can spirit of devotion to the flag
and the institutions for which 1t |
stands; the raising of new and
higher ideal of service and coopera-
tion and comradship in American
citizenship which will impress itself
deeply upon the future of the ma
ton; the knowledge that ours Is
above all a republic of ideals deeply
believed in and bravely maintained.
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a token of atonement for that un-
deserved dismissal A man certainly
ought not to have been thus punished
in Germany for merely ravishing or
debauching women and numbering
those who resisted. If he we're to be,
what would become of the flower OF
the Prussian Guards ?-The n. NJ. X.
War Weekly.
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DR.. Karl Peters is dead, and the
Kaiser sent a personal representative
to lay wreath upon his grave. Il
is not altogether clear why William
the Damned went to that trouble;
whether because of Peters annexa-
tion of East Africa to Germany's
colonial empire, or because of the
outrages, tortures and murders
which Peters, through sexual de-
generacy, inflicted upon helpless
natives, and wnich caused him e be
dismissed from the imperial service
in disgrace. After what the Kaiser
has sanctioned and ordered in Bel
GUM and France, we rather incline
70 the latter cause. The wreath was
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Judge Gilbert W. Phelps droy

Judge Gilbert W. Phelps drove
over from Pendleton Monday morn
ing and convened Circuit court for
the regular November term. After
disposing of few divorce and ma
turalization cases, an adjournment
was taken until later date, when
the influenza epidemic has been
cleaned up. 1t was necessary to open
court regularly at this time in order
to hold the jury. There is a rather
light docket to be cared for.
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and was taken to Monument Tuesday
where interment was made. Mr.. and
Mrs. Frank Turner, Mrs. T. E. Child
sey and Mrs. D. NJ. Ward went over
from here to attend the funeral
which was conducted by F. A. An
drews of this place.
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A SNAP FOR SOMEBODY.

will sell 100 acres in Sec. 5, TIP.
/ N. R. 26 e. for $4,000. All tillable
land. Good we'll of water with
pumping outfit. $1,000 down, long
time on balance, interest 5@6. C. A..
MOREY. Lexington, Oregon, or in
quire at ranch. 1t