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Daily Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1918-191?, 1918-04-11
BUYS A FARM.

Ellis Thomas has purchased the
W. J. Carothers farm near Lafayette.
the consideration being $4,000.
Daily Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1918-191?, 1918-04-11

The annual pay Of the Army now
exceeds $500, 10000
Daily Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1918-191?, 1918-04-11

Production Of 10000 new auto
mobile trucks is in progress for the
Army.
Daily Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1918-191?, 1918-04-11
CHICAGO MARKETS.
Furnished ~ Whitfield Bros.
Odd Fellows Bldg)
April 10, 1915.

April 10. 1918.
Corn
May ...l27h 1874 l27A l27%
Oats
May Gee. S6h SIN SOS SIN
Pork
May ....4s.l5 4s.4O 4sl5 4s.4O
Lard
slay .....25.sO 26.OO $3.50 26,OO
Ribs
Ma y.....2A32 case ease 24.52
Bonds.
Lib 3h's.. .9s.70 1870
Lib as .... .96.02 96.O6
Louisville Live Stock.
Cattle, 400; steady, unchanged.
Hogs. 1000; Toe higher; tops
S17-75. Sheep, so; steady, unchang-
cd.
Daily Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1918-191?, 1918-04-11
COST OF A COLD.

Patrick o'Brien. millionaire. Fam
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-18
PRUSSIAN KULTUR BEFORE THE PRESENT WAR

Everything was obliged to yield to
the ferocious rage of the assailants,'
reports a neutral journal, land Strass-
burg, one of the most fourishing cities
of Europe, was heap of ruins when
it fell into the hands of those who
claimed to have rendered it to its own
nationality. What took place in this
unfortunate city was repeated at YER
dun, Thionville, Laon and at all the
other fortified places that had dared
to resist the INVASION"
But Prussian ferocity was by no
means confined to ruthless acts against
fortified towns. It was exercised upon
the population everywhere. without any
plausible motive and simply to satisfy
bloody instincts.
Thus, at Guitry, in the Eure. the
Prussians set fire to the houses and
bludgeoned the inhabitants with the
butt end of their muskets, after strip
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-18

bright and keen. His chin is small
and weak, but this is hidden by
a mustache and short beard. He
stopped slightly. He is simple and
direct in manner and without affec-
tation. He speaks with passion and
plays upon his audiences emotion.
His feeling about the Assembly was
tense. His words came thick and
fast.
"The question of calling the AS
sembly is entirely different from Ke-
rensky's time. The rights Of the
member are raised. But there is an
other right that is higher; that is
the right of the revolutionary peo-
pie. In declaring the cadets our
enemies we have only made a begin
ming. We have not yet executed any
one. [Cries of we are against the
death penaltyH] Yes! That is true,
but if the conspiracies of the cadets
and Kaledinists disorganize the
country not one of us can guarantee
that in their legitimate anger the
people will not turn against the bour-
geoisie and the cadets. No one of us
can say that the people exasperated
will not raise the guillotine. in the
public square in front Of the Winter
Palace"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-18

mum be rless incidents such as the
above, and the neutrals who, in one
capacity or another, were at the front
during the war have also recorded their
Impressions of Prussian inhumanity
Among the witnesses of the firing
upon a white flag press ambulance
party, sent out at Champigny to gather
the wounded and bury the dead, was
special correspondent of "The Times"
His evidence is included in the French
official report Of the occurrence.
A Dutchman gave detailed evidence
concerning an incident which also took
place after the sortie and engagem ent
at Champigny. The Dutch had sent to
Versailles an ambulance. thoroughly
equipped, under the charge Of q Mr..
Van der Welde. This gentleman Sc
cured there a large hall and turned it
into hospital. He filled all the beds
with French and Prussian sick and
wounded, without showing preference
for either and acting with the strictes st
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-18

ping many naked and making them lie
on stones.
At Chateaudun the Prussians threw
the French wounded out CT the win
dows.
At Nemours an impotent woman was
deliberately burned in her bed, and the
soldiers forthwith set fire to all the
ne ghboring houses, after spreading
petroleum and resin, and prevented all
attempts to extinguish the flames.
At Andernay, in the Mouse, poor
knife grinder named elliot was obliged
to witness the murder of his six chill
dren. the oldest of whom, a girl of
eighteen, had previously been violated
in his presence.
On December 20 the father-in-law
of the Mayor of Peronne was hung up
by the tongue, after having been as
sassinated by Prussian soldiers, for
having tried to prevent Prussian off,
GERS from violating women.
Irrefutable evidence was collected OF
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-18

They sat on the right, the Bolshe-
wiki on the left. It was like some
great musical drama. The rise and
falls, the cadences, the stops, the
streams of talk, the bursts of pas
sion. Marie Spiridonova, a tiny
wrath of woman, controlled the
Left. She is adored by the peasants.
Her years of torture in exile have
made her a goddess. She can do no
wrong. There were hot words and
Kisses, but her tiny hand quelled
and quieted the great peasants. Let
the other side speak," she kept say
ing; 'let the other side speak"
Meanwhile Chernov from his side
stirred his group to new endeavor.
His great head with it's mass of hair
waved and tossed, his fists pounded
the desk. The room when l entered
was in the throes of a struggle.
Should Lenine be allowed to speak
or shouldn't he? He pushed his way
through the seething people to the
platform. There were Kisses, cries,
bursts of applause, a maddening
uproar. Chernov called loudly for
Lenine's election. He had no right
in the Peasants Congress. Finally
quiet was restored and vote taken.
BY a large majority it was voted
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-18
Contest of Speech, Pamphlets
and Manifesto Follow Opening
of Constituent Assembly in the
City of Petrograd
By Madeleine Z. Doty

cadets you will use them with others.
Soon there will be no assembly"
Then Trotzky rose to his feet.
sit is impossible to collaborate
with elements against whom we are
obliged to send troops. Russia is d.
vided into two camps, the bourgeoisie
and the pro.ttariat. 1t is net i'm
moral to" achieve the fall of tire
bourgeoisie. You are indignant at
these terroristic methods, but if they
are not used in a month methods
more menacing will be applied. 1t
will become the terror of the French
Revolution. For our enemies it will
not be the fortress, but the guil.o-
tine"
Feeling was now at white heat.
Only the Assembly was talked of.
To sbe or not to be, that was the
question.
Trotzky Opens
The Big Fight
An exciting debate was expected
in the Soviet OR Congress. I deter
mined to attend the meeting. I'm
fortunately, no cars were running.
The electric wires had been tam
pered with. 1t was thought to be
the work of some anti Bolshevik.
II was four miles to Smolny Insti-
tute, but I ploughed through the
snow. The school ballroom was the
Soviet headquarters. The white
walls and woodwork were growing
dim. The hardwood floor had long
since lost its polish. But the gay
chandelier flooded the place with
light. The Soviet delegates were
out in full force. They were seri-
Gus and earnest body. Intelligence
was writ large across their faces.
They were without self-conscious-
ness. Most Of the men were in dingy
uniforms, for both the factory work
ers and the peasants are in the
army. The air was thick with
smoke. The place hummed with
talk. The commissaires mixed with
the delegates. No extra reverence
was shown them. Trotzky and Le
nine pushed their way with the
others to the platform. 1t is a gen
uine working class government. No
official received more than 500
rubles lat the present rate of ex-
change in Russia $5O) month. He
may use the government automo-
biles, but he has to eat and sleep
with the workers.
1t was Trotzky who spoke first.
He is man Of medium size, with a
large, we'll shaped head. His hair
is thick, his forehead high. his eye
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-18
By Captain r. P. P. Rowe

THERE Is a notion, too widely
IL prevalent. that the brutal atroci-
ties committed by the Ger
mans in the present war represent
new aspect Of the Prussian tempera-
ment That idea is a curious instance
Of shortness Of memory.
In France there are still many who
remember vividly, and many more who
realize clearly from intimate hearsay,
the horrors Of 1870. 1t is perhaps un-
fortunate that elsewhere the evidence
Of Prussian denominations in that earlier
war Of ACKNOWLEDGMENT have largely
faded from recollection. German mill
tarism then was much as it is now,
save that in the interval it has grown
by what it fed on.
Since the Franco-PrussIan War was
one Of the chief causes of the evils
to recall the conduct Of the Prussian
soldiery-acting, as always, under or
ders-at that time. Copious evidence
vas published Of the atrocities COM
,nitted, but it has long since been for
gotten by most of US.
The sacklng Of towns, villages and
chAteaus was carried out with a wanton
and wholesale brutality that military
necessity neither justified nor even re-
motely suggested. At Blois the Prus-
SLAMS had so completely Quilted the city
that on Christmas Day. 1870. 1000 Of
the inhabitants declared to the Mayor
that they were utterly destitute and
could not conceivably feed the soldiers
biiieted on them. The Prussians had
taken even the shoes from the feet of
men, women and children and left
their victims to wander barefoot in the
snow in that exceptionally cold winter.
The siege and bombardment OF
Strassburg were 80 conducted az to
cause a feeling Of indignation through
out Europe. The hostilities were di.
rceted equally against combatants and
the unarmed population--against old
men. women and children, who were
not permitted to leave. the town
Neither the sanctuaries Of science and
art nor the shelters Of the sick and
wounded vera spared.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-18

ut was the impossible that always
was asked Of the Legion, MARION. 1t
is the impossible that always is asked
Of US as we'll. But in the one case
and the other the impossible has been
done, and will be done. SO now l will
You shall live. You shall work to ease
sorrow, not to create it; to build up
the world. not to destroy it. I say
nothing against your Legion, FOR men
like you must go out to fight that
which is wrong. say only that a man
goes from one regiment to another,
that one regiment may serve as we'll as
another-that our legion may have it's
place as we'll as yours. Is it not true.
Marbon?"
"You are brave" said he simply. He
still sought to nod, his lips tight
"Then you, too, MARION, consecrat-
ing yourself to this, our legion. must
be brave again You must live. You
must hope. l promise you-you shall
yet forget"
"Tt Is a new Legion!" he exclaimed.
"It does the impossible. A good creed!
Well, then, vive-"
Suddenly he drew out his arm from
beneath the covering TO wave his hand
But his hand was gone!
Gently she pushed his arm down as
he gazed at it wonderingly.
Patience, my friend!" said She
Patience and courage! In our legion
We also do the impossible-for the sake
It love and hope"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-18

German armies IN the war of l87O-'T1
1T long ago became hyword. Here
is an edifying dispatch from the gen
eral commanding a German division to
the Minister of War:
"14, November, 1870
"The Bavarian prisoners that have
arrived at Oloron are in possession of
important sums of French gold, watch
chains and large quantity of women's
jewelry. GOLTZ"
young Prussian soldier writing TO
his mother from Argues, on Decembe
9, 1870, says: 1.-THE only change thus
far in our habits is that when we re-
turn home we shall no longer know how
to distinguish between what is thine
and what is mine. We have ell be-
come regular thieves; that is to say,
we are ordered to take whatever we find
that may be useful 20 US The
officers naturally take the precedence
in these operations, and steal particu-
larly the valuable paintings that are
hung in the chateaux. Not later than
yesterday our adjutant, Prince Won
Waldeck, said to me: Meyer, do me
the pleasure Of stealing everything
you can bring away; we shall thus
prove to Moltke that he has not made
US wage this war for nothing
When there will remain nothing more
! To ir
one another"
Mr.. Hans Wachenhusen, writing from
Charities on December 8, 1870. to the
Cologne Gazette" says: "Since the
war has entered upon its present state
we have been leading a real life of
brigands. During the last four weeks
we have passed over regions entirely
ravaged. The provisions in
entire departments are completely ex-
lausted, and the inhabitants of towns
that were formerly prosperous have
been reduced to beggary. f. In
these desolate towns the ruin caused
by incendiaries makes still sadder
pectacle. Yesterday I saw several
towns burned. The silence of
these houses Cat BonnevaD, in which
were to be seen some pale emaciated
faces, was something so frightful that,
although night had fallen, preferred
to go further on"
All this may give some faint idea Of
the horrors suffered by France in 1870,
and even then they pale before her
sufferings in the present war. Forty
eight years ago Prussia stained indeli-
bly, the honor Of humanity. Yet her
past was patti of virtue compare
with the present progress OF her Kul-
tur, which leaves the abomination Of
desolation in its track and threatens
| the existence of civilization.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-18

TIE LAY silent in his white ban
dages. It was his first return
to consciousness. He thought
he was in another world
Presently he heard gentle signing
the signing of many men depressing
their pain for the sake of others. Else
wise the place was silent. save that
from some distant place came music,
soft and gentle. Again the thought
came to him that it was another world
that world Of which one never spoke
in the trenches. He was sure OF this,
since now he saw approaching him a
creature in white.
She came and stood by his bed,
passed a hand across his forhead,
looked down at him with gentle eyes.
"Well, Mnrbon of the Legion" said
she. ut comes on. oh? 2"
He smiled suddenly, his even white
teeth showing between his bearded
lips.
$50 them" said he. "you are not an
angel!"
"Oh. no. MARION. am but the
nurse" She touched the badge of the
Red Cross on her cap.
What is it--your organization ?" he
asked. "In the Legion we do not know
Of it. Who brought me in? Did cry
outf"
"The bearers brought you. You did
not cry out. You were close to the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-18

I. is our creed to leave such where they
fall. Who. then, are you, to violate
our creed-you with your uniform OF
white and its insignia of red?"
at is the white of clean faith, Mar
bon of the Legion. 1t is the red OF
hearts bleeding in sympathy with other
hearts on all the fields of all the world.
That is our creed"
"Tt is folly" said he grufly, trying
to turn beneath the white counterpart
"When a man falls he Is done If he
cannot rise Of himself. In the Legion
one kills a man sometimes in mercy.
have done as much-many times.
lacked that--this time"
eve do not kill the wounded, Mar
bon. We save them. Could you not
devote yourself to my creed? You
see"-
II see that you are brave as any
of US. But what you ask is the i'm
possible"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-18

impartiality. When the Prussians.
after the fight at Champigny, sent
their wounded to Versailles, they went
to the Dutch hospital, tore the French
wounded from their beds, flung them
on the floor and put their own men in
their places. Mr.. Van der Welde and
the doctors protested, pointing out how
i'm partially the hospital had been con-
Quoted, and claiming that the Prussans
had no right to monopolize Dutch am
bulance and behave thus inhumanly
The answer was Prussan order to
pitch all the Dutchmen out of doors"
This was done, and the Prussians hav-
ing confscated all the ambulance ma
terial, Mr. Van der Welde and his party
were obliged TO return, robbed Of their
property, to Holland. "The prussians
respect nothing" Is the conclusion of
the evidence "the Geneva Convention
has no more weight with them than
the Luxembourg Treaty"
AS for the robbery committed by the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-18
1E BOLSHEVIKS DEADLY ORATORY
Trotzky Opens Big Fight Against
Moderates in First Days of Soviet
Battle Royal Raging in Peas
ants Congress

) Lenine should speak. He is small
man, not at all radical in appear
ance. The front of his head is quite
bald. His face is clean shaven eX
cept for a small mustache. His
manner is simple. He started in
Ike a college professor reading a
lecture. He didn't pound or rant.
But in few moments the crowd
was stu His words burnt in. Each
one came liquid clear. 1t was like
stream that started small and clean
and grew to a deep, swift running
river.
The man was sincere, a fanatic,
but an idealist. | found myself
swept along, throbbing and beating
with every emotion of the great.
rough peasants. My reason was
against what was being done.
didn't believe in winning by force.
believed in democracy. l believed
every one should have a voice. The
bourgeoisie we're not all bad, nor the
proletariat all good. The right
could be risked to the decision of
all mankind. If the majority were
not for it, it would not last. Not a
class conscious but world conscious
decision of right was what was
needed. Yet in spite Of my beliefs
I found myself shouting and clam
oring with the Left. 1t was infec-
tious. The peasants were SO simple
and true. There were no ifs and
butts about them. They had been
beaten and abused and underfed
and left to fight the Germans with
naked fists. The moneyed class hac
betrayed them. They had allowed
Germany to food the land, monopo
lie the government and seize the
business. With mighty effort this
beastly tyranny had been over.
thrown. Now they were told the
cadets were betraying them, they
were like the moneyed class of old
Well, then, down with all cadets
The Assembly must meet, but the
cadets must go.
Through all this surge of feeling
gradually the words of Lenine stooc
out:
Only people without consciences
can say the Bolshevik government is
menace to the peasants. Nine
tenths of the army is composed Of
peasants, or, to put it another way
the guns are in the hands of thu
peasants. 1t is just because tn,
power of the Soviets rests on thu
mass Of the people that no force
in the world can go against them
The conspirators, the Kaledinists
are isolated, and they must sue
cumb wherever they are, even i.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-18

At this point Trotzky's voice was
drowned. The room was in commo-
ton. Every che talked. Then a
Social Revolutionist sprang to his
feet. Order was restored and he
began to speak.
However much we believe in
fighting counter revolutionary
forces, we cannot declare all cadets
enemies of the people and refuse to
let them sit in the Assembly. To do
this will end in excluding the Mod
crate Socialists. Finally, there will
be no Assembly. The peasants and
workers look on the Assembly as
the final coup, the expression Of the
national will. They will not under
stand. 1t will bring on bloody rev.
olution.
"Lenine and Trotzky, after hav-
ing made an end Of cadets, will turn
against their Socialist friends. If
in their dreams they see Marat and
Robespierre, let them not forget
Robespierre's end and that which
came after. The Russian revolu-
ton can be pushed to the same end.
"1n this chamber 1t should not be
only words of hate that are heard !;
there should also be words of love.
Our revolution before all else wa
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-18
Soldiers Ordered
Members Elected

This was signed by Chernov and
100 members. They had hardly fin
ished when the commandant re-
turned with soldiers. The members
were ordered out and one man was
forcibly elected. 1t was the last
meeting in the palace. The COM
missaires had taken up the fight in
earnest. Trotzky and Lenine were
making imprisoned speeches. They
issued the following statement:
ga handful of people are trying
to open the assembly. They do this
that they may declare their counter
revolutionary actions legal. AL the
conquests of the revolution are in
jeopardy. The peoples commits
saires bring this plot to the atten-
ton of the public"
The commissaires had grown bold
er. They began to attack the as
sembly openly. They had been Sue
cessful in the new Duma election.
The total votes cast we're only one
half of the 100000 votes Of the pre-
eeding election, but practically all
the votes were for the Bolsheviki.
The new municipal Duma had con-
vened, and the new Mayor had
opened with the following remark:
Il salute the victory of the pro-
letariat over the bourgeoisie. Greet
ings to the peoples commissioners.
Let rs proceed to socialize property.
Let Us carry out the DEGREES Of the
council. Long live the commune"
Encouraged by this spirit on the
day Of the parade, the commissaires
issued two DEGREES. One declared
all cadets enemies Of the people and
demanded they be arrested imme-
diateiy and brought before the rev.
dictionary tribunal.
The other granted the right to a
new election on the petition Of one
quarter Of the electors, and gave the
power of recall. At a meeting at
Smolny Institute Of the Soviet.
Irotzky and Lenine defended these
DEGREES and their messages. Said
Lenine:
In the midst Of civil war one
must not make a fetch Of the Con-
Stituent Assembly. It is the bour'
eeoisie and cadets who have dragged
Us into strife.
Around the cadets ali counter
evolutionary elements gather. Shal
We then convoke the assembly as |,
originally was elected? To do &C
- 70 gather together counter revolu
Honary forces. This must not be.
But such doctrines were not calm
~ accepted. Instantly Il soldier
~as ON hig feet, protesting.
You cannot arrest a whole party
II you use these methods with tn
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-18

r~HE day following the first
meeting 81 the Constituent
4 Assembly in Petrograd l went
hack to the Tauride Palace. Eight
.nousand soldiers had been placed in
neighboring barracks. The palace
Itself was we'll guarded. Soldiers
with bayonets were at every en-
trance. Small detachments moved
about the buildings and ground.
One company was sprawled upon
the floor of big room. They had
their knapsacks for head rests and
we're fast asleep. Several Of the
correspondents gathered in a corri-
dor to talk. Immediately soldiers
stepped up and told US to disperse.
Meantime thirty or forty delegates
struggled in. They were the pro-
fessor type. They wore frock coats.
There wasn't workingman among
them. They we're jostled by the SOL
diers and not allowed to form in
groups. They withdrew to the Ii
brary. Here they began to hold a
meeting. The commandant ap-
ueared. He said their meeting must
stop; that the Council of Commits
saires would announce when they
could meet; that first, all cadets
must be arrested. Then a delegate
jumped up. "Will you arrest mem
Der of the assembly," he asked.
Certainly" said the commandant,
"if he is a cadet, for they are
enemies of the people. They are
not assembly members, only the
proletariat can hold such an Office. "
But the little group refused to re-
tire and the commandant withdrew.
They hadn't quorum. 1t was use
less to hold meetings until more
members reached Petrograd. But
they decided to publish the follow
ing statement:
sPeople of Russia, do you know
how the new despots treat your rep
resentatives? All the rooms in the
Tauride Palace are closed. 1t is
clear to the whole world that the
promise of the Bolsheviks to speed
lily unite the assembly is a lie. They
make that promise to hold their
power. They promise one thing and
hope another. When our number
increases and we are strong we will
return to the palace. We will not
give in to the usurpers. Be ready
to fight for the Constituent Assem-
bly,"