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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-10-18
THE SPIRIT OF METZ

While our American boys are on
the Metz front, winning glorious
victories, and at time when every
heart is set on the capture of Metz,
that city of quaint, beautiful old
French life, that barbed-wire strong
hold of German oppression, the
translation of Maurice Varres' great
classic, "Colette Baudoche, the Story
of a Young Girl of Metz" by the
Baroness Huard George H. Doran
Coz comes in the most timely fash
ion. This work, appearing in
France in 1908 (though now for
the first time in English) was the
most powerful propaganda that the
French had yet achieved. In the
form of a romance the story clearly
shows how the love of little Colette
could never be attuned to that of
her Prussian suitor. how the ugly
modern German buildings jar with
the exquisite refinement of Metz's s
18th century structures, how Kultur
aand French culture will not mix in
Lorraine, how France can never rest
with the German thorn in her side.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-10-18
BREAKING THROUGH
[From the chicago News. ]

With almost mathematical preci-
sion Marshall Foch is preceding
with his tack of destroying the Ger
man armies. Those armies, are still
capable of desperate fighting, but
some of them have been fought into
a very perilous position by the ad-
mirable strategy of the generalissl-
mo of the Allied forces.
Not until he had involved the Ger
man in gigantic struggles from the
North Sea to Rheims did he begin his
menacing attack by French and
American forces from Rheims to
Moselle. Here the swift successes
of General Gouraud and General
Pershing brought to the German
High Command visions of complete
disaster through the prospective
severing of certain German lines of
communication absolutely vital to the
armies farther west. Consequently
the sectors from st. Quentin north
ward were hastily denuded of their
best fighting divisions, which were
hurried to the region of the great
est danger. The break through that
has now come between st. Quentin
and Cambrai was the logical result,
since the British, French and Ameri-
can forces In that region were pre-
pared to seize the opportunity and
exploit It to the full.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-10-18
Stand by the War

ING in this country; stand for the
Fourth Liberty Loan and every other
war effort; stand for the cause for
which we fight; stand by the ire
ducible minimum" of peace terms so
isplendidly enunciated by Senator
Lodge; stand by the war aims of this
country to vindicate American
rights, interests and honor and to
forever end Prussianism in the
world and the oppression which 1t
typifies, and to make certain for
ever the inability of militarism,
Prussian or otherwise. to disturb
again the peace of the world; stand
irrevocably for a peace with VIC
tory only and against peace based
on a compromise of principles which
would make u sacrilege of our sac
rifice to be made again by our
grandchildren; stand for the prep
iaration now of sound and proper
foundation for a policy of recon,
struction after the war which VIII
fulfill the economic needs and rea-
llize the spiritual ideals of our peo-
pie, that the greatest good may
come also to our own country from'
and after, our supreme sacrlhce.
All this we say-STAND BY THE
IWAR-and for this purpose we ded-
licate the last of our blood and of
our treasure.-EXtract from speech
by Will II. Hays. Chairman Repub-
llican National Committee, Grand
Rapids Mich, Sept. 26, 1918.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-10-18
TO THE GERMAN EMPEROR

Now that avening armies
Hurl back your shattered lines,
You lift your cheating proffers
And tune your subtle whines;
The fail is raised to smite you
And now before it fall
You w ould avert the whiplash
In fate's stern judgment hall.
Across the fields of Belgium
You leave the spoor of hell,
We trace the Beast retreating
And mark his actions well;
You launch a rain of shrapnel
At wounded men in boats
The while you cry us "Comrade"
With blackly perjured throats.
We have been stern and patient,
We have withheld our hand
In that firm-lipped appraisement
You do not understand.
Now you shall have our answer
In storm of belching shell:
mo covenant with devils,
No compromise with hell"
Private Willard Wattles, Brigad
Surgeons Office, 164th Depot Brig
ade, Camp Funston, Kas.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-10-18
REACHING THE CREST

--vE ARE unquestionably ap-
w preaching, if we have not al
w ready reached, the crest OIL
the influenza epidemic. The disease
erst showed itself seriously IN the
training camps. Then it spread TO
the cities, towns and countryside.
NON, the deathrate has begun TO tall
in the camps and the number Oh .he
now cases is on the wane' 1ha'
would indicate a coming recession
- The outbreak among the populace
VI general. ,..,.,.
ITnouestionably the bright orlsk
s-,umn weather is having soou
srect. Then, too, people are more
rareful than they were before the
onider,ic became violent, and the
effects Of the quarantine regulations
in,posed by the health authorizes
,re beginning to be felt. The dis
oase will not pass in a day, but we
NAV expect to see a steauy anu
marked decrease in the number Oh
raw cases. In a few weeks the cpl
dep,ic will be a mere matter of his
tory. except that our health authori-
t;es will have a new chapter of data
for study and new measures to out
line in case of another such out
break of influenza as we have had.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-10-18
GLORIOUS NEWS

THE news from Belgium is glor-
ious. Ostend freed from the
invader, and without a blow
struck in defense of the harbor
itself The plight of the German
army is clearly shown in its retreat
from it's sea bases in Flanders, to
which it might have been expected
the armies OF the Kaiser would have
clung as long as possible.
AS long as they had their flank
upon the ocean and the big harbors
at their command, the Germans were
free from the fatal turning move
ments Foch knows so we'll how to
execute, and had the advantage of
warning with U-boats on the ship
ping of the Allies without great dan
ger to their undersea craft. Both
on land and sea momentous changes
in the war may hinge upon this
hurried vacation of the coast of Bel
gium. which will soon be held by
the British and Belgians all the way
to the Dutch frontier.
1t is a little more than four years
since the newspaper correspondents
were graphically describing the
thrilling scenes incident to the de-
parture OF the British transports
from Ostend, loaded to the gun
wales by all who could get away
from the approaching Germans, and
1t was proper under the circum-
stances that q British naval officer
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-10-18
The President at Politics

[From Col. Harvey's War Weekly
Mr.. Wilson had occupied the White
House less than a year when a dele
women waited upon him and sought
his support for a proposed amend
ment to the Constitution granting
universal suffrage. After listening
courteously to five short appeals, he
declined the invitation upon the
ground that he was no longer free
to express his views upon subjects
which had not received "the gigan-
tic consideration of those for whom
/ am spokesman" He had set HIM
ernor of New Jersey" had follow
ed it as President" and should con
tinue to follow it as President" ;"
For that reason, he added, he was
shut out by my own principles"
from voicing his convictions. He
had no doubt, however, that the
visit would make a profound i'm
preston" upon the country.
Ordinarily so gallant a remark
from a Chief Magistrate would have
served its purpose of closing a some
what trying incident, but the leader
of the delegation, Mrs. Glendower
Evans, of Baltimore, could not re-
lfrain from recalling to the Presi-
dents mind a certain conversation
which she had had with him at Sea
Girt while he was q candidate.
II thought from what you said
that you were in favor of our cause"
Mrs. Evans declared with no little
spirit, and, after a slight pause,
added bluntly with a slight tinge of
bitterness, You were cunning for
votes then"
'I was much freer to express my
opinion then than 1 am now" the
President rejoined, still affably
though rather lamely, and the Incl
dent was closed, indeed, with a
sharp click
Since then, the Democratic party
having given Organic consideration"
to the question and having consigned
it to the States for decision, the
President has regained his freedom
to demand Federal action, and
again, as in 1912, in the words of
Mrs. Evans, he is cunning for
votes"
Because that is what the spectac-
ular appearance and speech in the
Senate chamber meant. grand
stand play for women's votes in the
coming elections; nothing else in the
world.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-10-18
BONNIWELL AND BOOZE
[From the Latrobe Pennsylvania
Bulletin1

The action of the Anti-Saloon
League, in endorsing Senator Sproul,
the Republican candidate for Cover
nor, was not necessary in order to
make clear the clean-cut distinction
between the Republican and the re-
pudiated Democratic candidate, on
the question of prohibition,-or in
fact on any question;-yet the en-
dorsement will be welcomed as a
further formal recognition of the
sterling qualities of Senator Sproul,
in contrast with the discredited Bon
niwell whose own party would not
have him, and who, in this day of
war, continues to prate about the
doctrine OF personal liberty as ap-
piled to strong drink.
Senator Sprouts squarely-defined
position on the national prohibition
issue will win him thousands upon
thousands of dry Democratic votes,
while thousands of Democrats who
even though ordinarily they might
be wet, will shun Bonniwell who has
been repudiated by the Democratic
state committee, and who is running
on a ticket of his own making.
1t is difficult to see where Bonni-
we'll and those who have taken
places on his new party ticket can
command much of a vote, in Nov
ember, yet all those who would de-
plore the placing of Bonniwell in
power, are urged to take nothing
for granted, respecting the ap-
preaching election.
Bonniwell is making a plain, bold
bid to secure the vote of the liquor
interests. He is their candidate.
He is championing their cause.
Nobody wants to take anything
for granted, in situation like that.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-10-18
Theu Watch, Our Holy Dead
By BRIGGS

(From the New York Times)
On Flanders fields, in Picardy, in
battle-torn Champagne,
Where fair Piave rolls it's flood from
off the Lombard plain;
Where Serbia joins Albania's heights
and Greek and Bulgar meet,
And Holy Land and Tigris see the
Turk in just defeat,
In Russia's vast despairing land
how far the fight is spread!
And over all, that growing host
the legions of the dead!
Among that host are shrinking souls
of child and wife and maid
Dishonored souls, that cry to God
that vengeance be not stayed,
And, with the souls of those who
fought, they watch Attila's s
spawn
Invite a peace to stay our hand and
make those souls a pawn;
They watch the butchers CHASTITY
course, his hands each hour
more red,
And see that hand held out for
peace-they watch, our holy
dead.
And shall we say they died in vain,
those friends that stemmed
the tide,
And close our ears to solemn pleas
from those who bravely died,
Shall shrewd old men, in secret met,
decree these deaths were vain,
Then get them home and plan to
start that holocaust again?
mo peace" they cry, these dead
of ours, but peace for which
we bled"
Remember, they are watching us,
those legions of the deadr
We owe "a debt of honor to those
sacred, holy dead!
Thomas Henry Ryan.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-10-18
TIME FOR A CHANGE

ENNSYLVANIANS, more per-
- haps than the citizens of any
- other State, realize how impor-
tant it is to bring about change in
the control of Congress. AS result
of the Republican disruption sew
eral years ago a group of men with
no experience in business or state
craft were placed in power at
Washington and the country has
since learned its lesson. Little men
from the South, coming from COM
munities where big enterprises are
not known, men of the Kitchin
type, have been wabbling along in
the chairmanships of important
House committees. debating with
ruthless and arbitrary power legis-
lation that is discriminatory in it's
character and sectional to the last
degree Nobody with half an eye
can help seeing the favoritism that
revenue measures and the regulation
of commerce for and in behalf of
the South.
1t is obvious that the cotton
planters are running things and it
is just as obvious that the revenue
measures have been drafted in the
interest of the same section of the
country. OF course, we should raise
no sectional issue at any time, espe-
cially in the time of war, but we
are not responsible for such an issue.
That responsibility must rest upon
the gentlemen of the south who are
now in the saddle and who are rid
ing their brief power to death.
Involving as it does, legislative
control of the many problems hav-
ing to do with the prosecution and
financing of the war, and, we fer
vently hope, the far-reaching prob
lens, domestic and international,
growing out of the wars termina-
ton, we cannot urge too strongly
the importance of the Congressional
gagged. In these absorbing times
there is danger that we may forget
the past and neglect consideration
of the future, but if we recall the
expensive failures of former Demo-
cratic administrations, and condi-
tions as they existed under this ad-
ministration during 1914 prior to
the outbreak of the war, we must
realize the Importance of the No
vember election.
There is everywhere a determi-
nation to win the war, but as firm
determination is prevalent in all
quarters that the war must be won
by deeds. not words; that hesi-
fancy must give way to action; that
the burden of financing the war
should be equitably and wisely dis
tributed; and that ruthless extrava-
gance and continued neglect of
preparation to properly cope with
the mammoth problems that will
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-10-18

Here and there are examples of the
foolishness of men who place their
political and partisan opinions above
the principles which they profess. A
particularly exaggerated case is that
of the York county Prohibitionist.
who has no hope of election whatever.
but stands in the way of Republi-
can candidate for the State Senate.
who is an avowed advocate of the ma
tional prohibition amendment and all
other measures designed to restrain or
eliminate the liquor traffic. His
Democratic opponent is avowedly
wet" but Notwithstanding this situa-
tion. the Prohibitionist persists in
running, against the advice of those
who at heart favor the amendment
and realize that every vote diverted
from the Republican candidate is di-
rect aid for the Democratic nominee
We doubt. however, whether many
sincere anti-liquor voters will be de-
ceived by such tactics in York county
or elsewhere
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-10-18
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Alan C. Dodson, active in coal
production in the Hazleton district,
says that doctors going into the
army are having a serious effect in
his district which is short on medi-
cal men.
&C. C. Dickson, one of New Cas-
ties best-known businessmen, will
retire after fifty-one years of busi-
ness.
Judge M. B. Stephens, of Cam
bria county, is taking an active part
in the Liberty Loan in his county.
DIR. ]. II. Sigafoos, of Bethle-
hem, has been named as district
deputy of the Elks for that section
of Pennsylvania.
Senator e. +. Warner, coal adj
ministrator in the Carbon region,
has asked people not to burn up ties
or sills except for fuel.
Col. Asher Miner, commanding
the Luzerne county artillery, and
mentioned for his bravery at Fismes.
used to be a member of the Legis-
lature.
Mayor A. NJ. Hoagland, of Will
Transport. is taking an active part
in fighting influenza. He has been
busy assembling tents and cots.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-10-18
THE GERMAN GOTT

| lie address or announcement
without mouthing the name of
his "Gott" The sycophants who
write about him invariably repre-
sent him as solemnly religious and
as student of the Bible. Yet his
study of it could not have been pro-
found, or, if profound, it has re-
suited in a mental twist that is pc
culiarly Teutonic. Surely the Kaiser
must have read the first of the Ten
Commandments:
Thou shalt have no other gods
before me-"
The "Gott' of the Kaiser, whose
earthly vicegerent he processes to
be, cannot be the God who gave
this commandment to Moses. The
Gott is supposed to aid the Germans
in all their atrocities, to smile upon
their barbarous conquests, to be con-
tent with the Germans belief in
their superiority, to be in harmony
with their mission to exterminate all
other peoples, and to sanction their
doctrine that the state is a divine
institution and that every act of 1t,
however cruel or dishonest, is justi-
fed. This is the Gott the Kaiser
worships and whom he had taught
his deluded subjects to worship.
Thus the Kaiser and his nation
have had this other god before them
not the God of peace, and mercy
and truth, without whose notice not
even a sparrow falls to the ground.
Before the Children of Israel made
for themselves a molten calf and
worshiped it the anger of the Lord
waXed hot against them. Shall this
German blasphemer and his idola-
trous nation, then, escape His
wrath? They will not, for our Lord
the Jehovah of the civilized ma
tions-has Himself set the penalty:
Il, the Lord thy God, am a jealous
God, visiting the iniquity of the faith
ers upon the children unto the third
and fourth generations of them that
hate me-"
Throughout all history God has
employed human instruments for
His works upon the earth. For years
the Germans have vilely plotted to
subdue all other peoples and have
besought their Gott for his help.
Breaking other Mosaic command
ments, they have killed, they have
stolen, they have born false witness,
and they have coveted. They have
had this other Gott before them, be-
iieving that he was helping them
commit all these sins, and as truly
as there is God in Israel, the AL
lied nations are His instruments to
bring upon the Kaiser and his people
the punishment set by the COM
mandment. Unto the third and the
fourth generation the iniquities of
the military rulers of Germany shall
be visited. They cannot escape them.
Already they are in the terrible
shadow of Gods wrath waxing hot
against them. They shall be a ma
tion in sackcloth and ashes and to
the end of time they shall be abomi-
mated.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-10-18
The YelloW Streak
IN. A. Reviews War Weekly

IN. A. Reviews War Weekly
The expected has happened, The
Hun shows the yellow streak. We
were recently discussing the prob
able psychology of the defeated Hun;
which was an unknown quantity,
seeing that for a century the Hun
had known no defeat, but an un-
broken succession of victories. 1t
occurred to us then that he would
probably turn coward, though we
were willing to consider the pos
sibility that he would fight with the
proverbial though futile fury of a
cornered rat. In that concession we
did the Beast unmerited honor.
There is no fight in him in defeat.
He turns yellow, all the way
through.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-10-18
THE Republican party says to the
country - STAND BY THE
WAR.

THE Republican party says to the
country - STAND BY THE
WAR.
In this declaration of purpose is
included the statement which the
Democratic party seems to have
adopted as a Stand by the
President"
Stand by the President in support
of all war measures is a duty and
privilege which the Republicans
have assumed as a matter of course,
as to all that the great office i'm
plies, and in the performance of
which duty the Republican party
has functioned far more fully and
efficiently than the Democratic
party, and in which course we shall
persist without waver or shadow of
turning.
The Republican party says -
STAND BY THE WAR.
This includes more. 1t includes,
Stand by the President; it includes
stand by every public official, high
or low, measured by the thorough
ness with which that public official
stands by the war; it includes stand
by the government; stand by the
country; stand by our Allies, every
one; stand against our enemies in
this war, every one; stand by our
soldiers in France and the soldiers
of our Allies; stand by every effort
for WAR SAVING and WAR CIV
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-10-18

All who favor improved highways
in Pennsylvania must remember that
the ballot for the November election
will contain proposal for a highway
loan that will be used in establishing
a decent road policy after the war
We must not forget that with the re-
turn of millions of men, the best way
to show appreciation of their sacrifice
will be in some constructive program
of employment that will Immediately
give them something to do and aid in
the readjustment of conditions.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-10-18
OUR DEAD

Our dead shall not have died in vain;
By all their pain and sacrifice,
We will maintain their costly gain,
Their truth shall smit the Prince
of Lies.
BY all their love for this bright
world
They fought to free from deadly
stain,
BY the bright flag about them furled
Our dead shall not have died in
vain.
Elmer Ellsworth Brown.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-10-18

should be first ashore on the return
of the refugees. No one incident
OF the recent allied victories pic
lures 80 wildly the turn affairs
have taken against the Germans as
this retirement from Ostend and the
surrender of Lille.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-10-18
French Made Edsu

The French word "etats" is a
freak of a word. though it's freak
ishness is slightly marred by the
matter of singular and plural. Spell
1t backwards and you have its
meaning in English.-Boston Tran
script.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-10-18

Christmas advertising this year is
going to expedite holiday purhasing
materially, so that our merchants
will not be burdened with the terrific
congestion that has heretofore been
incidental to Christmas shopping.
Decimated forces. as a result of the
war and the epidemic, make early
shopping this year a necessity and 1t
should be the pleasure of the buying
community to aid the merchants in
every way possible.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-10-18
WhV Is q King?

(From the Boston Globe)
Why did the King of Bulgaria go
to Germany, to Bad-Nauheim? Why
is the King of Bavaria going to Bull
garia. to remain five days in Sofia !?
Why Is q king, anywMak
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-10-18
Mdu Be Yet

That Hindenburg line fails to halt
the hosts of civilization. While be-
coming pretty flexible, it has not vet
been twisted into a halter.-Rich-
Imond Times Dispatch
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-10-18

follow the close of the war will not
be tolerated.
Republicans everywhere are
united, and while in this contest we
are pitted against a thoroughly or
ganized and well-oiled political ma
chine backed by thousands of politi-
cal officeholders. a careful survey
of the outlook promises Republican
success if we but put forth the nee
essary effort to acquaint the coun-
try with the facts.
Here in Pennsylvania, the bulwark
of industry, it is important that our
people give attention to the cleo
ton of members of Congress who
will not penalize industry and COM
merce. but will treat with ordinary
fairness a Commonwealth that is
providing at least one-tenth of the
manpower and resources of the
United States in the world struggle.