The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1918-06-21

heads and wondering if after all the
Goddess of Liberty didn't know just
what she was doing when she re-
fused longer to crown the temple of
justice.
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The candidates are going some
these days and some of them will be
going some after the election is over.
There are several of them that we are
likely to pay our respects to. 1t will
be well for organized labor to keep
posted
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The patriotic concert given last
Sunday at the fairgrounds under the
auspices of the Musicians Union Local
No. 81, was a big success. The Mu-
sicians worked hard and realized a
nice sum of money for the National
League for Women's Service for
whose benefit the concert was given
This was just one of the ways the
Musicians are doing their "bit" for
the great cause we are all working
for. The Musicians are to be COM
mended for their enterprise. j. Fred
Pippert who first conceived the idea
of the big concert is to be congrat-
ulated on his forethought. Fred is
proud as a peacock because of the
big success of the affair.
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The world stands in wonderment at
the glibness, with which Wilhelm
Imperial Madman of Germany, chat
ters about his intimate relations with
God. It's rather hard on God, but the
presumption is that He understands,
and with greater pity than we can
feel, sorrows that the Kaiser is mad.
For mad the Kaiser surely is. Mad
with the initiation that comes from
too much power; insane with vanity
that has stricken even stronger char
acters than he; mentally defective
through obsession of his "divinely
appointed" connections, which all
have been added to by those insid-
ious heritary and congenial influences
which have warped his intellect and
withered his body
History is full of mad monarchs.
Madness has been fashionable in cir
sles where twas a boast that God
especially lowered around their par
ticular vicinity. Lombroso had a
special sense for reading this specie
of madmen. A perusal of his Man of
Genius" will do much to help the
home-folk get the measure of this
stuffy, pouting pigeon Kaiser.
In the parlance of the street Kais-
er Bill is as mad as a March hare.
And there is an old saying on the
street and mayhap it is potent with
meaning in Bills case: Whom the
Gods would destroy they first make
mad"
Surely, he will go down in history
as Wilhelm, the Mad Kaiser.
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Thursday the people of Hamilton
had the opportunity to witness what
is likely to be the last parade of the
Old Grand Army of the Republic. The
spirit of the veterans who are left to
US, as they marched along, many with
shoulders bent but with head erect
and that military bearing of which
they are SO proud, brought tears to
the eyes of many, and thrills to ALL
Hamilton has witnessed many parad-
es. Our old Centennial parade with its
floats, our Labor Day parades, our
Patriotic and Red Cross parades, our
Farewell Demonstrations to the sol
der boys, all carried a message, but
none of them carried the inspiration,
the sadness and thrills that the sight
of our old soldiers brought to all of
us.
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Evidently the owners, managers and
inmates of the Hotel Atlas corner
Fourth street and Maple Avenue do
not know that the United States is at
war. We are positive that they do
not know that the Grand Army of the