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The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-04-08
sed.ss es Destroyer Dead on shir

Dediss Of Destroyer Dead on ship.
Base OF the American Fiotilla in
British Waters, April 8.--A snip has
sailed homsward with the bodies OF
the l6 men killed aboard the Ameri-
can torpedo boat destroyer Manley,
~ a result OF an explosion during a
collision with a British wsrship In
European waters. Before the bodies
were lowered into the hold OF the
vessel, At q European port. there was
an impressive service on deck which
WAS attended by officers and men
representing the entire Ansrtcan
Aotilla
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-04-08
Prepare Hospital Within u Hours
De- III Avrxl A~x>o0,an nAA

Prepare Hospital Within 12 Hours
Paris. April s.--The American Red
Cross has just performed another rec.
ord feat by preparing and shipping
TO q town behind the french front a
tent hospital Of 500 beds within IL
hours after receiving a requst from
the French government. The hospital
was needed to take care OF patients
suffering from fractured limbs. who
were being removed from a hospital
in Eastern France menaced by Ger.
man air raids. The equipment sup
piled consisted OF Is tents % BY 80
tset. each containing 20 bsas.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-04-08

man armies have subdued one hundred and
eighty millions OF the human race.
We have sent our boys to the battlefelds
in France to give their lives. If need be, to
make the world safe for democracy.
Our government is now calling on US for
loan that our boys may be properly
equipped when they go out to face the
German monster.
IL the Mailed fist" should succeed, the
world would 40 longer be safe for your
children.
AS you love your children, subscribe to
the Third Liberty Loan.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-04-08

Woclen Mills For v. s. Service.
Washington, April s.-Afl wooden
mills in the country have been di.
rccted by the War department to hold
their looms at tho service OF the
government from now until July
to insure adequate supplies of cloth
for uniforms. Manufacturers of civ.
ilian clothing who get any Of this
output of the mills will do 30 under
special government permits
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-04-08
STAKES ALL ON OFFENSIVE
Germany Hopes to Crush Allies
Before Yankees Arrive.

Before Yankees Arrive.
Washington. April S.-Germany is
desperately fighting to defeat the
Allies in the west before America
can place enough fighting men In
Europe to turn the tide of battle.
Germany has staked all her re.
sources upon this slender chance Of
realizing in full her dream of con-
Guest of a great European empire.
This Is the Interpretation placed by
administration officials upon the re-
newal by the German army OF the
drive toward Amiens. an interprcta-
ton made more significant by Official
Information OF German purposes
which has reached the war depart
IT ent through secret chanels
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-04-08
German Hall to Be v. 8. Hospital.
Nav York AnriI e-Arton hall I'm

New York. April 8.--Arion hail. In
Brooklyn, home of one of the largest
German singing societies in the Uni.
ted States, is TO be purchased by the
city and turned over to the govern
ment for use as a base hospital, IL
has been learned. Ii Is said the prop
erty will be transferred by May J..
Since the United States entered the
war there has been breach between
the older German-born and the young.
er American-born members OF the so
ciety and the membership has OWN.
died to less than 500.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-04-08
Train Ditched; One Killed.

Hugo, Okla, April S.--One man was
killed and 2l other persons injured
when a Frisco passenger train was
ditched near here at a washout caused
by a severe storm
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-04-08

CHILDREN Sx1oN0
ever Whero~
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-04-08

CEVEN and years fathers brought forth
continent nation conceived liberty and dedicated to the
son that all created equal Now engaged
testing whether that nation conceived dedicated
can
New-York tribune., 1918-06-23

6f Berlin, a leading militarist organ, IL
lustrated the typical manner in which
the Kaiser and Hindenburg are placed
before the people of Germany. "Ahw
he cries
"that wonderful Kaiser Of ours is like
generous father who forgets no one, who
gives of his best to each and every one
of those who are dear to him.
"Only the other day when at breakfas,
he provided us with special surprise.
Placing his hand in the side pocket of his
coat, he produced small black plush case,
which he opened. An Iron Cross encircled
by radiant steel star lay embedded in
the black velvet.
"'This is for the field marshal, said the
Emperor, 'this Iron Cross with It's golden
rays. One man only has ever worn thu.
order before-old Blucher. 1t was special
ly founded for him after the victory at
Belle Alliance. No mortal man has eve<
won it since, and Bl1cher, mark this we'll,
received it for the victory won with those
against whom the field marshal has now
fought so vigorously. Thus Time has his
revenge"
New-York tribune., 1918-06-23

realize that in the United States she
faces an enemy more powerful than any
that has so far appeared" And this
probably explains, thinks this paper
"why Germany is acting with such fevertsh
OF time, afraid of those swiftly passing
days, each one Of which means a greater
American force for her to fight against
''It is not the battle line that makes her
so hot and peevish. but the things behind
the battle line-the multiplying ships, the
increasing number of men in brown and the
steadily growing current of supplies from
the Western World.
Germany is frightened at the thought
Of tomorrow.
Germany sleeps on restless pillow each
night because Of fear Of what the dawn
may bring.
"She has not seen very much as yet
only brigade here and there-but she has
seen enough to know that the juggernaut
has begun to move.
three to know what that means--oniy has
to multiply whatsAmerica has accompiished
in given number of days TO know what
she may expect in another given number.
"No wonder Germany is furious to break
the Western front. No wonder she wants
to get at Paris
Wouldn't you, if you were Germany?n
A few days ago General March, chief
Of staff of the United States Army, an,
nounced that this country had already
passed the 100000 mark in shipping men
to France. "This number" explained G.
W. Gilbert, in The Tribune, "included
those on the seas as we'll as those who
had already arrived abroad, and nom
combatants as we'll as combatants. He
said this country would continue sending
men at the present rate, the only limita-
ton being that imposed by shipping IA
cilities."
New-York tribune., 1918-06-23
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Nobody, observes tThe Ithaca Jour
nal, dreamed last winter that I'VE could
do better than half as well.'' Nobody
for one thing, dreamed ''that we could
find the ships to transport so many thou
sands Of troops and at the same time
maintain them and keep up our food
shipments to the peoples of our Allies"
Yet the thing has been done.
In other words, America has arrived.
''It is not difficult to imagine the con-
sternation that the developments of the
past few months have created at German
Great Headquarters" concludes "The
Ithaca Journal"
1t begins to look as though the con
sternation might spread. George Renwick,
in cable to "The New York Times"
states that information from reliable
source has reached him, to the effect that
instructions have been sent around to the
that "it will be advisable gradually to
prepare the country for the news of the
active participation Of American forces
in strength on the West front" The
writer goes on to say:
"Such orders are being carried out Ia
{nst
thorities doubtless desire. Numerous cor
respondents have been permitted to report
that there 100000 Americans on this
side of the water. Having said SO, they pxo.
ceed to calm the Fatherlands nerves with
the assurance that of course half that num-
Der are employed on the lines of communi-.
cation, while the other half are worth
nothing.
$50 far the official and semi official state
ments have nothing but American defeats
to report, but the fact that the American
forces are making themselves felt is one.
that can no longer be hidden from the Ger,
man people. The authorities think
it we'll that the period of wild, unbridled
sneering and despising of Americans az
actual factors on the Western front had
better be brought gradually to a close"
But what sad blow to the German
military critic who, according to 'The
st. Louis Republic" figured that the en-
trance of the United States into the
war twas about equivalent to the addi-
ton of country the size of Rumania
to the enemies Of the Germans!"
America has arrived. And now. urges
THE Wisconsin State Journal" eve
must carry the war home to the Ger
mans, into the very heart of the Ger
man empire. On to Berlin!"
New-York tribune., 1918-06-23
-Notsmkvaker, Amsterdam
-.yotenkroker, Amsterdam


Finally this remarkable historian
shows us the Kaiser tucking Hindenburg
snugly in when the festivities are over:
"The Kaiser takes his departure and
calls the field marshal to his side, and in
the car he himself places rug over Hin
denburg's knees.
eyes, he is chivalrous man, our Kaiser,
and he is permeated with gracious solici-
tude for ALL
And it is on such material as this. OBJ
serves "The Des Moines Register" that
the people of Germany are fed, "day in
and day out, year after year. And they
seem to like it."
"He fiattered them," says "The New
York Times" referring to the jubilee
grafton, "by telling them that they are
the most capable people on EARTH"
But, this paper adds
chow long will the Germans feed YEARLY
on promises whose delusiyeness has been
proved so often. how long listen respect
fully to the most loquacious and multivocal
ruler that ever donued purple7
New-York tribune., 1918-06-23

some one attempted to explain to them
that the United States was not fighting
the German people but only the German
government. "Das ist einsv' "They are
one and the same" On the other hand,
"The New York World" points out, the
German people-the very same people
to whom the Kaiser so proudly and con-
1idently alluded--"begin to ask ques-
tions, to wonder what will be their posi-
ton after the war in a hostile world.
They even doubt the Drive! Once more
is imperial eloquence called upon to pla-
cate, to reassure, to flatter; as we see it,
to delude." And how long, this paper
asks, will "even imperial eloquence pre-
vail when 'cannon-fodder' begins to
think?"
But to return to the more picturesque
phases Here is little episode chroni-
cled by Karl Rosner. One of the best
known correspondents in Germany, Herr
RoSnar, writing in the "Lokal-Anzeiger"
New-York tribune., 1918-06-23
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"By July A. declared The Tribune

"By July A. declared The Tribune
editorially-
1--WE ought to have 100000 troops in France
more than 100000 of them combatants.
Our men are now only getting their bap-'
sism of fire. AS fully organized American
divisions, corps and armies they will soon
be in the thick of the coming German of
fensve. The Kaiser has been
promising the German public victory be
fore the Americans arrive That promise
Unless Ludendorff can reach one of his
main objectives before the end Of July his
hot race against time and our transatlantic
transport service will be lost"
Yes, lost indeed And, as "The New
York World" goes on to show
eff 100000 troops reach France by January
!, 1919, by that time 100000 more in this
country will be ready for foreign service.
If it is then possible to transport and sup
ply larger numbers, larger levies can be
called for training. There is nothing boast
full in the estimates. After year of prep
aration, the United States is merely get
ting into it's stride. 1t pleases German
military writers to decry for home con-
sumption the fighting strength OF the
United States. With 100000 men soon to
be in France and 100000 under arms, tho
American people may feel that they have
made fair beginning, while preparing for
unlimited expansion"
New-York tribune., 1918-06-23
America on the
Road to Berlin
The whole of consists getting at what is on the
other side of the hil.-Duke of Wellington

The German militarists aren't deceiv-
ing themselves, 1.-THE Philadelphia In
quirer assures u.s.
They know that their submarines have
utterly failed to prevent the great current
of American fighting men that is steadil,
flowing eastward. They are not without
knowledge Of the vast resources of the
United States. It had been their hope that
these vast resources would not be called
upon; that we should make only g half
hearted demonstration. They took \
gamblers chance and have lost"
And then this paper goes on to con-
slider the achievement which has thrown
the enemy into such frenzy of haste:
1T is really wonderful thing that this
country has accomplished in a year. More
than 100000 men are under arms. Guam
tfty production of most munitions is under
way. Supplies and men are goinr forward
continually. On the other side an immense
port has been built with miles upon miles
OF warehouses. Railroads have been laid
down and locomotives of American manu-
facture--locomotives Of a size hitherto un-
known on the continent of Europe-ar.
dragging huge trains over the rails And
ships! Out of the chaos-the almost utter
chaos of a year ago-has emerged truly
marvellous construction. And while the arny
has been growing, the navy has Joined hands
with the British and French to patrol the
seas and battle with the submarine of the
enemy.
"Oh, yes, we have made many mistakes.
But we are overcoming the very last OF
them"
New-York tribune., 1918-06-23

His personal fortune is the largest in
Germany and one Of the largest in the
world. He has been busy money grabber
and speculator His favorite investment
has been in munition stocks, and then in
his capacity of handler of other peoples
money he bought from himself as cannon
maker. More than any other country Ger
many under his leadership has been money
mad 1t has been most in the grip of cap
italism
But, "however much the Kaiser ex-
poses his hypocrisy and assigns to 9TH
ers the role he has played himself, he
is right in saying the war is between two
opposing world views. This has been
manifest since the first gun was fired.
Civilization, democracy, freedom, face
barbarism, autocracy and slavery" And
the fact stands self-expressed: Ger
many is out for world dominion"
But does Germany stand undivided
behind such project as this? 1t seems
not. 1t seems, for example, that there
is portion of the German press which
does not share the exultation of the pam
Germanic organs. There are Liberal and
Democratic papers which, according to
a dispatch from Zurich, "reproach the
Kaiser with having purposely hidden
from the people at the beginning of the
conflict the real war aims of the rulers
of the empire--the destruction of the
Allies, who oppose German hegemony in
the world
eve do not approve" cries the Frank
furter Zeitung,"-
land many Germans will agree with US, that
the Kaiser has made war and is continuing
it for the sole purpose of enforcing Ger
man supremacy on the world. On August
a, 1914, they did not tell the German people
they were going to make war in order to
put down Anglo-Saxon supremacy. If they
had told the people that, if they had even
made the slightest allusion to it, the will
of the German nation would not have been
which, the Kaiser has always sought would
issvs been broken from the vary tirgs sssy.
Every German believed his fitheriano
was in danger, and he set out to defend
his home, his workshop, his wife and his
children. Germany. at the present mo-
ment, knows that the worship of money
and materialism is not merely confined to
England. She also knows that honor and
morals are not German monopolies She is
ready enough to fight to defend herself;
she Fefuses to shed the best of her blood
to make q theological ideal triumph and
to enforce her ideas on the world, as If she
were the chosen people,
Nor does the "Frankfurter Zeitung"
stand alone. The "Vorwarts" and the
"Berliner Tageblatt" do not conceal
their dissatisfaction with the oratory Of
this thirtieth anniversary jubilee at
Great Headquarters. "Such oratorical
manifestations, they agree, "are likely
rapidly to break up the internal equili-
brium of the empire"
New-York tribune., 1918-06-23
!Ald1lu

And furthermore, in the Reichstag,
almost at the very moment when the
Kaiser was so loudly proclaiming the
divine right of German conquest, the
still, small voice Of indignation was
raised, when Socialist Deputy Cohn de-
nounced German activity in Russia,
Ukraine and Finland. After citing evil
dence of most colossal injustice and bru-
tality, the speaker took fling at the
Hohenzollerns. I've do not WISH" he
said, chat this cruel European war
should become a family affair of the
Hohenzollerns
So it is manifest that the camp is di-
vided. Yet what is this the Kaiser is
saying? Drinking to the health Of the
army and its leaders, he rejojces that
"the German people and army indeed ar.
now one and the same and look up to you
with gratitude. Every man out there knows
what he is fighting for, the enemy himself
admits that, and in consequence shall
gain victory-the victory of the German
standpoint"
Partial corroboration of this point of
view was cabled to "The New York Her
aid" by it's correspondent. Don Martin,
who credited certain German prisoners
with the rejoinder, "Das list eines," when
New-York tribune., 1918-06-23

THE enormous
resources Of this
cou n try" de-
clares "The Hous-
ton Chronicle"
"are just begin
ming to make
themselves felt,
and Germany is
just beginning to
New-York tribune., 1918-06-23
The Kaiser Gives
a Party

-NHE picture is almost Homeric.
= 1t is not stepped in ease and
security, but is full of harsh,
N ambient strife. Here is the
field itself of war; and here is
:. Kaiser. spending the day midst my
.,n;esr moved "to the depths of my
New-York tribune., 1918-06-23
y ~-~~~ A.
H.; ! :.:.::xhaA,

Il know that Prussian militarism, so
much abused by our enemies, which my
forefathers and in spirit of dutiful-
ness loytessf. .sdese and obediescs have
nurtured, has given Germany's sword
sd she German nation strengrs TO. Inf
su'npn ana rnar vscs6Fsy viii bring peace
which will guarantee the German hfe.'
Nor must one take ones eyes from the
heroic canvas without observing, as has
been pointed out by Karl Rosner. that
The Kaiser is "in radiant health, bronzed
and bright-eyed." What picture, ex-
claims "rhe New York Times" this
health and radiance make! OF course
'hy his act, as truly as if by his hand, mill
lors of mon are dead Thousands are blind.
Whole faces have been almost exterminated
alter cruel suffering. Starvation is tn.
normal lot OF millions. Plaques, typhuses,
legion of diseases, have ragged over the
Torld Multitudes Of little children droop
aud die for want of the scantiest foods
and remedies. Even in his own empire
ROBUST health has faded from the crowd.
EUROPE and Asia are sick. The world is
hospital and graveyard. And this
poor strutting cabotin of a Kaiser is
aealthy as e horse and merry as a cricket.
30 Death is healthy. Staying but unslain."
but attention The imperial lips are
again in notion Lo it becomes evident
mat the war is not matter of strategic
campaign, but struggle of two world
Views, wrestling with one another"
and furthermore, "either German prin-
eples Of right, freedom, ,honor and NOR
ahty must be upheld, or Anglo-Saxon
principles with their idolatry of Nam
mon must be victorious" These Anglo
saxons, he goes on to declare, aim at
maklng the peoples of the world work
. slaves for the Anglo-Saxon ruling
uce.'
but this is bewildering Yes, asserts
ihe New York Evening Globe
aav'ng begged Great Britain, which is
s'nsed with Anglo-Saxonism if any coun-
as Is, to stay out of the war, expressing
~ undy'ng friendship and admiration for
W. and offering bribes after he had put
= armies in motiop to invade Belgium
sne would remain neutral, the Kaiser
"" rather outdoes seven himself in hy-
eNnsy. If he was chivalrous defender
great world ideal and a defender Of
- human race against British slavery.
strange he assailed not the British,
~ 'ae Russians, the French, and the Bel
.~as. and equally strange he energized
hungary into attacking little Ser
sftcularly delicious, thinks 'The
A'e' is the Kaiser's adherence OF
xsanonism.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-23

IGHT hundred thousand Amer
lean soldiers already shipped
Franceward! In this country
- million more. Next spring
still another. No wonder Mr.
Bonar Law should have exclaimed,
"America isn't coming into the war; she
is in it!"
New-York tribune., 1918-06-23

heart" yet al
ways "flled with
the most profound
gratitude for Gods
mercy"
| The occasion is
the thirtieth ami
versary of Kaiser
" ilhelm's reign.
- W h en- I cele-
hrated my twenty
FIVE year Jubilee"
he begins, II was
New-York tribune., 1918-06-23

able. with special gratitude, to
ro,rt out that had been able
n do my work as prince of
oeace." But it was otherwise ordained.
ssince then the world picture has
changed. For nearly four years, forced
TO it by our enemies. we have been en-
gsged in the hardest struggle history
records. God the Lord has laid heavy
burden upon my shoulders, but carry it
in the consciousness of our good right,
With confidence in our ship, our sword
and our strength and in the realization
that have the good fortune to stand at
the head of the most capable people on
sarfh.
The Washington times., 1918-07-21
LIGHTLESS NIGHTS
ARE DECREED AS
PATRIOTIC MOVE

The lightless nights that will des-
cend upon the land this week and
make dark the once white ways OF the
big cities will come as much as a
patriotic observance as for the pur-
pose OF conserving fuel
II Is true that the Iightless nights
are expected to save at least 500. 900
tons OF coal annually. but that amount
represents hardly more than the in
crease in production for one week.
according to the latest reports from
the coal fields. The operators and
miners are straining every effort to
meet the war demand and are. con-
stantly reporting all records smash
ed In the production OF coal.
Because these men are making this
sacrifice, and because the drive
against a coal famine next winter
calls for every possible aid from the
people, the Fuel Administration is en-
tirely out OF sympathy with any and
all non-essential consumption OF even
a ton OF coal
This drive for the winter supply
Of coal. in support OF the drive on the