The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-03-21
"a La Bragadacio"

"a La Bragadacio"
every people shall decide it's own
destiny Thus breaches Mr.. Wilson
across the ocean. This is the same
Mr.. Wilson who holds this boastfully
proclaimed doctrine quite compatible
with the purchase of entire nations.
THE purchase of Dutch Guina has
been Professionally contradicted, it is
true, but as America needs the coun-
try, the plan will doubtless soon be
carried out. Wilson bought the Dan
ish West Indians Islands, Roosevelt
bought the Republic of Panama, Nc
Kinley bought the Spanish archipelago
in the Pacific ocean and annexed the
Philippines by conquest.
ITO the almighty dollar is is per-
mitted; it sanctifies violence and rob-
berry, fraud, deceit, and the bartering
of entire peoples.
cat the side of this monstrous Mr..
Barnum of Dollarika stands his wor-
thy windbag, Mr.. Lloyd George, talk
ing utter drivel by the yard about AL
sace-Lorraine. 1t is all Barnum. Bar
mum east and Barnum west, which can
injure us no more than the bite of a
flea Still, it would not do to allow
this poisonous weed of puerile war
talk and defamation to grow too lux
uriantly. Barnum and his crew must
be dealt crushing blow from our
iron right on their big chattering
shouts. The task is not pleasant
one, certainly, but it must be under
taken"
The "Vossiche Zeitung'' is Hun
newspaper with a high circulation,
published in the interest and for the
persual of the high Hun respecta-
bility.' Among Germans it is better
known as the old Woman She,
the old Woman makes the following
comment in preparing the German
people for the coming butchery in
the VEST
o My! How Tender of Them!
'"The fact that it is not we who
are the meters to war and that Hin
denburg and Ludendorf only make
use of the means at their disposal
to secure a minimum of their rights
is proved by our attitude in the east.
For our generals it would haye
been an easy matter to march on Pet
rograd and Moscow and to conquer
those cities. Did they do so? No.
This proves that the generals are
willing to work hand in hand with
our politicians.
Our enemies in the west may be
assured that the war which is con-
Quoted against them is merely a
means of policy, nothing else. We
do not carry on war for wars sake. A
German offensive in the west would
only be for the expression of our
political will to show the antagonists
that we have never been beaten, and
that we can only treat with them on
footing of perfect equality.
To-day they still maintain that
they have wrested from us the mill
| tary victory, therefore we shall have
to prove to them that they are mis-
taken. This only is the aim of ou1
next offensive Only when we have
done that will the time be ripe fol
peace"
The credu1ous "Old Woman ('fVos-
siselle zeitung'') also publishes the fol
lowing amusing yarn
The Old Story
| ''In the prison camp at Hellstorf
| in Hanover, the British prisoner!
have been in the habit of receiving
from their relations in England beau
tiful cakes and tarts made of the fin
est wheat flour. A few days ago {
German who had business in thu
camp, was accosted by an Englishma1
just as the latter was in the act o
opening a box from his wife. Thu
box was opened and a beautiful cak'
was found inside.
"The British prisoner expressed
wonder that his wife should continu
sending him cakes, as she must know
that he disliked cakes and such dain
ties. The Englishman asked the Ger
man whether he would not care to &C
cept the cake for himself. When tn
German cut the cake at home, h
found inside a letter from the Eng
lishmans wife, who wrote: I an
many other women whose husband
are in prison camps in Germany re
ceive every week from the Britfsl
government consignment of the fin
est wheat flour with the request t
make cakes and tarts of it and to sen
these things to our husbands in Ger
many. The object is to make tn
Germans believe that the British hav
still the richest abundance to live OF
AS a matter of fact, Llyod Georg
is only able to keep the people i
good courage by these false pre-
fences. The woman then went o
to describe the economic necessitie
of England
The coming great offensive in tn
I west occupies large share of the al
tention of the latest German news
papers to come to hand.
The people of the Fatherland al
: assured, in flaming headlines, an
i heavy type, that their fluctuations al
4 almost at an end, that the black nigf
t of semi-starvation is nearly over, an
Il that the glorious down of victory
: is rapidly approaching.
y Our "Palpable Terror
9 They have noticed these Argu'
p eyed journals, that references to Il
anticipated struggle have appeared
. the English and French newspaper
It and they deduce from this fact TIL
r we axa terrified. Thus the "Deutscl
Tageszeitung' says:-
d 1.-THE moment we have our ham
u really free in the east we shall
d able to win that good peace of Whit
Ie our Kaiser spoke few days ago,
: l peace that will force our enemies