Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-11-27


assume that liquor will not be made
or consumed. The practice of MAX
ing alcoholic beverages is as old as
time and is likely to continue just as
long as grapes grow and sugar fer
ments.
A world peace! Also, beautiful
dream! There will be wars and rum
ors of war just as long as man is born
with a gall in his liver and tendency
to be selfish and quarrelsome. We
can't make over human nature by ut
tering platitudes or by laying down
laws.
-oOo-
The only serious criticism of Pres
idents Wilson is that he is too high
minded to be practical. In the main
we believe that he is actuated by the
highest motives and hopes to build a
fabric of enduring human welfare. On
the other hand can "stammering
tribes from undiscovered lands grasp
the lesson of democracy and would
not system of political ethics be so
much Greek to them-to be lightly
cast aside when lust for possession
of their neighbors' goods seize them
in full force? Political consciousness
as we know it is a slow and painful
growth. Under the best and most
free influences it has taken America
$50 years to evolve to it's present
state. How then can we expect the
down-trodden peasant of Europe to
grasp these high thoughts of human
ity and altruism when all he has
known for centuries is the law of
forcei Peace-knowledge- great
tree of life will grow and in time cast
its fruits to man. But the way is a
long and thorny one-not to be achiev-
ed in your time or mine.
In a neighboring city not long ago
a band of men seized an old woman
in her home and dragged her through
the streets in an animal cage. What
do you think of this action? Does it
strike you as high-minded and in
keeping with American ideals-or does
it reek little of things we have
damned? To us it seems a brutal
victim being an old woman.
-OOo-
1t is said that the old woman had
actually bought more bonds and done
more war work than a good many of
the hoodlums Some of the last in
fact had done nothing but shout and
bawl to show their patriotism There
are good many people like that;
some that never bought a bond or
made the slightest sacrifice to help
win the war. Their war of helping
is to BLACKBOARD the defenseless.
-oOo-
What to do with him? That seems
to be the big question! The fact is
that Williams crimes are of such
magnitude that punishment ade-
quate to his deserts cannot be found.
Just how to dispose of this kaiser
person seems to be moot question.
Germany says she is dying for food.
Dying. dying, dying-paying, paying,
paying Germany sunk enough food
in her four years of ruthless warfare
to supple the millions of hungry
mouths now vainly begging for food.
Germany struck right and struck
left-not caring but risking all. BY
the sword she lived-but now she does
not wish to pay the price.
-oOo-
If, as we are told, Germany planned
to fight on for another winter, where
did she have the food to make that
fight with? She had good crops last
year and not a rick or house has been
fired in the empire. not tree cut
down or a crop despoiled. The world
is likely to think that her pleas for
food are insincere but that will be
determined.
-oOo-
Germany surrenders to the allies
and the United States to hold dur
ing the armistice the territory west
of the Rhine This embraces 1921
square miles and population of H.
1,099, including seventy percent of
the nations mining products and
twenty-five percent of its manufacture
ing industry Alsace-Lorraine fur
nished 42,000,000 tons of the 100000 |
tons of iron used by Germany year.
Without this territory, according to-
the iron masters of Dusseldorf, Ger
many could not have conducted the
war three months Here then is an
armistice term which gives the as
Suraace that Germany will be unable
to renew the war, no matter how
great an army she may decide to build
up again. Henceforth, she will not
be able to get any more iron than the
allies permit her to have. No more
four-year wars Of Germany's making. |
-OOo-
In another month the Peace Con- |
ference will meet at ancient Versail- |
les and after that fetes and reviews of
victorious heroes. What will be the
outcome of that conference? Will
England consent to the freedom of |