The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-14
IOWA PRESS COMMENT.


given by Bruce Bielaski, chief of the
! investigation bureau of the depart
ment of justice of-the pro-German
activities of individuals and news
papers in the United States. is not
news in many respects. Moss cf the
information ventured by the govern
ment agent was known to the public
early in the war. How many people
were interned by the United States
during the war The Gazette does not
know, but it is quite evident that
some were permitted to remain at
liberty who should have been put
behind the barbed wire.
Des Moines Register: Bethmann-
Hollweg is ready for an examination
into his connection with the outbreak
of hostilities in 1914. he says. Here's
betting that his long distance run
ming record to escape arrest and trial
viii almost equal his long distance
lying record. Nothing could quite
equal that.
Davenport Times: 1t was to be ex-
pected, of course, that any movement
for restoration of Hohenzollern to
the throne, would find favor with
high officers in the German army.
With the kaiser down and out they
would find themselves in the Othello
Iclass-with occupation gone. And
naturally the Krupps would be for
Wilhelm, he being their best GUS
toner as well as member Of the
firm.
Davenport Democrat: Someone
over in Europe seems to have cor
rectly "sized up" the situation when
he says that the Hohenzollerns were
dismissed because they failed to con-
quer and not because they violated
all the laws of humanity. In the war
book of the junkers and their dnpes
the only disgrace was failure.
Jefferson Bee: The enemy armies
slaughtered, MANNED, outraged. burn
ed, pillaged in order to terrorize the
world and conquer by propaganda
of fear. The enemy people counter
anced this awful procedure. and
offered no protests when they viewed
its hideous results. Not only they
but all the other nations must be for.
ever discouraged from becoming pos
sessed of such wantonly murderous
spirit. Exemplary damages, as recog-
nized by the law, must be imposed.
Council Bluffs Nonpareil: The
kaiserin is reported to have "sobbed
bitterly" when she met her husband
in Holland. OF course her weeping
ELECTS sympathy. But what this
woman needs in her present status
is information. She should have
yisualized through moving pictures or
some other effective manner the TO-
100000 weeping mothers in this
world whose sons have lost their lives
in a war for which her lord and mas
ter is responsible. If she could catch
the vision or appreciate the volume
ot sorrow for which he is responsible
she would loathe the wretch instead
of weeping on his withered shoulder.
Knoxville Express: Let's not worry
about the hungry Germans until we
look after France and Belgium and
Serbia and Poland. BY that time
Herbert Hoover will have made a
food survey of Germany and deter
mined whether they have enough
husks and crusts to last till grass
comes. America just refuses to lose
any sleep about German hunger.
Burlington Hawk-Eye: William II
was notorious liar and he was sur
rounded by a court of liars. To the
sin of deception they added the bias
phemous pretense that they reflected
the will of God. Within the period
of the last kaiser's reign a genera
ton grew up schooled in the auto
!cratic school of deception. William
partly deceived the world outside of
his empire; he almost wholly de-
iceived his own people. And now they
are undergoing the painful process OF
being undeceived and very bitter
feeling has developed in Germany
against the former kaiser.