Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-01-01
REMEMBER FRENCH REVOLUTION!'
PASTOR WARNS PRUSSIA

of troubling himself about the Flem-
ings living lin distant Belgium"
BLUFF IDEA OF
U. s. is FADING.
That there is little. OF bluff" in
American war preparations is the
tconclusioM OF the Hamburger Frem.
denblatt, which says:
We have to rely on very thin ma
terial for our Judgment of American
affairs and most OF 1t has passed
through an English sieve. But this
much Is certain-that the American
+ president is not pursuing his arma-
ments - bluff. and is not merely
Selling this opportunity to provide
American imperialism with the neces-
sary weapons against England and
japan. He has the serious intention
Of employing these weapons in the
present war, and he hopes by the use
of them to produce a decision in the
Anglo-Saxon interest"
KAISER OUTS!
(IT's A DREAMY
Strange as it may seem, German
papers are commenting upon Presi-
dent Wilson'S declaration that Nthere
can be mo terms with the Hohen-
zollerns."
An instance Of this is afforded byy
an article in the "Deutsche Zeitung,''
the official organ Of the Pan-German
party, by Herr von Graefe-Goldbee, a
prominent member OF the reichstag.
1t Is described as u Political Dream
Picture and h writer says:
Il dreamed that I was present.
with the other members of the Reichs-
tag Main Committee, in the Bellevue
Palace. and that Deputy Erzberger
addressed the monarch as spokes-
F., man nI q 6nIoOof{np III Snsl.E lH-..i
Your majesty will surely not halt
even before the last step of all, should
1t be inevitable, to free the path to-
ward peace.
Without doubt it is a grievous err
jror, but the idea has taken ineradic-
able root in the hearts of all nom
German peoples, that Prussian-Ger-
MAJ militarism is inseparable from
the Hohenzollern family.
I'm view of this circumstan nee, we,
the chosen representatives of the Ger
man people, do humbly put to your
Industrious majesty the question
whether it would not be in conform
ity with the traditions of the Hohen-
zoiierns to remove, by your WI free
will. this last obstacle, and thereby
confer on the German people the in
estimable blessings Of peace.
THE step which we humbly rec
ommend to your majesty need be
nothing more han an act of oppor-
tunism, calculated more than anything
else to allay the mistrust that pre-
walls among our enemies-the mis-
trust which alone delays the con-
clusion Of that peace for which every
one of your majesty's subjects is
thirsting.
"Thereupon the kaiser, who had
followed Erzberger's words with
earnest attention, replied in the fol-
lowing terms:
AZ this stage 1 awoke."
"HOLD YOUR SHOUT"
is NO INSULT.
Die Glocke of Cologne tells this
story:
"A Cologne butcher hurled the
words Hold your snout' at a woman
who complained that she was kept
waiting in his shop two hours after
all other customers were served with
out ultimately securing any meat.
The woman sued the butcher for
addressing her in insulting terms, but
the judge ruled that the expression,
Hold your snout,' could not be con-
sidered as insulting, and discharged
the, bNtcher."
SOLDIER PREFERS
DEATH TO BRUTALITY.
Further details are given in the
Vienna Arbeiter Zeitung of the sui
eide of Anton MED:
Eight witnesses summoned before.
the Landwehr divisional court gave
corroborative evidence as to Mied's
~Nl-treatment. The man had repeat
eddy been knocked down and kicked
by the lieutenant for the most trivial
lapse of discipline. and finally he de-
clared to his fellow-soldiers, Peter
Knapitch and Blasius Huber, who
also had been brutally assaulted by
the lieutenant, that he had decided to
put an end to his life, as the brutality
Of his commanding officer had become
|intolerable.