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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-02-13
WEEPING GERMAN BOYS.

Cedar Rapids Republican,: A Mis-
souri, valley boy with Pershing' 5
army has written letter to his
mother in which he mentions seeing
four trainIoads of German prisoners
taken by the French. He describes
some of them as mere boys who cried
when they were spoken to, not be-
cause they were taken prisoners, but
| because of what their mothers were
suffering in Germany under the i'm
placable rule of the kaiser and the
war lords. One of the boys had
lived in America-and no doubt, he
will be anxious to get back to his
adopted country, or what was at one
time his adopted country He has liv-
ed under the heel Of the Hohenzol.
lerns and he may be expected to feel
thoroughly Americanized when he
gets back here again. II we had a
few such boys here now they might
teach some of the foolish would-be
Germans in America few lessons.
and the truth. There are a lot of
wculd-be Germans and have-been
Germans in America who still think
that they owe something to the kaiser
or pretend to believe that the kaiser
Is a good and great man--they think
so because they do not know. Not
one of them, not one of the talking
fellows, has tried to get back to Ger
many since the war began and they
won't want to go back after the war
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-02-13
EVEN CROSS, SICK
CHILDREN LOVE
SYRUP Of FIGS
If FEvERlsH, BILIOUS, coNsrL
PATED, GIVE FRUIT LAX. :
ATlVE AT ONCE.

Don't scold your fretful, peeyjsh
child. See if tongue is coated: th Is
is sure sign its little stomach liver
and bowels are clogged with ,our
waste
When listless. pale, feverish. ,u,
of cold, breath bad, throat sore
doesn't eat, sleep or act naturallv
has stomachache, indigestion, diarr
hoea, give a teaspoonful of Cali.
fornia Syrup of Figs" and in a few
hours all the foul waste, the sour bi,a
and fermenting food passes out o..
the bowels and you have well and
playful child again. Children love
harmless fruit laxative" and moth.
ers can rest easy after giving it, be.
cause it never fails to make their
little 'insides" clean and sweet.
Keep it handy, Mother little
given today saves a sick child to-.
morrow. but get the genuine. Ask
your druggist for bottle OF
California Syrup OF Figs" which
has directions for babies, children Of
all ages and for grown-ups plainly on
the bottle. Remember there are
counterfeits sold here, so surely looI,
and see that yours is made by the
California Fig Syrup Company,
Hand back with contempt any other
fig syrup.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-02-13
TIE GERMAN MIND

! tioning obedience. He must be sent
to the attack in mass formations, but
he will go blindly, linking his arms
with his fellows, singing solemnly, in
a state of exalted meekness. When
he is behind the lines, in safety, he will
encourage himself with hymns of hate.
Hatred" said the philosopher, is the
revenge Of the weak" Caught in his
dugout, he will cry Kamerad! KAN
eraGi!" to his captors, and when he is
taken prisoner he will be gentle, Did
dable. hard working, and happy.
For the same reasons he makes a
perfect spy. He will be humble. in
gratiating, as treacherous as an in
/ Inundated child, and servflely free OF
any sense of the obligations Of hospi-
tally His ambassador in a neutral
country will be a faithful servant, dis
guised as gentleman, gathering serv-
ants gossip in plot to betray his host
! His very arrogance is the arrogance
of the servant who is proud of his
master. He will tell you, 'We Ger
mans fear only God" because his very
religion Is religion of fear. If he
were really as devilish as he pretends
F, he would say, "We Germans love only
God" Elm feste Burg list unser
Gott' All of Germany's plundered
past is in that line. Who but an in
! Inundated people, longing for Chin
tese wall, would sing. Our God is a
strong fortress"?' 1t Is this lack of
real courage that makes him contin-
ually boast of his lack of fear. He
DULLES, because he has always been
bullied. He does not understand why
the world will not cringe, and he fails
to understand 1t because he is himself
always inwardly cringing to the auto
Gratis whom he trusts to defend him
from the world
1t is the problem of this war, first
to break the military autocracy in
Germany, and then to set free the
minds of the people. Any attempt to
punish them for their cruelties will
drive them, hereafter, with new tim
idity, into the arms of some new des-
potism They must be treasured of
their safety in the world. They must
be persuaded to dare the responsible
tiles of freedom. These people, who
have never had a revolution in the
whole course of their history, must be
first liberated and forgiven, and then
protected in their freedom and en-
couraged to feel self-respect.
1t is pathetic sort of problem 1t
is a problem that can not be solved in
terms of hatred and revenge. 1t is Pc
culiarly the problem of the American
people, who have nothing to gain from
the defeat of Germany but the safety
of democracy in world politics. and
who can not establish that safety till
Germany is itself true democracy.
unservile and treasured.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-02-13

Harvey O'Higgins: 1t Is not bot
tomless mystery, this outrageous rec
ord of the Germans at war. 1t is a
clearly consistent expression of the
+, servile mind. To understand 1t, you
have only to understand the peaceful
virtues of the people whom Bismarck
called "a nation of house servants"
| They have long been governed by
| the most arrogant of all the governing
classes of Europe-the Prussian mil
itarists. They have submitted with a
touching faith in their oppressive pro-
| tectors. Timid, sentimental, poetic,
and comfort-loving, plundered for cen
turtles by thGr marauding neighbors,
they have been glad to league together
in the German empire with no matter
what loss of personal liberty, under
the domination of their tyrannous war
lords. They have seen in that tyran-
ny their only safety. 1t defended them
Superbly in the procured wars of the
last century, first from their old rivals
the Austrians, and then from their old
conquerers, the French. They believe
that 1t has defended them as efficiently
in the present war; By inspired news
and forged dispatches, they have been
convinced that they were invaded be-
fore this war was declared and they
| still believe it. They believe that they
are fighting in self-defense under the
leadership of an autocracy that is their
only se1f-protection.
And they are fighting as the timid
fight. The man who has been govern
ed by arrogance and has bowed down
to fear is a man who understands no
instrument but cruelty to compel re-
Ispect. He will invariably resort to
frightfulness as his weapon in war.
He will know no compassion. He will
have no dignity-not even the dignity
of pity He will be at once incredibly
cruel and incredibly petty. He will
prosecute noncombatants. outrage wo-
men, mutilate children. lombard hos
pitfalls, till the wounded, torment pris-
oners, cut down fruit trees. and defile
with animal filth what he has not time
to destroy like a discharged servant
taking his revenge on the kitchen. 1t
is inevitable. 1t is in the nature of the
servile mind to do these things and to
fail to see. why they should not be
done.
His officers will order them done, be-
cause it has been by brutality that his
officers have ruled him, and thew will
hope by brutality to rule the world.
And he will do what he is ordered, be-
cause he knows the efficacy of fear in
his own case, and he will hope by
frightfulness to strike fear into his en-
envy.
His instinct of subserviency, in fact.
makes him a perfect military instru-
ment He obeys orders like a devoted
hound. He has the courage of unuues-
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-02-13
NON PARTISAN LEAGUE IN IOWA.

Davenport Democrat: The Greater
Iowa association does not belleVe tnat
the National Nonpartisan league-the
socialistic organization that took
grievance of the North Dakota farmers
and founded a political party on 1t
can make Roadway in Iowa as ~ ulu
in North Dakota. 1t does not DeneVe
that the Iowa farmer can be convinced
that he has bunch of grievances 10
redress nor that the socialists can re-
dress them. The point will be dec1d-
ed in the coming spring, for the
league has recently purchased -oo
automobiles for the use OF canvassers
of Iowas ninety-nine counties, and It's
paid agents will soon be seeking to
collect S1o from every man with d
crouch in Iowa, and from every man
into whom it can shoot the poisonous
virus of envy and class hatred.
In North Dakota the league secured
control of the state, with the exception
of holdover senators, who prevented
their putting their entire program
through the legislature. This program
calls for the running by the state OF
banks, grain elevators, stock yards,
warehouses, flour mills, packing plants
creameries and cold storage and any
other business in which 1t may desire
to engage-and the bonding Of these
enterprises without regard to the debt
limit.
Carried out as proposed, this pro-
gram of course means ultimate bank
ruptcy for the state of North Dakota,
in which case it is the people with
property, and especially those with
property that cannot be moved away.
like the farms, who will have to foot
the bills.
Can such propaganda make head
way in Iowa? Some people do not be-
Iieve so, but they do believe that the
people of Iowa should be amply warn
ed before its agents are touring the
counties of Iowa and collecting their
graft from the gullible. To this task
the Greater Iowa association proposes
to devote its energies during the next
few months, calling for the co-opera-
alton of every patriotic citizen Of the
state. It's plans as presented to
group of Davenporters Monday even
ing will be presented to the citizens of
other communities.
The Nonpartisan league seeks to set
the farmer against the city man and
reawaken prejudices which it has been
the aim Of the best and farthest see.
ing Iowans for years to break down.
City and country are now working to-
gether everywhere in Iowa, recogniz-
ing their mutual interests and joining
hands in various lines Of effort for the
good of the state They must present
a united and harmonious front to the
agents of prejudice and class hatred
who would launch Iowa upon sea of
socialistic experiment which could end
only in shipwreck of the ship of state.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-02-13
DRUGGISTS AND THE TARIFF.

The American Drug Manufacturers associa-
ton has taken the correct attitude toward the
United States tariff commission. The commits
sion was created in response to a demand COM
ing from both political parties, and particularly
from businessmen and manufacturers who be-
!ieve that the tariff should be considered as a
business rather than political question, and
that board charged with the duty of investi-
eating tariff problems and collecting informa-
ton bearing on all phases of the matter would
be helpful to scientific readjustments of Gus
toms regulations. Even those who are dissatis-
6ed with the membership of the board ap-
pointed by the president should make the best
of the situation. Enactment of the tariff COM
mission law an advance movement and it
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-02-13
TODAY'S BIT OF VERSE
THE SECOND VOLUME.


In the groined alcoves of ancient tower
Amid wealth of treasured tones found
A little book, in choicest velum bound;
Therein romance of such magic power
1t held rapt through many tranced hour;
And then, the threads of interest all unwound.
Abruptly closed l searched that palace round
And for its mate still earth's preserves scour,
fPerchance that the whole? Then purposeless
The pain of conflict and the bitter doubt
But half resolved: love in a dire distress,
Deserted, baffled. with its JOY left out!
Could life end, half told-its school so fail?-
Soul, soul there is sequel to thy tale!
Ralph Mowry Bell.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-02-13

Davenport Democrat: It's one thing
to be drowned off the Tuscania, and
another thing to have been rescued
II wouldn't have missed it for any
thing was the enthusiastic declara-
ton of one young soldier. The fact is
that life Is measured by experiences
and not by years, and the boys who do
and dare will have got a lot more out
OF 1t than those who stayed at their
firesides and their counters.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-02-13
The Peoples Interest.

Cedar Rapids Republican: 1t can
hardly be said that the packers are
making good showings for them
selves. But we will all be satisfied
If out of all this muss we shall get
some assurances that these men can
not fix the prices at both ends. Tha'
is the real interest that the people
have in these matters The rest Oh
1t does not amount to so much
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-02-13

Sioux City Tribune: Tatiana and
OLGA Rcmanoff daughters of the form
er car of Russia, are said to be es.
pousing the bolshevist cause and at
tending radical meetings at Tobolsk.
And Mamma Romanoff probably leans
over the banister on Sunday nights
and shouts down to the parlor that It's
II o'clock, just as is done in the best
families everywhere
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-02-13
DEALING WITH THE MIDDLEMAN.

! The middleman was under discussion in con-
gress recently, and while he was under fire
from one quarter he was stoutly defended by
men Of other minds. The question in debate
was the provision in the food -control law en-
towering the secretary of agriculture to in
vestigate and certify through inspectors APP
|pointed for the purpose the soundness OF fruits,
vegetables and other food products received at
central markets Supporters OF the measure
commended that this Necessary for the pro-
lection Of farmers and would secure higher
standard of honesty in dealings between the
producer and the commission merchant to
whom the shipment is consigned. Cases were
cited showing that produce shipped in re
Spouse to alluring circulars Melted the pro
Queer nothing, or loss, because the mddleman
delayed to unload it until it had deteriorated
and then refused to take it at all, alleging
that it had arrived in bad condition. How can
production be encouraged it was forcibly ar
gued, unless such methods can be stopped. We
must utilize our perishable goods to the great
est possible extent if we are to conserve our
non perishable foods for our army and allies.
Whenever producer is prevented from get
ting his produce to the consumer an injury is
done to both
All this is evident and yet, as was pointed
by Congressman Connally, Of Texas, the
clamor about the venaity and crookedness of
the middleman is carried too far by those who
demand his utter destruction. The functions
he performs are necessary to normal healthy
commerce. There must be some agency to buy,
resell and distribute products. IF the govern
ment should abolish the middeman and fail to
furnish substitute, food in the producing cen
ters would rot and people in those centers
would starve The only practicable way is to
permit the middleman, broker, jobber, commits
sion merchant to continue his useful function
and at the same time compel him. as this law
proposes, to act with conscience and fairness to-
wards sellers and buyers alike 1t is argued
that act enabling shippers to obtain imme-
diate government inspection of their consign-
ments in cases where such action seemed to be
called for would have effect to check the
vicious practices of minority who bring dis
credit on a business that is honestly conducted
as a rule. All classes of the people, growers,
carriers consumers and fair dealing middlemen
are equally concerned to have this done.
The bolshevi1i have taken to themselves
Rumania's gold reserve which they found in a
Moscow bank, saying they will keep it for the
Rumanian people. This ''want mora bust
business Of bolshevism seems to be practical
after all.
Great idea! One of the farm labor experts at
Washington knows how to keep young men on
the farms. He says all our college girls are to
be conscri pied for farm service next summer.
After the and navy departments have
told the people all the real news, will Mr.
Creel's bureau continue to function?
The United States bureau of labor reports
that food prices dropped four per cent in July
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-02-13
A Tip to CONGRESS.

Syracuse Post-Standard: If the two
houses of congress would keep their
attention fixed upon the war, no.
upon the congressional elections OF
next fall, they would get more WORK
done.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-02-13

would fan stamp this vital deeply in your minds
Believe whatever of dignity. whatever of strength
have within will dignity and will make strong the la
Dor hands; whatever ltteness degrades spirit
will lessen them and drag them down. Whatever noble fire
is in hearts will also work; whatever
ty is will chasten for are,
work u.s. and what in lives, that beyond doubt
shall reap good i'll in the strengthening
defacng Of whatever gifts have fallen to our loLeish
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-02-13

While New York is some distance
from the fighting front, vehicular Wal
continues undated. During Januais
33 persons were killed by vehicles on
the streets. The number of ''wounueu
and missing" is not given.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-02-13
ALI La Well.

Sioux Falls Argus-Leader: IL
pointed out that the kaiser is holdlns
his own. He started the war VIII
six sons and has all six. stu uli
wounded, well fed, and happy. "na'
much?
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-02-13
IOWA PRESS COMMENT.

Marshalltown Times-Republican
Few of us realize how differently we
live than others. When rioters in
Petrograd wanted booze they broke
into the wine cellar of church.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-02-13

In a recent thunder storm at Little
Rock 10 mallard ducks in flight were
killed by lightning and dropped into
a farmyard.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-02-13

Cedar Rapids Republican: In some
political newspapers the June primar-
les are good for column any day
and the war gets a stickful. Thanks
for the stickful.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-02-13

burlington Hawk-Eye There are
many ways in which thrift may be de-
veloped and exercised that are un-
known paths to the people who have
never practiced thrift. And some of
these find it no small pleasure explor-
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-02-13

is over. They are not the fighting
kind, they are the talking kind. And
they want to talk for Germany while
enjoying the benefits of America.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-02-13

Great idea! One Of the farm labor experts at
Washington knows how to keep young men on
the farms. He says all our college girls are to
be conscri pied for farm service next summer.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-02-13

After the war and navy departments have
told the people all the real news, will Mr..
Creel's bureau continue to function9
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-02-13

The United States bureau of labor reports
that food prices dropped four per cent in July
but neglects to state in what century.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-02-13

ing these heretofore unfamiliar
ways.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-02-13

The bosheviH have taken to themselves
Rumania's gold reserve which they found in a
Moscow bank, saying they will keep it for the
Rumanian people. This ''want more" bust
business Of bolshevism seems to be practical
after all
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-07-17
English Blind Men Learn
to "See" at St. DunStan'S

Great School Regents Park London, Where Blind Sol
diers Learn to Make Living and Also Learn How to
Have Pleasure Arthur Pearson Their Blind Leader
and Director-FIs Idea of Raising Fund for the Chill
of Blind Men Who Marry.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-07-17
FINISH Quotations.

Boys and girls. young men and women
should make their plans now To 20 on
with their education next year-they
should not consider remaining out Of
school TO enter INTO other definite war
service, declared Dr. p. P. Claxton,
Commissioner Of Education
The experience Of European coun-
tres since the beginning Of the world
war has led not only their educators but
their statesmen as we'll TO emphasize the
great importance of maintaining their
schools as nearly as possible at the full
measure Of efficiency and Of keeping the
children IN school.
when the war began four years ago.
some or all Of these countries permitted
children 70 leave school 10 enter the
industries connected directly or indirectly
with the war service. But they soon
discovered their mistake and have since
done all that they can to correct it.
Through personal representatives from
these countries and through correspond
ence the Bureau of Education and other
educational Offices in the United States
have been.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-07-17
AMERICAN TELEPHONE GIRLS
WELL CARED FOR IN FRANCE

The following letter has been received
by the Signal Corps from an officer who
Is connected with the American women's
telephone unit on duty with the American
expeditlonary forces in France, a fourth
unit of which has just sailed.
THE members of the first and second
units have been on the job for some time
and are doing excellent work When the
members of the first unit arrived and took
their places at several OF our posts, com
pliments began to comeIin and the girls
surely proved themselves worthy Of
them. The operators of the secon unit
are working equally hard. We now have
these operators distributed in seven
different posts We are looking for the
operators of the third unit within few
days.
''The girls at general headquarters
are living in a four-story structure which
Is new and modern in every particular
and was first occupied by our girls. We
are under great obligations to the Amer
lean Y W. c. A. in France for the splendid
cooperation and support it is giving the
Signal Corps IN housing the girls At
Paris there are twenty operators and they
are located temporarily at the Hostess
House, which is hotel operated b., the
Y. W G. A. They are preparing nov to
tate over building for our girls, placing
one of their secretaries In charge, the
same as has been done at general head
quarters, so that the girls will be better
situated than they are now At this post
We also have about twenty girls. and the
Y W G.. A. has taken over IA hotel hich
is now being renovated and furnished for
their use A secretary of the \ ". {. A.
is in charge here
AT the other posts the accom- modations
vary In some cases we have rented
houses for the girls, which they are con