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a separate body of citizens The last two
classes have been especially opposed by the
Polish government.
''The Poles have recently formulated two
popular charges against the Jews. First,
that they specialized in foodstuffs and cloth
ing raised prices and worked into the hands
of the Germans; second, that they attempted
to get Lemberg included in Ukrainian terri
tory for the alleged purpos eof securing
Ukraine for themselves. These two reasons
have been the cause Of pogroms, but these
disorders have been limited and only few
persons have been killed.
In Lemburg, however, there seems little
doubt that the Jews failed to support the
Poles in defending the place; if they did not
actually help the Ukrainians with money
and men,
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THOSE EUROPEAN JEWS

1IS highly COnlmonOdDlo OIL Cuo pdIJ VI
William Howard Taft to speak out in meet
ing in defense Of the oppressed Jews through
out Europe who, according to reports in
the press from time to time, have had trou
bles enough and it should be remedied by
the Peace Conference if such be possible.
Mr.. Taft s plea is as follows:
The earnest effort Of the Jaws of the
United States to induce our executive to
remedy the intolerable condition of their
coreligionists in the backward countries Of
Europe has often been met and defeated by
the argument that our government cannot
interfere with the domestic affairs Of an
other nation
This argument has little if any applica-
ton to the present situation. There is much
evidence accommodating to show that the po-
groms and abuses Of the Jews continue in
the countries where they have heretofore
existed, and that the chaotic and lawless
condition in these countries has offered an
opportunity for the cruel qualification of
race and religious prejudice.
On the whole it is not too much to say
that the people Of the Jewish race have
suffered more in this war non-combatants
than any other people unless it be the Ser
bans and the Armenians. In Poland and
in Galicia the true story of their agonies
and losses is heartrending.
Now we five nations who are to draft the
treaty at Versailles, are setting up govern
ments in Poland, in the Ukraine and in the
Baltic provinces In all Of these the Jewish
population is a substantial percentage of
the whole.
In their sad story we find the Jews in the
middle ages seeking refuge from the OPP
preston and cruelty of Western Europe and
rushing to the great empire of Poland, then
stretching from the Baltic Sea to the Black
sea- to take advantage Of charter of re-
ligious tolerance and opportunity granted
by one of the liberal Polish kings. The
Polish kingdom and large part of it was
turned over to Russia, which ground the Jews
under it's tyrannous heel
That is why half of the 100000 Jews
living in the world at the beginning of this
war were to be found in the Russian pale
in which Jews were permitted to live, to
which they were limited, and which was
practically coterminous with the territory
which Russia had taken from old Poland.
One of the great projects of this congress
Of powers at Versailles is to set up indie
pendent governments in these territories Of
the Jewish pale. We shall be derelict in
our duty if we do not require part of
the fundamental law of these new republics
that the Jews shall have as great religious
freedom as they have in the United States.
But we must do more. We must have
league of nations to see to it that such funda-
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WHAT OF THE COLORED MAN?

And thus are the great men OF the United
States among the whites moved to rise in
defense of the Jews, and their words are
taken up by the all powerful public press
and taken to the utmost ends Of civilization
that public opinion may be moulded accord
ingly and we hope it may, for wherever
human being is oppressed by another the
evil should be remedied during this great
reckoning period. But Mr. Taft have you
nothing to say for the betterment Of the con-
dition Of the thirteen million colOred persons
in the United States, the majority of whom
are in the former eleven states of the South,
where they have neither civil or political
rights, yea not even human rights-not given
the same protection of life, liberty and the
pursuits Of happiness as the fishes Of the
sea, the fowls of the air or the beasts of
burden? Have you no plea to make Mr..
Taft for the multiplied hundreds Of col
Ored folk, who have been ynched without
judge or jury? Have you no condemnation
for the hundreds Of white men in Georgia
from the best homes of that community, all
Christian gentlemen(?) and more or less
college bred, who, because colOred woman
protested against the lynching Of her inno-
cent husband, strung her up by the heels,
dsembOweing her and then stamping into
mincemeat the unborn baby that rolled from
her stomach? Can you not have the all
powerful press register your protest against
a colored woman being tarred and feathered
and driven in a nude state through the
streets Of Vicksburg? Why, Mr.. Taft do you
not condemn in unmeasured terms your
brother Charlie and others all over the
North, who will not prevent colored persons
to ride in their passenger elevators? Say
something to the world through the powerful
press condemning the practice all over this
country of refusing colored persons employ
ment even though competent and thereby
forcing all Of them to 'hustle" for an exist
ence. Have no fear, Mr.. Taft, that if you
do all Of these things and if the World and
his family follow in your wake that "your
daughter will have to marry Niger. Re-
member, Mr.. Taft, that the average colored
man has no more desire to marry your
daughter than you have to marry his. It's
not social equality that the coored folk
want, but judicial equality The colored
man wants the same protection from the
flag that is given to the white man. He has
fought as hard for it and in proportion to
their number as many have died for it. TO
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enforced We find full precedent for such
a provision in the law in the treaty made by
the congress at Berlin in which Bulgaria and
Rumania were established as independent
countries Rrmania, which had long been
henous sinner against the Jews was forced
by the Berlin congress to accept as part Of
it's constitution declaration that there
should be complete religious freedom and
that no citizen should be Disseminated
against on account Of his religion in any
respect.
The Rumanian government had the a1-
dacity, after incorporating the guaranty in
it's fundamental law to declare and hold
that Jews who had lived in Rumania for
200 or 800 yeras, father and son. were not
citizens, but were aliens In this way the
protection of the Jews provided for in the
treaty of Berlin was fiouted and this was
after Rumania had secured recognition as
a government on an additional promise Of
fair treatment of the Jews.
Let us have no farcical result in working
out this treaty at Versailles.
Could we find stronger argument for
the continuance of our league of nations
gress in 1879 under the presidency of Bis
marck to carry out it's declared purpose?
If there be any people who should be earnest
ly in favor Of league of nations as the out
growth and the condition of this treaty now
being framed at Versailles, the Jews are
that people,.
Whether Mr.. Taft's accusations against
the various European powers be correct is
question as may be seen from the follow
ing press report of but recent date:
"While there has been talk in the outside
world Of disorderly conditions in Poland,
it would seem that there have been gross
eXaggerations as to conditions here I'm
biased and semineutral opinion is expressed
to the correspondent by Leon Coldstand, a
member Of the Polish conservative party, al
though Jew, who said: "The whole agi-
tatlon seems to me to be largely manufac-
tured and based on false rumors
From what [ know, I believe these ru-
mors were started by a large number of
Jews interested in securing peculiar political
rights of their own,' he continued ''It is
my opinion that if the Jews would accept
Polish nationality and act in the interest of
Poland, they would be adopted as political
equals by every one
During German occupation of Poland
Jews were employed as food buyers and
army furnishers by the German army Of
fcers. They grew rich by this work and
there is now a natural suspicion among the
Poles that the Jews wished to defeat the at
tempt to unite Poland and that they are act
ing as tools for the Russian Bolshevil1i''
Prof. b. Romer of the University of Cra-
cow pointed out that there is no doubt that
there is large number Of Jews in Poland
who are attempting to claim international
citizenship.
There are three parties Of Jews in Po-
land, - he said. "Those wishing to be Poles;
Zlonlsts wishing to establish themselves in
Palestine, but privileged to travel and live
elsewhere, and Nationalist, by which I mean
those wishing to live among the Poles, but
having to live among the Poles, but having
special privileges which would make them
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-23
of it. The uncomfortable sacrifices expected OF
us should be cheerfully met. The little we are
asked to do should be gladly done.
DAYLIGHT SAVING, TOO.

There is good promise that the house OF rep
resentatives will enact the daylight saving bill
which Senator Calder Of New York, put
through the senate last June Speaker Clark
and the house leaders of both parties are IN Ia
vor of this important conservation measure
We wish human nature was such that IN or
der to carry out the object in view, we could
simply start operations an hour earlier and
keep faith with the sun. We sadly realize that
it isn't, and that the government regulation OF
standard time is necessary in order to bring
about national adoption OF the practlce II
the clock were set ahead an hour in one city and
not in another, or in one state and not IN anoth-
er. the result would be injurious to business and
industry Uniformity of practice is desirable
in daylight saving The government has no
power to compel industry to begin and close the
dairy Stint an hon t esr ffsf itoagh it can and
- .eznnosar;!y. shut off in a large part OF the
country sufficient supply of coal Necessary TO
carry on normal operations. 1t has the power
to turn the hands of the clock ahead, and dur
ing the months when the days are longest, it IS
proposed to do this
It is not experimental The daylight saving
plan is already in operation in many European
countries, and economists report great saving
in fuel as a result.
When the law goes into operation we shall
find our morning nap slightly curtailed, but this
will be more than offset by the hour we gain
of rest and playtime in the fine sunshine OF
summer afternoons.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-23
TO Darkega Hair
Apply Sage Te'
Look Young! Bring Back h
Natural Color, Gloss and
Attraetiveness.

Common garden sage brewed
a heavy tea, with sulphur added,
turn gray, streaked and faded !
beautifully dark and luxuriant
a few applications will prove a Il
lation if your hair is fading. strea
or gray. Mixing the Sage Tea
Sulphur recipe at home, though,
troublesome. An easier way is to
a bottle of Wyeth's Sage and sui
Compound at any drug store all II
for use. This Ms the old-time re
improved by the addition Of othel
gradients.
While wispy, gray. faded hair is
sinful. we. all desire to retain
youthful appearance and attrac,
ness. BY darkening your hair J
Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur Compo
no one can tell, because it does
naturally, so evenly. You Just d.
en- a sponge or soft brush with it
draw this through your hair, ta
one small strand at a time: by n
ing all gray hairs have disappes
and, after another application or
your hair becomes beautifully
glossy. soft end luxuriant.
This preparation is delisl
toilet requisite and is not intel
for the cure, mitigation or prever
OF disease.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-23
AN AMAZING CRIME.

New York World No surprise need
be felt that enc desperate criminal
could rob bank in a Kansas army
camp and kill four men. 1t could hap
pen anywhere; the sole condition is
unexpectedness.
Captain Whistler had his uniform as
a guarantee of his acts and motives.
One of the men he killed was a long
time friend. None of his victims could
have suspected evil intent until he got
the drop upon them. TO disobey the
order Hands up!" from an armed
man skilled in the use of his weapon
is not courage but foolhardiness.
Given a man grimly resolved and, as
his own letter says, seeking an excuse
for suicide, no force of soldiers within
call could prevent a tragedy when the
fact that he was recognized was fore
ed upon his attention. 1t rested upon
- esEsn impulse CT the moment wheth
-sssc~ ms should Kill and take chance or
. be certainly caught and punished.
lak5ttt ia the mans own nature, or
/ in his circumstances, said thumbs
down"
/ That something was the essential
element in this amazing crime Men
do not commonly act thus Men go
about their daily work in the conf
dence that other men, known or un-
known, will not act thus. That feeling
is what lifts us above the cave men,
Something of the cave man survives
in every one; it is a question Of de-
gree. Developed as in this unfortunate,
lit is an abnormality that most men
will call insanity. We have seen a ma
! ton develop and manifest the trait.
in persons it is fortunately rare The
daily life OF civilization could not go
forward if such apparently unaccount-
able reversions to ancient type were
not the remote, the undreamed Of and
the exceptional.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-23
GAS, HEAR BURI
INDIGESTION Dl'
A SICK STOMI|
"PAPE'S DlAPEPSINn nr,,.,
STOMACH DISTRESS IN ~
FIVE MINUTES !"

Time 1t! Pape's Dianer,,.
sweeten sour. gassy or o,,t.o,.
stomach within Ave mintes
II your meals don't fit comso,,
or what You eat lies like lnms
lead in your stomach, OF II WOW
heartburn. that is usually q ii
acidity of the stomach.
Get from your pharmacist q A.
case of Pape's Diapepsin and
a dose just as soon as you can n
viii be no sour risings, no belchsJ
undigested food mixed with aos
stomach gas or heartburn, fullns.]
heavy feeling in the stomach n.,]
facilitating headaches or di7,,J
This will all go, and. besides, tbe,a
be no sour food left over in the \
ach to poison your breath win
1s 5Gors. ~
Pape's Diapepsin helps to neut,
the ,eyceSsiye. acid in the 81,
wiifas 1lyl @1aDllk..-S the food ferms
ton and preventing proper diees,s
Relief in five minutes, is waitin,
you at any drug store.
These large fifty cent cases en-,
enough "Pape's Diapepsin" to u,
keep the entire family free from !,
ach acidity and its symptoms Of
gestion, dyspepsia. sourness, :,
heartburn, and headache, for Il
months. 1t belongs in your home
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-23
WE ARE MERELY INCoNVENIENCED

There are Americans who seem to think that
meatless and wheatless days. the cost of living,
the inconvenience of travel and the scarcity OF
fuel are serious hardships which they have a
right to resent. They do not realize how light
they are how absurdiy insignificant and unim-
portant, compared with the miseries the war
has brought on other lands A trustworthy Oh
server who left Germany late in December gives
AN account of economic conditions there COM
pared with which our trifling annoyances are
not worth mention For the great mass of the
population in Berlin, he declares, there is hard
IL any light, warmth. clothing or shoes, and
the lack Of food is appalling. A ham costs nine
tv dollars, and other necessaries, when obtain
able at all, cost fabulous sums which only the
wealthy few can afford to pay. The work of
the city is carried on by miserable women and
decrepit men; and he saw coal cart driven by
Russian prisoner and four women literally in
rags carrying the bags of coal into a house.
We of America must economic in various
WAYS 1t may not always be easy to heat our
entire houses as we used to and we are asked to
limit our consumption of certain foods. Nobody
starves: nobody freezes in WORKOUT rags; no
body is condemned 10 filthy garments for lack
of soap In all our land there is little real
privation, little of actual furnishing want; and
no person goes hungry who makes his condition
known No town or city is without municipal
and private charities for the relief of real dis
tress. IF any city allowed a single family to
starve to death, fingers of scorn would be
pointed at it everywhere in the land. We have
no crushing miseries here but only inconveni-
ences We do not begin to appreciate what this
war is bringing to other peoples of earth, and
happily may never have realizing conception
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-23
EDITORIAL REckLEssNEss.

Cedar Rapids Gazette: Some days
since a citizen of Cedar Rapids brought
to the Gazette office clipping from a
Kansas weekly newspaper The edit
or intimated that local boys might
have been members of the firing
squad" who executed a physician at
Fort Riley for inoculatinS soldiers
with spinal meningitis. The Cedar
! Rapids man is an ex-Kansan and no
doubt has. friends at Riley. The pur-
port of the item was to alarm rela-
tives and friends of soldiers in that
camp--to cause needless pain, to dis
courage enlistments and to break the
morale of the people at home. 1t was
German propaganda, and on the face
of it so intended. The prevention of
an enlistment serves Germany just as
well as a soldier in the hospital or
even as soldier dead.
Just what happened to cause that
editor to write a letter to this particu-
lar Cedar Rapids subscriber, in which
he admitted that the item was false
but claimed to have copied it in part
from a Denver daily, need not be set
forth here. The editor explained that
the officers at Fort Riley had, in his
case. been courteous" but he created
Tie tlidl Iuty HAVE
been firm He should have been com
PEELED to write personal letter to
each OF his subscribers recanting the
canard, and in addition should have
been required to make a public div
avowal in convenient hall
An Iowa weeHly is at hand with
more German propaganda. asserting
as a fact, not as a rumor or surmise.
that rich private soldiers at Camp
Dix, Wrightstown, New Jersey, are al
lowed to have their uniforms made OF
broadcloth and to invest in fancy trim
mings. The paper is published at a
point from which recruiting has been
slack Volunteering was rather back
ward. The reason should be under
stood. German editor of English blood
and language, printing an enemy pa
per in Iowa. That editor knows his as
sertion is false. He knows that cloth
and style Of uniforms are rigid1y fixed.
He knows that the uniform OF the pri-
vate is untrimmed and that ii displays
no ornamentation. If he should be
called upon for an explanation he
need not be surprised. He has ac-
cused the commanding officer at Camp
Dix of favoritism for wealth and OF
fragrant violation of regulations. These
old West Pointers are touchy on such
points of honor, and some citizen or
government agent might possibly re-
fer the editorial for inspection. II the
editor should be allowed to explain by
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-23
NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION
To whom it may concern:

To whom it may concern:
Notice is hereby given that all
annual stockholders meeting, /
held on January Is, 1918, at W
meeting a majority of the stoc3
said company was present in 2e1
and quorum was present ana by]
articles of incorporation authorHa1
take the action herein referred Y
was unanimously voted that the
kuk Hydraulic Tire Setter Comp
be dissolved, said vote being hsa
accordance with the articles q
corporation and in pursuance o.
statutes of the state OF Iowa.
notice of dissolution of the comp
and the surrender of its charle
given by authority of its stockhoa
Keokuk. Iowa. January 10, lsis
KEOKUK HYDRAULIC. .
TIRE SETTER COMPANN..
BY G. A. DEVERO, Presld
Attest:
p. T. PECHsTBIN. Secretary.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-23
TODAY's BIT OF VERSE

FRIENDS.
Little they who say--"Two staid old souls
Boring each other, for their days are long!"
Faith may that act the roles
Assigned us, well--but ah, the world is wrong!
We a pleasure in od-fashioned ways
e chairs back from the fire,
And linger tales of other days,
While each for each a regard inspire.
Matches are cheap-a great pile by chair
Shows where your thoughts when told that
While smoked on, filed the peaceful air
With rare tobacco fumes the wife calls "stale!"
sBorng each other!"-Ah, the joke Of it
For when part, it's reluctantly,
10 each, though quietly sit
And watch the hours go passing silently.
Anon.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-23

You help your felIowmen, you must help your rel
lowmen; but the only help them Is by beng
nobiest that it is possible Tor to BE-
watch the workman the building which by and by
to into the Skies to toss its pnnaees up to the
heaven, and him looking up and wondering where
those pnnacIes be- measuring the feet wondering
how they to be built; and all the time he is examining
brick building Just where he has been get
work. Let him forget the pinnacfes If he WILL or hold
only floating image Of them for his inspration but
thing do put strong honest and sub
stantai life into the building just where he is now at
Work-Phips Brooks.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-23

mail. if he should find the same degree
of pleasing courtesy as the Kansas
brother, he should consider himself
fortunate. That would be a whole lot
nicer than taking jaunt with a dep
uty marshal to make his explanation
in person and to be treated as q dis
tinguished citizen sof Iowa. Gradually
the idea that the United States is at
war may gain entrance to the minds
of professional politicians who would
stab the nation-fo two votes the stab.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-23
No Mail Robbery.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service. /
NTW YORK, Jan 23-Reported
theft of eight mail sacks supposed to
hold registered mail containing mon
ey and valuables worth from s125.000
to $1,000,000 from a postoff1ce truck
ON ferry boat January 7 for which
last Saturday a former mail driver
was arrested and put under $4,000
bail, blew up with loud bang when
the missing sacks were found in the
.postoffice-
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-23
Fair Enounh.

Humboldt Republican: Not to be
indicative or small or mean, but it
occurs to us that it will be just and
right to teach German in United
States schools when Germans teach
United States in German schools.
But let's not do 1t before.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-23
Voice Of the People

1.-THE Gate City does not assume re
sponsibility for views expressed b,
correspondents. Writers Of communi
cations must furnish their Names
not necessarily for publication. bu'
for the information OF the oditoY.l
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-23
Fly the Fla q.

To the Editor of The Gate City
We are behind the cities of Iowa
in our patriotic demonstrations. Let
us bestir ourselves. More American
flags all over the city, especially on
Main street.
w. B. COLLINS
Keokuk. Iowa, Jan IS, 1917