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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-06-07

FOR SALE-One horse, age about IA
years old. price for quick sale. $40
Enquire ]. p. Hedrick or phone 3 566
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-06-07
Welcome Club Opening.

Society has welcomed the opening
of the Country club this year with
more eagerness than for many sea-
sons past due perhaps to the fact
that there have been so few social
events since war relief work has TAX
en- up time.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-06-07

WAHCEED-2 traimen. Apply at Cal
barn at once. Keokuk Electric Co.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-06-07

FOR SALE-One 1917 seven passen.
ger Overland, one 1917 Ford truck,
both in first class shape. See 3. E.
Fuller, 23 South Third
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-06-07
FOR SALE.

FOR SALE-Lot on corner 9Th and
Fulton For Particulars see Geo.
Witch. % So. 9Th.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-06-07

FOR SALE-On river road or boule-
ward, fronting Lake keokuk. One
acre tract, and one 2 acre tract
with beautiful shade trees An ideal
place for country home. Write +.
&c. Rockwell, Del Rio, Texas, for
prices.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-06-07

WANTED-Boy to work in ice cream
factory part of time, white or col
ored. w. II. Seigfried, lila Main st
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1918-08-09
SLEPT LATE THAT MORNING
Traveller in Sleeping Car Had HE
Own Reasons for Not Wanting to
Turn Out Early.

A certain well-known local artist
who threatens dire doings if we use
his real name and who is in position
to make good-was returning to Cleye-
land from Columbus the other night
He had a lower berth, and when he re-
tired he noted that there was nobody
a the berth above him.
The evening was chilly and our friend
soon perceived the need of another
blanket. He thought of the berth
above, reached his hand up and pulled
a blanket down. 1t came hard, but he
got 1t; and in few minutes he was
comfortably asleep. But not before he
had wondered what made the blanket
so nice and warm around the neck,
There's no use In trying to work up
to a climax in this yarn. The man
from whose sleeping form that blanket
had been dragged awoke with loud
complaints later in the night. And his
words were so violent that our artist
friend feared to get up in the morn
ing, until all but him had fled, as the
old song hath it.-EXchange.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1918-08-09

my housework. Ny baby when seven
months old weighed 10 pounds and feel
better than have for a long time. i
never had any medicine do me so
much good. Mrs. PEARL MOUNTAIN.
Mitchell, Ind.
Good health during maternity is q
most important factor to both mother
and child, and many letters have been
received by the Lydia E. Pinkham
Medicine Co., Lynn, Mass, telling Of
health restored during this trying period
by the use of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1918-08-09

Nearly every motion-picture theater
in the country is enlisted in the cam
paign of the United States employ
ment service of the department of
labor to supply labor to the farms.
Eleven of the largest motion-picture
manufacturers are cooperating with
the farm service division in its drive
for maximum food production. These
film producers are releasing to their
subscribers-the Understanding pic
ture etrailers," calling on all those
who possibly can do so to volunteer
for harvest work and other forms Of
emergency farm labor.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1918-08-09

A girl was asked to parse "kiss,"
and this was her result: ''This word
Is noun. but it is usually used as
a conjunction. 1t is never declined
and is more common than proper. 1t
is not very singular. in that 1t is usu-
ally used in the plural. 1t agrees
with me-"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1918-08-09

The department of agriculture suG.
gests to farmers gas attack on bean
and pea weevils, which annually de
stroy millions of dollars worth Of
valuable food and feed. Use carbon
disulphid. The weevil has not discov.
cred the advantage of a gas mask.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1918-08-09

Up to the time of writing according
to French estimates, the Germans had
used 45 divisions on the scissors
Reims front, some Of them having been
brought into action several times. Ber-
lin claimed to have taken $4,000 pris-
oners, while those captured by the
allies were said to number $4,000.
The object Of each army has been to
kill as many as possible of it's oppo-
nents.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1918-08-09

German prisoners, it is said, are
deeply depressed by the failure of the
crown princes drive and the success
of Foch's offensive. They now realize
the strength of the American arms,
and the people in Germany also are
beginning to learn the truth about
that, despite the attempts of the lead
ers and the press to minimize it and
to excuse the army's severe reverse.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1918-08-09

While Mr.. Hoover is in Europe con
ferring with other food controllers
the food administration has cut the
monthly allowance of sugar to tive
pounds per person, and warns the
country is threatened with serious
sugar fdmine. The wheat situation Is
better dnd citizens are released from
the voluntary pledge to 10 without
that cereal
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1918-08-09

during the time I
was lookingforward
to the coming of my
little one that I am
recommending it to
other expe CT ant
mothers. Be fore
taking it, somebody's
1 suffered with neu.
ralgia so badly that
I thought 1 could
not live, but after
taking three bottles
of Lydia E. Pink
hams v e ge table
Compound | was en-
tirely relieved of
neuralgia, / had
gained in strength
and was able to go
around and do all
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1918-08-09

Miss Mary Van Kleeck, director OF
the women in industry serrice of the
department of labor, announces the
creation of committee of experts.
The committee will visit various
centers where women have been drawn
into industries at work on war con,
tracts. Hazards such as the use Of
industrial poisons will be inquired into
with reference to their effect on the
health of the women employed, and
whether the effect is so detrimental as
to justify an order prohibiting such
employment.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1918-08-09
MOTHERS
TO BE
Should Read Mrs. Monyhan's
Letter Published by
Her Permission.

Mitchell, Ind.-"Lydia E. Pinkhan's
Vegetable Compound helped me SO much
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1918-08-09

The love that dwells in cdttage
could never thrive off terrapin sapJ
champagne.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1918-08-09

Summer Diarrhoeas
can be controlled more quickly with GRoYBf
BABY BOWEL MEDICINE and 1t Is absolutclg
harmless Just as effective for Adults as fol-
Children.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-24

barism and cruelty for the love Of humanity,
for the peace of the world. 1t is true that
we were engaged four five times in for
eign war, but we had no intrigues, no evil
designs, no ambitious policy. There are no
records in our history pointing to any war
that was waged from motives of avarice or
subjugation or mere conquest. This is our
pride.
Japan is Buddhist country, and on this
account she harbors antagonistic or
hateful feeling toward Christian nations,
for it is against the Spirit of Buddhism.
But the following report, full of ,incredibili-
ties, has reached US recently, and we cannot
help considering how such things could ever
happen. The report runs: Just because the
Oriental peoples are not Christians, the
German Emperor has been bending his eff
forts by various contrivances to arouse
among his own subjects hostile sentiment
against us. For instance, the Kaiser or
dered certain we'll designed picture and
it's copies to be distributed among the gym
nasiums throughout his country. The in
tent of the picture was to get all the Eu-
ropean powers united for the conquest Of
Buddhist nations. .
New-York tribune., 1918-11-24
And So Drove the German Peonle
Into the Ruthless Politics
of Trade

the best fed and the most comfortable Of
all seafaring men. Before becoming an
American labor agitator Mr.. Furuseth had
been a Scandinavian sailor himself and
knew the hardships of the life he wished to
amelioriate. No doubt an excellent seaman
Mr. Furuseth was as ignorant of economics
as an American Congressman, and the re-
suit of his interference with trade laws was
the reduction of American shipping to coast
wise traffic.
Inverse processes had been at work in
Germany for a generation. Long hours Of
labor, low wages and low standards of
living were the rule in the empire for the
working classes, who found no hardship on
shipboard by comparison. What Mr.. Furu-
seth and his friends in Congress did not
realize was that freight seeks the lowest
level in cost. German shipping, with less
man power per n, and with that man power
costing half the American scale Of wages,
had the advantage of being cheap in itself.
With long hours and low wages, iron and
coal could be dug from the lands stolen
from France by Bismar for almost moth
ing. With long hours and low wages, ships
could be built in Germany for less than
they would cost in America. Moreover, the
imperial government was ever ready to
subsidize an industry it meant to control.
Men like the late Herr Ballin, of the
Hamburg American Line, were perfectly
aware of the advantage to be derived from
carrying your manufacturing competitors
freight, and, Jew though he was, Ballin was
in high favor at Berlin go long as he proved
useful in aiding to create and direct
mighty mercantile feet.
Almost from the beginning, Bismarcks
empire was protectionist, welcoming the i'm
portation of raw material to be worked UP
by cheap labor and practically prohibiting
the import Of manufactured goods, unless
for some special and temporary purpose,
but it was protection for the monopolists,
not for the workmen. The zollverein, or
tariff agreement of March l, 1905, embraced
all Germany, the Grand Duchy of Luxem-
burg and the Austrian communes of Jung
holz and Mittelberg.
From this date German shipping began
to rule the world, for she was able to en-
courage or repress home manufactures at
will arrange and monopolize trade routes
except for the we'll defined paths of British
intercolonsl trade, and juggle freight rates
to the destruction of her enemies and her
own great profit And the idea of propa-
ganda was ever present. Passenger traffic
was encouraged by abundance of food and
comfort and obsequious service. Praise Of
German methods would have a cash value,
even if the passenger were carried at a
loss. Up to the invasion of Belgium Ger
man import and export trade, based on low
wages, protected against foreign competi-
ton, encouraged by freight discrimination
and subsidies, always showed handsome
balance in favor of the empire.
In 1913 Germany's imports were approx
mately sl.176993 500. subject to duties
which averaged 19 per cent, and 81 515,-
New-York tribune., 1918-11-24

profit The entire consular and diplomatic
service lent itself to these little schemes,
whether legitimate or otherwise, and the
German navy was ever ready to collect by
force, except in rare instances, as when
Theodore Roosevelt warned the Kaiser to
keep his hands of.
Truly, the achievements Of the Hanseatc
League. with It's enforced celibacy, its tyr
amy over tho weak, its demand for the
freedom of the seas in order to sell contra
band to a belliGerent, and its enforcement
OF blockade against q peaceful commercial
rival. It's wars against kings. It's corruption
funds and ita whole bag of trade tricks,
we're but child's play. Building on Hansa
foundations, the new German trade organi-
zaton quickly became gigantic power out
lending, undertaking. buying rsw material,
working 1t up with cheap labor, corrupting
neutrality-suspicious. advancing Kultur
with outpost colonies and nowhere giving
evidence of the slightest concern for the
welfare of the communities with which 1t
dealt.
No longer celibate, tho German business
man OF to-day is expected to dispense "ge-
muthlichkeit" wherever he may settle, and
conform, outwardly, at least, 20 the man
ners of the country. In Hayti, where the
white man WAS not permitted to own land
or transact q retail business up to q few
years ago, he evaded the law by marrying
a Haytian woman and transacting business
in her name. In Latin America, where the
religion is nominally Catholic, the German
trader was rarely a Protestant. Where two
or three were gathered together a brewery
was organized, and as adjuncts to the brew
cry came singing societies. rife clubs and,
with the spread Of Kultur, little subsidized
German language publications.
The Hansa had Germanized Livonia and
a large part of the territory around Nov
gorod before being driven out of Russia
In Brazil they had so mastered the State
Of Sac Pauo that, until disarmed, they
were able to threaten the overwhelmingly
pro-Ally republic with revolution.
In places where they had less physical
power, as in New York, they were "open-
minded and ready to argue" whero the JUS
tice and fair dealing and peace loving
character OF the people and their divinely
appointed rulers was questioned.
In America they fawned upon The rresi-
dent when he opined that there might be
occasions when we would be too proud to
fight and when he insisted that the Amer
lean people should be neutral in thought
as we'll as in deed. Up to within few
New-York tribune., 1918-11-24
Even the German
~ Is Onto Himself

The German mind can even detect the
weaknesses of its own ratiocinative proc
esses after a century or of reflection.
The Holy Roman Empire destroyed by Ma
poleon had lacked authority over its COM
ponent states. The new empire must, there
fore. be autocratic. The old struggle for
trade supremacy had failed because the
merchants had fought alone. Therefore, all
the powers of the new empire must be COM
bined under a central direction.
Ancient political machinery and ancient
commercial organization we're not to be
scrapped. but modernized. Two powers
were to march together, spreading Kultur
10 the remotest parts of the earth, one and
indivisble. thousand minds may have
been concerned in this dual but unified
architectural design. The plans approved
by Bismarck were the result of evolution
and his only in the sense that the master
mind always claims credit for composite
work Preliminary to actual building oper-
ations it was only necessary to level such
useless ruins as freedom, whether of
thought action; independence, whether
of kingly Bavaria or aristocratic Hansa
New-York tribune., 1918-11-24

Japan, that is, in those provinces facing
the Japan Sea, remarkably few cases Of
murderous crime take place; yet those peo-
pie proved to be the bravest soldiers in both
campaigns, the Chino-Japanese and the
Russo-Japanese. They are grievously mis-
taken they who take our people TO be
thirsting for blood and for the satisfaction
Of wild animality.
1--WE rise in arms only when our own an
cestral home is threatened. when our In
perial house, which is the handspring OF
our national welfare and the grand root OF
al our family system. is put in danger w
would fight on such occasions to the last
person, pour out the last drop of blood. But
to be the unqualified advocates Of Imperial
istic militarism, no, we are Buddhists, ana
our national character forbids.
"And as we Japanese Buddhists are Nv
ing in the faith of universal brotherhood
as promulgated by Shinran, we are espeels'.
ly anxious to hail speedy termination Oh
the war and to see all the brethren OF ths
world unite in the perfection of the wolA
of the Life Holy and Eternal.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-24
They Stifled All Genius
for Politics and Self
Government

For the Hsnsa towns the Bismarckian REM
edy was the zollverein, tariff agreement
which destroyed them as free ports, but
constituted them the trade centres OF the
new empire.
For trade supremacy, as it seemed under
the new plan, there we're three prerequi-
sites-capital, colonies and shipping.
In due time all we're acquired
from France in the form of 81 900, 900 900
as indemnity for the crime of having failed
to defend herself against invasion; colo
nies where, for the time at least, no other
power desired new territory; ships, both
for trading and fighting purposes, through
taxes and subsidies, as creations of the
empire, not of the individual states, and
subject, of course, to the imperial govern
ment alone.
Until Bismarcks empire became an ac-
complished fact Berlin was merely a pro-
vincial capital in the world of finance, and
ruled from London. The Fuggers, great
bankers Of the ancient empire and still sur
viving as serene hiehnesses and old An
selm, of the Red Shield, whose descendants
became visioned by Dsraeli, the real
with minor titles of nobility for social pur-
poses, were not willing to intrust them
selves and their fortunes to the Hohenzol-
lern. Neither were their imitators And
Berlin had oppressed the Jews with bru-
tai and unreasonng obstnacy for CEN
turies. Money drifted naturally to such
places of security as Frankfort and Cologne
and likely to be invested anywhere
rather than in Prussia Hence the new
empires Reichsbank, purely imperial Gre
alton. What became of the gold wrung
from tortured France?
Carefully fostered German myth said it
was locked up in the grim fortress of Span
dau, along with other Hohenzollern hoard
ngs never to be expended except for
great national emergency. 1t constituted
the "war chest" but was supposed to be as
inert as the Borgia treasures before Ed
mond Dantes converted them into an instru-
ment for retribution. A billion in gold!
However much this idea may have fired the
maginatons of outlandish peoples, it gave
to the Germans feeling of security. There
at least was q tangible asset proof of the
new governments claim to credit, of it's
power TO meet all liabilities with the least
fluctuating and most universally desired Of
all the media of exchange But, while
carefully fostered German myth made of
the billion an ample gold reserve for all
contingencies, Berlin put it to work.
The Reichsbank received what amounted
to general clearing house privilege, quick
ly absorbing the business heretofore estab-
lshed in that line by Hamburg and the
Bank of Prussia. 1t was capitalized at
$40 600 600, which made it second in i'm
portance to the Bank Of England with
SIS 100000, but stronger than the Bank of
France, with capital of $45 O00.O00 Its
directors were appointed by the Chancellor
of the Empire who, being himself SER
New-York tribune., 1918-11-24
Mo Forgetting
L y Japan S Part
NV 7 WAS about ten years ago that
~~ strange phrase travelled from
IL West to East; it reverberated

preface tells something of the part
Japan has played in the war.
almost FIVE years have passed since
Japan took her share in the present World
War. During this time she has done every
thing to enhance the efficiency of her active
participation. Not only has she wiped away
German influence in the Far East, but she
has sent part of her navy to the Southern
Pacific, to the Mediterranean and the Amer
lean waters Moreover she has exhausted
her resources to aid the Allied powers in
the manufacture of war supplies. The rea-
son why Japan is bending all her forces in
this war is not merely because she wishes
to observe all the treaty clauses between
England and herself; it is mainly because
Japan desires to be defender of true
moral civilization founded upon justice and
humanity. She was not forced by others to
participate in the war nor was she COM
PEELED by circumstances to abandon her
neutrality She has unsheathed the sword
to make away with militarism, to crush the
spirit of self~aggrandizement and to make
the imperialists reconsider what is really
meant by culture.
"The war conditions, however, have pro-
duced a certain economical change in Japan,
New-York tribune., 1918-11-24

from this belief and from life manifest
ing it. BY Amitabha he did not mean any
supernatural being who created this uni
verse, nor one who will punish human be-
ings for their evil deeds. To him Amitabha
Duddha who loves all people as his
own children thinks Of their wellbeing and
enlivens their life activity. He called Ami
tabha 'one who is without color, without
form,' by which he means that the life of
the universe cannot be brought within the
limits Of the human understanding, as it is
above all forms of particu' arization. And
because Amitabha is no particular form, he
is in communion with the actuality of all
things and prompts their life activity
When we are awakened to the reality of
his working, our lives as we live them par
take something of eternity. Therefore, we
are all brothers and participants in the One
Life, no matter how different we are racially
and socially.
"Shinran was the model of non resistance.
His whole life was spent in peace, harmony
and in obedience to the civil laws. His
idea was to be the apostle Of love and kind
heartedness. He only wished to preach and
practise the doctrine of happiness. He was
the incarnation Of the Buddhist virtues.
"As he was a strong advocate of universal
brotherhood, he refused to recognize any
class distinctions. Though he belonged to
the nobility of the time, he lived like a
commoner. Nor did he wish to create any
priestly hierarchy. He was learned. he had
devout heart. he was religious in its true
sense. Just because of all this he was the
most democratic person of the day. He was
against organization, an enemy of special
interests. Ostentatious display was
not in his element. He went about in his
black robe like a mendicant Then he be-
leved in labor.
with all these views of life, he did not
think of making others follow his example
against their own inclination and convic-
ton. He did not try to make the plebeian
rise against the aristocracy
"He was q pacifist, but he did not start
warhke movement against militarism He
did not refuse to have social intercourse
with the warrior class of those days. While
we cannot definitely state what was his per-
sonal attitude toward war in general. as
nothing is left on record concerning the
subject it is possible that he had no objec-
tion to just war, one that was for perma-
nent peace, for human freedom, for moral
principles. 1t was his principle that re-
ligion and the state law must work in CO.
operation for the general welfare of the
people.
''He was quiet doer, not loud talker.
ut is now $50 years since his death, and
during these times the majority of the
Japanese have lived in his faith, have
adored his character and have been pur
suing the ideals Of justice and humanity
Where his faith is mast prosperins in