The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-26
LINE WILL HOLD
That Is What Col. John S. Dean
Y Tells TOpekans.
Former President of c. of C.
Speaks at Noon Luncheon.
IN STRONG PATRIOTIC APPEAL
He Tells People To Play Game
of Following Leader.
PrO.GermanS and Part.PatriOtS
Menace to Nation.


diners at the Chamber of Commerce
this noon, Col. John S. Deal of
Washington Following this simple
announcement a former president of
the Chamber of Commerce took the
floor amid the plaudits of an already
appreciative audience.
You do not need to be undUly inn
pressed over the present military sit
uation in France" were the opening
words of Lieutenant Colonel Dean to
the diners, THE Germans have mass
ed their millions a one point and have
launched them unsuccessfuliy against
the thin line of the troops of Great
Britain, with negligible results. The
hordes of the kaiser will never break
thru the allied line of defense anC the
present situation of the German arm
les cannot be otherwise than = great
national calamity to the German peo-
ple.''
Colonel Dean then outlined the du-
ties of the civilian population in the
behalf of America and our allies in
this war. There is but one thing for
the true American to do at this time"
asserted Colonel Dean, play the old
at this time is President Wilson and it
is incumbent on every American to
stand firmly behind the administra-
ton thru the present crisis, the whole
war, regardless of personal opinion or
prejudice in the matter"
Played Pro-Germans.
Then Colonel Dean flayed the pro-
German element in America with
words burning of vitriolic sentiment.
Indirectly Dean included the Nom
Partisan league of Towniey., the
society that is made up of men that
call themselves German-Americans
and the individuals who are hopeful
he n
defeat of the modern followers of
Attila the Hun. Dean declared that
all of these organizations stand for the
same principles as Bolshevikism,
which in the last analysis Dean de-
clared to be the paralysis OF govern
ment."
IF we had the recall of public Of
ficials and the referendum on ma
tionsl policies" declared Dean. I'VE
would today be voting on the draft
law while our men were yet unframed,
and would in all probability be well
on the road so we'll marked out by
Russia under the joint rule of those
pretenders for good of the people,
Lenine and Trotzky."
Foreigners who persist in appending
the name of another nation to their
profession of American citizenship
came in for their share of the word
lash welded by Colonel Dean. He
spoke of the disloyalty of the men
who come to America, profess citizen
ship and loyalty and yet fail to read
American newspapers printed in the
English language and who teach their
children only the language of the
home land from whose tyranny they
have fled.
Menace to Nation.
"These are the men," asserted Dean.
who are nothing more nor less than
the incubus to public policy which
pulls back on the coat tails or Uncle
Sam while he is striding to the de-
was that several freight cars loaded
under which they have been allowed
to thrive undisturbed."
AS a last admonition. to the people
Dean said, Remember the past for it
is upon the history of our past life
that we must gaze to see the mistakes
Everything in the future history Of
nations is foretold in the history of
the past. If we are to avoid our past
mistakes in this war we must look
over our past history and see the mis-
takes there that we may avoid them
next time"
Do Away With Red Tape.
In closing Dean told of the new
method the government has evolved
of cutting the red tape attached to
governmental acquisition of property
needed to speed up the military prep
demnation of a strip of ground on
Chesapeake Bay, thirty-fiv miles long
by fifteen miles wide that was con-
demned by the government for use
as a proving ground for ammunition
and guns. More than 1000 persons
were residing on the ground at the
time of condemnation on November 2.
On the second day of January, 1918,
the first gun was fired over this strip
of territory. The inha bitants had all
been moved off, the second largest re-
moval of population in the history
of the continent This removal is
only equalled by the deportation of
the Arcadians in colonial times"
stated Colonel Dean.
Dean told of the propensity of the
men in the middle class, the small
land holder, to try to overcharge the
government when a presidential proc
lamation is issued condemning GER
tain piece of ground for military
purposes They always Fail, be-
cause the government knows" said
Dean.
Colonel Dean will leave for New
York in a few days to take charge
of the work ofIyaluation of the great
Bush terminal system which has re-
Gently been made the subject of one
of these presidential condemnation
rroclamations for military purposes,
in Rumania. the shortage of food accounts
for no no Of dofo chi hor