The Washington herald., 1918-01-08

Bohemian people of America-and
there are hundreds of thousands of
them, to be sure-focUsed their atten-
ton upon that part OF Lloyd Georges
statement which reads:
Similarly, though we agree with
President Wilson that a break up of
Austria Hungary is no part of our war
aims, we feel that unless genuine self
government on true democratic prin-
ciples Is granted to those Austrian
Hungarian nationalities who have long
desired it, it is impossible to hope for
a removal of those causes of unrest
in that part of Europe which have so
long threatened the general peace"
This part of President Wilson's mes
sage at the opening of the riesent ses-
sion of Congress was not made so plain
to the Bohemians, and they were won
dering, with some interest, what might
be the future statement of the allies
aim upon their mother territory.
The statement OF the British leader
will. therefore. ind general indorse-
ment in America-and that. too, with
out receding from the Presidents as
surance to Austrians that no rear
rangement OF impairment of their ter
ritory would be insisted upon by this
ration.
Bohemian support of the war in this
country has been most patriotic and
thorough. Young Bohemians have re-
spended to the country call with alert
ness, and those who are at home. COM
prising a fair proportion of the indie
pendent agricultural class in the Mid
die West. have contributed great sums
of money to all our war finance move
ments.
Are the Democrats of the Senate
to lose their whip?
There are some of them who
think so. pity tits, tits true, and
others who hope that such a fate
is not to be thrust upon them. AS
predicted in these columns. while
Medin Mccormick was still in
France, he has entered the race
against ]. Ham Lewis. and from
now on lets the folks in Illinois
know that it is to be a race for all
there is in it. The claim is made in
the fight, thus early in the game,
that ]. Ham had a way of blowing
hot and blowing cold-and that Mr..
Mccormick has a way of speaking
straight to the point what he means
even in the face of forces against
him.
Only statutory suffrage exists in
Illinois so the ladies of the State
will not have an opportunity of
expressing themselves in this very
interesting little fiutter. But there
are stories here that they will have
a most potent, indirect influence in
the fray-if it finally SINNERS down
to a Lewis-McCormick race-and
that they even think they will de-
termine the result as between them.
Now, we are wondering which one
of the two the women folks will
pull for. While some of Lewis
friends in the Senate are confident
that he will not do anything to
peeve the ladies. there are others
who think that Mccormick. as one
Of the original suffrage boosters
and with his wife, daughter of the
late Mark Hanna, have already put
the lady support away in their kit
bags.
Both America and England have
made 1t perfectly plain to the German
people-if the latter can get even
faint word of the attitude OF those
two nations-what they must do to be
recognized in world society.
They are not asked to revolt against
the Hohenzollernistic government and
really depose wilhelm. but they are
told that IL peace Is treated in a Sc
rious way IL must be undertaken on
Germany's part with a different gov
ernment than Is now maintained
there.
The Inference. which cannot be con-
strued any other way. is that popular