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ISSUES AND EVENTS
especially Sweden is interfered with. (3) Freight over
the Eastern railroads of the United States cannot be
shipped because the munitions for H. B. Majesty’s gov-
ernment have the preference. This seems incredible,
but it is an actual fact. The mill at which the paper for
Issues and Events is made had a car loaded and on the
track for 10 days before the railroad would move it.
On the Lehigh Valley Railroad cars tagged “For Gov-
ernment Use” (the H. B. M. is omitted) go through to
New York promptly, whilst freight for American busi-
ness stays behind.
The situation is doubly bad in that: (l) The mills
cannot obtain raw materials and (2) that they cannot
ship what they have ready.
So severe has the scarcity of paper become that it
has risen 75 to 150% and from many mills no paper
can be obtained at any price. They cannot even fill
old contracts. Almost all publishers are suffering alike.
A few hundred dollars additional expense is a heavy
figure in the budget of a new weekly which does not live
on fake advertising and which has been making heroic
efforts to print not only the best and soundest literature,
but to fight for truth, decency and common sense at all
costs. '
In order to reduce all possible waste in circulation,
we ask our unknown readers for their co-operation.
Surely we cannot be asking- too much of you, to give
your newsdealer a firm order or better yet to favor us
with your subscription. If you were fully aware of the
great difficulties of producing a sound publication you
would not withhold this small help from us. Only
through your support can this paper become strong.
You are of greater importance than the editor or pub-
lisher who claims no credit.
For nearly two years we have held and increased
our circulation and at great personal sacrifices we have
had pleasant surprises for them. With the co-operation
of many new friends we can and will do still better
And remember, that co-operation can logically begin
only with each individual-with you!
THE PEOPLE’S RIDDLE.
TELEGRAPHIC and press reports from Germany
indicate that the German people, during the sub-
marine crisis, were absolutely resigned to war with
the United States, much as though it seemed to be re-
gretted. It appears that a large majority of the public
practically demanded war, because it reckoned that
America could hardly be a more dangerous enemy than
at present, and that it would no longer need to give
Americans protection on English war vessels. This
is a fearful moral indictment.
Against this powerful demand was exerted the cool
and calm advice of the German Government, and prob-
ably to the latter’s wisdom is due the fact that another
crisis has been avoided.
How strangely dissimilar were the circumstances in
the United States. It is generally admitted that both
in the Senate as well as in the House there was a senti-
ment of four to one, or even five to one, in favor of a
“warning resolution.” This was the American people's
voice. And yet there was apparently a handful of men
willing to force war on the country!
rue Democrats will remember this anomaly. A
monarchical system for peace and a republican govern-
ment for destructive war.
. THE VICIOUS POEM.
THAT rank poem by Owen Wister. at first pub-
lished in the “Philadelphia Inquirer,” in which
he curses President Wilson in the most violent lan-
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THAT NOTE TO ENGLAND.
Twenty-one weeks are past-and yet there is
no answer from ENGLAND to our NOTE.
Is there an understanding between our admin-
istration and King George that His Britannia
Majesty need not reply?
guage, is a good example of lack of self-control. To
the uninitiated it might appear that some hot-headed
anti-British-American had written it. In that case we
are sure that Mr. Wister would be known by now
throughout these lands as a German spy and a traitor.
But the German-Americans never would commit
such indiscretions-and in spite of the statement by Mr.
Garet Garret (one of the editors of King George’s
New York Gazette) that their logic is based on false
premises, a statement which is merely a feint to catch
the scrupulous but timid-they have never uttered nor
written such nonsense, nor have they ever wished hard-
ship or war to this country.
Why, then, should a supposedly American paper
that shouts “Stand by the President”-when it suits
the purpose of its backers-attack an American Presi-
dent in such a vicious manner? Is it merely an indis-
cretion, or is it because Mr. Wister wants to obtain
more for the British by the process of public intimida-
tion, just like the N. Y. Sun recently printed a false
report that the President would resign, which presum-
ably was intended merely as a red rag to force him into
even liercer action on the submarine issue?
Clever? Yes. If the victim acts in accordance with
the cunning plans. But is it not a dirty trick?
Can’t the President see that he is dealing with an
ungrateful lot?
JERSEY WOMAN WORKS 1,000 NAMES AT $1
EACH ON CLOTH FOR KAISERIN.
Miss Louise C. Hinck today is embroidering the
names of the donors to the German Red Cross fund on
a table cover which Ambassador von Bernstorff will.
present to the German Empress. Each person who
gives $1 has his or her signature embroidered in fac-
simile on the table cover.
Miss Hinck has already worked several hundred
names into the cloth, and when she has 1,000 she will
forward the table cover to the Kaiserin along with the
$1,000 contributed for the relief of the war victims.
“During war time they are building a new subway
in Berlin, a railroad station in Leipzig, which is to be
the second largest in the world. In Leipzig they are
also building a big public library, a public bath and
three large school houses, to say nothing of changing
the course of a river that may endanger the health of a
city. In Frankfort they are enlarging the harbor; they
are tearing down a bridge that goes back to the time of
the Crusades and erecting a modern structure. They
are completing a two-million-dollars university.
“In Leipzig, Dresden, Munich, Nuremburg, Frank-
furt-am Main, Cassel and Hamburg expenditures of
public money are being made with the same prodi-
gality as though it were peace time. If you are a for-
eigner you will hear sooner or later and often, ‘Every-
thing is going on just the same as in peace time.’
“Truly the war has not held back the Berlin subway,
nor the Leipzig terminal, nor the big new oliice build-
ing of the Hamburg-American Line in Hamburg.”
-An American Correspondent.