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THE MOUTH-FIGHTERS.
This Week: Chesterton & Company.
“If you consider it carefully you will see why
Europe must; at whatever cost, break Germany in bat-
tle, and put an end to her military and material power
to do things. If we all have to fight for it, if we all
have to die for it, it must be done.”-C. K. Chesterton,
in the New York Times, Dec. 16, 1914.
It takes men to break Germany in battle. Talk
’ will never do it. There is no danger that Mr. Ches-
terton will ever die for any cause. If he is ever so
anxious to die for his country, he cannot be accom-
modated in the United States. This is a peaceful
country. There is no war here. We don’t want war
here. Is Mr. Chesterton trying to stir up the people of
the United States to join the Allies? Remember, Mr.
Chesterton, that there area few Germans and Irish
in the United States who won’t join the plotters, and
they won’t let the United States do so either. It is
about time that the American people were left alone by
coward Englishmen who are in the United States taking
up columns of the papers with clap-trap. The people
know their motive. They know they are in the pay of
the British government. President Wilson is trying
to keep the United States neutral. Such contemptible
scribblers as Mr. Chesterton should be deported as a
common nuisance. Germany answers all his challenges
in Flanders. This is not a time for talking when
one’s country is at war, and when one’s country needs
one’s services. The American people like brave men,
Mr. Chesterton, not braggarts. If the New York
Times had more self-respect it would refuse to re-
ceive such incendiary articles as have been written by
Mr. Chesterton in the Times, and by another mouth-
f fighter, named Begbie, in the Sun. VVhat the Amer-
i ican people would like to know is, what the New York
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Times and New York Sun are getting for such trash.
The American people are certainly growing tired and
disgusted with it.
THE VITAL ISSUE
. Printer’a Ink.
Certainly, all that ink which has been stored away
by the headliners for those great victories by the “Con-
spirators” seems to have been prematurely purchased.
But, cheer up boys, the worst is yet to come. The
Vital Issue may be able to buy some of that ink very
cheap yet. We wonder at the patience of the readers
of the “Evening Telelie” (alias Telegram). VVe don't
see so many people reading that paper these days, and
those who have it, try to hide it, or seem ashamed of
themselves. We wonder why they blush. Is it the
peculiar color of the paper or their consciences?
GERMANY’S STOCK OF GOLD.
Berne, Switzerland, December 16, via Paris, 12:10
P. M.-The increase in the Imperial Bank of Ger-
many’s gold stock from 1,253,000,000 marks ($313,-
250,000) since the beginning of the war, to 1,991,-
000,000 marks ($497,750,000), shown in the latest
report of the Bank, is explained in German news-
papers as being due to repressive measures of the
Government against trading in gold as a commodity
at a premium, and by the continuous urging, espe-
cially among the peasants, to induce them in the
national interest to give up their gold hoards in
exchange for notes.
In this the clergy, German newspapers say, have
been especially helpful. German officers and privates
also are said to have given up their gold pocket money
with which they started for the front.
In this effusive sentiment for peace, these spasmodic
efforts to stay what it names the “Mad Race for Arma-
ment,” has England this power which possesses one-
fifth of the globe, and an army at least as large as that
of Switzerland, forgotten its sense of humor. Do we
imagine that the other powers of the continent see
England exactly as England sees itself.-England!
The successfull burglar who, an immense fortune
amassed, has retired from business, and having broken
law, human and divine, violated every instinct of honor
and fidelity on every sea on every continent, desires
now protection of the police.
(Cramb’s England and Germany).
Page 4.
“THERE IS MANY A TRUTH SAID IN JEST.”
“ITALY TO DECLARE WAR BY DEC. 16TH.”
-New York Evening Sun. If you see it in the Sun
it is so-so.
“RUSSIAN AVALANCHE SWEEPS GALI-
CIA.”-December 14th, N. Y. Evening Journal. Pet-
rograd has nothing on the Evening Journal.
Belgium’s “Gray Book” will soon be out. The title
could not have been better selected. Gray is the past,
gray is the present, gray is the future, and Grey in the
British Foreign Office must not be entirely forgotten.