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REPUBLICANS IN
COUNTY LEAGUE
TO AID CAMPAIGN
Told That First Duty Is Lib
erty Loan; Will Sec That
Voters Are Registered
S. Frank Weston was elected pres
ident, Benjamin F. Smeltzer as sec
retary -and Charles C. Cumbler,
treasurer, of the Republican League,
which was formed at a meeting in
the courthouse last evening attend
ed by several hundred party workers
from the city and nearby districts.
These officers had been chosen
last week at a meeting for tem
porary organization and were made
permanent by unanimous action of
those present last evening.
The league will have branches in
all the boroughs and townships
throughout the county and the mem
bers have pledged themselves to aid
the city and county committees in
getting out the vote. Most of tho
immediate work of the organization
will be an effort to have every voter
In the city registered on the last day
for registration.
Quite a few of the members were
excused early last evening in order
to attend a Liberty Loan committee
meeting In the post office, over which
Postmaster Frank C< Sites presided.
The speakers last evening were W.
Harry Baker, representing tho sttae
committee; Harry F. Oves, repre
senting the city committee; Wil-
Jlam H. Horner, representing the
county committee, and Charles E.
Pass, prothonotary. All of them
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FRIDAY EVENING, |
| dwelt upon the necessity of the Re
! publican workers looking upon the
I success of the Liberty Loan as their
j first duty at this time. Patriotism
1 first and politics second was the key
r note of the meeting. A large nia
j jdrity of the workers present are
! members of the various Liberty Loan
, campaign committees.
County Mey to Get
Instruction, Too
Henry M. Stlne, commandant
of the Harrisburg Reserves, to-day
| again culled attention to the fact that
| men of draft age residing in Dauphin,
; Middle Paxton, Susquehanna and Pen
! brook districts of Dauphin District
I No. 2, who desire military instruction
i should report at the Armory to-night,
at 7:30. The outdoor evening drills
; in the county have been suspended be
j cause of early twilight, but instruc
; tioa will be given by Reserve officers
at the Armory on Friday nights. The
same arrankement will be made for
men of lraft age living in the city dis
tricts.
The up-c#unty local committees are
drilling their men as is also being
done at Hershey. Steelton and Middle
town. Hummelstown men are being
instructed under a course outlined by
A. Reeder Ferriday.
Members of the Reserves on the ac
tive list and men wishing to enroll
should come to the Armory to-night
prepared to give their measurements
for uniforms. Company A will be re
organized to-night and there will be
some vacancies.
Physician's Automobile
and Truck in Collision
The closed automobile of Dr. S.
A. Kirkpatrick, New -Cumberland,
was damaged about 5.30 yesterday
afternoon when a Hershey Creamery
Company truck struck it on the Mar
ket street bridge.
Neither the .driver of the truck or
Mr. Kirkpatrick was injured. The
accident apparently was unavoidable.
THE KAISER AS I KNEW
HIM FOR FOURTEEN YEARS
By ARTHUR X. DAVIS, D. D. S.
(Copyright, 1918, bj the Mctlure Newspaper Syndicate)
The weak point in the foundation |
upon which the German empire |
rests to-day lies, in my opinion, in
the fact that the loyalty of the peo
ple has been retained by deception
and misrepresentation. Ever since
the war started the government has
been feeding lies to the people, and
the people have accepted them at
their face value. What will happen
when the Germans realize that their
own government has wickedly de
ceived them?
With the soldiers returning front
the front on furlough and the prop
aganda of the Allies slowly but
surely beginning to circulate among
the people, the task of concealing
the truth from the German people
becomes increasingly difficult. Al
ready the people are becoming rest
less. Is it possible that they are
about to wake up?
What will the people do when it
begins to dawn on thetjt that the
war was started, not by the Euro
pean powers to strangle Germany,
but by the Kaiser and his war lords
to dominate the world?
What will they do when they re
alize that the success of the U-boat
campaign has been woefully exag
gerated right from the start?
What will they do tvhen they re
alize that America came into the
war out of the purest motives that
ever inspired a nation?
What will they do when they
learn that America's power, grow
ing evory day, will eventually be
great enough, in combination with
the Allies, to smash * the German
empire?
What will happen when the Ger
man people realize that they ha* e
been the pitiful victims of the in
satiable thirst of the Kaiser and his
supporters for world power, and
that the sacrifices they have been
compelled to make must inetitably
prove futile?
What will they do when they be
gin to understand that four-fifths of
the world is arrayed against Ger
many, not to destroy the German
people, but to emancipate it?
The Kaiser and his . supporters
have used very effective tools in their
efforts to keep the truth from the
people, and up till now they have
been remarkably successful.
How cleverly they have used
Maximilian Harden, the ostensib.e
champion of republicanism, to tool
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the people, has perhaps never oc
curred to the outside world, but I
am firmly of the opinion that this
vaunted pillar of democracy is to
a great extent a wolf In sheep's
clothing.
His fearless criticism of the gov
ernment from time to time has nat
urally stamped him in the eyes of
the world as the most outspoken of
German Socialists and the bitterest
of enemies of the Hohenollern
regime. Unles I am very much mis
taken, however, this able writer has
been one of the most valued tools
of the government and has been
used to accomplish the Kaiser's
ends, while ostensibly working to
frustrate them.
Has it never occurred to the Ger
man people that unless the govern
ment wanted Harden to talk in the
way he does they would very quickly
shut him up? Jias it been forgotten
that the government did suppress
Die Zukunft, his weekly organ, for
the duration of the war, but that it
is now appearing again?
When, only a few weeks ago, the
people's champion wrote, in Die Zu
kunft, the weekly which the gov
ernment had perviously suppressed:
"International law forbids Ger
many to retain even one pebble of
Belgian streets, and commands Ger
many to restore Belgium to the con
ditions before invasion. Is Belgium,
as a Chancellor, a State Secretary
and an Ambassador have confessed,
an innocent victim of German self
defense? Then we have to ask its
forgiveness and not force conditions
upon it. This is a question of the
decency, morality and honor of a
nation," what did it signify?
To me its meaning was very obvi- l
ous. It confirmed an idea that I had
long held: that Harden was being,
used by the government to fool the
people. If the government had had
any serious hope of being able to re
tain Belgium, it would certainly
never have allowed Harden, in his
suppYessed journal, to advocate its.
release. Realizing, however, that in
view of the turn things have taken,
Germany will have to give up Bel
gium, it was necessary to begin to
reconcile the German people to that
untoward development. How could
it accomplish that purpose better
than by making the suggestion
through the lips of Harden? When
the time conies for Germany to offer
to restore Belgium as part of the
peace terms, it will now be able to
say that it was Maximilian Harden,
one of the spokesmen for the peo
ple, who advocated it.
Compare this latest utterance of
Harden's in relation to Belgium with
a paragraph he wrote in December.
1914:
"Now we know what the war is
for. It is to hoist the storm flag
of the empire on the narrow chan
nel that opens and locks the road
into the ocean. . . . We shall re
main in the Belgian Netherlands, to
which we shall add the thin strip
of coast up to the rear of Calais
From Calais 0 Antwerp,
Flanders, Limburg, Brabant, to be
hind the lines of the French forts —
Prussian. The southern triangle
with Alsace-Lorraine and Luxem
burg. We need land for our indus
tries, a road into the ocean. . . .
Never was there a war more Just,
it will conquer new provinces for
the majesty of the noble German
spirit." ' , v
Is it not a strange fact that when
the German cause was triumphant
and Hohenzollernism was at the
; height of its arrogance, we find
Harden advocating the retention of
Belgium, but when the power of
America and the growing strength
of the Allies has turned the scale in
the fourth year of the war and the
future of Germany never looked so
dismal, we find this same people's
spokesman demanding that Belgium
be returned? Can there be any
i doubt at all that Harden is speak
' ing to the Deople for the government
—not front the people to the gov
ernment?
As another slight indication of the
connection between Harden and the
throne, I recall that one of my col
leagues in Berlin, an American, was
the only one who did not have to
rfemain in his home at night and no
restrictions were placed upon his
movements. He simply had to reg
ister at police headquarters once a
week.
I asked him how it was that he
was so favored, and he told me that
Harden, who was a patient of his,
had written a letter to the Kom
mandantur asking them to release
this American from the require
ments in question, and that the re
quest had been granted immediately.
For a man who is apparently such
an enemy to Hohenzollernism, this
editor certainly seems to wield con
siderable influence among the mili
tary authorities.
The German people are long suf
fering:, but they will not stand im
position. When they learn the
truth, I fully believe they will turn
upon the leaders who have so wick
edly and so consistently deceived
them.
But how will they be able to
prevail against the German mailed
fist? If their emancipation de
pended upon their overthrowing the
army, I should view their future
with the utmost apprehension, but I
believe the end will come with the
co-operation of the army.
The part that the army plays in
a revolution deperlds entirely upon
the attitude of the officers. So long
as the officers remain loyal, the
populace would be helpless, because
the rank and file will follow their
officers like sheep, as a general rule.
(To Be Continued.!
Deaths and Funerals
GEORGE R. ELICKER
George R. Elicker, aged 27 years,
died yesterday at the home of his
father-in-law, C. F. Greenawalt, Cox
estown, after a long illness. Funeral
services will be held Monday at 2
o'clock.
Mr. Elicker is survived by his
wife, Margaret Elicker; daughter,
Dorothy Elicker: father, Charles L.
Elicker, and three sisters, Mrs. Paul
Wallowcr, Mrs. A. H. Ellenberg and I
Mrs. Charles Shelley. Burial will
be made in Harrisburg Cemetery.
JACOB L. YOHX
Jacob L. Yohft, aged 82, died yes
terday at Wernersvllle. The body
was brought to Harrisburg to-day by
Hoover and Son, undertakers. Fu
neral services will be held Monday
afternoon at 3.30 o'clock at the home
of his nephew, J. M. Hostetter, 1843
Fulton street The Rev. A. M. Stam
ets, pastors of Augsburg Lutheran
Church, will officiate. Burial will
be in East Harrisburg Cometery. He
was a retired farmer, born in Clear
field county. He Is survived by
two nephews, three nieces and two
brothers.
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