The Pierz Journal (Pierz, Morrison County, Minnesota), 1915-10-07

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PIERZ  JOURNAL
VOL. 7.
PIERZ, MORRISOI^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
NO. IT.
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O'Donnell, one of the speakers at the National Convention of the Friends of Peace, offered one of the prettiest solutions for the spending of this money and based
his solution on actual facts, which, if carried out,
would have been a real, humanitarian act. Mr. O'Donnell, as an advocate of Peace, and a friend of Humanity,
suggested that the entire world today knows that "The
Irish of Ireland" have been mistreated, abused and
down-trodden people under British rule, for more than
a century. The world knows and even the enemies of
-the Central powers will admit, that Belgium would never suffer the cruelties or equal cruelties under German
rule that have been laden upon the citizens of Ireland.
Knowing this, it is Mr. O'Donnell's idea that Mr. Wan-
namaker's money should be spent in the purchase if
Ireland, to give her the independence and freedom she
seeks, as in this way, were Mr. Wannamaker sincere,
he would be fulfilling his pro-British desire, besides accomplishing something in the name of humanity and
would at least be helping to re-fill the now almost empty treasuries of Great Britian.
Speaking of the empty treasuries of one of those
nations brings the now pending loan proposition to my
mind.
It was only on Sept. 26, 1914, that Our Honorable
President saw fit to issue a proclamation Jlo the people
of this country, in which he asked that all American
citizens utilize Sunday, October 4, as a day of prayer,
and that they pray for the cessation of hostilities in Europe.
I can picture, and can well imagine and basing mjy
imagination upon later acts of the President, how he.
our worthy President, lifted high his left hand in prayer to the Almighty, and in the name of Humanity, and
everything else that he mentioned in his proclamation
while he signaled with his right hand, to the manufacturers of death-dealing instruments, that they would be
allowed to resume the production of the instruments of
slaughter on Monday morning.
This, gentl'emen, I call hypocrisy of the highest
and rankest type.
I don't believe now, and I never will believe, that
the great American people ever wanted, or ever intended, that we should produce arms and ammunitions in
such a quantity that it should become a factor towards
a decision of war between a white people, or between
nations that had been recognized, as having attained
the height of civilization.
The question before you today is—Do you people
of the United States approve of a policy which encourages the manufacture within our territory, and permits the shipment from our shores, of weapons for the
wholesale murder of fellowmen?
Are the ministers of Christ's religion content to lie
silent, while great corporations create and send by tile
shipload to the battlefields of Europe explosive engines
for maiming and slaughtering human flesh, for defacing, dis-membering and destroying the human body,
which the Christian religion teaches the Saviour of
Alan consecrated by assuming and which the Holy Spirit sanctifies by His indwelling?
Are we, as American people, justified, or are we, as
American people, even grateful to those people who
helped us in the great hour of need during the Civil
war? §
Have we forgotten the deeds of such great men as
Major Henry Batz, of the 26th Wisconsin Regiment,
Major Louis Bencke of the 49th Missouri Regiment,
Major P. A. Blucher of the 32nd Indiana Regiment, Major Emil Frey of the 82nd Illinois Regiment, Major
George Haake of the 52nd New York Regiment, and
last, but not least, the great General Stauben of tlie
68th New York Regiment, and four hundred and sixty-
one other German army officers, who came to this
country to fight for us, and in many instances, gave up
their lives for this, our country, while, on the other
hand. Great Britian was furnishing the South with
arms, ammunition, prestige and money?
Have we forgotten that our great Northern army
made up of one million six hundred and sixty thousand
born Americans while only thirty-eight thousand two
Hundred and fifty-one English and Scotch, and only
twenty-two thousand six hundred and ninety-five Canadians, while there were in our ranks one hundred
eighteen thousand and four hundred and two American citizens born in Germany?
Are we to continue to be so ungrateful to the memory of these one hundred and eighteen thousand four
hundred and two German born Americans all of whom
were willing to give up their lives in behalf of this
country" Are we not returning to the blood of that
vast German American army, a thanks loaded with shot,
shell and shrapnell? Are our people so ungrateful that
they cannot remember the deeds of those men, or are
our people so forgetful that they have forgotten the
abuse of England prior to 1776 or prior to 1812, and
have we forgotten the amount of blood that was spilled
in the ranks of the Union soldiers with Britisn money
and ammunition furnished the Confederate states?
I say that, irrespective of what our President of the
United States may think or do, tti3 hearts of the
majority of the American citizens, irrespective of what
hyphen they may carry, are located in the body of one
who is a believer in that Commandment "Thou Shalt
Not Kill." Many people are of the opinion that those financiers of Wall Street, who own factories, that, prior
to the outbreak of the war, were producing a product,
of the non-death dealing kind, are limiting their profits
only to the actual dollar and cent returns on the production of ammunition.
This, my friends, is wholly wrong, as, it is a known
fact lhat one of the Kings of the steel industry, who,
prior to the war, counted his shares of stock by the tens
of thousands of shares, today only holds eighty thousand dollars' worth of the same stock figuring the
shares at par. This Wall Street looter has unloaded
his stock on the American people at prices ranging from
$300.00 to $325.00 per share, and, has openly boasted in
one of the Eastern clubs, that after the cessation of hostilities, he would repurchase his old stock, at the old
figure, at its old value, namely that of $36.00 per share.
In other words, the poor, unsophiscated, but daring
money-mad American citizen is to be held for the difference between $325.00 or more and that of $36.00 per
shave.
These same leeches of American wealth attempted
only recently to loan the Allied government, a billion
dollars in real money, not theirs, mind you. and vet
without security. Fellow citizens, "we stand before the
bar of God's justice". We shall yet stand before the
bar of human history" accused of selling our proclaimed
virtues for the wickedest money there is. for "the price
of innocent blood", and. as surely as the justice of God
exists, so surely shall we be found guilty before the bar
of history, and before "the throne of heaven", if we continue to take this wicked money, this infamous price
of innocent blood, "this bride of a .Indus."
Continued on last page.
Address Delivered in Parochial
School Last Sunday By
Arno L. Peterson
"A man can more easily burn down his own house,
than get rid of his prejudice."
The word Prejudice means, pre-judgment, or, to
use a dictionary definition, a bias or leaning favorable
or unfavorable without reason or for some other reason
than justice. It having become customary due to press
prejudice, among speakers addressing a people in behalf of any such topic as Embargo or even Peace, to notify any and all representatives of the press from the
speaker's platform that, should they desire to quote
any portion or part of his, .the speaker's, utterances,
the speaker is prepared to furnish these unreliable
gentlemen of the press with typewritten copy of his
entire talk or address of today.
Not. only are we, those who have given our time to
the cause of Peace and Humanity, compelled to start
our talks in this manner but we are compelled by the
wilful, the deliberate, the designed and the intentional
misrepresentations of what is known in this country as
the subsidized British Press to read our entire address.
Many speakers undoubtedly have addressed many
or all of you on this great and all-absorbing topic, "The
European War." I, however, have not come to say who
started the war, or why it Was started, or whether it
wad started or why it should continue. I have come as
a representative of the American Embargo Conference
to call on you good citizens to help the three million
eight hundred thousand members of this Conference in
bringing about such action as might tend to bring this
great tiluropean slaughter to a more rapid end. For
those people and for those citizens
ot this country who are believers in the
commandment, "Thou Shalt Not Kill," and to those only do I appeal, not only for their
moral support, but if necessary, for their support at the
polls during the next Minnesota election. I am not a
resident of your state, not a person seeking office
through your votes, so can talk more plainly than could
one of Minnesota's own sons. I have neither political
hankering nor desire, would not take or hold a political
position if it were offered, as our God only knows that
in the work which I am now doing, I have come acress
some of the most miserable, the most worthless and
"some of the most despicable acts ever performed by
man, and these acts were performed by politicians.
Tiiose of you who have bee nchristened "Hyphenated Americans" by no lesser personages than the men
holding the most honored position that we, the citizens
of these United States, can offer man, namely, that of
President, and by such being as our ignoble ex-president. Theodore Roosevelt, can more readily understand
my statement, when I tell you the American Embargo
Conference has taken upon itself a work which cannot
be measured due to its magnitude, a work which cannot be measured in dollars and cents, and even though
we Mil know that J. Pierpont Morgan and equal Wall I
Street gangsters have their vaults crowded to the overflowing with the gold made at the expense of those poor
women and children who have been made widows and
orphans by shot and shell built with American capital,
American brain and American brawn.
Only in the October number of the Metropolitan
Magazine, under the headline of "International Duty
and Hyphenated Americanism," did Theodore Roosevelt unsheath his shameful pen and say: "Every man or
woman who has clamored for peace, without daring to
say that peace would be a crime, unless Belgium was restored to her own people, and the repetition of such
wrong doing as that from which she has suffered provided against has served the 'Devil and not the Lord.'
Every man or woman who, in the name of peace, now
advocates the refusal on the part of the United States to
furnish arms and munitions of war to those nations
who have had the manliness to fight for the redressing
of Belgium's wrongs, is serving the 'Devil and not the
Lord.' " I will venture the statement that Theodore
Roosevelt blushed with hypocrisy when he wrote those
lines.
The first thing most of us hear is, "The wrongs
committed against Belgium" or "The poor Belgians."
Let poor Belgium explain to the world why she built
all her interior fortifications or those fortifications
which were not protecting her from the ocean side on
the frontiers facing Germany. If Belgium needed military protection against invasion, why then didn't she
build her fortifications or an equal amount of fortifications on the frontier of France? Has the history of
France proven her as being a nation wholly and solely
opposed to expansion or to the extension of her territorial possessions? Let us think back to the spring of 1910,
when the French commissioner sat in the convention
at Aigeciers, Spain, and signed a treaty whereby France
gained territory in Northern Africa. Did that act bolster up and give Belgium the impression that France
was not looking for an outlet for her surplus people,
and was not looking for an outlet of the products of industrial France? I say "no."
■"■■ Why were the British soldiers who were captured
during the first thirty days of this war provided with
war maps of Belgium, and war time tables of the Belgium railroads, all of which were printed in the City of
PorfSmouth, England, and were printed by the British
Admiralty, in the year of 1906? "Poor Belgium," is the
cry of the unsophisticated and uneducated "Alli-Hy-
phenated" American, who has neither studied European
history nor the people of Europe. "Poor Belgium,"
was also the cry of John Wannamaker, the Merchant
Prince of this country, in fact, was cried by him during
one of his pro-alli spasms to such an extent that he suggested that the American people buy entire Belgium
for somewhere in the neighborhood of the small sum
of one hundred billion dollars, and that we be generous
enough to allow Belgium its own time in re-imbursing
the American people for the purchase price.
1 have oftentimes wondered whether Mr. Wannamaker in his pro-British excitement entirely overlooked or forgot that he might have to go to Emporer
William for the deed, and that Emporer William might
refuse to turn it over until Mr. Wannamaker saw fit to
deliver the money.
I only wonder whether    Mr.    Wannamaker    ever
thought what the result and the outcome of   this   war
would be, had Emporer William been furnished with a
war chest containing one hundred billion dollars.
G VI.Ll'.Y TWO
\ir. Wannamaker. however, made his suggestion in
the name of Humanity or under that guise.
1 say, that had Mr. Wannamaker wanted to do
something in the name of Humanity, that Mr.   James
Fair Lunches
Net Over $250
Tbe board of women managers
of tbe Morrison county fair netted between S'i.'n) and $300 at
this year's fair from lunches
served by them at the grounds
during tbe four days. The gross
receipts were approximately
S400, but expenses must be paid
out of this. Tbe money is to be
used to finish paying for tbe
women's building.
Tbe cost of tbe building is not
definitely known, as all the bills
have not been received, but the
managers hope that S900 will
cover it. They bad secured a-
bout $600 before from various
entertainments and a ''tagday."
Signs Of Growth
In Butter Making
That Minnesota is growing towards higher rank in butter-
production is shown by tbe fact
that the demand for competent
creamery managers is difficult
to meet. Several creameries
last year had great difficulty in
securing good men even at liberal salaries.
Tbe department of agriculture
of the University of Minnesota
University Farm, St. Paul, is
keeping in touch with the demand through its dairy school
held every year under the supervision of the dairy and animal
husbandry division. Through
the same agency it is endeavoring to meet the demand.
The school will open this year
on November sth and close December 4th. lt will offer cours
es in tbe making of butter and
cheese; also a course - in advanced creamery work, to tit
experienced men lo be better
operators of large plants.
Grain Saved By
FeedingFloors
Those wbo  have used feeding
floors for their hoys, have found
them  to  be good grain-savers,   i
and concrete  feeding-floors are
coming into favor.
Such a floor should be 6 inches
thick-, and, if not laid against
the barnyard pavement, should
have a curl) extending from 12
to 18 inches below the surface
of the ground. This will prevent the hogs from rooting under the tloor. The floor should
slope slightly toward one corner
in order to carry off rain, or water used in washing. A rim
around the outside edge will
prevent grain from being pu-hed
off into the mud.
Locals of Pierz
And Vicinity
The Genola potato warehouse opened last Monday.
I
J. H. Yanloou of Little
Fall put up lightning rods
here Monday.
The   town   board of  Pierz
will meet in the village hall.
Tuesday, October 12th, at 1
o'clock p. m.
Prairie chicken hunting is
a thing of the past for this
year; duck hunting is on the
go now.
Miss Helen Younk returned     Mra Gci.trU(il. |; Ahofor
from Royalton lastThursday.  Uu, past 1:;viMrs hasbeen ,,
after  several   days'   sojourn  witb ber son Adam, died
there on business^, |d;iy morning at tne
Lucille Love, the 30 reel Ber   86 years.   Burial will tab
ial, now running«U<'aust'&Operarin  Lastrup   tomorrow  (Friday)
1     Attention!
Those who wish to
sign embargo cards can
do so at P. A. Hart-
mann's. F. X. Virnig's,
Pierz, F. O. Bolster's,
Genola, Brandl Bros.,
Buckman, John P. Virnig's, Lastrup. Sign
these cards as soon as
possible so that they
can be turned in to
headquarters at Chicago before Congress
meets.
Mrs. Becker Dead,
house.
,at '.l o'clock.
Decision By Att'y Gen. Smith-
St. Paul, Sept. -29.—Attorney
General Smith decided that under county option the limits of
dry counties extend only to tbe
county lines and not one-half
mile beyond as in local option.
HILLMAN
Miss   Caroline   Suilift Marie
Drews   and   Ben     Drews   visited    at
Arba   Waller's   last   Thur.-.
ing.
Those ai Pierz Friday wero Tracy
Waller,  Mrs. Benton and  son  Donald.
Mis<e- Anna Opalinsky and Caroline Suiliff spent Sunday afternoon
and evening at the Aug. Drsws home.
Miss   Julia   Leigh,   who   has   been
visiting at the Love home. left  Monday  (or  Moose Lake  where  obi
join   her   mother   enroute   for    Dora
Lake. Minn.
Messrs   Geo.     and     Harry     Mi'.ler
called  at  R.   C.  Bethel's  la.i  Friday
evening.
Jos. Duerbeck left Monday;
morning for a trip  through
North and   South   Dakota in
the interest of tho St.Joseph's
Blatt
F. J. Grilhride his wife and
children visited   with friends
and relatives in Minneapolis
last week.
Little Falls News
(From Transcript.)
Congressman C. A. Lindl
left Friday night lor Minne
lis and left Saturday from there
I for  Washing lere   be will
remain for  the  opening
Igress  in   December.    Mr. land
Martin Lodermeier of Spring bt - i<> Washh irly
Hill has  takes the   position tbia year, so as to be eaablei
of buttermaker helper in the get the  work which he  wis
to bring the   next   >
is in shape before the session
Farmers' creamery.
MathRuppert of Richmond,:
representing "DerWanderer"
of St. Paul, is here in the interest of that paper.
J. I).  Duffy   of  St.   Cloud
Mr. and   Mrs. A. P. Stoll aid
Reinbard Stoll of Piers motto Little Kills   Kiin
 , Mrs.Stoll remained overSui
W!,s '"   I'i,M7' ;| r'' ,?d the other* returned <
week tuning organs   and   re- t.vt.n]l],r
pairing sewing machines.
Arthur   Reynolds,   who  went
Nick   F. Langer  and   wile to Royalton  Friday night  for a
of Brainerd   were over   8un- vi8itl slipped  as he stepped ofl
day visitors with his parents, lh(. rrain t,,,.,.,. and „
Mr. and Mrs. John P. Langer his kn,„.     ,,,. waa in LilU,.|.
in Agram. Saturday for medical treatment,
Frank Macho and Andrew  returning   to   Royalton  in   the
Virnig  left  last   Friday for:aftenio°n.
St. Cloud, where they will
take a short course in the
business college.
Karl Vogel of Meiers Grove
spent the first days of the
week at Lastrup. He was
looking the territory over as
a location for a harness shop.
Miss Mary Berg, who has
been employed in Duluth for
several i noli liis ret u ni ed home
last Saturday for a short visit with her parents. She will
soon return to Duluth accompanied by her sister Katie.
County Auditor McNairy,
County Attorney Etosenmeier,
Clerk of Court Stoll andSher-
iff Felix of Little Falls motored to Buckman town last
week Wednesday morning to
attend the St.Michaels church
picnic.
Wenzel Muenzh uber. for
the last M months erupt
as helper in the Farmers*
creamery, left last Saturday
for a few days' visit witli his
brother at Klrosa. Upon his-
return he will work in the
Little Rock cream*
An automobile tip] i
four   miles  south   of  Little
Falls Tuesday evening, when
it ran off the  road.    The
fell on : a and the
aped without injury aud the machine was
uot damaged much. The
car was owned in LittleFalls.
inty  Attorn enmeier
went to   St   Paul last  Thursday
night on busii ted with
the   $25,00 o bun I   issue    which
will be   made b,    the count
take up a si miliar amount is
In l-
GENERAL
MARKET REPORTS.
Grain and Produce
Harket Report.
'Vhe.1t, No. L,	
Wheal, No. -1	
	
Barley	
	
Oats 	
	
	
Mutter, Creamery	
Dairy	
	
Straight _^^H
1-
$5.00
18
Low grade flour	
Bran  1.40
Shore
Cracked Corn 8<
Ground I 	
Bean
Onions J^^^^^^^^K^^M
South St. Paul
Hog Market.
Ave. Price.
Thurs
Friday	
Saturday   ...
Monday 	
 6.90