The Cleo Chieftain. (Cleo Springs, Okla.), Vol. 24, No. 23, Ed. 1 Friday, November 1, 1918 Page: 7 of 12
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THE'CtEd CHIEFTA1M
COUNTRY GREW TO
BE WORLD POWER
United States Did Not Seek Its
Broad Influence
CHOSE TO BE KINDLY GIANT
' Wanted Only Peace and to Be Per
mltted a Fair Market— Hohenzol-
lerne’ Greed haa Proved
Their Undoing -
(From the Committee on Public Informa-
tion Washington D C)
By ELLIS PARKER BUTLER
Every person of middle age and
' those ' who have studied the mutter
even slightly of whatever uge cannot
but be awure' with what extreme re
’ luctunce the United States took Its
' place as a “world power” Our whole
instinct has been against becoming
anything of the sort We had no de-
sire to meddle in the affairs of the
world across the Atlantic We had
been urged by the founders of ’'our na-
tion to avoid foreign ntllurues — “en-
tangling” ones were specified but all
foreign alliances are “entangling" or
they are not alliances— and the advice
Uugered In our minds Added to this
- w-as the fact that we were sufficient
unto ourselves We had abundunt
“ land abundant food and were able
to consume more manufactured ar-
ticles than we could produce From
the first the intent of the United
States was to live quietly at home
' attending to our own affnirs and pur-
suing happiness In our own way with-
' out bothering our neighbors I might
' say that the United States from the
beginning resolved to settle down to
a-quiet family life
I am not an old man but I can re
member when it was first printed with
something like awe In our newspa-
pers that we were growing at such a
rate commercially and In popalutlon
that we were actually becoming a
world power It was a new thing a
new thought It was not unlike bear-
ing that Johnny had got his first long
pants when we hud hardly thought of
- Johnny as anything but a small boy
The United ' States did no' seek to
be a world power It simply grew to
be one as Johnny grows from boyhood
to manhood There was no Intention
but It was Inevitable A nation with
’so many people and such industrious
people shipping goods to all parts of
the world became a world power by
' the mere process of growth We did
not seek the status It came to us
Desired Only Peace
When we discovered that we were a
'world power la spite of ourselves wa
tried to decide how we would behave
- in this new state of being We might
build ouraelf a great army awagger
around and Issue ultimatums combine
with other world powers and bully the
world If we chose No American can
ever be made to believe we did this
because we did not We chose to be
a kindly giant a benevolent world
power We wanted nothing but peace
here or elsewhere We had grown to
manhood and the world knew we were
strong but we wonted nothing bnt to
be permitted to stay on the old farm
doing au honest day's work each day
attending to our own affairs In our
own way From the' world wo asked
only that we be permitted a fair mar-
ket In common with other nations
and a safe road to market
In contrast with the manner In
which the United States grew to world
power I put Prussia I say Prussia
instead of Germany because “Ger-
many'’ outside of Prussia would never
have thought of becoming a world
power "Germany” which was Ba-
varia and the many small (dates that
Prussia hounded Into the German em-
pire had no dreams of world power
fulness Prussia bad' - Austria had
but the other Germanic states were
quite-satisfied to exist
- Instead of Prussia I ought perhaps
to say Hohenzollern and by that I
mean the Hohenzollern family that
practically owned Prussia as you own
a fleck-of aheep or a farm or a pock-
etknlffe’ The Hohenzollern family bad
a mania-and that mania -was power
for Prussia ' - Prussia must be the
most powerful German state more
powerful than Bavaria than Baden
more ' powerful than ’ Austria This
was the - fixed Idea In the back ' of
every Hohenzollern head It orlg
loafed no doubt with Frederick the
Great' who left when he died the dic-
tum “Every Hohenzollern king of
Prussia ' should add at least one bit
of territory to Prussia”
The Hohenzollern Dynasty
It Is only fair to the first emperoe
of Germany - (William I) that if left
alone he would have been satisfied
with' the addition of Schleswig-Holstein
which he grabbed from Den-
mark He was then only king of Prus-
sia and he had done his share He
bad added his bit There was how-
ever Bismarck
Bismarck even before he came Into
power-in Prussia had planned Prus-
sia's future First Prussia must be
the supreme power in Germania then
Germany jnust be the supreme power
In the world That was his life work
it ’was what Prussia pledged him she
would do And to Bismarck Prussia
meant the Hohenzollern dynasty
With malice aforethought with lies
and trickery assisting bis wonderful
statecraft with a war against Austria
and a war against France as part of
his plan for making Hohenzollernlsm
a world power Bismarck labored and
won He plied BavaHa and the lesser
German states together placed Prus-
sia on top of ' them and hold the
Hohenzollerns on the top of the whole
pile By show of armed strength (in
which the war against Austria and the
war against France were planned as
exhibitions) he ' forced Hohenzollern
into world powerfulness Long be-
fore he died he planned another war
against -France as -another exhibition
of German strength ’ A renson for the
new war? ' He had the same reason
'that a slave driver hns when he drags
an Innocent black before the assem-
bled slaves and beats her until she
faints Hohenzollernlsm mustA every
so often show Its power The world
must be kept cowed
The Difference
So you see how two nations have
reached world power— the United
States and the Imperial Hohenzollern
Germany We grew Imperial Ger-
many planned and achemed and forged
bayonets We are a world power be-
cause we are- great in size and
strength Germany was a world power
beenuee she was a theatener of mur-
der She waa a world power because
she carried at all times a bludgeon
Imperial - Prussian Hohenzol'em-Oer-many
waa a structure of bayonets It
existed as Bismarck would brutally
admit were he alive today for the
honor and glory of the Hohenzollerns
and for no other reason It was to
prove that Wilhelm Hohenzollern
king of Prussia was a world power
that Germany was driven Into the war
we are now fighting and not to prove
that Germany was a world power
Germany has paid a dear price tor
ohenzollernlHm of the Wilhelm II
variety The world haa paid a fright-
ful price
Germany without the Hohenzollerns
would be a great nation and a - true
world power Aa it Is she Is a bleed-
ing wounded hungered tool She Is
being used by a Hohenzollern to prove
that a Hohenzollern king of Prussia
enn do what he pleases with Prussian
slaves and the slaves of Prussia This
Is a Hohenzollern war It waa planned
by Hohensollerns to keep the Hoben-
sollerna of Prussia- firmly seated oh
the throne and for no other reason
wAsniNCEON emr
Buck Backwoods Guide and the V Bangor Sports?
WASHINGTON — Back from the Maine woods with the latest thing In draft
stories came a Washingtonian recently He and a friend were paddling
up the Magalloway river one dny shortly after September 12 that big day when
13000000 men went quietly to regls-
rntlon places throughout the United
Mates to sign up for Uncle Sam
- Buck a huckwoods guide consti-
tuted the third occupant of the canoe
IVas he backwoods? He was so far
inc-kwoods It is declared that beyond
llm was nothin’ They don't come
iny more bnckwoodsy than Buck A
oung old fellow gray-halred -tanned
pilet determined there is only one
Suck In the world friends say
They were going through the “big
eddy" when all of a sudden out of the clear sky came the sounds of firing
“What’s that?” said one camper
Buck took a few paddles before he npswered ‘
“Couple o’ Bangor spirts" he replied
A “Bangor sport” by the way is the backwoods term for some sports-
men who frequent the big woods ' They usually are blustery fellows wh6
affect to make comrades of the guides who In their turn secretly despise
the sports -
Then the canoe rounded Into sight of the men The man with the rifle
lowered his piece and looked across the eddy '
"Well well well I” he shouted familiarly - “If there ain’t old Buck ! How
arc you Buck? Have you registered In the dft Buck?”
"Tou bet I'm registered” he called across the water “An I ain’t wastin’
no ammunition on this side eltlier7 ' '
Those “Bungor sports” haven’t thought up a reply yeE
Psychological Study of Sweet Potato in Capital
u A D VENT CUES of a Sweet Potato In Washington” Sounds ns If It might
A be the title of a novel about a war worker but It Isn't It merely haa to
io with the flight and landing of a sweet potato thrown by an urchin at a Street
car conductor on the Eleventh street -line
The car was going gnyly down-
town when iU of a sudden a hefty
sweet potato came whirling through
an open window missed an elderly
Indy by an inch and lnnded squarely
on the shoulder of the conductor
There you have all the elements
for a psychological study Given the
sweet potato the Rinall boy the abil-
ity to throw and the mark — to wit the
conductor — what more would a psy-
chologist ask t -Ah ha !” sayeili the psychologist “I will proceed to study
the effect of suid sweet potato and Its integral flight upon the various per-
sonnges of this novel — er street car”
And he does It ns follows:
The sweet potato made the conductor angry
It made the small boy glad - '
It made an employee of the food administration sad
And having done all these things It finally landed In the gutter
Little Incident in a Washington Antique Shop
— — -
MOST people are honest but It is the exception that gives pungency to tha
rule One man for one Instance keeps medieval- Junk Among his cus-
tomers the other afternoon was a woman who wanted a table something '-In
Chippendale to match a whatnot The
jroprletor was starting off to bring
torth Chippendale when the woman
teeing a chntr convenient sat down
Spindle-legged furniture Is artistic
ut treacherous as the lady should
lave remembered before she weighted
ler overstock of too too solid etcet-
era on spidery legs that cracked the
nstant she let herself go
The tag price of the chatr wns
lomethlng awful — though as the pro-
prietor protested what could you ex-
pect of a treasure that had had Its honored place in an Italian palace for
pver two hundred years but If the lady would pay $20 for the damage aba
had done—— ' -
And then another customer wlio had been looking the chair over stepped
Into the situation
”1 happen- to be In tbe business myself and know the exact value of this
chair Without going Into embarrassing particulars let me suggest madam
that you pay this man IS cents for his time and trouble In meudlng It and
If you hear any more from him lot me know’ and I’ll go Into court myself
with a charge of false pretenses It Is fraud of this sort sir that ruins any
trade Better come out with me madam and tha next time you waut autlque
take an expert along"
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Williams, R. M. The Cleo Chieftain. (Cleo Springs, Okla.), Vol. 24, No. 23, Ed. 1 Friday, November 1, 1918, newspaper, November 1, 1918; Cleo, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1862261/m1/7/: accessed July 16, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.