WASHINGTON, D. C.—Full author
ity for suppressing the entire alcoholic
liquor business of the United States
during the war, as an emergency
measure for increasing the nation's
efficiency and conserving its food sup
ply, is believed by temperance advo
cates to be vested in the president,
and it is unofficially understood that
Mr. Wilson is giving attention to this
subject. In the meantime the prohibi
tion leaders in the capital are matur
ing plans for obtaining the enactment
by congress of emergency prohibi
tion legislation, to be effective in the
event no official proclamation comes
from the white housec to halt the
traffic.
“Internment of the country’s liquor
business for the duration of the war
w^th Germany may be proposed to
congress as soon as the nation’s tem
perance leaders have fully investigat
ed the legal aspects of war-time pro-;
hibition,” stated Representative Ran- j
dall of California to a newspaper rep- j
resentative.
“Without a doubt emergency legisla j
tion of this character wall be pressed;
early in the present war congress.;
The question now being most earnest- j
ly considered is whether there will be;
any conflict between proposed national:
legislation and states’ rights."
All the belligerent European na
tions have found it necessary either
to adopt absolute prohibition or to
enforce restrictive measures. The!
United States now finds itself facing;
a similar necessity.
“1 firmly believe that without war- i
time prohibition in Russia, which abol
ished the use of vodka, there would
notyhave been the recent successful
revolution thaat has freed the Russian
people from their yoke. The Russians
are a sober people now, and see things ^
in a new light.
"Hie importance of prohibition in
wartime was emphasised by the Ger
man kaiser, who, in an address to the
Murwik naval cadets, declared the na
tion which takes the smallest quantity !
of alcohol will win.”
Representative Randall observes:
that any emergency prohibition legis
lation can be put through congress
by a majority vote, and the Sixty
fourth congress proved that this num
ber of prohibition votes can easily be
mustered. He admitted, also, that the
enforcement of complete prohibition in
the country, during war, will undoubt
edly have a big effect upon the passage
subsequently of the proposed national
prohibition amendment, which must be
ratified by three-fourths of the states, |
as well as receive a two-thirds vote in!
eongress. Mr. Randall explained, how- [
ever, that the prohibitionists had no
disposition to take advantage of the
war to carry forward their propa
ganda.
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The abdication of the German em
peror is forecasted by the former Ger
man magistrate who wrote the cele
brated book, “J’Accuse,” in an inter
view published in Ouvde. He says:
“The kaiser is obsessed with the
thought that he is responsible for the
war, a thought which poisons his
■whole existence. He feels that he is
menaced by the three enemies at home
without counting those abroad: First,
is the crown prince, the real author
of the war; second is the junker pan
Germanist—you can not imagine the
smouldering hatred of the emperor for
those whom he believes to be the ma
niacs who are driving him into an
abyss; third, are the people, not the
socialst party, but the people who are
starving and who he feels are growing
in number and rising little by little
against those who organized the war.
“In particular he was personally op
posed to a break with President Wil
son, but he was forced to consent.
Documents will be published one day
which will prove that secretly he did
everything not to bring America down
upon him and that he considers that
the rupture was an irreparable mis
take. The failure of the submarine
war will show that he was right, but
it will be too late.
"He wants to continue popular at
any price, and that is why he spoke
the first word of peace. The people
were grateful for it, but the subma
rine war came and spoiled everything,
“It is hard to realize how the em
peror, who enjoyed a popularity un
exampled in our epoch, suffers ih his
pride. He alone perhaps in Germany
knows the whole truth, since he alone
has in his possession the elements foi
forming a judgment in the situation as
a whole.
“Once he tried to initiate peace ne
gotiations and failed. To try again
would be to admit and proclaim to the
world, but above all to the German
people, which he fears most, Gel
many’s real situation. If the allies
solemnly declared as they did with
Napoleon in 1815, that they would re
fuse to treat for peace with the Ho
henzollem it would be a knockout
blow. Our German people, who still
believe in him, would abandon him for
a peace at any price will soon be the
unanimous and hidden thought of tor
tured Germaany.
“What recourse is left to him but
a dramatic abdication in order to re
tain the sympathies of the German
people and save the political future of
Prussia. He will say: ‘I sacrifice my
self to make peace. Without me, those
only are responsible who desired a
savage war and the complete isola
tion of Germany; those who took at
the beginning my son as their party
leader and forced me to mobilize, a
measure I hestitated to take.’ ”
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WASHINGTON, March 16.—“The ;
naval engagement between the British j
ship Amethyst and two German raid
ers in the south Atlantic took place
near the island of Fernando de Nor
onha, off the south coast of Brazil, and I
fairly contiguous to the largest segre
gation of German population in that
| republic—where it has been suspect
ed that there have been maintained i
bases of supplies for the German
ships which have operated so exten
sively against shipping in these wat
ers,” states a war geography bulletin i
just issued by the National Geograph
ic society from its headquarters in i
Washington.
‘ The Germanic element in Brazil is
numerous enough and energetic ■
enough to carry out such a policy if
they choose to do so. They number ,
at least 1,000,000 souls, and they are >
practically limited in residence to the
four southernmost of the Brazilian :
maritime states—Rio Grande do Sul,!
Santa Catarina, Parana and Sao Pau
lo—where they have thrust their na
tional roots far into foreign soil with- ;
out losing any of their inborn charae- j
teristics. Theodore Roosevelt, writ- j
ing in 1914 of San Paulo, says: “In
this province 1 met for the first time
Germans born in the country who
could speak only German.”
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Many German Colonies.
“German colonization in Brazil has ,
been going on since 1825, when the j
setlcment of San Leopoldo, in Rio
Grande do Sul was established.
“Fully 250,000 Germans are to be j
found in the state of Rio Grande do!
Sul, where, in the cities, they have;
taken a strong hold upon the activities
of the country and have practically
absorbed commercial and industrial
'enterprises. In Port Alegre, the cap
j ital of the state, three German publi
j cations indicate and expound the Ger-I
j manic doctrine.
Elect German Governor.
“In Santa Catarina, the next state
north, conditions are analagous. Ger
man customs and the German idiom
prevail, and in many towns one may
almost imagine himself in the father
land. The Germanic element here
was strong enough some years ago to
elect a German governor; and, with
the exception of the officers of the
federal court, the office holders are
almost entirely German.
"The lands to which the Germans j
i have taken title in South Brazil now,
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| gives them an area of holdings of 11,
! 584 square miles, an extent equal to i
| that of Alsace-Lorraine and Saxony I
! together. The aim of the Metropoli- ]
;tan and Hanseatic colonization com-!
i panies at home has been to deflect the;
j current of German emigration from j
; the United States to Brazil and to'
’ have the 'Brazilian colonists retain
i their German allegiance. The sue-;
| cess of the plan is attested by Konigs- j
! burg, who in his work on Rio Grande \
do Sul says, “These colonies have t
built a state within a state. Of Ger- i
man customs very little has been lost; ;
also, the German dialect, with its na- !
tive idiom, is handed down from gen
eration to generation. Portuguese is
little Spoken, and even then the Ger
mans use it with great difficulty.’ The
school teachers of the colonies are
subsidized German pastors.
“Through their possession of land,
the Germans in Brazil control one-half
of the world’s supply of coffee, and
the Germanization of the people is
further carried out through the com
pulsion laid upon the army of em
ployes and servants to learn the Ger
man language rather than to oblige
the alien to gain the native tongue.”
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NEW YORK, N. Y.—Mayor Mitchell j
has organized a public works mobili- j
zation board to assist the city to meet j
any emergency*which may arise out }
of the international situation.
“The city is faced,” said the mayor, !
“with the possibility of grave emerg- !
encies growing out of war conditions’!
in prosecuting important physical pub- \
lie work. It is clear that the prosecu-! i
tion of subway construction requires i
immediate and complete co-operation |!
of the city government. It is impera
tive that an order of urgency shall be
established so that all available labor
shall be used o the most important
work without having'to compete with
other public work less urgent.”
The mayor made his statement after!
a conference with the public service
commission had shown him that sev-1
eral contractors might hold up subway
work if concession could not be made
which would make it easier for^hem!
to meet advanced prices and other i;
changed conditions.
“It is also imperative,” said the!!
mayor, "that the staffs, labor and !
plants controlled by the city depart- !
ments and public service corporations \
should be capable of immediate mob- !
ilization. It is also entirely possible !
that at a later date there will be such i
curtailment of physical work goner- j
ally as to produce conditions of un-j!
employment. The city government i
cannot look upon the posibility with i
unconcern and one of the results ofj
deferring less pressing public woikj
now will be to enable the city co alle j
viate unemployment conditions should}!
they later arise.
“1 am asking this board to list all
phyisical public work projected bv
the public service commission, tnej
city government and the board of
water supply; to determine the order
of urgency of these various pieces }f
work; to ascertain the present avail
able amount of labor; and to secure
the postponement of a sufficient j
amount of less urgent work to permit
the most pressing work to go forward i
at full speed.”
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