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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Apr 09, 1918
Page
12
An editorial criticizes Americans especially Wyoming and Cheyenne residents who watch WWI as a spectator sport. It denounces grandstand spectators who discuss war sensationally while avoiding personal sacrifice, labeling cynics who deem war senseless as detached from the conflict and duty.
The piece reflects on April 9 1865 the surrender at Appomattox and the healing of national wounds. It links past leaders Lee Grant Lincoln and Davis to current American troops in Europe. It urges youths to emulate their heroic unity in the trenches of France and Picardy.
The text urges Americans to join in mobilization to support victory against the Prussian government. It insists those who do not participate are unworthy of victory and emphasizes duty in trench, factory, office, or home. It marks a shift from passive observation to active national effort.
The article argues that the Dutch protest over seizure of Dutch ships in American harbors clashes with established law. It explains angary as a belligerent right to use neutral property with compensation, tracing its origins to ancient Persia and confirming it against Holland’s objections as contrary to long standing practice.
An imagined wartime tract catalogs historical peace hopes and failures. It cites The Hague, Nobel prizes, and Rothschilds while recounting World War I events and looming German power, arguing peace is endangered by belligerent forces and failed diplomacy.
A wartime exhortation taunts Americans to resist peace talks with Prussia. It depicts Prussia as a brutal aggressor and urges men to oppose calls for peace, urging national resolve against invasion and conquest.
Washington April reports a state official from Wyoming accepting a public service post in the war department. The piece highlights engineers from across the country leaving private high paying jobs to contribute to government efforts at lower salaries as part of a major wartime achievement.
Major H A Wallace of Boulder Colorado heads rapid construction of ordnance plants powder factories and proving grounds for the government at Aberdeen Perryville and Edgewood Maryland as the nation expands wartime plant capacity. He left Western Light and Power to take the post succeeding C A Semrad of Cheyenne.
Dutch Minister Philips will leave Washington on medical leave and return home to recuperate. The move has no political significance and is not related to U S welfare of Dutch ships.
A WWI era verse by Edmund Vance Cooke mocks past conquerors and current ambitions. It names Alexander, Caesar, Bonaparte, and the Kaiser, who loom as global threats yet fade from headlines, while the poet wryly notes shifting power and uncertain fates.
The scene unfolds at Eliene’s reception a sharp voice quotes the Smart Set while Mollie and Margery discuss the town’s exclusive crowd. A brilliant woman in the party stirs gossip as Eliene endures the social scrutiny and looming scandal. The narrator hints at the town’s prestige driven by money status and wit.
Four of the deputy sheriffs who escorted eighteen prisoners to the Wyoming penitentiary from Cheyenne on Monday had the front name George. Also notes a London Chronicle anecdote about wounded Australian soldiers and a discussion from Gootwin's Weekly arguing that wealth influences wartime service.
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