Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 182, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 August 1918 — SHOTS FROM THE MAGAZINE [ARTICLE]

SHOTS FROM THE MAGAZINE

To mediocrity genius is an offense. I Good ifsteners are. always reputed intelligent. . Kultur develops a race with heart of bronze and cheek of brass. The kaiser is an unscrupulous speculator whose merchandise, is men. - Half hearts that succumb to the first blow have no place in the ranks of democracy. The junkers are slowly waking to a realization that the resources of democracy are inexhaustible. In democracies the orbits of business and politics never join; perhaps that is why no merchant or banker has ever become president.

While the recent German offensive did not feaze the allies it succeeded in crushing the life of the pacifist sentiment in Great Britain.