j. -...rw 'ic -.5^- 4*^ INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS .-- THE CAUSES OF THE WAR a generation in Germany, and is E E now a national obsession. With Old country newspapers to hand Europe in two armed camps the are filled with speculations as to only chance for peace was the acceptance the causes of tlje war and the by all the powers of the measure^ of responsibility that view that international difficulties each country must bear for it. It must be adjusted by a concert of may be said that they do not appear the Powers—the nucleus of the to have had many moire facts future Parliament of Europe. For to go on than we had here in any one power of the first rank The Book of the Hour Winnipeg and, in the main, their to take its own course, irrespective conclusions are pretty much the of the protests of other nations, same as those which Canadians meant, under he circumstances, have already reached. war. Yet this is precisely j? The war, of course, was sudden. what Austria, with the approval j- So is an explosion when a match and probably a the instigna- is thrown into a powder magazine ti0n of Germany, did though it may have taken years Nevertheless, it is not probable to build the magazine and store that Emperor William expected it with explosives. This war, as war. He expected to gain his $. 1 we now see it, when theories liave point without war. He thought collided with facts, was the inevitable that if he rattled his sabre in the With Complete Atlas and Maps end of the European system scabbard he would not need to. of alliances for the furthering of draw it. If Austria, with Germany territorial ambitions. It is easy ostentatiously in the background, to trace the fuse which exploded I were allowed to work its Sixteen pages of authentic Mapsj of vital facts, and most Invaluable pictures. this war back to the Franco-German will in the Balkans in defiance of It is all of an Atlas and more than an Adas at the same time. It is a book that belongs in every home. It is neces- War of 1870, which was itself the other powers, it would mean the offspring of the Napoleonic that Germany, without firing a sary to the man who thinks. It isappealing to the woman who feels. It is educational to the children who aTe growing up. wars and the war of liberation^ shot, would secure the unquestioned This important War Book is It must be task of Internatonal hegemony of Europe. In al liberalism to see that this war order to create a condition which, does not" sow the seeds of other as the Kaiser thought, would wars still more stupendous. leave the other nations no alternative In bold outlines the story of the but to yield, the ultimatum successive steps which led to this kH to Servia was couched in terms We have secured it EXCLUSIVELY for the people of this city. It is the latest word on this tremendous situation war may be told. When, after which made its acceptance the if it is the most valuable compendium of facts that has comefrom the press. And that is why we have secured it for you. the first month of war in 1870, equivalent of Servia's abdiction for you. ». the French Empire fell, the new of a state of sovereignty and French Republic sought an arrangement attached to it was a fatal timelimit This Book, if you bought it through the agents that are now distributing it through the country, would cost you $1.00. with the victorious of 48 hours—much too short And even if you bought it through any of the regular channels of trade it would cost you at least 50c or 75c. But through Germans. A generous peace a period to give diplomacy a our arrangements direct with the publisher's representatives we are able to give it to you to- day FREE with a new would have ensued a lasting chance to intervene in the intervene renewal subscription to the INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS for $1.50 for both paper for one year and the War Atlas, friendship between France and in the intersts of peace. Germany. Instead, Bismarck preferred A most remarkable value considering the exclusive maps and the rare pictures of Europe's armament which it contains. In 48 hours Servia must either to beat France to the become a vassal state of Austria "Europe at War" shows the pictures of some of the greatest Battleships in the Naval Fleets of the world. Other ground to "bleed her "white" (to or submit to war. In either case pages show the Aerial Battle fleetsthat are warring above the clouds. Still others show the armored automobiles of Germany—Dreadnaughts use the phrase which he himself I Emperor. William believed the of the land. made use of afterwards in the rest of Europe would accept the Reichstag) and to take from her accomplished fact. Here also is a double page in colors showing the most carefully drawn world-map ever printed—a Mercator's Projection the Rhine Provinces. At the When Emperor William found that should be in every home. And over farther is another double page Map in Colors showing all of Europe, showing Congress of Vieniia in 1815 a de- out jjjg mistake, his only way, the boundaries that now being destroyed showing thegreat forts that are now-trying hopelessly to protect those sure termined but unsuccessful at- short of war, was to call upon his boundaries showing all the relations and inter-relations of one country to another. And besides these there are colored tempt had been made to secure ally, the Emperor of Austria, to maps of every individual country drawn separately. the transfer of Alsace and Lorraine withdraw his declaration of" war to th Germanic Confederation. against Servia and submit the One glance at this map and you see in an instant why Germany has been pouring her soldiers by the hundreds of questior.s at issue to a concert of thousands upon the City of Liege—why, she is determined to go through Belgium atfany cost—why she MUST go through The rape of these Provinces the powers There is some evidence Belgium at any cost. was due partly to sentimental in the records that for a partly to military, reasons. They These are the Vital things in a War Atlas, and all these vital things are here. brief moment he considered some had been taken from the German such course, only to reject.it. It Then there is all the important data upon the European situation whi.ch has been collected for this great book by Empire by Louis XIV., and were Qf course, the abandon- meant? the most famous experts in the world. When you read this array of facts, you will KNOW how history is shaping itself still German in race and, to a ment forever of his ambition to in that War-Ridden Continent. large extent, in language too. his will upon Europe by impose It was not unreasonable to as- yjrtue of the military power at Get This Great Book FREE sume—though the sequel showed command. It meant the call- his how wrong the assumption was— existence of a real* con- ing into that thy would be speedily recon- Europe, pledged to keep cert of ciled to their annexation to Ger- building the peace It meant the many. But the controlling rea- protecting wall around the We can promise you delivery NOW but we cannot of a 4 meant,. son for their seizure was military. nations Qf Europe. 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Just bring in your coupon to-day. Tq seek the tfut dm and tion, with armaments of mcredit-' 1 Do it NOW while our supply lasts. able strength. The Triple alii- Tq hig tQ strict account ance sprang from the same seed.' intemperance and exagFrance, periodically bullied by, Xo judge no man nor Germany and threatend with q{ him unless by doing chast.sment, looked about for d. cQmes ter help. The alliance with Russia,, plainly about public To speak which followed, was based uponl^ fear. without a common fear of Germany. Then To keep an open heart for the International Falls, Minnesota came the understanding betwen nee(js Gf those who toil and an ear th Dual Allianc and Great Britain,' rea(jy to the cry of the unfortu- resulting in the Triple Entente, na^e To visit scorn upon those It came into being to preserve whose power or wealth is earned the balance of power in response the oppression of the poor, The nation's menu must be States literally starve. for the bother about getting ahead of his to an imperious necessity. No __ expose scheming and hypo- want of product, whole the same' neighbor his great business is to nation can aspire to the hegemony criSy jn high places FARM FACTS made from the fields, pastures, get ahead of himself. of Europe without calling into orchards and gardens, and to farm product in another part of the AM ak a xlj A _£ 1. 1 Li*«« Iffl 1*1 /\14 f)Hl tl fTT 1 tl To accept accept fair criticism with A the farmer must nation is wasting for want of a We must give to the people who being a counteracting and resistliye intelligently candor and misunderstanding market. on th€ farm the same educa- I ing agency. Two hundred years know what is needed. By Peter Radford, National LeCt^urer, with a smile. We must give the same care Those who, till the soil are the tipnal advantages for their child- ago England and Austria broke Farmers' Educational & To abate no jot of his convictions, i^Co-Operative and consideration to a system of chosen people of God. Farming ren as those of the cities enjoy, the power of the Grand Monarch whether to reader or advertiser Unioo of America There should be a social and an and a century later a European co-operation laws, extending to is as old as the human race and is for money's sake. j?/" yet in its infancy. Success is industrial survey of every coalition, of which Great Britain the farmer the facilities adapted To picture the world as God Where there is a silo there is com- munity. The pastor, the teacher was the backbone, destroyed Naand to his business that is "now afforded bound to come to the farmer who made it, darkened occasionally by prosperity. the school and church officials poleon. The Triple Entente came corporations.- plans while he plows No civilir ar and passion, but brightening j, There is not enough of the community Farm tenancy is the greatest zation has ever advanced beyond are they who should make such into being to keep the pretensions from year to year as man deals spirit among our rural of Emperor William in bounds menace now confronting the nation its agricultural development. a survey.- more justly with his brother and I districts. and it is because he refused to recognize and can only be checked by No farmer is successful who as he sees more frequent and less 1 The laws relating to business In a recent, survey of a community -M these, limitations that Eu- affording the tenant and the thinks more of his barn than he in New England, an aver- broeken glimpses of the divin are wholly unsuited to the transit laborer facilities for acquiring does of his home.,* age annual income of 154 farmers rope is now at war. plan.—^Collier's Weebly. actions of. the farmer. who has a common school educa-1 The belief that, by reason of her The waste" 61 effort through property and by reducing the high The development of t|ie farmer rates tion was while the average position on the map, her mighty While it was freely predicted I impractical methods of farming of interest which are now himself must precede the full development $229, the greatest tragedy of the age: sapping the vitality of agriculture. of the ground he tills. net of farmers of the army, her growing navy, her rap- a couple weeks ago that congress income .122 Something ris wrong in ou Under the present system of same locality with a high school id development in trade and comeducation would adjourn in about three The most'beautiful fact in the -I marketing farm' products ,it is ^marketing system when a small was annually, merce, Germany should assume weeks, it now becomes apparent farmer's work is that everything $482 possible and often occurp, that This was worth to each farmer (the leadership of'the nations of that the present session will continue crop brings more money than a he plants is a lesson in faith. people inonepartof the tjgitj lyho possessed it each year, the^ growing for indefinitely. bountifulone. ,1- The -best farmer does: not $253 te "JF\ S.iv Sr. fT*,V a -s- DEFECTIVE PAGE