WHY A CIVIL WAR IS have always ho&d for the independence of their country, saw that the RAW IN FINLAND time had come when they could realize 'I Power Provision Store their fondest desire to be allowed Company to sway their own destinies. They and took courage to demand- independence "No mercy will be WHY GERMANY INVADED and more so for the reason that FINLAND the allies and President Wilson had shown! No prisoners will We Have reduced the prices on all Meats and Groceries assured the world that the allies were be taken! As the Huns, under Recently the news dispatches in the fighting for democracy and for the from 10 to 15 per cent, and more in many cases. We King Attila, made a daily papers have related how a civil rights of the small nations. But the name for themselves, may are going to do our "bit" towards making .war is raging in Finland. The news Finnish bourgeoisie even went as the name of German be so dispatches have not stated why a far as to oppose this by scheming city the best place in Minne­ our civil war is raging there. The same fixed by your deeds, that with Germany and Sweden against dispatches have ajso related how the the independence of Finland. Biitjno s£aU again sota to live in. one eyer «jTo-called Red Guards had practiced due to the resolute actions of the peo- 1 .1 1 uer-_r* ... dare even to look at a 1 N. & 0. POWER CO. horrible cruelties. ple they did not succeed in this. man askance It is that an open struggle is true The working class of Finland and TnCSC Q.TQ KgL'SCT S going on in Finland between the pro the larger portion, of the farmers, the! tn6 words, when OTl July German bourgeoisie and the indus PROVISION. STORE small fanners, demanded that power otiin in 1 trial workers and small farmers who ha a in I 7 J'° ^ade fare- defend democracy, but it" is'absolutely representative body elected by the|27' TSC.ll to his SoldieTS. untrue that the Red Guard, organized people. The bourgeoisie demanded by the-labor government, is practicing that powr shall be vested outside the In the name If countless cruelties. These news dispatches have Diet, to a council of three not selected women and children who mm®. are sent from Stockholm, Sweden, been met by the people. Their-final intention jj butchered or have and they areall purposely made up death—Halt the was to form va kingdom of Finland' worse than they are all infamous falsehoods. As and to set up some German prince as! Hun! Sweden has always had a yearning king. (The latest news dispatches' for the Aland Islands and for a' portion report that the Finnish bourgeoisie of Finland, reports were sent I desire the German kaiser's fifth son, out to the world that anarchy was Oscar, to be king of Finland.) In this reigning 'in Finland so that Sweden attempt /they did not succeed, however, could get a pretext for seizing the for the people vigorously demandeda Aland Islands. democratic form of -g^ovepiment. 1 The Finnish bourgeoisie have always 3^ been pro-German. When the When the reactionary and pro-German pr.esent war broke out, they sent a bourgeoisie saw that the will of wm/sMm large number of the mmebers of their the people could not be opposed, unless This Space Donated by» class into the German army to fight especially radical methods be against Russia, although Finland employed, they commenced to openly CITY DRUG STORE HELPING- TO YlOUT CAVit IStiT formed a part of Russia. They went organize the so-called "White THE OF to»fight for German junkerism, militarism Guards" (which in Finland are called H, M. BABCOCK, Prop. and imperialism, and against the "Butcher Guards.") At the same democracy. These Finns were careffflly time they commenced to offer the trained in the German army so Aland Islands to Germany and duce enough grain to feed its people, t° ments of soldiers, etc., were sent from thatthey would be able to fight and on account of the war grain Sweden and mastery in Finland in Germany into Finland, against the democratic elements of could not be imported from elsewhere. exchange for aid in crushing down Finland for German junkerism. The .proletariat of Finland have A $100 Bond Regardless of this the bourgeoisie Then came" the revolution in Russia the democratic elements. The Fin-:-. long suffered terrible hunger which transported grain to Sweden the government of the szar was landers in the German army were is entirely unknown to the people of overthrown. The Finnish people, who called home, and ammunition, regi- this country. The land does not pro­ (Continued on Page Seven) Make your dollars EVERY $100 Third Liberty Bond you buy will clothe a^oldier, provide five rifles, pay for 45 hand grenades, or furnish an army hospital with 145 hot water bags. Buying a $1,000 Bond is equivalent to furnishing 6 cases of operating instruments, pistols for a Company, or a motor kitchen. And Uncle Sam returns to you every dollar you invest with interest beside. Buy 3rd I.l«KH'i'V LOAN BONDS. •This Space Donated hy 0 M. CARR& C0. "The Store of Quality" Subscribe for the Press ssagas t: LUCKY STRIDE CIGARETTE investment in the.world. 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