Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1915-current, 1916-08-26
aTHe CIVILIZED WORLD


Another woman spy has been shot
by the French.
1t is getting SO common now that
the press is only mildly excited.
The s. F. Bulletin quotes Frederick
Palmer, the famous war correspondent.
as saying that the Germans believe it
a good investment to advance their
cannonfire at the rear OF charging
line. necessarily moving down many
of their own men.
The French do the same thing.
Likewise the British. and all the 9th.
ers, no doubt.
The Russians are doing something
new in barbarity. They send masses
OF men to charge the German trenches,
drawing the Teutons out OF their
bomb-proofs to meet the hand-to-hand
attack, and then Staying enemy and
friends alike with long.range fire.
Long live the Gear? Do we hear the
cry?
The same Gar, the same Cossacks.
the same Scythians described by Ma
poleon, the same brute beasts that
In former invasion of East Prussia
made sport by riding through towns
impaling babies from mothers arms
upon their lances, who, with their
kataghans, ripped the hearts out of the
breasts OF children and ate them, amid
the loud outlaws of their officers.
Officers, and gentlemen, knights
of the Gar! Allies of the fastidlous
French, the civilized British.
Civilized who? The British? Didn't
they fire the Sepoys from cannon
mouths-strapped on the muzzles. to
make holiday?
Didn't the British arm and incite the
bloodthirsty Iroquois to butcher our
women and children during the Revo.
lution-only yesterday? Civilized? A
blood.raw civilization. And they are
doing the same thing today. They are
using against the Germans the canni.
balls of Africa and the Soudan. the
hasheesh'eaters of India and the be
stial nomad tribes of various Deepen
denotes Civilized? No! Not hall
civilized, none of them.
Europe is inhabited by bloodthirsty
savages. How about America?
We remember our famous TIell.Roar
ing Jake. our general in the Philip
pines, and his gentle water.cure
We remember the brave and manly
conduct of our mobs. We recall some
events of our Civil War and the un
speakable horrors of Reconstruction.
In comparison with the savages Of
Europe, our people are as superior Il
them as the super-souls Of paradise
are superior 10 us. But, we are only
half-civilized Only yesterday we had
the grit 10 prohibit child.slavery. but
the law isn't half strong enough. Fol
fifty years, we have been grindine
profits out of the bodies and souls OF
babies.
Just little while ago, in Colorado
our eminent Baptist brother, the pious
Rockefeller posing as humanitarian
employed horde OF cut.throats to pro
tect strikebreakers, and these mon
sters, wearing the State livery. SCI
fire to the tent.homes OF the staryin,
coal miners. After the holocaust. tn,
investigators found the bones of many
women and children
Civilized, WE are. Write ard ask
Judge Ben Lindsey, at Denver. what
he thinks about 1t. What do YOU
think about it'll Is Just as import
ant. You, sir. may be Danton,
Robespierre of the future. or. wors,
still your boy may be- Who know,
what IL coming? We know that w
must pay the penalty for barbarity
Injustice brings it's inevitable reward
Tyranny will sprout revolution. as
should
Write into the Constitution" @,
claimed Thomas Jefferson. the ir
alionable right of the people to kee
and bear arms, with arms in thei
hands, they can never be enslaved."
Bad as some things are, our countr
Is a thousand times better than an
other country, and we have the BASH
the machinery OF real freedom. Er
throned and privileged rescals. on IN
bench, or in business, can live only
day In this country. Publicity Is thei
doom. Our people vote. aud they ngh
for their rights.
We have no little degenerate tin
horn king exercising suporhuinan pre-
negatives. We have no sissified Lord
and ladies' no privileged caste, n,
patents OF nobility.
But we think too much Of money. IT
some parts.
Money doesn't entItle any person IA
respect. Tho question is, how did he
gel ~ He may be Wholesale thief.
lie may be redlight capitalist. He