The Devils Lake world and inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1915-1920, 1916-01-06
A LIBEL ON AMERICANS.

1hf Chicago e., Tribune B4, in ii its issue Of De December BE : 20. prints, under s;r
There is q fiction in this country that America held out the hand
and money from the great hearted and generous American PEG
pie went into the starving, shivering land and kept body and soul
The American people believe that fiction. Pathethany the Bel
E Espab Ss45 psint s@, tra 1 8 the Of h s4sssfa1 it'll, ;itsis H 1etes4s from '9 sei ss%
children addressed %touchingly to the abstract idea Of the noble
'" We may hope that nothing changes this Belgian sentiment. We
have stolen their affections, but however we got them, they are
Of this undemonshated virtue upon their complacency would be a
Libel Sb upon 4m,t sander ID th and ia a slender 17n;tsd e st steth h.. been indifferent to Bel
GUM. The people Of the United States have fed their emotions
have ssas enjoyed a g great at deal @i1, Of i Indignation At on and tn they have have had the
pleasures Of compassion, but if they think to Themselves Nv that they y
t has 5een reported that the per capita c contributions t3i5 off, Of Aus is
expenses, have exceeded ours and we are making m. money ne out uh Of the h
aid fof the Belgians as the ordinary man on the street is to a stur-
everything. have contributed, but comfortable, even iuxuriess peo-
PIE ia1,the y, United {ss4;f Sta %sze as u.s. every very 9 imam IN s Oh aE' of the Belgian
!, Possibly Pe;:i s!,t there gs is no ;. moral aa4 Obligation ~ upon s;nd the he American AMER; + dan people 4e
ren eeb sasf; ills io of war are as mot %on 1sSs en cure 70 f but in nR the s1 name eo Of right 1t
dealing with their own consciences they ought to abandon the idea
a fhss f 5sye h %sSe d a 2se9 ssd f Esn tisht:d sa'aE ss a and ar the h N s:sssss q
assuming that the facts are otherwise would be disg1aceeful. We
n. 3GSiv'd Hsa7 A@* %S;9ioi asy Sis ss5nss stt tnf ls s7st asSisv cd t @en 6s1s' 5g
1Zed the Work OF rele1. Iney nave Deen the NOBLE nGuTeS II n
foreground of Belgium. American organizations-the Rockefel-
Ter (. foundation s3n6aie !! ee 9g devoted themselves hen :a res Immediately l@taE,t to
Of the Begians have been stolen. It is the creditable work of a
few Americans.
But if the American people ever lay the JUNCTION of meritorious
deeds upon their sef-rghteousness they will do their morality an
injustice greater than their indifference to need has done it. To
give and gloat is bad enough, but to gloat and not give would
shame the devil.
The only shame the American people have reason to feel is for
the Chicago Tribune. Its statement is untrue. It would be char
liable to ascrlbe the charges to ignorance, but that is no excuse
for such false nd sweeping accusations.
"A tax could also be imposed on such products as gasoline,
crude and refined oil, horsepower of automobiles and other in
te1nal combustion engines, and various other things" Annual
report Of Secretary McAdoo.
Tax babies at baptising
Tax maidens for each dance;
Tax the Democratic badge
The patch upon our pants.
Tax each glass-eye and false TOOTH
Make every sias Wegg
Place a ten-cent sticker u 49,. .~
On his wooden leg.
Tax our horse, the widows COW,
The organ-grinder's monkey
And, not show partially,
The Democratic donkey.
\ Then, if these will not suffice
The Treasury to save
Grab Henry Georges single tax
And clap it on each grave.
Alexander Chronicle: A few year ago a young man full of vim
and ginger found his way to the city of Minot, this state. He
was a nh9rnaciSf nv nrOfnSSiOn and in the faro If fnnr established