The Harrison times., 1917-05-05

| we would perhaps have been stlll un-
der the rule of the Divine Right OF
Kings" and suffering the same intoi-
erable conditions people were COM
PEELED to undergo in the middle ages.
/ We would now be subjected to the
same mhuman practices of mOnarchial
! Germany with its false ideas of "Kul-
| ture and its horde OF Officers to
| brow-beat the majority and fill its pris-
ons OF penal colonies with innocent
victims of whims of petty potentates
or teudal lords of the land. No man
wants to die before his allotted time
and | am inclined to think most men
would like to have Just few days
longer than such but, there are con
/ dtiOns and circumstances thrust upon
a people and have been thrust upon
people for time immemorial, that have
caused them to revolt and rebel, pre-
| ferring Liberty or Death; and when
we understand that such was but a
prayer of wailing souls overburdened
by tyranny and hardship, pestilence
and famine arising at the hands of the
| crowned heads in a mOnarchial gov
| ernment, together with its cOnscrip-
ton acts in which the people had no
| voice or choice to endure or not and
all IGr the aggrandisement of some
royal family is it any wonder that
men and women will fight and sacTi-
flee their lives to eliminate Kings and
Emyerors who practice methods of
that nature? While | have enjoyed
the privileges of our government for
many years, have never been called
upon to actually serve as a soldier but
have always been ready; have several
years training in military matters and
am thus doubly prepared for service.
There are hundreds of thousands of
other men in the United States PIE
pared in the same way and these men
have been prepared during all the
days of our grand peace situation anG
as a consequence, these men were an
element which made all nations
Stand up and take notice" and be.
came the equilibrium of peace and in
dicated clearly to the world that We
were ready ION short notice" to take
to the field if need be, for our rights
and the maintenance of them. With
such ideas, can only believe that it
is the duty of my sons to prepare
themselves for the same situations
and when called upon, to go and DO
their duty for the benefit of the Old,
Infilrn, the halt and the blind who may
remain alive and for future poster!ty-
just as | would have done for them
had been called.
AS for Germany, she is a vanquished
| nation. Her people know it but, there
are other interests which, in the past,
have had greater sway than the will
of great people, that is, the interests
of the Hohenzollerns that are unQues-
tiOnably vast; the interests OF the
clique which surrounds the family, al
of whom must know that "thei" cake
is dough" the moment the people real
ize their power, assimilate the Repub
lican form of government and have
chanceFto enjoy it for a short while
This clique certainly have two excel
lent object lessons in what a people
can do if they so will it, that is, China
and Russia who have thrown off the
yoke of monarchy and assumed the
reign of government themselves. Rev.
oluton in Germany is just as certain
as the sun shines and | am prone to
those people take matters into their
own hands, God help the Hohen2Cl!-
erns and all connected with them.
AS tor the United States, rather feel
that we should keep our men at home,
train them to the highest state of eff.
cheney; have an army prepared
amounting to three or five millions Ot
| men; manufacture and store MI nj
tiOns sufficient to maintain this army
for live years in the field; build d
navy larger than the combined navies
Of the world and likewise provide it
with munitions and stores for a five
year campaign.
Instead of sending men to Europe
for fighting, which, according to all re-
ports are not needed, supply the allies
with vast sums of money munitions
and stores of every character, assist
! her through our navy to transport
| these stores to fields of action aofl at
the same time do patrol duty upon
| the high seas with such precision and
| careiulness as would soon destroy ev
cry effort of Germany to obtain the
necessities Of warfare. Use our vast
army for the purpose of making aiti-
zens for the United States and ali