Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1917-05-17

We are going to have to take q
chance on running short of either
bread or booze. Which shall it be?
Billy Sunday says he would like
to go with Roosevelt to France.
Well. Billy would silence some of the
big guns alright.
The German crown prince is thirty
five years old. If he is not wiser
man than he was at thirty-two his
case is hopeless.
Twelve interned Americans are out
of Turkey. That's what majority
of the people will be next November
if present prices keep up.
Navy volunteers are glorious, but
with navy beans at twelve dollars q
bushel, few thousand more navy
bean volunteers are in order.
Secretary McAdoo evidently select
ed a good name, Liberty Loan" if
the manner IN which subscriptions
are being sent in is any indication.
The middle west just naturally sets
UP spring crop worries in order to
indulge in the pleasurable pastime of
bowling them over later in the sea-
son.
One sad feature is that when the
United States really did start to move
the more prominent advocates of for
ward motion were not prepared to go
along.
Recent developments show that the
kaiser would as soon bait his militar-
istic hook with socialists as with any
other sort of bait to catch foolish
fishes,
The United States supreme court
decided a case in favor of q German
steamship company, indicating that
an enemy can still get justice in this
country,
Those British and French envoys are
seeing some of America and learning
first handed how the American people
feel toward those countries and the
war they are waging against German
Imperialism.
Uncle Sam of today is much larg,
er, finer looking gentleman than he
was forty years ago. His appearance
improves with age. He is kind and
fatherly OLD gentleman and we all
love him.
We haven't the army ready for
Europe, but the surgeons and rail-
way experts and the men trained In
other lines that she needs to back up
her armies. are here in great numbers
and ready to answer her call.
Get ready to pay the war taxes with
a smile. The twinge of a dollar pass
ing through the pocket is not half as
agonizing as the ping of bullet
through the body. The patriot can
do no less than seem to enjoy paying
the extras.
When the conscription law is put
into force, the first class of men to be
| rounded up should be those fellows
who find it convenient to loaf on
street corners and similar places but
who conveniently never have employ
ment.
The pity is that Joffre and his psr-
ty could not visit every section of the
country. knowledge of what the
hero of the Marne has done for the
cause of democracy and s;ght of hiE.
has done much in the east 20 STIR up
sleeping patriotism.
General Pershing is the first man
suggested as leader of the expedition
ary force which it is proposed to send
to France at an early date. His ex
perience in Mexico few months ago
will be of great service to him ii be
is the officer finally selected.
There are plenty of loop-holes ir
the new army cOnscription law tt
permit the unscrupulous, the uDpatri
otic. to squeeze through and avoiG
service. The fellows who make the
loudest noise are not necessarily thu
most loyal nor patriotic Beware Of
the wind -jammer.
II seems almost inconceivable bu
there are men in the country tOda,
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