The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1917-12-22
TRANSPORTATION is
BIGGEST PROBLEM in
WAR DECLARES TALLEY

as they did, and if we don't the his
tory Of the future that records the
great events that are being made to
day viii say nothing to our credit, =
the speaker declared
Il believe we are going to do these
things and IL we perform our duty
as clear conscience dictates, that
duty should be performed, democra-
cy will be written in bigger letters
and deeper into the hearts Of men
that it was ever dreamed OF before.
Petty Differences Aside.
Don't say that we don't have to do
that and this and the other thing.
We must put our petty differences
over agreements aside for the pres
ent, and look at these things in a
broader light for fair dealing OF one
to another, is going to manifest Itself
more and more as this war progress
es."
Il can see some Of you as you go
home tonight You will go to your
home and there meet your wife and
children. Perhaps she viii have the
babe III her arms rocking 1t to sleep
There you will sit about your table
in quietude and peace. While you
are sitting there enjoying the bless
ings OF freedom and liberty can see
soldiers, highly elated with victory
and drunken with selfish power, en-
ter that home, go straight to the in
nocent babe sleeping In the mothers
arms and stab it through with cold
steel see them tie you hand and
foot while they make a plaything of
the woman you love, the mother Of
your slain child Men, | can see
these things In my minds eye They
are not impossible and they are the
very things that have been commit
ted to the innocent people Of Bel
GUM There is not room in this
world for these two classes. There
is not room for democracy and au-
tocracy and it is up to you to give
your answer"
Government Taxes Roads.
"The government is taxing the rail-
roads more and more and the men
who have been in the training camps
are soon TO be moved These sol
diers have gone through their prepa-
rations and other men are soon to
be taken to the amps. When this
has been accomplished we are going
to be called on to make big move
ments Of ammunitions and supplies
and this great movement is going to
tax the railroads more than we can
eralize. And SO / say now as I said
in the beginning, the railroads can
win or lose this war. Are we going
to be able to win? want each OF
you to ask yourself this question
and then aswer as your conscience
dictates the speaker said
You no doubt will be called on to
do some extra work, and want to
say to you that believe 1t to be your
duty to go ahead and do this work
The boys in the trenches are not
thinking Of the number of hours that
they are working. They are think
ing only of how we can win vic
tory and It is this spirit that the
railroad men are going to have to
manifest in order for us to win this
war quickly. And, there is one thing
that / am sure of. That is, we are
going to lick the kaiser. We have
suffered too much"
Do Their Duty.
Here he advised the men to make
up their minds that they were going
to do their duty. He showed how a
locomotive break might mean a great
deal more than an immediate tie up,
and illustrated his point with the
overthrow of Napoleon at Waterloo,
because the forces Of the allies came
up on time when a slight delay would
have meant victory for the troops OF
the Little Corsican. Napoleon was
whipped and we viii be able to whip
the kaiser by getting our forces
there on time"
In talking OF the spirit that must
be shown in their work he told OF