Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1917-09-27

VaHcy county News, Mont.
is pat and timely in more
places than Montana:
A program has recently been in
auguratea over the country for
business and professional men and
especially volunteers in the army
service, to get out and make 4
minute talks on ''Patriotisn1''.
These talks are to he made betw cen
acts at theatres. Vim the churches.
on street corners. in social circles,
at club meetings and wherever
Americans are gathered together.
One of our local travelling salcsmen
after coming in contact with mot
ley crowd of dissatisfied humanity
strongly tinotured with Socialistic
and |. W. w. agitators, at a way
station on the Great Northern Rv.
comes to us with the following IL
minute talk ON Patriotism." and
we consider it good enough to give
to our readers. He saws:
brothers:
And when | say brothers. /
mean it with a larger scope to
which the definition of that word
can be applied. While do not
believe that those forms see there
or the one yon see here, are the
things God made IN his own image
and likeness, that is not the parti-
cular subject we came hele to con-
slider. However we are brothers.
and as brother to brother let US
open our minds and hearts throw
all prejudice to the winds and for
few moments put ourselves in CON
dition to receive the truth and re-
iect the error.
''Now friends, come on. Be With
me and help me. he fair-lend to
me a respectful ear and reserve
your Judgment until ] am through
and then if von don't like me or
what | say, then is is the time to
roast, fry. fricassee or freeze me
to frazzle. That you may per
haps better understand my talk, |
want to say to you: | am here, not
in the interest of any clique or
clan, do not belong to any labor
organization. political party.
church or school. / own no stocks
or bonds Hold on there yes | do.
/ had sympathy for poor young
fellow and it was not Darius Green
either, tho he was selling flying
machine stock, he had the conyic-
tions, honest convicticns: his
clothes were seedy. his shoes were
cracked, he stammered when he
talked. | gave him fifty dollars
to encourage the poor fellow. Ii
/ can find the stock certificate and
if you want it transferd to you.
give me dollar and its yours. J
l come here as I see it and feel it,
hoping to 'do my bit'' for you,
humanity, our country and the
flag which you and [ respect and
love. | am firm believer in or
ganized labor, ] cant put it too
strong, that capital and business
must have no monopoly on the
right to organize. But it is the
salvation and preservation of or
ganized labor for which | wish to
speak and. incidently. a word to
the Socialists. Regardless of some
to the contrary, it is not capital.
not Wall street. not copper kings
or coal barons. nor any political
party or organized labor that is
the compelling force of this country.
Wealth may faunt It's wealth pro-
duced better -than-you are ideas.
purchase legislatures and execu-
tives, assemble oums and criminals
under the name of Pinkertons to
fight you, shoot down innocent
men-as at Homestead and other
places-the LW w. and the Social
lists may allow in their associations
another class of buns and crimi-
mails to parade the country, make
fiery speec6es, plan and execute
trouble, but in the final blow we
f.