The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1917-04-13
GIVE ALLIES FUNDS
FROM OUR GOLFERS"
Submarine Acts Of Germany
Comparable To Deeds of
~ Aguinaldo

Col Leroy G. Hunt formerly of this
Soldiers & Sailors Orphan Home, Ken
la, writes the following extremely in
teresting letter:
Editor Mt. Vernon Banner:
/ was greatly pleased when / read
in your paper last week that Mt Yer
non had come to the front showing her
loyalty with rousing patriotic meet
ing at the court house and had noti-
fled the president and congress that
they were with them in this trying
hour in the nations history.
This surely is time when every
loyal citizen should show his colors
and bubble over with patriotism for
Nthe defense of Old Glory and the ma
tf%ns honor and protection to Ameri
can property and the lives of her citi-
zens on land and sea.
| believe the same spirit of loyalty,
patriotism and devotion to country that
existed with the boys of 81 is still as
strong as of yore and is so thoroughly
imbued in them that they would shoul-
der gun today and do what they
could in the cause of humanity.
l am sorry to see the coi.scription
act talked of on the very heels of the
declaration of war when an order has
not been yet issued for recruiting
volunteer army. 1t would be a dis
grace to the young manhood of the
country and an insult to loyalty to
begin such an act at this time. The
whole nation is fast becoming imbued
with a spirit of patriotism and, if
President Wilson will make proclaim
alton declaring it necessary for
million men, as Lincoln did when he
wanted men, they will respond in num-
bers greater than he needs.
l am in favor of universal military
training and believe it will be the
best schooling that can come to the
youth of our country to make them
stronger and better equipped for du-
us as citizens as well as soldiers if
they are needed for war purposes. AL
ready, we have more than half dozen
young men yet in their teens who are
we'll drilled in the tactics of the sol
dier who have asked to be discharged
from the home in order that they
might enlist. This is an evidence of
what military training will do, and
we have two or three hundred boys
here that in couple OF years will
make as fine soldiers as ever shoul-
dered a gun.
am in favor of letting the Allies
have all the funds required by them
from our bulging Golfers to aid them
in their heroic fight against Germany
and the central powers but | am not
at this time in favor of sending our sol
diers into the trenches in Europe.
Send out our battle ships and sub
y Tsparine chasers in numbers sufficient
tos> drive the murderous submarines
from the Atlantic; blow them to king
dom come and send their commanders
and crews to the bottom of the sea to
rest with the thousands of innocent
men and women and babies they have
so ruthlessly murdered without mo-
ment's warning. Make the lanes of
travel clear and safe for the commerce
and the travel of passengers. AS in
time of peace. The acts of these pirat-
ical wasps Of the sea going unpunish-
ed as long as they have would almost
make Admiral Dewey and Bob Evans
turn over in their graves. We have
just as brave and we'll equipped COM
manders of our navy today II they
ARE turned loose and given power to
act.
Germany has waged the most heart
less, inhumane warfare in the history
of all wars and would put to shame
the deeds of Aguindaldo and his Phili-
pinos in their atrocities in their war
time. The indiscriminate submarine
attacks of Germany are the most
heather, uncivilized and unprincipled
acts ever perpetuated by men of a
nation whose emperor has boasted
that God is on their side and they will
prevail If this is true and they are
permitted to be victorious over civil
lied people, then may God have mer-
cy ,on the rest of the human family
N