The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1917-03-12
DEFENDS GERMANY
AND la Toilette
he GLAD THERE ARE TEUE PA.
TR1oTS WHO DARE TO SPEAK
TIE TRUTH"
Unitarian Minister says War Spirit Is
the Same Sort Which KILLED
Christ

1r'i"udinE I.aFolIctt- ana the eleven
United States senators branded traitors
! E"N. j. ~ G.. fac ginger .-u"r. pastor Of
tn" First lnitaran church. declared IN
, his sermon yesterday morning that III"
United states should hny" g"u" TO Bel
Eiurn 5 defense. that = war with Ger
! many would h. f"r n"nrI rather than
rriu"IrI" and that TIC United States
would sink ships with women arG chill
"r"n aboard If III tho same sort OF plight
as Germany.
DR.. Au"r said:
"Th'rn arr iw" Kinds or ratriots:
mos" VII" look rs iar IT'S III" boundary
line OF the country in :iIch they liz"
und th".'" who ln"k heynnh it. To the
firSt Kind "f patriot ANY one living be-
y"nd The frontier Is observation-disclosures
alh. Is ih' aIj""tiv" nc. couples with
that noun, Foreigner
tn" low" Of your characterization
patriot stops at the boundary Enc. II"
docs not h"iI"v" in -""". cn"rS: they
amount to = mistake ~ haitir. Ii. is
rather rXa#i"rAtinG tha' certain people
should Il" foolish enough rot 80 speak
English ami not 10 CONFORM to .Nmcri-
can was.
Your limited patrior :. not very
close thinker but h" ~:ii shout if any
ON" viii TIL him what 10 shout som,
on" cries out. Urea :om. ,nc American
haZ is h" ing tramDlcd un"n. At once
your PATRIOT. with cn"'ahin power 0i
lungs. repeats III" w"rn:; and III" harder
, nc shouts The moro right he thinks he is
Same Spirit Killed Christ.
Tn" mob spirit ""rn"- over tn, ma
non. tn" sam" spirit through which
Jesus was cru"i1"d and Socrates forced
10 drink the hcmIock ru-
ar" "" going Ia h",-' that kind o.
: patriot dct"rruiu" whether wr shall nav,
war with E"rnam'" I''ny do ynu wish
VIZ any way" HrcaIl-" SOMEONE ,l.n
says y"u shnIi have i; W n""aris" y"n
hHa'r r"ad III" word in III" n"wSna rnrS
$" "ft"n that IL has mac your thinking
unClran.
Should Rave Defended Belgium.
''rrhl"hy Is wrong. l. Il: TW" Years
NJ" II was Wrung wh"m - invaded Hci-
gum. After III" war fever has died
down any farmii,i"d German will adj.
NIT mat. t.: great rrincipl" nr lih-
"r'r was violated. way 9TH no, vru
run /" III" dof"ns" Of EcIciUm--yn,I
Iairi"lS who h"li"N" H. american idn:lI & E"
iSn"Sc;"Ii c"urS"l"d va" 20 do So Gins
W. Eliot did tn" same. Tho world would
. nav" h"n"r"G uS if ~" :ad done il hut
=" talked and "r"tn newspaper articles
i'ut n"", things AT" different. Shrrs
win ammunition arc l",-r. sunk money
is involved. TIL" lives wc did moi give
for Tho defense uf frc.-"ru We arr astn,l
I" give I" The drfcnS" of our pocket
books
Money. Not Principle, Present Issue.
M inc ammunition that was ever
made III III" bethlehem steel works IS
not worth III" life OF the poorest bygrar
IA Tia" country.
Yes. YOU answer. blu, we should haya
SOLD "nThunitlon Just as readily IL Ger
many
Nor" Tic shanln. Il does not matrr-
VII" dies because Of our gain. whether
English ~ French or Germans. so long
AS the gain is ours.
Yes. but Germany killed orr women
and children when they torpcdocd our
ships. Now. in the name Of all that IL
JUST and honorable let W. b. honest
-N,n with ourselves.
DOCS anyon" ihnk that ii the United
states wrrr lighting with her back
AGAINST IN" wall, and Germany were
ton. "" would NOT sink those ships
which carried 1t. without being particu-
lar about thc way NC employed in sink
ing them?
"ncnr YOU think m" very newspapers
which now rcn$urc Germany for doing
TIL" thing w"uld not cXcuS. If VIC our
selves did it"
Germany Justified.
IF German women AMI children
should die on tn" ships we torp"dned
would not w say: Why do these people
travel on those ships" IF they die il
is their own fault. for W. must sink
thosc vessels. Any ships thai arrive In
port safely means that 2.Qnn or more Of
our boys will be killed ny the shells
lI.'tt lhtE
''Df courS" &C would say that Every
"a ir-n1inici man knows that wr would
Ma war in defense Of Rclgium
would have been just. Many hiGh-mInd-
ed men would have gladly offered their
lives. because principle Was involved.
Eur now-now the thing il wholly diff
fcrcnt.
Must Stop Munitions Export.
Before We have right 10 speak we
must stop III" making and selling of
ammunition. or else admit in shame that
not Germany is the AgErnS+or. but any
American who supplies Grrmany's enc
mics with shells TO kill tinrnany's SOL
dler. with no other purpose in view but
tn make money.
And if Il few mon are COURAGEOUS
enough to say that. lot us not call them
traitors and burn them in efnEy. but let
us be glad that among us thor" are trIe
patriots WHO dare To speak the truth
when the truth is very unpopular.
Not tho mere holding Of great flag
unfurlcd. but making ii the go"dlt"St III
the world--let that be the motto OF
every true patriot
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