The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1917-08-30
SUPREME

at New Ulm stirred the anger of a
lot OF good Americans, then the meet
ing held last week In Minneapolis,
under the auspices OF the Loyal Le-
giOn of Labor, should arouse every
heart and inspire every man who
loves his country.
Two Of the greatest meetings ever
held In that city were addressed the
same evening by James w. Gerard.
former ambassador to Germany, and
Clarence barrow, the Chicago labor
lawyer. A gigantic parade preceded
the meetings and labor showed that
1t was more than loyal, in the way
1t turned out. The speeches them
selves were epic In their character
and phrases used by these two great
speakers will become catch words
for many an orator to use in talking
loyalty throughout the country. Some
OF them are quoted below and the
grim force within them shows the
kind of loyalty that Is behind the men
who used them:
Gerard said: "What treatment
would the editor who published a pa
per in English in Berlin in which he
upbraided the government have do
you suppose? Only one answer, a
blank wall and a firing squad. Yet
here we permit these foreign Ian
guage papers to be published, we per-
NIT them to talk sedition. After the
first fash of blood, after some Of our
boys have been killed, shell-shocked,
gassed, then the fathers, mother, sis
ters, wives, sweethearts, friends of
those boys will haul these traitors
from their nests, will burn their
buildings where these traitorous pa
pers are published.
"These German autocrats. these
rulers who have driven not only the
German people but the whole world
into war, shall not win"
mo traitorous, bribed, disgrautled
propaganda minority is going to
hamper the majority in this country.
Any statement by Office holders show
ing opposition to the war simply
encourages the Germans to prolong
the war;"
"The German people are being led
along by false hopes that they can
turn us into a Russia by encouraging
a revolution"
Were In this war to a finish. We
are in It until the cruel blood-thirsty
autocrats Of Prussia are wiped out.
And until we do wipe out this autoc-
racy life and all that it means will
be Of no use."
Darrow said: $50 long as men
fight and women wills bear children
the war will go on until Germany Is
subdued and then peace will come"
II want to know whether the
American people would have been
human II 1t had not been willing to
60 to France and return, yes a hun
dred fold, what France gave to us a
hundred years ago.
1.-THE pacifists have demanded that
we define our terms Of peace. Ger
tainly VI will not define our terms
Of peace before we have begun fight
ing. II ! were to give my concep-
ton of the proper terms Of peace I
Would borrow General Grants words
to General Lee at Petersburg and
say. unconditional surrender
1.-THE pacifsts are not all towards.
It takes something more than cow
ardice to stand up in the face Of pub
lie opinion. But, II we were to adopt
their opinions. could we say that we
would not fight? II you can say that
then you'n die. It is q fundamental
law Of nature that the individual
must fight. It IL the old rule Of eat
Or be eaten and I don't want the
kaiser 70 eat me-. II is q law Of the
world that We must fight, and when
! nation won't light then. it's doom