Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1917-12-20


lagos to become slaughter houses.
We do not join hands with the bloody
Turk, teaching him new cruelties that
even his thousand years of frightful-
ness had not discovered. We do not
exile an entire nation, with such I'M
speakable cruelties as would make
| Simon Legree of Uncle Toms Cabin
a Sunday school teacher in compari-
son. We do not maintain a system
/, of treachery among neutral nations,
waging invisible war upon the peoples
that are honestly trying to maintain
neutrality. We do not herd brave
men and helpless women in prison
camps SO vile and hopeless is would
make Dante's Inferno seem a bloom.
ing Paradise.
We do not consider that the chief
function of womanhood is to mother
m~en-children, a new army of iron,
and beyond that the only business a
woman has is that of head servant in
her masters house. We do not build
La Chinese wall of intolerance about
! our nation, branding other peoples as
"pig-dogs,' and Swine"
These items in the Indictment are
sober truth. 1t is time for the Amer
lean people to believe them. War is
hell. but even in hell there are
depths upon depths of perfidy and
shame. The military regime Of Ger
many seems to have reached bottom
at last, and yet no n can tell what
new device of intrigue and destruc-
ton will be tried out tomorrow.
Healing Message for Nations.
Dr.. Charles Jefferson has pointed
out that there have been three great
scourges in the earth, famine, pesti-
] lence and war. That of these three
commerce is in a fair way to destroy
the menace Of Sfamine; that science
is winning the victory against disease
! but that neither commerce nor SCI
| ence can do more than to make wal
more destructive than before. Only
i Christianity can solve the problems OF
Injustice among nations as among IN.
diyiduals. Only the Gospel. can pre-
went further war. The Church mas,
after all. the healing message LOT tine
nations.
We cannot have peace with a mac
dog until the mad dog is either de
stroyed or put where he cannot harm
1 folks. We cannot have peace with
Germany until a new freedom comes
I, q tha German people. Let US moi
waste time regretting the war: let Us
-.A -.I%s .toS ~ s. nSxynniV-tVa e rs
from NOVEL must have a most excel
lent reason for not having been IN tne
war, as a soldier. when other youne
people will ask my children why neil
tlfather was not in the great connie
for the emancipation OF y
III were free to go, ] would get :
] France as soon as possible, hndlhs
4 there some work to do. But mere a
home. there is work to do, ma tns
( ministers must be the AIDE 81 TN
people. If I failed to proclaim ines
Fittings this morning I Wouid pc uls
\. loyal to the man who for years Wor'
, d certain old and faded blue uniform
with brass. buttons, and TO whom
/. looked as something more thar rus
1 my father, for he was TO me a praVs
l1n~pretentious soldier in the war tina
made this nation a united people. II
memory is very precious 10 me and
u hold his soldier record to- have bee
q sacred service to God and %
country.
Allies Fighting for Right,
Men and8women, we must feel tina
way about this present war. There
q Il rightsside, and as God lives % g
4 clare that the allies are fighting e
81 the right. Heaven pity us II we 81
unwilling to- get into II. Shame on y
e il we are unwilling to hear about 4
e could not Expect forgiveness eithe
ii this life Or in the life to come
I were derelict In my duty this NOR
9 Ing.
I The war is far away, but It come
! nearer. nearer, every day. When
really comes home to us 1t Will mel
vastly more Il us In coming veal
We ehall see more clearly, = q
tlhand Of Goodwin he evident wnel
81 nav We gf0pe bIindly; not seeing veI
clearly aught except thissoIle thtnl
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