The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1917-08-16
MUST THE LESSON BE LEARNED
ANEW?
s'Tell the traitors all around you,
That their cruel words we know,

That their cruel words we know,
DO XIII Our poys IN every DaLrie,
By the help they give the foe."
So sang the boys of OLGA, on tn
bal.Ie Irv.lr and with equal truth thu
soldiers OF today could echo the re-
frain.
General Grant, one of our best wal
authorities, stated: That the civil wal
would have been ended in less thar
two years had it not been for the
southern sympathizers in the north.
treslaenC Lincoln, in his naive way
put it thus: "The firing at the front
does not worry me very much but the
back-firing keeps me awake nights.
Freedom OF speech, liberty of tht
press and right of assemblage are q
fetch in this country.
During the first two years of the
civil war it was quite common in the
north for speeches to be made advo-
eating the right of secession, to pu''.
lish articles IN the press opposing
armed CO. rcion and hold public as,
semblages to demand that the troops
raised should rot be sent outside t.
boundaries of the states in which they
were enlisted, and the general govern
ment was very hesitant OF using sterr
measures of repression of such pro,
cedure.
Inc north was honeycombed wit
southern sympathizers and spies anc
e
paper aticles and public gathering
Wee Called across the border and
a greatly exaggerated form, were
5 -. a. over the southland anC
they kept the people pouyed up W.T.
hope, naturally they thought if tht
). -. -uuiQ not control tn
mouth sympathizers of rebellio
within the territory under its contro
it would be paralized in the face
armed opposition outside such bound
aries.
The foes of the Union really count
ed as much, if not more, on bale
support in the north to win thei
fight as they did on bullet support i
tn south.
l,1.et years of parley-foXir~
gOve4n-..cI4C Cdl.4e ~ reallZatlOI
tndC It must crush treason Internal!
before it could hope to crush it eX
were adopted, strict press CENSORSHIP
of the press exercised, anti-war as
senDiages were prohibited and no
uI1LL Ln-s action was taken and ~
Brick Pomsroys and Valindingham'
alIu Inen OF Lneir Xix were depulte,
was there any substantial progress!
E.s.ue il Winning the war.
Fifty years later we find the Unite,
S-4oos e.e-.ln engaged IN war. A wa
thaU is going to tax its man-powe". :
p-ouu.t.Ve power and its mons y-powel
w the UTMOST to win.
IL IS Automatic that either t.
UnI.tu States AHA its allies will w I
the war Or the Germaic powers will h
TRIUMPHANT.
Too VIII the nations of the worlt
know, Oh at least they ought to know
the p-lce OF victory exacted from de
te4ecd les by German Imperialism
has me world forgotten how ~
L.. az VS. treated after the TN
: 1891. what was d.
to Austria after her terrible def,a
g. h.4 .,-4.Z, - oUuUwa, as the bat
is sometimes terAaed, OF the stupcn
GUS toll exacted in 1870, from France
II case the United States were
c7ll.ac - the rOices OF the kaisel
every war tribute levied IN times past
anQ ali OF them combined, would pale
s5lS .,IUEc&nCe compared to the
price this country would have to Pc!
for existence.
In spite of this fact all the ole
anti-war arguments that prevailed IL
the early days of the civil war have
been re-incarnated, re-vivified ant
made to DO their disloyal duty clothed
in the same old thinly disguised gar
ments Of disloyalty. AS the oppos;
ton 20 preserving the union came
from those of southern birth, not b.
cause they did not believe it wa
wrong to fight but because they dix
not want the government to win, 8
in this war the gr at bulk of oppos-
ton comes from natives and descend
ants of the countries with which W
are at war, not because they thinl
it wrong to fight, but because the.
desire the enemies of the Unite.
States to win. The arguments the.
advance against the war are the sam
ones they themselves laughed to scorl
in all the previous wars in which til
cornt-'y was engaged.
Citizens have the unquestione'
right To discuss legislation relating t.
war, when pending, but wher meas
ure is enacted into law that right end
and any open opposition, of any kin
or character, to its enforcement. ho
comes treason.
Every so-called peace meeting
every atte-1pt to impede or resist re
crriting and all speech, publication o
aetion-in any way hanpering TIE gov
eminent in the prosecution of this. j
promptly reported to the Imper'o
government and Will tend to proloni
the war, and will cost American lives