The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1917-09-28
THE PROPER SENTIMENT.

III war anu denuncitOry of thOst
traitors at home who are lending 8
helping hand to the German barba r.
ians who halt at no atrocity. there
by Jeopardizing the lives of your bo,
and my boy who have voluntarily. O,
through the working of the conscrip.
ton law, donned the uniform of tbei,
country to defend its people from sub.
)ugation in the hour of danger more
eminent than the majority of people
seem to realize, but nothing has been
better said or written on those sub.
Jects than the article reproduced he
low. 1t was written by Hon. l.. T.
Quigg. an ex-congressman from New
York, and a practicing attorney. to
the New York Tribune, and that great
paper, recognizing the powerful ar
gument therein contained, the plain
statement of facts, and the patriotic
appeal to the American people. gave
the letter place as a leading edi.
torlal. All loyal Americans can hear
lily subscribe to the sentiments so
forcibly and clearly expressed by
Mr.. Quigg, and those who have near
ana dear ones in the ranks in the
grand army, who will soon face the
| dangers OF the battle field that all
cannot escape, must emphatically en-
dorse the plain implication that death
should be the portion of those who
lend aid, comfort and encouragement
to the enemy. And the sentence should
be carried into execution promptly, no
matter whether the guilty man be a
senator of these United States, or a
cracker box lOafer or a street corner
rounder. In fact the greater the influ-
| ence of the traitor the swifter should
be his punishment
am not boiling with rage. Mr.. Editor. I
am not even excited. The point is this
my son. my only chid-in prompt re-
sponse to his country's duly sounded call,
is today headed for the French trenches,
there to be the target for German bullets
Every voice raised here at home to dis
courage others from going with him. they
to back him and he to back them, and so
to make their mighty work a success at
the least sacrifice to any. increases the
chance already considerable, that he will
never come back to his mother and me.
before his has been.
But this view, so important to me- so
important to the fathers and mothers OF
the thousands who marched down Fllth
avenue recently and to the parents OF the
hundreds of thousands that are pelns
gathered from all over this land TO places
Of training and departure is ,tht the neii, VERY
the world rids itself of nations organized
into beasts of prey. no mans nome Is
worth the building. No mans business rs Is
cradled baby getting a breath OF fresh ar
in the street in front of his house, Is saie
from rape or death.
have often heard it remarked tnat
this war is unpopular. Wnas tha srsad %aI lust lust
and ambition that caused 1t? What war
ever was popular to people VINO want ~, "
live in the enjoyment OF peace oruer .;n,, ui,u
liberty? The word popular in connectioh
with a war is despicable. But never pc pc
fore has there been war Wnere lhe
principles of individual liberty. the rieht ht
to make home, to go ,,,,t apout interyi,ption.
To protect ones women ana cniiu,e.i
against the barbarity of lust ana murdGa, ia the
has been so definitely presented 10 'ms ne
tndav Lexington and Concord were not
so had as this. The issue that brougno US
into conflict with one another oo yeai'
ago was not SO PAD as as 'm1s; Wom suppose that
= 600 900 OF fathers like mystelf wouIu
hermit our boys to be taken away tan iroi1
us, hustled into barges ana then pt@b phnmbs
and Filling stenches if we didn't thlnk II
their duty to go and our duty TO % ufSe fite
them to GO? Do you suppose tnat Wo an
dnwn in Washington to impose upon US
hiliiOns of taxes for us to pay heNt yej
II we didn't think they ought 10 oo y,as ,
and that we ought TO pay u hat ae we would
leave the manifestation OF that Iact " a
rabble on a street corner IN Butte Vi o'
Broadway? .oor allowed to
oo varv far in this country unless IL acI
Corded with the will OF the peop.tte' car'
the reason that we are at wal WIZ things
many is becaues we intend TO Keep t..S tlilnS
.hat wav The reason we are stan9inS
these taxes the reason we are Ila'iuS s4n 20
guns to our young men, Is peoauso' ,on,ed
patience against Provocaoroona roat ted one day
onlv IN he blasted the next. aIter Pi tHat
that we couldn't believe until proois %. Iast
we could no longer doubt we tare We d. u,h;nh
%ecome convinced that the end LOT WILL WILL
' Earman armies were sent against
Erance and Flanders and Russia means ansa
not their conquest only, but ours ou's'I a''o In
means that If that ena stins II s"e menace to
national organization and indiVldua' "'
erty everywhere on this eartn ,,oa,, IN n
What is the use OF trylns, trys,uoss ~ q farm
home and to conduct business, d au wii Iii
mrofassion to earn q living that VII vi
content your wife and educate your ho,f ~, nf
dren If you have got to spehu nint ;nteT.
Wbat vour labor earns and, to the ia,e. m of
r,ntion of YOUR business, spend years VI
| voi,r life creating military equlpnent ah ha
1erforming military service IN 0rue, . ~ tbot
ready to beat some th rpht rata''t time to spring
| 90 wc,,o THE German people must nov 80 go
the sense of this, at whatever c1St 1si.o, don't
or u.s. They are responlsDinec: and the
have to have the Hohenzollerns an anu thnv ,nv
Har,,an military autocracy unless thet
want them, nor unless they mean nro ",,,, not
| their Goddess rulers mean Iney s;s scbeme
obliged to have w wit'aa,,' hava been @ oblighed to
have our presidents from Wasnins Wn u io, hnrse "a
| Wilson. No blacksmith ever shoo d ros,,lt
no farmer titled a mel 1ieId nresdent re dent speaks
| the mind of the American peopie IL, ,,,a ,a' :,
! answer to the Pope telling tne o,e1 ed tha
| people that before TINS WAT ho,,a oa nermitted
their armies to be sent out must De oe''
How perfectly Mr.. Wilson saia SAL. fsnt %t,t' that hat
nation ava means al1swed congress to enact and
We nres,dent to enforce this seiectiyyv ;,. ~ $.
draft well knowing that others ahi hir, and
to follow; that we ,aon nave Ne a our shoulders an
amormnSs burden of taxes well Knowii,e ,0nT 'o
that other and greater burdens o,ny,hodw WIN
added. Now, shall 9d,,wen we pr"ih or Whatever his
name is Hearst. or Moore or or, "a, ta,,er his
or % %Berkman. or Golman. or Wna,ene M aaenea, To to
interest sincere or insincere Of 70 great bur
dans dnas nnd fearful risks which is common I'M
to to-" US all and is to be resisted oh's "S
high sense of duty? ,a,, said n wear
ogo ! ooh obout England. might then n naHe He
agreed gp With whole lot of it. even Gonoeror ~ nr
started WITH a,onDea Wa% am tts the day
the Mhnt men said ago about can
tasts and powsaT wealth snf 'on on the
croaeninse"ttb ts ns The unprotected poor l M
though n %ght fbey not GsusessteG naxs Sff
able TO agree gre the Ms' oniv thing before this
remedy remedy now 5Vt u.s. I how to win this war with
Se smallest possible sacrifice s~ctes of tes aTs dow
legs. lives of the boys that ina naren arms legs