South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-11-22
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SHOCKING!
(Fort Wayne JournaI-Gazette.)

sons guilty should 90 the gal
lows. This country is sending the pick and
flower Of manhood to the trenches. and he
who remains a home to fire upon them from
the rear deserves no better fate than to swing
at the end Of rope We can take no half
way ground either for this country
against it If he is for it, he is a patriot
Otherwise he is a traitor and should be dealt
with accordingly The war will be longer
drawn than the people fully realize. be-
the people have not fully awakened to
the fact that this country really is in
The above statement from former Gov Ralston will
be looked shocking by thousands of people who
consider themselves ferventy loyal to the republic in
the prosecution Of the
Now, the most shocking thing about il all Is that
anyone should be shocked.
this is shocking because it implies igno
rance of what we are engaged in on the part per-
shocked. We playing ping pong. We
contestng in international polo We
at Our soldiers even now under Ere. Some
have killed others wounded, others taken pris
We contributed billions Of dollars-and will
contribute billions Will sacrifice hundreds of
thousands OF American lives-young lives
in the midst Of this the present hour there
in almost every unity who openly dis
loyal to the republic and secretly hopeful of a German
victory and American disaster. Everyone knows il
and almost everyone is satisfied. There all
the country shooting soldiers in the back to-
day. Everyone knows ii and almost everyone is salts
fed And the moment any man or paper protests
the vrile language Of loyalty against the federation of
this tyne of treason we are soenlv warned that these
protests tend to create dslOyaty Think il We
submit that there is something shocking in the warn
ing
ing
Prof Moran OF Purdue university in a paper on THE
Psychology of the War" by the council OF de
Tense is shocked at apparent inability TO to
realizing Of the fact that really at war"
The professor shocked the action the kaiser
offering reward Of three hundred marks and three
weeks the German soldier who takes Amer
lean prisoner But must de~Ounce the kaiser for
centering his hate arcanst tends to dis
loyalty And this, too is shocking.
The Huntington Herald in editorial declares
the greatest danger America is the
t. ~
among isn't American who not feel
this to be true. But must not say so openly. It
would disturb the neighborliness Of too commun-
tes-and would tend TO create disloyalty The Hunt
ngton Herald evidently feels that this is shocking
m a saloon n Indiana city a man had au-
go over and shoot the kaiser" He was promptly
| thrown upon his head The incident a
secret The saloon not torn down The saloon
keeper arrested The trade OF the saloon did
not fall off, That particular saloon much Ger
territory the embassy and the American should
have had more than given expression to
such a shocking wish But Americans will find
Il shocking that the man thrown out
But this shocking condition will pass-must pass.
Our self respect least will permit
this OF home when boys the
slaughter OF the battlefelds Of France.
The time will when treason will be detestible
it is in Germany, Austria, France England
italy,
Either that shall become as contemplate as
Russia is today.
and protect its protectors is disgrace the map Of
/ the world"
Disloyalty he made obnoxious IN Annerica-and
it will not be made by resortine the soft pedal
Americans either with America against it
shocking though the proposition is