The Winslow mail., 1917-12-21
Why We Are At War.

We are so heartily in accord
with the editor of the San An
tonia (Texas) Harpoon in his
sentiments expressed in a lengthy
article in recent issue, that we
herewith present portion to our
readers. After quoting literally
from the Scriptures and fleeting
generalities he says:
"There is one reason, and only
one for this great worldwide
sacrifice of human life, and that
is the sins of the people. know
quite we'll that the average reader
does not believe one word | am
writing, but disbelief never
changes the truth in the least.
Blind fanaticism and arrogant
pride hates the truth, as the
devil hates it, but error can never
destroy right, but only destroys
it's own followers.
"God created man and placed
him in absolute control of the
earth. He endowed him with a
mind, next only in power and
brilliancy to the creator himself,
and gave plain and intelligent
rules whereby man could pass
safely and. happily through this
brief life without any need of a
mistake.
In order to show the fatherly
love and unselfish interest He
had in man, God assured him that
by following these plain and easy
rules he would not only be happy,
prosperous and contented, but
when through with this proba-
tionary state, he would be en-
titled to a better and happier
existence, and that it would De
eternal. | regret exceedingly to
mention it to you, but truth COM
pels me to state man slipped his
trolley the first rattle out of the
box. In other words, he simply
played hell-and has never letup
to this blessed day. Of course,
we all lay it to Adam, but that is
the quintessence of blank non
sense, for every man born of
woman starts out with as clean a
record as did Adam in the Garden
of Eden, and goes wrong much
sooner. Adam was a pure, up
right, honest and truthful man
until he was grown and married,
while the vast majority of his
male defendants are swearing,
lying, stealing, drinking whisky,
shooting crap (and the lights out)
before they put on long panta-
looms. And the great trouble is,
they keep it up, and the older
they get, the worse they are.
"Of all the creatures on earth,
man is the most selfish, unfair,
sensitive and disloyal to any sort
of rule or law, except his own
sweet will. He delights in ad-
vising or compelling others to do
right, but relegates to himself
the privilege of doing explicitly
what he pleases. He will sit on
a jury and vote to imprison a
poverty-stricken niger for pull
ing a Accent pullet from low
roost-and then go out and cheer
fully swindle his neighbor out of
a $40, 600 land deal. He will help
send a man to the penitentiary
for swearing to a $40 lie, and
then turn in 100000 worth of
property to the Tax Assessor for
$27, 500 and gleefully sign an affi-
davit to the correctness of the
rendition. He will bawl his wife
out for admiring Charlie Chaplin,
and send fve-pound boxes of
chocolates to half the crooked
skirts in town. He will preach
temperance to his neighbor who
takes an occasional drink, and
keep soused himself seven days
in the week. He cheats, swindles,
overcharges and extorts money
from others, every chance he has,
but is loud and vociferous in con-
demning those who play the same
game. And as the climax to all
his natural cussedness, he preach
es decency, purity and chastity
to others, while he himself is as
licentious as trans-Rio Grande
jackass.
"Of course, these accusations
will pass unnoticed by the pure
in heart, but will probably set
the guilty burros braying. The
sore-backed broncho is the one
that squats when the einch is
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