The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1917-12-21
TOO PATRIOTIC TO SUIT HIM.
Grant County Editor Thinks the Pub
lie IS Over. worked, and Wants to
know the MeanIn0 Of Stacker

kIlOW me Mcdnlng OF Sldckef
The people of the world have
gazed in wonder at the antics Of
the BOlsheviki of Russia, and YET
we have in Grant county a little
fellow who is a good sample Of
the stuff out of which the Boil,
sheviki of Russia is composed,
a kind of |. w. w. apologist, who
thinks it is a mistake to look
upon the poor prosecuted l w.
W. as criminals. He says they
are simply ''idealists." II is
nothing to him that two of these
"idealists" have just been sent
to federal prison from this judi
cial district for sending phos-
pherous and poison through the
mails-one Of the chemists in
the college at Aberdeen testify
ing in the case that there was
enough deadly poison in the
package which came through to
Milbank to kill a hundred PEG
pie. Does the little editor know
that one of these ''idealists" tes-
titled that he was employed by
this society of idealists to ''spot'
the places where incendiaryism
should be worked and so that
others of his society could sue
c~essfully accomplish the firing,
and that these idealists were
banded together in a regular or
g~anization for sabotage. He
probably does not see any con-
nection between this fact and
the announcement in the daily
papers that some sixteen or sew
enteen elevators were destroyed
by fire in the northwest in about
a months time. He doesn't rec.
ognize that so we'll established is
the fact that the l. w. w. is a
criminal organization that the
United States government has
laid hands on more than one
Of these "idealists "
and they are under indictment
in federal court, among tLe III
dicted being the highest of eis
in the order, and that the
eminent in defense of itse
the people has determin
put an end to this Grimm
ganization, banded together for
terrorism, arson and sabotage.
The little editor is also afraid
people are going to be too patri.
Ole. He doesn't like so much
patriotic nOise-it gets on his
nerves He doesn't like the
sturdy patriotism Of that FORE
most Of American citizens
Roosevelt-he prefers
the quiet Unconditional patriotism
of Senator Lafollette- with.
out any undue noise would qui-
city stick a knife under Uncle
Sans fifth rib-the patriotism
that was SO beautifully set forth
in the senator's speech at st.
Paul and was so heartily cheered
by the attending delegates of the
Nonpartizan league. He says
t o e patriot a
man doesn't necessarily have to
buy a liberty bond, or subscribe
to the Y. NJ. G. A. war fund or
the Red Cross, that pataiotism is
something of the spirit rather
than of the purse" That is to
say a man can be a good Amer
lean and yet hold on to his purse
strings when q call is made upon
him for any of these patriotic OBJ.
jects SO much in need. This
may be Vernon's idea of patrol
ism, but the soldiers who are
going out to fight our battles
can devoutly thank God that this
is not the kind of patriotism that
is back of them in the homeland
when they go out to meet the
foe. He says: "Patriotism wells
from the heart, not from the
pocket-book." We want to say
here to our friend
that the patriotism that wells
from the heart but doesn't well
strong enough to reach and open
the purse or touch the bank
account might just as well not
well at all-the world knows it
to be a fraud and q counterfeit.
Nor does the editor like the
draft law, for he enquiries, "is a
man q Stacker who refuses to
support the Y. NJ. G. A., or is he
one of the latest types of crimi-
nails created by the draft law?''
That means that the draft law is
q creator of criminals, but it
wouldn't do to say so directly
socialist editors have been
slapped In Jail for that kind of
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