The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1917-10-18
oBSTRucTIoNisTS.


government in Its efforts to prosecute
this war successfully and win it as
quickly as possible are obstructionists
standing in the way of The greatest
movement for the emancipation of the
people Of the earth the world has ever
witnessed. They dwarf into insignifi-
canoe and participate In greater in
fanny than those arch-traitors of a
former day-the Tory of '76 and the
Copper Head of 81, who would have
shackled this country to a foreign
despot and miserable and inhuman
progeny Of the dark ages as the OBJ
structionist of II would put us be-
meath the heel of brutal Prussia and the
right OF might" principle which has
survived the ancient slavery days and
the rule by the bloody sword of autoc
racy
Like the Arnolds and Vallandig-
hams of other times the obstruction
lists of today are no less the traitors, to
a cause of freemen, the cause of a
country which has harbored them, the
cause of humanity and a cause of God
And these--that we may mark them
well as history will mark them upon
the darkest pages of its record of dis
honor, are
The Profiteers-The grasping ones of
the Wall streets of our country or the
greedy ones of the soil or the avid
ones of labor.
The Pacifists-The spineless ones
who would talk peace at any price
while the German Molloch of lust, loot
and Righteousness, rapine, ruin and
ruthlessness and murder is laying
waste the fair fields of Europe; the
cowardly ones who would talk peace
while the flower of the world is being
ground in the bloody crucible fashion
ed by the reeking hands of a despotic
glutton who would rule the earth
our world as well as that to the north.
east, south and west of u.s. the cring-
ing, whining ones who would talk
peace while nation which bleeds for
us that we might have freedom is
giving its best blood for it's own and
the worlds in stemming the march of
the war god from across the Rhine;
who would talk peace in the face of
diabolical German plots in our own
country and those to the south of us
to ruin us when we were at peace-in
the face of German activities in Amer
lea and the plans for the ultimate con-
quest of our country by this hypocrIt-
ical Prussia, this CRASHING Prussia.
this Tartuffe among the nations.
The Apologists-Those' who would
make excuses for the German people
and separating their aims from those
OF their leaders; those who would
have as believe the German nation is
not bound heart and soul and being
with the. steel clad ambitions of their
kaiser and who have not
made his fight their fight and are not
to be charged with the crimes their
self appointed German Colt is charged
with.
The Propagandists-Th disloyal
ones who spread the infamy of Prus- !
Sia's cause in the guise of argument
mat her cause is just; these recreants,
ngrates, perjurers and ours who in the
iour of our country's direct need.
counsel with her enemies and prove
iisloyal to her cause; those who in
high places and low toll ceaselessly
o repay our generosity and our hospi
ality by. conspiring with our sworn
nemies to destroy our institutions
nd weaken the fai,n which bears us
n In the knowledge that our cause is
ust
The Agitators-Those who in the
alls of congress, upon the street cor
ers, in the labor temples and in the
y-ways and highways of our land .
no lend their voice to urge the re-
aetion of our laws, the stirring up Of
rife, the swinging of the whip of la
or to take advantage of conditions y
he disobedience to the call to arms =
nd the disruption of business. U
The Slackers-Who came to this u
'untry to escape the duties in their
'n; the damnable ones who would y
Ike our gold, receive sour protection. NJ
1t would give nothing IN return:
no neither subscribe to Red Cross ia
,rk nor Liberty Loan and who p'
lst themselves forever i'm the evae W