The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1917-06-22
HOW LONG, OH LORD, HOW LONG

W nv pSilSNe H. Inc people OF TIL
United States are so bitterly and gen
orally opposed to war that when tn,
coming universal draft is put into eff
feet and thousands of Cur young mer
are being hurried off to war, there will
be such great protest that the pres.
ent conflict will be settled in some
manner. The United States has nc
business in this war, anyway, as there
is no principle involved for which she
is figthing,' the war being wholly a
war for profit and not for principle,
Take the profits away and the present
conflict will end in 80 days"
20, fellow citizens, the above are
not the remarks of a subject of the
kaiser, nor even a descendant Of. the
fatherland, but of full-hedged
American who can trace his ancestry
back to the landing of the Mayfower
at Plymouth Rock, and, the Reformer
admits with no feeling of pride, a
resident of Springdale. "No principle
involved" he says "for which to
fight" Great God, what would it take
to make some men to want to fight?
The writer cannot but feel a call to
answer such sentiments when public
ly expressed, just as any other loyal
citizen should, but the task has been
done for him by Scott c. Bone, edi-
tor of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer,
in a manner so thoroughly able and
convincing that his remarks are print
ed in full instead. Here they are
read them, and let the comparison be-
tween them and the sentiments eX-
pressed by the Springdale citizen
sink home as you read:
Berlin, Saturday, May 26.-Our
air squadrons yesterday dropped
bombs on Dover and Folkestone, the
war department announces today"
Yes, it is the atrocious truth.
The cowardly thing which Berlin
proudly proclaims and meanly gloats
over actually happened. A censored
cable from London confirms it.
Non-combatants to the number of
rs were killed-most of them women
and children-cruelly murdered in the
streets, nawares-mangled and torn
to death by bolts from the clear sky.
And countless others manned.
Such is war-German warl
By contrast and comparison with
the slaughter of the trenches-the as
phyxiation of men with poisonous
gases and the filling of mems heads |
and bodies with nails and needles
fired from death-dealing shells-the |
casualty record from Dover and |
Folkestone is infnitesimaly small.
1t is only an incident of the horrors
of war. But such an incident-so
fnh ,,,I II.
ly bespeaking Germany's conception
of war!
Ruthlessness! Frightfulness! Ter
rorism! Yes, this wanton killing of
this raid upon unoffending
women and children whose husbands
and brothers are engaged in fair COM
bat on the battlefield achieve
ment of the air squadron which fills
mad war lords with glee and prompts
a boastful announcement to the world,
is in perfect keeping. with black and
hideous chapters that have gone be-
fore.
Recall Belgium-crushed and bleed
ing Belgium
Remember Edith Cavelle, the Eng
ish nurse-snatched from mission
q.
protest and appeal from the American
minister and all civilized Europe!
Remember the Lusitanial Can :
America ever forget? 7
Call to mind the Smelling of the :
'athedral of Reims, the laying waste :
# abandoned villages and towns, the !
ending of prisoners of war into slav- !
.ry, and, finally (let il still he hold :
ncredibIel tha awfnl rennr+ o;r u,u t
urrencv throrob rennfahlo 800 500 k
hannels. that a climax Of horror "f bos
cen reached hv tho HOOD IonraaJ ca ta9
nan ,oiIitor;sts Vne az poou-sUis eu Her h
uman bodies fallen on u't tbe battI o.
ieIds for tbo ,,,a 81 ofi VIC O"''ie- c
eyiltry akin. public sensibilitins arc c
hooked afresh in contemplation of the d