The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-05-03
nash SOUNDS CALL
FOR PATRIOTIC DUTY

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forced to push the crowds back to give
way for she speakers. The band played
"The Stars and Stripes and then the
Rev. Fred lngley, rector Of st. Mat
thew's Church, offered a fervent
"warD prayer. Tn this he prayed that
the United States of America, the great
apostle of freedom, might see its way
clear to use its every force to intro
duce the principles of Democracy
to every nation of the earth. G. w.
Nash was the principal speaker and
he said in part:
" Friends and Fellow Citizens:
We arc gathered here this beautiful
afternoon to show our loyalty and our
patriotism to the flag that floats over
the greatest country in the world.
Our forefathers, something like one
hundred and fifty years ago, fought,
bled and died, that we might enjoy a
free country and free flag. We have
gone on unmoiested up to the time that
a certain nation sought to say that our
flag should not be free upon the waters.
Our president and our government has
said that they wont reeede from their
position, that we will defend our
flag if necessary by the blood of our
American citizens.
The object, as / said before, of this
gathering is to demonstrate the patrio-
tism of the American citizens employed
in this factory here in Kenosha, and
it is with great deal of pride that |
point out that this demonstration was
not inspired by the heads of this insti-
tuition, but the loyalty and the patrio-
tism that exists in every heart that
is employed in the factory of The
Nash Motors Company
Inspired with that patriotism in their
bosom they asked permission to place
odd Glory on our building; I said
Amen, and may we always be able to
see Old Glory float freely from prac-
tically every building in this great
country of ours.
/ admire the employees Of The Nash
Motor Company. / am proud that we
have such loyalty and are surrounded
by such American citizens. 1t is a
pleasure to me to say that / am proud
to be counted member of that
organization.
1t is a great pride to be able to say
a few words to you here this afternoon,
but for fear your patriotism and your
loyalty may just be wrongly directed,
/ cannot refrain from admonishing you
that you must be careful of any fctiti-
Gus loyalty and patriotism. We are in
trouble and our government needs the
aid of every man, woman and child on
the American soil. We must put up
united front, together we must stand
and battle for what we believes to be
right. 1t is the duty of everyone Of
us to do our little bit.
We are just as much needed here at
home in the factories, as they need us
at the front to fight our battles. 1t is
going to be necessary, as 7 said to some
of YOU the other evening, that we not
only feed and clothe ourselves here at
home, but we are going to be called
upon to furnish food and clothing for
the fellows that are fighting in
the trenches in order that we may
enjoy free America
We must not shirk our responsibility
here and we must bear it manfully and
womanly.
You should be very careful and see
that all the soil that is roundabout us
is properly titled and that everything
that possibly can be, should be
produced from the soil because it
is going to be needed.
This great war that is being waged
here in the world today, in my opinion.
will never be won in battle. I believe
that the food situation will finally de-
eide this great destruction that our
country is engaged in and it is up to
you and to me to see that we do our
little part to see that our people aud
our allies have food and clothing
1t is true that we can do little i'll
such demonstrations as this, but it
shows the spirit and our loyalty to
the country and it certainly must be
pleasing to every American citizen.
1t really makes the blood tingle in
your fingers when you see such a dem
onstration as this What would it
be were the whole universe to make
such demonstration?
There are lot of things would like
to say to you tonight but my voice
will not permit. I want to say this,
before closing, that I have the con-
fidence in this organization of which |
am proud to be a member, that if the
time comes when it is necessary FOR
this company to shoulder the gun and
march to the front, they will do it as
cheerfully as they shouldered the little
flags and marched here this afternoon.
It is going to be mostly up to the
young men of the country to shoulder
the guns, it is true it may become
necessary for the older ones, but my
advice to the young men would be, if
were you, would not wait until |
were called to shoulder the gun, I would
GO out before that time and shoulder
the gun or at least offer my assistance
II. Al.