The Alaska daily empire., 1917-06-09
SHAME AND GLORY

By Scott c. Bone in Seattle PostInteigencer1
 Pity the man too conscientious to light As rheo dole Roosevelt. of stout heart and red blcOi says such conscience is "certaniy sick It requires treatment.
 tucker, the anemc of trembling limbs and chat terng teeth to whom courage is alien and love of country stranger! The goblins of war will surely
 Pity the fluterng little souls going about preach ing peace peace, compassion and peace. who retard peace with gentleness and make mockery Of compas. sion with their conceived sympathes and misguided activities If David returned to earth, they would love him not. but merely look askance and cross to the other side of the street because orsooth that fighting If the devil himself, ncarnate, emerged from the depths and mankind set upon him to tear him limb from limb these same futtering little souls hands raised to Heaven, would be bespeaking mercy for the arch mscreant of all ages and, with meek per versy, preaching peace, peace-compassion and peace Or, if the doboical Kaiser. fleeing from charred continent, which, Nero like he had set ablaze, should cravenly appear, these futtering little souls would shield and him and seek to spare him from the righteous wrath of man. just God must frown upon and forbid humble forbearance carried to such pal
 Pity the pacifist-ugly word!-who shudders at atrocty but would have atrocity prolonged who pro low men slaughtered and exterminated; who feebly craves peace but is unready to give his blood or treasure for the bringing of peace He, too, has a conscience sick unto death.
 Old Glory hangs low in pity of these
 But pity the patry. tratorous tribe that would today tie Uncle Sam's hands and estop cripple Americas mighty mission of mercy and relief to bleed
 
 Pratng about liberty, they obstruct liberty. Enjoying freedom they smrch the of freedom. Blessed with privilege, they substitute license for privilege, Out with them! To the internment camp. There let them keep miserable, unpatriotic company. They are bereft of conscience It is decayed away.
 Sedition! OdiOuS term.
 Old Glory droops in shame for these
 But the picture-the inspiring national picture as whole truly representative of this loyal libertylov ing land-is marred in spots only by weddings by towards and un Amercanized souls The blot of sedi tion, small though it be- is hideously repelant But fine responsive redblooded unafraid patriotism crowns and sembeishes the picture. Brave men are in unforni Ehey step firmly, unfalterngly Love of country is in their hearts, and love of their fellow men Theycherish liberty and national honor and go forth to pay the price of their preservation. Hating war, they I'll unflinchingy enter the trenches to fight for NAe Hohenzollem has terrors for them. They look Unce Sam proudly in the face. Their pulse beats in affection for him. Faith and adam ant Where he leads they will follow. to the ends of the earhblood of iron coursing through their veins conscience clean and healthy and courage strong for any action They are of the stock of which con querng ancestry was made, prepared to do or die and out of which the American character was born and giant republic into being forever to endure.
 Old Glory floats high for these and such these who make the picture, and carries her message all the world Hail, Old Glory!