The Sentinel=record. (Hot Springs, Ark.) 1900-current, 1918-06-08

VIC nave ubt YET itit tine lbAt &c tl tire
war. Before another convention sea
son comes around we will have e3-
tablished hospitals and schools IN this
country for caring for and educating
the blind aud wounded men who
come back to us. The other day
the first boy from my city gave his
life for liberty, Frank Odell who went
down with the English ship, Mol
davia.
IF your community has not been
touched it soon Will be Maybe 1t
will be your own home. We are will
ing to make the sacrifice, but we can
not feel It until it COMES. Then We
will get into this war in earnest and
not until then. ~
The greatest battle in the most
terrible war that ever shook the earth
is now being fought on the western
front. The liberties for which our
fathers fought and died in four great
wars are denied the world by German
autocracy AnJ because life is not
worth living ON German terms Amer
lea has entered the shambles and
joined hands with France, England,
Belgium and Italy, and the other al
hes to spill her blood and spend her
all until the war is won.
I'VE have cot to win this war, 9th
erwise there will be no United States
of America and any condition pos
.tl To tTr. ,f
eminent is To be preferred to condl-
tons under Prussian rule Human
beings are no more than cattle to he
German rulers
Our individual interests are ~
nothing compared to our duty 10 God
, TO country and 10 humanity ana WnJ-
ever from any motive delays work
bearing on the winning OF the war is
knowingly or unknoHingly friend D
Germany.
The lines are tightly drawn. Up In
Blytheyille at the close or the Liberty
loan drive committee waited on one
well to do merchant who refused al
to. the last to bury a bond and while
one man made a patriotic speech
standing in Il Ford in front OF ais
store, to which The owner was forced
TO stand and listen, some Young men
handy with the brush decorated mis-
show windows with yellow paint
using su IA lines as "Fnend OF tae
Kaiser II didn't buy bona
Stacker" etc.
THAT thing did a certain class OF
people more good than all the patri-
otto speeches ever made. Many otn-
ers took the mint
Il do not like TO criticize. but If /
We're to criticize the government ior
anything il would be for concediEg
to the demands Of the men on the
railroads, in the shipyards and in the
| lumber camps Of the west WHO
threatened to tie mp the opera
tions of the government by
strikes. Such men are traitors and
should be treated as such. ] do NOT
blame the laboring men for organiz-
ing and for using reasonable meas
hres in case thy are not receiving a
reasonable wage but for men VINO are
already drawing the lest wages paid
anywhere in the country to threaten
to embarras the government in a crit
ical time is too m en- We will have
to deal with this class Of citizens
some day and the more we coucede
to their demands the harder The job
will he when il comes and il win
lave to come Ja sure as this war be-
tween democracy and auto,racy had
to come
The volunteer system was all RIGHT
in it's day at least il was the best We
had, and we are proud OF 1t for what
it has done but il was 100 SLOW and
uncertain Tor this war, and on June
5. 1917 that splendidly efficient ma
chine. with It's ten million man power
that is carrying us ilresist3bly toward
ultimate victory the selec IKE draf,
was set in motion.
Then, in Gods name, why are We
plotting around after volunteer labor?
Why not take the next logiCal. eff
cient aud necessary step and hui!d
tittNu-u a NibAttit fAttnTi1n vi l.lt 0t~
lectiye draft. a natioal labor army?
mean real organized almy, unaer
military discipline and movable 20
any part OF the country We are
drafting everything else IN this couh-
try that is essential TO the pr0eress
Of the war Why should labor be left
10 do as il pleases2 We are emash-
ing traditions. let's smash few more
"This thing about o'w not fighting
the German people also makes me
tired We have got to crush the Ger
mans before we can stamp oat the
thing Germany stands for We have
sworn to fight the kaiser untll he Is
ehorn al power 20 hurt the world AMI
llack Of the kaiser are the German