The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1918-02-14

CnOugh-.lnd we Will speak OF them a
little later Oh.
Il know well the temper of the men
to whom | speak. Therefore ! shall
speak to you plainly throughout. For
the first time in the history Of man this
is IA war on Il worldwide scale. 1t is
the great war that is to usher in the
thousand years of peace. i am Il close
student, and have painS-takingly studi
cd the history of Germany. Those who
know most about war feel it's pressure
most keenly."
The speaker next addressed those
who had sons in the trenches and those
others who had sons on the way to
the altar of liberty as he put it,
telling in addition the story how his
eldest son came to join the colors.
Il see old gray-haired men here"
said he. My father was a veteran of
that Lost Cause. In Il recent dream |
saw him appear in his faded gray uni
fornl-never more manly or more mar
tial When l asked of him. What is
mn duty iy this present crisis! he ap-
peared surprised and panied and. with
up!ifted sword pointed toward France.
Il call upon you to prove yourselves
worthy Of the liberties purchased by
the blood of our fathers. Your hearts
are i'll the right place. and | know it.
:! am glad to see so many of you
colored people here My black nanny
raised NE in more ways than one. And
think now of those dark days when
the slaves of the South never proved
recreant to their trust. They were left
men went away to war, and that trust
was not misplaced. l am glad to-day
that the Mason and Dixon line exists.
| am glad also that our. cannons are
| now only ornaments in national cenle-
teries and that the birds build nests in
their mouths that once helched forth
shot and shell for brother against
brother. This great war will serve tie
double end of the emancipation of
woman and the more closely uniting of
men. After the storm will come the
sunshine. n
r
here gathered am reminded of the
American Red Cross and its many ac-
tivities-Of its most beautiful emblem
of devotion. sacrifice and love. If
with us, the United States is the father
of the war, the American Red Cross is
| its mother. 1t must furnish its SYM
latlly and nursing. could talk to you
for two hours about this glorious or
ganiZation but let us Come to some OF
the other things that must be consid
cred.
We want to consider this food anG
feed campaign. We want TO know VIII,
we must observe the wheatless, meat
less and porkless days Why is. Mr.
Hoover: Go and read the histories 81
our great wars and learn why you can
not buy what and all you may wish
Do you not know that famine follow.
ed more lives than ever the wars have
Famine is stalking across Europe to
day. You call to mind our recent Goa
famine. For five days the pulsebeat o
this nation WAS paralyZed as result
And yet it was as nothing.
You must come to think Of til
world as one great family. DO no
think always of your home, your par
ish, your state. or only the Unite'
: States. Get the magnitude of the stu
alton. There are to-day nineteen na
tionS at war-forty million men unde
arms and withdrawn from production
The war will yet claim ten millio
| more. making ftty million. And whe
we consider the waste of the BATTLEFIELD
} you will realize that it will take frol
l 80 to 100 per cent more produce to kee
them up than during peace time. Th
kaiser's Aordes have captured fort
: billion dollars worth Of property an
$ destroyed many times that much. An
2 when pay day comes then will ais
: come FAMINE.
+ England. France and Italy al
e husted-tiat broke. The Allies fe;
that through famine at home the mo
e ale of their armed forces will collaps
= Then will come militarism, and thu
y would change our destinies for gener;
h tons to come. Twenty years hence al
t, would come.
y England has been getting tiv
e sixtlls. of her food and feed from 9th,
: sources. But the German .-h0atS al
t. sinking her merchant ships faster tina
r they can be rebuilt. The tonnage
n being daily cut down. You say til;
e America can whip Germany. But wal
l. Are we ready? and if we were w0u
e Mr.. Wilson send Il mothers son of "
It over to foreign shore until there we
merchant ships enough to back YOU III
$, or while there is yet the danger of Il
d submarines cutting the line of comm
y nication? 1t will take seven millit
d tons of shipping to sustain one milli'
le men. The Germans are making ;
G. ally of this great economic princip
IT The Germans are as wise as the dev
T. and just as unprincipled.
-e The enemy is not preparing for
{ lig drive on the western front, ais Il
t. nornced. but for such drive OH {
ut lines of communication. If you wa
is to know the truth listen to ;tn- asst
is ton by the Germans-and then thi
Of the other way.
til We are helpless against t
Il T-hoatS-those rattlesnakes, those
e. Eers of the sea- The Tuscania "
ry within sight Of the Irish coast VIII
he sunk the other day. We can more til
III Pay the price of the death of those
lis roic boys in pain and anguish. Shot
ed the back. as it were. by the kaise
nd agents-given not Il dogs chance. j,
,dl [ in, s,fo1inisxa u hero