The vidette. (Iuka, Tishomingo County, Miss.) 1912-1967, 1918-01-24

amen" But what about this infer
nal giant called the United States
of America? Didn't | intimate,
while ago, that you are not "up to
snuff? Here you go talking about
England and not a word about the
United States Where is your mind 4?
Are there rats in your belfry? Eng
land and her Allies, with one late
exception, have met my hellish le-
gions and stopped them at every
point, as you know; but the most
terrible blow to my ambition was
the entrance OF the Yankee nation
into my war. True, | have my people
doped with the idea that the Yam
KEGS are a money-mad people and
that they cannot fight, but you know
better. You and I know that fight"
is their middle name. Don't you re-
all the statement once made by
either George Washington or Teddy
Roosevelt forget which-that his
country would fight the world for
freedom and democracy until hell
iroze over, and then fight on the
ce? Well, they will do just that
very thing, and that is why | am
rushing along with my submarines,
my zeppelins and all my other cruel
and inhuman implements and other
schemes. am trying to terrorize
The English and French and force
some manner OF settlement before
those Yankees land too many men
and guns i'm Europe, for if those fell
lows get here in great numbers, my
loom is sealed and believe me, Nick
am in a hell-of-a-fix.
Mick" they are the smartest peo-
pie and the greatest fighters that
ever walked upon the earth. They
love their country and its flag. They
IRE the proudest people in this world.
They are God-fearing, but not be
,ause they are scoundrels like you
and me-and God is with them in
his war. They have never been lick
ID, and when they join forces with
the British and French and full
cope is given to their power and
kill as nation of fighters, backed
~ the brains, the money and the
Irayers Of one hundred million unit
ii 10 10
Freak loose, "Nick"l There will be
4 mighty and continuance rush and
Dad on land and overhead. There
will be action, action, and no stop
ing, no dclayl The bowels of the
arth will seem to explode; fire and
cad and steel will be hurled upon
IS from fifty thousand aeroplancs
~ day and by night, and before we
'ealize what has happened we shall
)e eternally licked And what then?
Keep this to yourself, Mick. | sec
great room in an imposing build
\merica--I cannot tell which. There
an immense table in that room and
round it are seated a number OF
men. Am ! one of them? "Nick" |
m not. He'll is not represented. At
he head of the table | see Wood
ow Wilson; at his right sits David
lloyd George and then come repre-
cntatives of all the other warning
jations. Is Germany represented?
10 be sure she is Has she not purg-
d herself of the whole Hohenzol-
.ern bunch and all the hounds Of
lell who were associated with me
and my family in making slaves of
he German people? Has she not
declared her desire to join the other
nations in a perpetual compact to
make the world safe for democracy?
Iold a moment What is this? The
man at the head of the table, the
resident OF the United States, is
jpeaking. The faces of the great
men are bleached, their cheeks are
wet with tears; there is about them
IN atmosphere of mingled solemnity
md 10y that surpaSses a description !
The president has spoken with the
deepest of feeling and is concluding
Hear him, Mick"
We pledged our Allies that we would
fight
Till the war drum, throbbed no long
er and the battle flags were
furled
the Parliament of Man, the fed
Grafton of the world.
I'VE fulfilled our pledge. Never
lgain will war drums throb or battle
flags unfurl Never again will a civil
lied nation seize the throat of a
lister nation in the grapple of death.
Never again will the dragon of mill
arism blow its scorching breath
across the fair fields of any land!
Gentlemen, this is indeed the
)roudest moment of my life and the
greatest event of its kind in the his
DRY of the world. Our great COM
pact has been duly executed by the
accredited representatives of all the
1ivllized nations assembled here IN
the Parliament Of Man, the Fedora
ton OF the World, and l cannot
more happily conclude my remarks
than by wishing, in the word. of III
HeavauI h.. .Cta -,