The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-05-11
BACKING UP THOSE BOYS

A week ago several hundred people III Goldllelu arose
oarl;or than usual i'm order to march to the railroad station
with four coldfeld boys who were leaving for the training
Camp preparatory to a voyage across the sea, a voyage winch
For Them NAV have no return. Probably few people in that
nrocession ever knew or had even personally met either OIL 'hese
bows. But that mattered not; those boys represented a cause
and that cause was the cause of every man ana woman III .hat
PROCESSION. And those boys were going out to fight with tnelr
lives for that cause and there wasn't a man o r a woman at 'a'
train who wasn't and isn't ready to fight for those boys
And that was one of many professions of that kind Goldfleld
hoe witnessed within the last year. Some of these boys are
now in France, but no matter where they are the spirit OF
Iowa, affection that followed them as they left us will follow
them TO the end of their mission on earth and INTO Inc ale De-
yond.
But where were they going, and why?
And why were the orderly plans of their lives broken up!
Why was son taken from mother, brother from sister ana
sweetheart. husband from wife and children?
Because across the sea is a race of people VINO nave Deen
taught through hundreds of years that the chiefest glories OF
oartb 20 the glories of war; that plumber and murder and rape
and devastation are pleasing in the sight of God when commit
ted in the name of their king or their empire; that no other ma
lion or people have any rights which their ruler, governing
bv divine right" is bound to respect. And this international
bandit. leading his vandal hordes, has assaulted civilization and
all that the world holds sacred.
That is why these boys of ours are over there.
But from out that nation of vandals who are taught that
war is the normal occupation of man have come to us many
who would escape the yoke of the king for the mantle of lib
ertv: and there have come others who came with a lie on their
lips and their bloody kaiser's image in their hearts. They
came with the treacherous instincts of the original Hun That
have followed them through fourteen hundred years OF lnfamy;
fourteen centuries of sword-ratting and goose-stepping; four
teen centuries of vandalism and brutal savagery that WOuld
shame an Apache or an IgorrOte. And like the moral towards
that they are, they would destroy the home that has sheltered
them.
And there are some of these in Goldfield, and a few in the
county jail who were disposed to stab in the back those boys
of ours that we followed to the train. And they are disposed
to argue with the officers whether or not they should work on
the streets when ordered to do so as provided by law. And
the people who followed those boys to the train and sent them
across the sea to rid Europe and the world forever OF the
sword and the torch of the Hun haven't any doubt whatever
that these Huns now in Jail will work on the streets. There
isn't any room for doubt. And if there be any other Huns in
Goldfield still wearing the kaisers image in their hearts or
warming for an iron cross, who think the people of GOldfleld
have forgotten those boys they followed to the train and what
those boys are fighting for and whom they are fighting, these
Huns have another think coming" While the civilized world
is tanning the Hun in Europe he isn't going to run wild over
here.