The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-05-31
MfHNORIAI SPEAKER
HIGHLY PATRIOTIC
Continued from page 90


true greatness and love they are, as
a nation-lost. as thinking minds
l.zying lofty ideals--lost: as lovers
of mankind with high and holy am
1,isions-lost; as having good mo-
tives, with thoughts of love and jos
4 tice-lost: as noble souls ever asplr-
\ ing to rise higher and more like the
divine example in the Savior Oh
Men, they are-lost. Oh. God! pity
q the picture and let us try 10 redeem
them.
LET us try to give them right
teachings in their public SCHOOLS,
only that can save them permanent
IL. But we must win the war tlrst'
whatever the cost
In Days of 81.
HAnd while you boys in blue were
fighting for an unstained, unrent
flag. for an answered union, and
the liberation of the shackled slave
while some of you felt the shock OF
battle and heard the cannon roar
with Grant at Fl. Donaldson, Chat
tanooza, Shilo. Missionary Ridge.
Vicksburg. Cold Harbor Appomatox
or Spottsyfvania Court House; with
Sherman on his march TO the sea;
with Mcdowell or Pope at Bull Run;
Rosecrans at Corinth or Murfrees-
boro. Burnsides at Fredericksburg;
with McClenand at Fair Oaks or
Malvern Hill: Logan at Atlanta or
Meade at Gettysburg, while you
fought hard and bled much. Bis
mark has been made premier OF Ger
many.
sHe becomes another merciless
advocate of unscrupulous warfare 10
conquest for more territory. In 1864.
over slightest pretext for proyocation
Denmark is assailed and SchleSwlg-
Holstein states are taken and brought
under German rule In 1866, Austria
is subdued and they take good
slice of her territory. So while you
were fighting and struggling to lib
crate the oppressed they had again /.
used their military machine TO SUD-
due and satisfy their selfish greed
for territory.
France Yields Ground.
TN 1871, France was forced to give
up AIsace-Lorraine and pay the heavy |
indemnity of $1,O0o,O00.0o0 besides
They kept their army stationed in |
France, holding certain departments
until all of it was paid, period of
three years. In 1898 when we went |
to answer the cry of the starving, |
crushed Cuhans and righteously
avenge the ruthless destruction OF
the Maine, Germany first publicly
showed her contempt and Indignation
for us and her desire to NEEDLE in +
our affairs. But our mother country
understood our motives and program
and said to meddlesome Germany, /
- L. <Sf sy,I of Il
as a result of this the German Of
ficer, in his dignation shortly after,
fully divulges the evil German plans
Tor our future subsection and, If pos
sible, destruction
Huns Are Brutal.
( when Germany gained her large
over the killing of two
II her missionaries in China, the L
Kaiser sent forth his army instruct
ng them to be more brutal than
he Huns had been during the fifth Il
century under the leadership of At
ia, so that at the very name. Ger h
nan, the Chinese would trenble for /
he next thousand years. American
history rightfu1ly reveals we justly
sent back to China portion of the
they paid us"
Their history boasts of their brav-
ny, yes, their boosted legions are Il
brave when ii comes to fighting the
aged. the crippled. the women and
children and defenseles little coun- /
-ries.
War Against Weak.
German soil and territories they
possess today have been in main &C
Iuired by unjust and brutal wars,
waged against the weak and helpless, !.
and that without any just cause what
soever. Quite different to our own
method of acquiring territory. When
France and England were at war we
didn't seek some pTetext to side in /
with England and steal Louisiana l.
rom France-we purchased it, the
same regarding our Alaskan purchase
and Florida; Texas came to us, as did
some OF the other possessions, seek
ing annexation that they too might be