The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-03-11

made the cruelest war the world has
known"
They Are Code Enemies.
II believe there is a God Of justice
and that He viii see us through, "
said the speaker. I'VE could not
have borne the anguish of it all if
we did not believe there was a God.
He also told us to love our enemies
Yes, but we don't believe that God
expects us to love HIS enemies.
There are many Of you here whom
the Hun has not shown mercy TO.
and he has not shown any to me.
And in the name Of God the Hun viii
not get any mercy from me-"
Savaaery Of the Hun.
With defiant tone and a voice
quivering with the everything sor-
row for a fallen son, Harry Lauder
sent a thrill of emotion through the
audience and inspired a fresh con-
seriousness Of the outrage being
perpetrated on the civilized world by
the savagery of German militarism.
Deadly Fountain Pen.
He told of how some of the French
villages and towns had been wiped
away so completely by the Hun in
vaders that they were now as level
as the prairie, the only indication
existing that ever there was a viii
Iage or a town there being the curb
stones that still remained. As an
instance of the treachery of the
enemy he mentioned the case of a
French soldier who had found dying
beside lighted candle in a dugout a
fountain pen. The soldier put the
pen in his pocket, and two days
later, thinking that he would use
- a lot 70 L.
unscrewed it in order to fill it with
ink when 1t exploded and blew half
his face away.
: Work of Hun in America.
The United States he likened to a
son who had row with a parent
and was now coming back t
the hoose." A Prussian was the case
of that row between Britain and
America, for King George III, was
a full-bIooded Prussian, and since
then Prussianism had been coddIing
the United States with one arm and
preparing to stab her in the back
with the other.
Old Country Stone for French Roads.
He urged his audience not to be
war weary If 1t looked to them as If
there was not sufficient progress be-
ing made on the west front. In q
few words he drew a graphic picture
of the shell-torn condition Of No
Mans Land. which he likened to a
disused quarry, and stated that the
British, in order to make any ad-
vance, had to build roads three and
a half to five feet thick with the
hard whin stones, taken from the
hills of Scotland, Ireland and Wales.
Thousands of tons Of such stones
were being taken across the channel
for this purpose. Then he told Of
how the whole surface of the bat
tlefield in the rear of the armies is
being put under cultivation and
made as IL there had never been
any war, and spoke of the sacrifices
and industry of the French peas
antry and how everyone there work
ed THE wee BARNS" he said, wee
tots Of Riddles that / swear are not
more than five or six years old, are
to be seen with the cows halter in
their hands watching the COWS feed
ing along the roads and keeping
them from getting at the corn"
Duty of Those at Home.
Asking il the same concentra ted
efforts were being made in all the
other countries of the allies, he said:
THE man who is not doing his duty
here is just as bad as the man who
refuses to go over the parapet at
the command of his officer. When this
subscription or that subscription
comes along don't look at your bank