The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1918-07-06

wait on him. AS the lad said OF the
apples core-there amt going to be
no fiunkeys.
| I'VE are not about to return and till
the land for a squire who pays us
sixteen bob week and we do not in
! tend that few shall lord 1t over the
many. A bit OF Blighty is our ambi-
ton and We mean 10 have 1t. / tell
you that It Is a purpose all the poll
ticians In the country will not frus-
trate. We are fighting not only 10
make homes for ourselves, but to
make homes worth having. Mouldy
cottages and ten square feet OF cab
bage garden will not do for US. Every
one OF US must have comfort and de-
cency and real living wage. And
those who are wounded and helpless
must have 1t too.
I'm business 1t is going to be the
same thing. How do you suppose that
i, lighting airman, twice wounded,
will regard a fat financier who has
sat at home during the war and
whose wcok-ends have been devoted
to adding his profits? Do l want to
see the same old game played when
peace comes? Week-ends with fat
men and two-haired women in fifteen
hundred pound cars-shooty where
you bring down thousands OF tame
pheasants-orgies OF new and vulgar
plutocrats in houses which have har-
bored ancient families-all the COM
monness and blatant swagger of the
man OF yesterday-believe me 1t Is as
dead as Queen Anne and deader. We
shall push this fellow aside and look
honest men straight In the face. The
country has got to be run for all OF
US. 1t has got first to be run for
those who do the work.
THE world needed wash-out and
II has got one. We at the front were
so far away from the things of July,
1914 that we could see them in all
their rottenest. Races were going to
the devil head-long and il bloodshed
had not begun in the fields it would
have begun in the cities A lot OF So
cial bricks came tumbling down at
that time and not few OF them fell
out Of the churches. / should say
that on the whole the war has made
men more rather than less religious;
but II has punished what you call
the creeds. You don't care in what
attitude you stand or what the par
son wears when you want to pray to
God and the shells are flying.
This army is going TO get a peace
which will be the foundation OF your
new world. 1t is coming home to
build that world, but it's builders will
think OF men before they think of cit
les. We must make men by education,
by opportunity, by the belief that the
! devil and not God Almighty first
thought Of Glasses. They are done
with, believe me. We shall have no
use for classes when peace comes. 1t
will be brains that count"
That's the philosophy of the British
army, and 1t won't be long until some
well-defined philosophy, or public
opinion, about home affairs will de-
velop among our men In fact, some
things are already developing. The
boys are not thinking or caring much
about partisan politics. They're not
caring a picayune about the dear old
democratic party or the G.. o. p. as
parties, but they are thinking OF in
dividuals. In a great crisis, when the
public is OF one mind, men become
here are talking more about Roose-
welt and Pershing and President Will
son than any others. Roosevelt would
probably be elected president II the
| election was today, II the soldier vote
| in France determined the matter
However, the American general who
this year and next year leads our
armies TO victory will be formidable
candidate for the presidency.
Meanwhile, politicians may as well
understand that the old methods OF
the hastings will no longer prevail
Old political machines and old politi-
cal hacks will go to the discard. There
will be economic and industrial revo-
lutions not along soclalIstic lines, for
this war spells the death of socialism.
In the new order OF things the labor
err will get his fair wage and the capt.
tallst his fair pront-and neither will
get more. The army OF leeches that
fat between the producer and consum-
er will disappear. Public service