The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1918-07-12

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can be no middle ground taken by
anyone who claims America for home
| If you are not wholeheartedly with
America in this war you are against
it, and if | had my way, every pro-
German in the country would be in
| termed for the period of the war and
when peace comes be deported to the
| land where his heart is. 1t is enough
for the mothers and fathers of this
| country to give up their sons to live
in rat-infested and vermin covered
trenches to fight the fight of decency
and civilization and Christianity
without having upon our soil the man
who will avail himself of our free in
stitutions and then stab our soldiers
| i'm the back. My friends it is our
duty to strike at proGermanism every
| time it lifts it's head, because there
is no room in this country for the
creature who will drink from the
fountain of our free country and then
befoul it as he drinks
Judge Webster read a passage of
| scripture covering three verses from
| the eighth chapter of Daniel which,
he declared, he believed to be an ac-
curate prophecy of this war, telling
how the kaiser would rise and smite
| the world making craft to prosper
and destroying the mighty and holy
people but that he will be broken
without hand
This scriptural quotation begins
with the words. And In the latter
time of their kingdom, a king of fierce
countenance will stand up"
did you ever see f1ercer coun-
tenance than that of the kaiser" the
speaker inquired, and then he con-
tinued, Il have seen at least forty
pictures of Judas Iscariot, no two
looking alike. but every one looking
like Kaiser William"
He recounted the fiendish methods
of the kaiser in lulling Belgium to
false sense of security by a treaty
guaranteeing that country's integrity,
and then throwing the treaty out of
] the window as "a mere scrap of pa
| per" and invading the country when
the purpose of Prussianism were best
served by such a violation of a
solemn promise.
| mot content" he said, with ruth
lessly numbering the men of Belgium,
they killed the innocent baby as it
kicked and cooed in its crib and then
laid the lecherous hand of the rape
fiend on the white throat of the virtu-
GUS womanhood of Belgium"
The force of the speakers eloquence
was at its best when he derided the
kaiser's pretended partnrship with
God, and he said, God never chose
such a cold-blooded fiend as Kaiser
William to further his divine plan"
His speech was plea to Americans
to forget partisan politics and to de-
vote themselves in perfect harmony
and determined energy to the work
of winning this war, warning them
however, that before long the country
must wrestle with the great problems
OF peace, the greatest of which will
be, What shall we do for these boys
who are fighting our battles abroad
What shall we do to make it possible
for them to earn an Independent live
lihood when they return? Many OF
them will never return; they will rest
in unmarked graves on foreign soil
and others will come back with an
empty coatsleeve or an empty trousel
leg, and God forbid that any man who
fought in this great war to save the
world from Prussian slavery shall
ever be found upon the streets peddl
ing shoestrings and lead pencils"
Judge Webster left here Sunday fol-
Republic on his way back to Spokane
but has promised to return to thu
Okanogan country for another serie.
lof speeches.