Baxter Springs news., 1918-04-19
SAID ONLY 10 PER CENT OF
THE PEOPLE DOING
THEIR PART
MADE ALL-AMER|CAN APPEAL
Half Hearted Measures Mean
Death To the Boys Already
In-FOe Too Big for
Monkey Business

people and people from this part o
the county were treated to an all
American talk by ex-governor of tn,
state, W. r. Stubs, here Saturda!
evening.
Mr.. Stubs in straight-from-the
shoulder expressions drove in poin
after point in thought engenderinl
sentence on our duties as Americana
relative to winning the war.
Differing from most people OIL
this all-important subject, Mr.. Stubs
not only explained what it woul,
mean to lose the war but described
our position should we be able t.
achieve victory over the Kaiser ant
his group of war lords. "If the allies
win we will occupy the grandest
place of any nation in the world. We
are the decisive factor in this WORLD
struggle. If the allies win, it will be
our glory and our victory-if the al
lies lose it will be our fault"
1--WE shall be the champions of lib
erty and democracy. We have the
right here to worship God according
to our belief and as long as we do
right we may do as we please" Here
Mr.. Stubbs brought out just what il
had cost this nation in rivers of blood
to bring about this ideal condition.
He asked the audience if we wanted
to throw all that has been done away
and make useless the sacrifice of lives
in the wars we have already waged
and won.
Mr.. Stubbs described how far we
were behind on all our programs and
then said our whole program was 3
or 4 times too small. After pointing
out the scarcity of men in all import
ant branches of work necessary to
winning the war he showed how many
hundreds of thousands of men were
employed at work that could wait un-
til after the war. He spoke of the
tlevlish ingenuity of the foe-of his
powerful strength-his faithlessness
the first nation in the world not to
respect a flag of truce; not to permit
the carrying off of the dead and
wounded, and a dozen other hideous
methods of German warfare-The
German declaration of mo accession
of territory and no indemnities."
Poor old degraded Russia hopelessly
from whom the Germans
took one-third of their territory and
population and fined an indemnity OF
44OO million dollars which the sons Of
Of the slaughtered soldiers must ex-
net from their poverty. One hundred
years they have preached this doc
trine of terrorism. Bismark practiced
it on France, but they haven't scared
anybody yet. Bismark said the only
way Germany could rule the world
was to so terrorize the nations and
make war so frightful no other ma
ton would want to fight"
Mr.. Stubs pointed out how little
we were doing yet. statistics COM
piled by the war government show
that between 10 and 20 per cent of
the people are serving as soldiers and
pleasure to any appre-
ciable extent" He spoke of the abso-
lutte necessity of feeding the allies
and our own soldiers and devoting
our lines of activity to work that
would facilitate the carrying on OF
the war. He spoke of the shortage
in machine shops of the railroads
Of old engines needing repair, and
dozen other absolutely necessary
lines of work we were short Of men
while thousands of men are engaged
in the manufacture of pleasure auto
while our boys are bleeding
and dying at the front. Buildings,
business or residence, can go until
after the war. Is it right that we
ride in pleasure automobiles, eat
what we want and attend picture
shows while our boys are dying from
lack of numbers and equipment at
the 'front.'" Mr.. Stubs brought out
the gravity of the present situation
and the strength and ruthlessness OF
the foe and what it would mean to
lose the war and have to pay a big
indemnity to Germany.
One of the most important point
touched upon by the ex-governor, was
that by sending men to France IN
small numbers they stood no show
and would die a sacrifice to half
heartedness.
Speaking of prO-Gemanism the
speaker said: 81 am tired Of this kid
glove business. We are either for the
or against it and If a
man is against the government and