The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-06-27
"A ISLANDER ON
THE YELLOW Doc

boys in the country as the boy De-
tectives OF America" to ferret out
and brand as "the yellow dog" every
one who is guilty of doing that which
delays this nation in the winning of
the war.
Mr.. Dodses plan opens up a wide
field of possible good and OF some
possible evil, He wants to have ev
cry man who is not whole-souledly
patriotic tagged as "a Yellow Dog in
public estimation, but it is a SANDER
upon the dog of high or low degree,
yellow, black or white, to use the dog,
even the yellow dog, as typical of the
men who are going about this country
sneakingly trying to undermine the
morale of the nation. No dog on earth
is quite so low and mean. The yellow
est yellow, egg sucking, sheep-killing,
flea bitten, mange-covered cur that
hides by day and robs the hen nest
at night is "a gentleman and schol-
ar" in contrast with the thing which
walks on two legs and claims to be a
nan, but which exudes the poison of
pro-Germanism, of Bolshevikism, OF
anti-Ameriaanism, of anti-Rcd Cross
ism, OF anti-Liberty Bondism.
Mr.. Dodge owes the whole race of
dogs to the last degree of the dog
scavenger of the streets of CONSTANT
nople an apology for using "the ye!-
low dog however yellow he may be,
as the name to be given to these CO.
workers with the fends of hell who
walk our streets, who enter our
churches, who claim to be men, and
yet are stabbing the nation in the back
and doing their utmost to bring the
power of the numbering "Potsdam
gang" upon the nation. To call such
people "a yellow dog is to dignity
them, to ennoble them, to place them
SC far above their deserts as, indeed,
to make angel characters of them
compared with Judas.
The sneaking, snarling hyena and
the cowardly coyote, which live by
thievery and dare not fight anything
of equal size or strength, are entirely
too good to be used as characterize
tons of those who put Judas to shame
! and make him blush at his inferior
ity. Even the snake Kisses ere |,
strikes, and even the Kissing snake
whose deadly fangs bring fearful suf'
i fering, is more worthy of respect ant
love and admiration than is the
worker in the pro-German campaign
of undermining the moral forces o
THE nation and weakening our power
to destroy that accursed hell-bOri
power which seeks to overrun th'
world.
The most 1ea-bitten, mangiest hid'
which covers the bones that are tiet
together under the skin OF the com
monest cur which ever sucked tn
blood of feeble lamb or robbed
birds nest, Afnking away in abjec
dread with his tail between his leg
az the approach Of man, is so su
perior to the man who, posing a
Americans are in secret stabbing tn
nation as they speak in behalf of Ger
many or against the righteousness G
our cause and our success that 1t
!. like unto an angle face in contrae
+ with the most demon-like face whic
5 hides behind the lessening fire
r of the world
e Your thought is all right, Mr.. Dodg
[ but you havs slandered the yello
s Dog. He does not deserve that dept
e OF the neither hell to which you hay
l. consigned him by this comparison
e Your intention is good, but send fort
broadcast everywhere your apology
the dog, even to the yellowest yello
S dog that ever skunk down a back a
|. lev and groveled for food amid Il
e reeking garbage Of the Orient,--E
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