The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1918-06-13

cleaned While at the Jackals or the
press cried "He's running our busi-
ness, put him out!" Yet still he
cleaned and cleaned, until behold, now
after six years the great ones point
and say, HWas ever such work done
!, mere man before?" Behold, JOS
i even Daniels, has given us the
4 navy in the world" And my
- SQcx -ed itself and mounted up
But gain and l saw fear
full pile o. traditions of caste and
aristocracy handed down for many
ages from the work Of old Baron Won
Steuben, the same being disciple of
Frederick the Great, the beginning
and founder ofsthat awful, new fall in
Eden, even "Prussian Kulture," !"
which being interpreted meaneth only
that men who sweat and toll with
their hands and backs shall be bond
servants to those who deceive them
selves, that they toll with their brains.
Is it not so? And wondered what
the anointed one would do, and behold
he went to Cleveland and there found
one busy, exceedingly busy licking a
modern dragon even street railway
into the place where it belonged. And
he said, "Come up, Newton D. Baker,
come up and clean out the pile and
convert it into the army Of the Lord
which shall save the world" And he
did, for he threw out the bats and
the vermin and cleaned and renewed
and made over, while all the time the
old press ladies, those cunning and
wasteful rats, slandered and lied and
vilified and abused. Ohl It was won
derful but glorious, for in the end the
army stood forth TRANSPORTED fit to
lead the hosts Of liberty to victory.
Then I saw him call that Dynamo,
even the McAdoo, who does things, un-
til in his spare time, he finds time to
do what all the wise ones, who labored
so with their brains at drawing their
salaries, could not do; even service to
the world. And marvelled much
as he called other simple and true
men, toilers and workers, to have
charge Of agriculture and commerce
and labor and the postoffice, so that
even they too shall be cleaned and
run as the servant of all instead Of
Of the few.
But in the midst of all there came
various sons of Perdition, even Bill
Hurst and Charley Taft and multi
tude of others, even those who feed on
the toll Of others, and toll not them
selves. And they went southwark to
the land of the peon,' even Mexico, and
they did, by bribery and cunning, Sc
cure grants of land whereon the peon
lived, and they put him off and they
did surround him with barb-wire fenc-
es and say unto him: "Pay us, even
us, for the privilege of living on the
EARTH" but the peon, took to the
woods and mountains and made war
Then did these sons Of perdition yell
for the army to come and help them
despoil the simple ones of the south
land. They had cumming game even.
to have the United States army take
the land of the peon and then have
the judges of the United States fol-
low the army and set mp the seats of
judgment so they could file their
claims and thus do violence to the
poor of the land in the name Of their
government. Behold, it was cum
ming game and desperately wicked,
so much so that to bring it about they
employed thugs and roughnecks to
maltreat the peon, and his woman and
his children until made mad, he should
commit an assault upon the people of
the north. And the game worked so
that the annointed one, even Wood
row, sent the army. But he said to
the captains, "Bebold, my heart is
weighed with care FOR the poor Of the
southland, see to it that the army
goes in peace, not in war. Take with
you balm and bandages and succor
and help for these bruised ones. Bring
them joy, not woe," and they did, SO
that the sons Of perdition were foiled
and beaten, then we knew that the
chosen one was called Of God, indeed.
But it came to pass that the kaiser,
the same being the high priest of all
these sons Of perdition who teach the
Kultur Of Prussia, even the intellectu-
al law Of the toiler serving the idler,
made war against the whole earth, so
that there was no sound heard save
the clank of armed men, and the cackle
Of the press, who knew how to run
the war in their mind, so that JOS
ephus, the Cleaner, and Newton, the
Rebuilder, were exceeding busy in the
land, even toiling into the night, and
there was confusion, great and ter
rible so that men were deafened with
clsmor. Then arose the annointed
one and stood quiet, and his look was
as one on whom the Lord had laid
his love, and at sight Of him the whole
world grew calm and listened and he
said: "The United States enters the
war that the world may be made safe
for democracy" Now, while the words
were simple and plain they were yet
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