Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1918-07-18

gas OF the trenches. Both kinds OF
poison gas are fatal. But for every
soldier on the field assailed by trench
gas, hundred Americans at hc0
are assailed by gossip gas.
The members Of the Poison Gas
Brigade are many and diverse classes
of people. They, are, first of all, the
paid spies OF Germany who are still
hun by nature, the unprincipaled
among our alien residents who de-
snise and would betray the country
that yields them safety, freedom and
prosperity. They are the pacifsts
following the mental delusion and
moral mirage of peace-at-any-p price.
They are the socialists and anarch-
lists frcthing at the mouth with the
ravi. gs of revolutionism. They are
the chronic pessimists who can sea
only failure and defeat ahead of the
nation. They are the freaks and
cranks with some wild theory to
exploit for the sake of personal pride.
wrath, greed or faloticism. They
are the war proftaers who want to
block the machinery of the Govern
ment lest their graft be taken away
by Federal control. They are the
misers too selfish to do anything with
their money but hoard it or spend
/ it on themselves. They are the dis
satisfied shop and factory workers i
plants under war contract to the Gov
ernmert. They are the foreigners
filled VIZ race prejudice. They are
the me-nsars of the hyphenated and
half-spohen societies whose German
schemes and money bags are hid be-
hind velvet curtain of altruism.
They are the underfed and underpaid
salaried employees, jealous of the war
wages now being earned by industrial
workers They are the devotees and
|dupes of strange religions out of line
! with the Christian church and in line
with German diabolism. They arc
the super-feminized persons of either
isay who v-ould shrek loudly at the
! sight of Flood and Sink away in g
criminal silence from the presence OF
, murderer of souls. They are tn
: habitual gossips and neighborhooe
: news moaeers. They are the igncr.
3 ant. id..e ead tnouehiess peonle every
) where wao talk and act with no senss
5 of persa.a..l responsibility but follow
! Itha crowG as vaguely and fitfully a:
| sheep.
A total roundup of this motH,
4 crew will make a iarre pronortior
I of the aversre cor'rsunitv-perha'
e 70 to GO par cent. How is it possible
: won ask. for .he German Enreror II
i line I'm fo, Ge-rcanv 50 mnnv dif,~e'
d -'asees Of reoria IN community o
: tho Tinted St.+es?
t He tirs. plants a nest of spies ii
$ every community large enough to pa.
for corrupting.- There are said t
!. these traitors "a number as large a
r the total OF our preachers, doctors an
! newspaper editors. The members Q
!. family of enemy aliens here numbe
d 4 100000, according TO the statemen
Ii of Attorney General Gregory. On
e nerson out of % L, th;s pro-Gnrniu,
II while one pers,r in every $50 may b
assumed to be = spy. We may conr
on the presence of spies and 40 Ger
Ie man sympathizers in every thousan
le population. This Poison Gas Brirad
of "A members to every 1000 renn'
It could tell enoneh lies in q weak
n reretrste the heart and mind of th
IS whole community.
!. The Kaiser trains in deviltry the,
III criminals who betray the country Tn.
le enriches, protects and trusts tnel
n The art of poisoning the mind is
Of dangerous, delicate process. 1t mu
ie be left to ignorant people, howev;
!. unprincipaled. A manual of instru
te ton is therefore supplied to each tra
CT tor before he starts to smirch. CO
ne rupt and deaden our thought and fee
ne ing about the war.
= He must first gain the confden'
of the persons he is paid to contar
:, mate, by symrathizing with them
:" their war tasks, hardships and grief
:. :. or by helping them personally in
:. =, way that means little to him b
~ looks large to them. He can su
:" = scribe to pet theory and eulogive
-. net hobby of theirs: or he can clai