The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-11-01


fighting and giving their all for the
country and the safety of loved ones
at home, has no sympathy to waste
on a bunch of slackers who refuse to
become citizens of this country and
lay continuous obstacles in the way
of those trying to do their all to get
the matter over with and safe re-
turn of our sons and the other mans
sons. We will need all our sympa-
thy for the Hooper cent fathers
and mothers whose sons fail to re-
turn or those that do come back
manned and shattered. We have no
tears to shed for the fellow, from a
foreign land who has lived here and
prospered for years and when the test
comes he refuses to become citizen
because he has yellow streak up and
down his back in place of backbone.
Any man who is afraid to fight for his
home should have no home. A man
without a country is pitiable OBJ
ject. His lot in life will not be one of
pleasure when the boys come home.
And kindly remember that the boys
are going to ask some questions when
they get back as to the backing you
and l gave them while they were
away. How much sugar, flour and
meat did you save? How many Lib
erty Bonds and War Savings Stamps
did you buy? How did you come
across in the Red Cross drives and
the other war work drives? These
questions will be common and it will
make no difference as to whether
your ancestors came from Germany,
Austria, England, Finland, Sweden
or other countries. The main part
Of the query will be ''How much of an
American Were You While We Were
Away" A man, able-bodied and
perfectly healthy claims exemptions
from the draft because he is first
paper citizen and when the board
refuses to let him off he turns in his
papers and renounces allegiance to
the country that gave him protec-
ton, schooling, and other advantages
his original country could not give.
A fellow of that kind is no good to
any country. One of this class hung
himself in Duluth few weeks ago
after he had been somewhat man
handled by party of aggrieved
neighbors. Some of our exchanges
are making martyr of the fellow.
In our opinion, he took a sensible
course and proved to the world that
he could be corpse at least, if not
an American. Just for this opinion
we will be called a traitor but we
can't for the life of us help feeling
just that way. Two of our own and
two of the Miner boys are over there
fighting for us and their homes and |
we cannot warm up to man who is |
stabbing them in the back, over here. |
Give these boys and their comrades a |
fair shake. Why waste, tears, ink,
tar and feathers? Why let such fell
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rope? A firing squad would help |
out. The president of the United |
States has declared himself against |
mob law. So has everybody else,
but things have come to such a pass
that laws do not always cover and |
sometimes the patriotic principles of |
every man become so aroused that he
feels laws inadequate to keep things
going in the proper direction. 1t is
at these times that something hap
pens. The parental instinct for the
protection of it's young is inherent in
man and beast and when one feels
that some skunk is directing his eff
forts in behalf of the enemy and
against our boys, it is time to call a
halt. Some of these back-stabbing
Huns are being informed and some
are being inferred. The latter class
are cured of all foolishness at once.
Damn the Kaiser.