Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-04-24
OH LOVERS Of ERIN!
BY Abbic Farwcll Brown =of The
v~ieilanteS.

BY Abbic Farwcl Brown aof The
Vigilantes.
4 am a lover Of Erin.
o. Lovers of Erin! Americans of
Irish blood! Friends Of Liberty.
The one thing is to beat Ger
many! Nothing else counts for the
moment. =
For if we don't beat, there won't be
any future! =
of Freedom, or a Friend Of Humanity,
or a Friend Of Peace,-Or q Friend Of
ireland. unless you are first of all an
American; and America has declared
herself to be an enemy Of Germany,
and an ally of England.
Germany isn't for Freedom or HUI
mainly or Peace.--or for any small
nation. Does she act so? She is
utterly selfish. Don't expect anything
Ct her friendship or promises. Ask
| Russia! u Il"
America is going to need every bit
of power. every b it of her Allies help,
to beat Germany. If we let Germany
beat we are done for! Then all Free
dom n Humanity and Peace will
disappear together-in this and in
every green land, which she. can grab.
With this hard job before us, we
can't have any division among us just
now. We can only win If we all stick
together! Don't think of pulling us
apart. 1t would be suicide!
Don't you see. Friends? Won't you
see, all of you, that we must forget
for a time u lesser differences, our
lesser hopes? For everything is less,
now, than u NEED TO WIN IN
ORDER TO LIVE! "a .s.
Some of you want ireland to take
advantage of this moment and try to
get-what? Would it last # Ger
many won? Never!
rebuild q village in France which the
Huns had destroyed. They .spent-sa
lot of time and money and kindness
to reconstruct the pitiful place. And
the peasants returned there f'sto live
happy ever after" as the children say.
But that little village was In the path
Of the latest bloody German drive.
The war has swept over it again-and
it is gone! All wasted! All swept
away! All that time and money and
kindness gone for nothing! -.
/ They.should have waited!
You.can't build till the earthquake
has stopped rumbling. You. can't put
Up the second story till the flrst' is
II you Americans with Irish blood
persist in being anti-English more
IMAM you are ntl-German o are not
true Americans! For when America
is at war with Germany, our Allies
must for the time at least be our
friends. Don't you see, every act,
every word against England now
weakens US? It's alb low in the back
Of our soldiers, al bad as q German
bayonet!
Bee areful what you do! You mus
not Jerk the rein while we are driving
this skittish beast, this war, to a safe
stable. Friends. you must not jog our
elbow while we are about to pull the
trigger on Freedoms greatest foe!
You'll spoil our aim. And the foe
will get you, too!
What ad isgrace If Irish blood were
to be generally suspected of sympathy
with .Prussianism! Ireland, the green
land Of kindness and. generosity
coupled with that horde Of butchers
and baby-murderers! Ireland, the
land Of Loyalty; holding with breakers
Of treaties n submarine sneaks! Ire.
land. the chivalrous. apologizing 70,
the ravishers Of women, the destroy.
ers Of beauty! : Ireland, the land OF
Faith n Piety, linked in name with
the atrocious Turks and Infidel bomb.
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