The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-03-23
STAMPING OUT DlsLoYALTY.


STAMPING OUT DIsLoYALTY.
There are several national organizations,
leagues societies and the like that are neces-
sary to the proper conduct of the war Others are
being formed all over the country whose objects
not known. and the people have no time .l nor
directed to the support OF those organza-
tons whose sole object is to unity pu 4he admin
istrahon in its war policy as outlined oy fresiaen'
Wilson.
There are many men who making it their
principal business in organizing the dlsa1iectea
distract dist attention from the more important mat
that is everybody's concern at TINS tune. ,, 10
united effort on the part of loyal men and women.
is the policy of Germany in this country Just as
pectation that in time it would the same ef-
fect.-Des Moines Capital
The country is rapidly reaching state OF
mind, if it has not reached it already, when DIS
LOYALTY will be relentlessly stamped out. Eight
indicted socialists of ST. Paul convicted on the
charge of resisting the draft have been SEN
fenced to twenty -fve-year terms IN the penl-
Tertiary. Thirty-fve members of the l. w. w.
have been indicted for seditious activity by
federal grand jury in Wichita, Kans Citizens
of Ohio have petitioned congress for Legislation
to repress pro- German acts and utterances by
drastic penalties; and announcement is made
that the department of justice will hencefor-
ward deal with alien enemies who refuse to
register with a stern and unsparing severity.
Our draft law, as Mr.. Taft declares, has v1n1l-
Gated itself in every way, and the government
proposes to enforce it to the letter
This is the only expedient course and the
only path of safety for the country. Ii we are
to come out of this war nation proud OF our
institutions, determined to preserve them and
unified in heart and thought, now is the time
Ito take effective measures to that end. Our l.
W. w, our vicious enemy aliens, our traltorous
naturalized citizens, our impudent pro-Prus-
slams. our dastardly agitators and dlsturbers
and all the irreconcilable elements In our ma
tional life, must be made to understand that
this is government Of order and law. 1t this
fact is not brought home to them now, is there
any reason to doubt that they will ind pre-
texts enough on which to continue their laWless
Vaccinations, their anarchistic intrigues and
their insolent defiance of the government after
the war?
The time has clearly come to teach them that
this nation expects the honorable allegiance or
all it's citizens and respectful acquiescence IN It's
laws from strangers within its gates. Ii we
would have no plotters against our institutions
and internal peace wien the war is over; II the
confusion and turmoil which menace much OF
Europe for the next few years is to find no echo
Ihere if our republic is still to stand by the side
of the other English-speaklng democracles OF
Garth as a home of order and liberty within the
law. it behooves us now to subdue and eliminate
those discordant elements in our cosmopolitan
population which initiate against our national
consciousness and the supremacy OF our ma
tional consciousness and the supremacy Of our
national ideals.