The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1918-12-12
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l. seems incredible that eight per
cent d the men called to the colors
we ra e ad or write. Then
We ale I'D tia. U.adliJiau to these
i'll e.ates raere were a very great
ma1s u 1ug soldiers who understood
4ist 81 lille that they were un-
ab mprehend military orders.
All # this has come TO light thru
age4-.as working in our army camps.
America is a country of free edu-
caliopal institutions, Our public
school system we boast of as being
the greatest factor extant contri-
butiug to the general enlightenment
of our people. yet we found that
eight per cent of our soldiers could
not read or write These men, too,
have grown into their majority since
the establishment of the public
school system and the placing of a
red school house on every hill from
Maine to Oregon and North Dakota
to the Gulf OF Mexico,
Many wonderful and fearful les
sons have been taught us Americans
since the war lords unloosed their
hounds in Europe more than four
years ago, We have seen the utter
disruption of Russia, the trampling
under foot and crushing of Belgium
and Serbia. We have witnessed the
topping of the citadels of Kings and
Emperors and the wrecking and dis
memberment of one of the greatest
autocratic empires, if not the great
est, ever known to the world. We
have seen the reaping of the evil
seed sown in anarchy and the muir
dering of innocent men, women and
children. We know now the evils
of education and realize the
futility of attempts to amalgamate
and control a people speaking doz-
en- different tongues.
There is but one tongue in Ameri-
ca and that is English.
There is only one flag in America
and that is Old Glory.
DR.. Charles Eliot, Theodore Roose-
Welt and other great Americans long
ago realized the absolute necessity
of obliterating the hyphen. All
America surely realizes the logic OF
this argument.
There should be but one language
published in America and that
should be English. There should be
no German press, no Italian press,
no French press, no Spanish press or
Mexican press; there should be no
United States printed publications
permitted the use of the mails OF
this government that are not printed
in English.
In the ranks of the |. w. w.
Americas Bolshevik organization
can be found the ragmuftins OF al
most every nation under the sun.
Soap box orators sputterisg glib
berish, profaning English, will be
turned loose in America Immediately
upon the signing of the articles of
peace and once again will the war OF
unrest and malignancy be un-
leashed upon Us.
/ am not afraid of an American
laboring man no more than | am
afraid of any other decent American.
The ideas sof government and sane
ness of thought in the American
laboring mans mind is unequaled in
any other mind of the nation. He
is as balanced and rational as it is
possible for human to be. He is
proud of his American institutions
and he will gladly give his last drop
of blood for those things that have
become to him and his children
through the government Of which he
is an important part.
Because of the war many of the
vulchers of Bolshevsm have been
landed behind the prison bars, but
with the lifting of wartime regula-
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