Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-03-23
GERMANY HAS NEVER TAKEN CHANCE
IN THE OPEN WITH ANY NATION, SAYS
VIRGINIA FRAZER BOYLE IN DISCOURSE

British museum Five hundred and
eighty commemorated events
many of which did not even happen
to be handed down and glorified
when the necks of the civilized
world shall have been put under
the woke of Teuton barbafism. Tie
preventive is in our hands, your
hands, my hands. England mas
said it. France has said It. Shall
We. who have been preaching free
dom, liberty, for a hundred ami
twenty years, fail to apply it in
this. the greatest crisis this world
has ever faced, because forsooth.
Corn bread scratches our
throats?" Never, since the lowly
Jesus taught the brotherhood and
equality of man, has the Christian
world had such an opportunity OF
demonstrating it. and if we are go
ing to win, we have got to do it.
NV friend over there is WORT;
say a million or two. but his gold
can not serve as bumper between
him and his service to his country,
his God, any more than the poverty
of that hard-handed mechanic with
y
can be set up as an excuse. The
sacrifice of blood is being made
the best blood that ever sathed an
altar for liberty-but the personal
sacrifice, which is an integral part
of the whole, from every man and
woman, is just as necessary to our
success as the sacrifice Of blood
Business as usuaI''-God defend
us! Suppose that your individual
profits are less than they were last
year because of some government
decision for conservation Do you
want to mako anything on this
war? Do you want to gamble on
the blood of your boy, or some
other mans? Suppose YOU are a
little fellow and your already small
income has been cut down for some
exigenCy of the war. Can't you re-
trench and make it up? Can't you
do without something which is not
absolutely necessary? The knowl-
edge that you are helping. that you
are doing your bit" to win in this
war. which should become your
personal business, will prove to
be the best antifat remedy, or the
finest tonic for the upbuilding OF
lost flesh, whichever you may hap
pen to need.
Perhaps you think that the war
will soon be over anyhow, and you
might as well let the other fellow,
who seems to like making sacri-
fees. do it all, as he seems to be
trying to do. But the war will not
soon be over Not while we feel
the neutral nations, and they feed
Germany; not while the great
stores of Russia can be subjected
to her call. Not while she has the
productive fields of France and
Belgium and her thousands of pris-
oners, who, under the lash, are
forced to plant and harvest for her.
The civilized world, instead OF
being awed and impressed, as
Hohenzollern imperialism intended
it should be, has witnessed her
I degrading warfare with sickening
contempt, which she then proceeds
to make more degrading. She has
never come OUT ION the square" in
anything or at any time. She
fights under the water or sneaks
overhead. Digging in" is her own
/ invention; she has never fought on
her own legs, as France and Italy
challenged her to do. She has new
er taken her chance lin the open"
with any nation.
over her internal revolutions,
born in the threats of her own
hopeless women, who have been
forced to bring forth offspring. ana
are bringing them forth, horrible
and defQrmed from mainutritiOn
and suffering, she has spread the
mouths of her machine guns. She
is starving the stomachs and
breaking the spirit of German chill
dren already born, subjecting them
to weaknesses, disease, and worse
than death, that the men in the
field may be kept well fed and
strong to continue her hellish work
of conquest and obliteTation, her
business as usual" No, the war
win not soon be over. Men and
women of America, are we awake
Are We awake?