Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1918-10-03
DICTAGRAMs

government drafts your boy and my
boy for the trenches. They are ex-
posed to all sorts of danger and dis
ease-for the paltry sum of one dol
lar per day, and if they mutiny or
desert they may be shot. Some of
the workers on government jobs, not
exposed to any special danger or dis
ease, are paid as much asA SIS per
day, and sometimes strike for higher
pay. When such men go out on a
strike should they not be regarded
as deserters of the worst type and be
treated accordingly? There is more
than one form of graft, and the lit
tie CRATER is just as willing as the
big one.
Regardless of graft or blunder we
shall support this war unto the last
ditch but claim and may exercise the
right to point out mistakes and in
equalities.
|. We shall all feel glad when the
war is really and truly over but there
is danger that it may end too soon.
Inless it ends in the complete defeat
and destruction of Hun militarism it
will soon be to fight over again and
we would better go right on with the
job while we are at it. The idea that
might makes right should be given It's
death blow before there is any let-up
in the struggle. The rank and file of
the present German people do not
know the real horrors of war be-
cause in the last sixty years they have
not had the experiences of a war at
their own doors and the destruction
of their own homes. If this war ends
before they are made to realize what
war really means to a conquered peo-
pie, whose land has been devastated,
it will end too soon. In that case the
Hun militarists will rightly consider
that they have been victorious. They
will laugh at US. Figuratively speak
ing, they will spit in our faces, fout-
lag us with their divine superiority
and a war will have to be fought over
again. Of course the American sol
dier cannot and will not bayonet Ger
man babes, nor ravish German maid
ems, nor murder German nurses, nor
bomb German hospitals, nor mutilate
German wounded, nor cruelty German
prisoners, but the lesson of destruc-
tive warfare must be brought home
to the common people of German v;
and their blood-crazed emperor VIII,
claims a partnership with God a.
| mighty, himself, must be undeceiveI.
Any ending short of this will makr
the present struggle for democracy
a failure. 1t will make another wac
inevitable. Any ending short of a
complete and thorough victory over
the bloody Hun will only swell his
pride and make his arrogance un-
bearable.
A lot of young fellows who want to
get into the army are turned down,
and another and bigger lot who can
go and ought to go are too yellow &c
start.
The young men who are going to
Europe to fight the battles of world
| ITcSUOu Will Dc cIltitlSQ " Lie IIldtlhS
Of a grateful country. On their re-
turn nothing will be too good for
them and posterity will be proud of
them. On the other hand the young
men who wriggle and squirm and
twist and stretch the truth all out Of
shape in order to keep out of the
army are making a mistake--a ce-
grettable mistake for the years to
come When the war is over and che
! ssboys come home," these hangbacks
can only listen in shame to the stor-
les of heroic deeds, of camp and
trench, of march and maneuvre, Of
battle and victorious advance. Their
only consolation will be the money
that they may have piled up Will,
better men fought and bled for the
country of the derelict- In the nci
far distant future the children OF
grandchildren of these handbacks will
be asking them about their part in
the great war. They will have moth
ing to say and their children wi
hang their heads and ask no more
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