The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1912-1984, 1918-04-16
THE COUNTRY IN BRUTAL, HOR.
RIFLE WAR


if needs be for their country and in
other sacrifices that we have been
called on to make, we as people do
not realize that we are in the midst
of the foulest and most brutal war
ever waged and that we are con-
fronted by an enemy that recognizes
no rule of civilized warfare in the
treatment of noncombatants, but
with savage delight murders and
mains old men and women, the chill
dren and helpless, ravishes girls and
wantonly destroys without excuse
and without reason. We have now
come to realize that the whole world
being killed by the millions and that
other millions are suffering for the
necessities of life; that wounded men
are torn with pain and dying and if
permitted to live must suffer out a
miserable existence all because of
the blood lust of fiend, whose am
bition is to conquer the world. The
bare possibility that he may be able
to do so and the fact that unless we
/ fight him over there he will fight us
here should make up redouble our
efforts to help with our money if too
old or otherwise disabled to meet
him on the battlefield, and make the
response to the third Liberty Loan
so pronounced and so swift that the
bloody butcher may read as he runs
that America is in the war to a fin
ish and will never say quit till the
world is safe for justice and democ-
racy. The government is not ask
ing us to donate money, but offers
for it the best security for every
cent-the entire resources of the
richest country in the world, togeth-
err with fair interest on bonds that
are non-taXable.
Another call for 100000 men is
made to fiji out 100000 in the next
nine months. There will be few
slackers, if any, to this call for the
bodies of men. There should be
none for the call for money to pro-
vide them with munitions and neces-
sites of war and he who fails to do
his part deserves even worse punish
ment than that which will be accord
ed those who fail to respond to the
call to arms. Money and men are
the demand of the hour. Both must
be furnished and as quickly as pos
sible. Let there be no slackers in
either call. The brutal despot and
his minions must be wiped from the
face of the earth or we shall become
worse than slaves and bondsmen of
the sacriligiOus creature who claims
to be senior member of the partner
ship with God. Until this is done
the world will not be safe to live in
and the principles for which our ia
theirs bled and died will go for
naught. We can, we must, we shall
win out in the herculean struggle
for freedom and the right to enjoy
the rights bought with the blood-~f
heroes of '76. The government eX-
poets every man to do his duty. He
who is unwilling to do so is unworthy
of the precious privilege of living in
the land of the free and the home
of the brave. Everybody can help.
The consideration shown by the
government so far for spies and pro-
Germanism is being resented by peo-
pie all over the country who think
that death, and not merely confine-
ment in comfortable prisons and fed
on the fat of the land, should be
meted out to them. They are there
fore taking things in their own hands
and treating the German emissaries
to coats of tar and feathers, smear
ing them with yellow paint, ducking
them in filthy ponds and warning
them that repetitions of the offenses
will insure prompt execution. One
of the punishments some times re-
sorted to ought to be discontinued,
however, that of making such crea-
lures kiss the flag they decry. Their
polluted lips should never be permit
ted to touch the emblem of glory
and democracy. 1t is too sacred for
such defilement.
The usual reports of the killing Of
peach and other fruit buds help to
add to disheartening prospects.
Down in Daviess county it is said
that not only are the buds killed. but
in many cases the trees have been
killed by the unnecessary long. cold
spell of last winter The gloomy
report comes also that there will be
no blackberries either, which is bad
for the Pulaskians, of whom it is
said they are only able to pay taxes
the years that the crop hits.
Watcn your SCeD ana Welgn your
words at this critical time and you
will be better off. The pastor of a
Lincoln county church expressed his
pro-German views too freely and
was called on by his elders for an
explanation. He explained and it is
hoped that hereafter he will be more
careful about what he says. He had
better be.
The information comes from
Washington that American women
have replaced 1,413,000 men in bust
ness since the war began. They are
to be found in every industry and
making good in all. 1t may come
to pass that men will be found to be
very useless creatures, anyway.
Senator William j. Stone, of Mis-
souri,, died Sunday at Washington.
May his body rest in peace and his
memory soon be forgotten.
STANFORD WOMAN THINKS
SHE CAN'T TALK ENOUGH
"T had call stones for wears