Weekly journal-miner., 1918-03-13
DR. PERRY TELLS OF HORROR OF
 WORLD WAR
ARMY Y. WORKER, BACK FROM RENO HES IN FLANDERS GIVES GRAPH IC DESCRIPTION OF WOE
 SPREAD BY HUN LEGIONS
(From Tuesdays DaiIy.)

Dr. Fred A. Perry of Adrian, Mich. international Y. M. C. A. lecturer who has just returned from si> months of close association with tho troops on the Flanders battlefront spoke at the High school auditorium last night, and seldom have the resi-. dents of Prescott been privileged tc listen to such gripping, startling address-an address which as near as can be possible, brought the hor. TOTS of the big war home to the audience in a manner that was in tensely realistic and vivid
 Dr. Perry's lecture might be said to have had three main objectives- that of the unqualified denunciatior of the creature popularly known as the pacifst, the presentation of Q graphic picture of the terrible con- ditions which exist in the devastated lands of Europe, and lastly, the de- tailing in common place phrascology of the wonderful work which is be- ing done in behalf of Sammy by the Y. NJ. C. A. and the Red Triangle League.
 The pacihst, says Dr. Perry, is either a big fool or a criminal, and in either case, America ought to dec crate large number of lamp posts with the no-good corpses of this spineless class of citizenry, who, either publicly or in a manner clan destine, advocate the policy of giv- ing Germany anything she may hap, pen to want in order to cause the termination of the big war Chris tians do not hate. and for that req son alone, Dr. Perry does not hate the pacifst. but his dislike for the man who poses as lover of peace cannot be doubted after hearing him speak.
 There are times when man, as a man, must fght-scripture tells us as much The American today who isn't behind the government in this war does not stand on righteousness and a righteous man cannot be a pacifst in this day
 'You know the pacifist and I know him He is the man who would stand by and watch his daughter or his wife be ravished, their virtue taken from them by beast in human form without raising a hand in pro test. He would probably say, Well, it's too bad, and the old lady is probably getting hers, but I don't be- lievc in fighting and so I will not in terfere.' I am not exaggerating things. The facts are as I am pre- senting them to you. The frightful- ness of the crimes committed by the invaders in France and Belgium is unspeakable. Even though were speaking to men alone, I would not befoul my tongue by repeating the hideous things that the Germans are doing in thousands of cases.
 "We stayed out of the war so long that we grew ashamed of ourselves. We stayed out longer than we had any business to. Not until we were convinced that the murderer was coming in our direction, advancing slowly but none the less surely upon our dcfenSeless country, did we take the steps that will eventually free the people of the world from a slav- cry that would be far worse than death. Our lives wouldn't be worth living.
 Even here in America, thousands Of miles from the lines of battle, we have felt the effects of the lesser hideous crimes perpetrated by the German kaiser. Such crimes could have had their inception only in the brain of a demon. I refer to the spreading of the foot and mouth dis case among our cattle herds-the at tempts-some of which were success ful-to inject tubercular germs into our soldier boys while in the camps ~---~-~~~~~----~~~---------
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