The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-02-19
WHAT ARE WE DOING?
Editor Missoulian:

| Editor Missou1ian:
Sir: President Woodrow Wilson has
| asserted that we have come to the
crisis of our belligerency: it would ap.
| pear to man up a tree that we had
attained several crises, and that, by
the sinking of the Lusitania and the
torpedoing of the transport, we had
been slapped good and hard on both
cheeks so that, according to Scrip
ture. we had arrived at the time when
we should do some punching, and quite
vigorous punching at that. War was
properly defined by William Tecum-
sch Sherman as hell, surely it is APP
propriate that we should administer a
large dose Of hell to the Prussians.
and of the same brand that has dis
tnguished them. but differing there
from in the bestial brutality imposed
upon women and children. Lynn
phatic or anaemic inactivity in the
prosecution of the war is giving most
encouraging aid and comfort to the
enemy. Announcements have been
made of vast aeroplane fleet, Of SUBJ
marines being ground out at the rate
of several a day; but all the effective
armament in the world is futile unless
| it becomes actively put into service.
Annals of history fail to show any
! rapine, murder, lust, atrocity, or fright
full abnormalty equal to those of the
Huns; the victory for the worlds peace
and for democracy can only be achieved
by the demolition of those Hun char
acteristics by administering to those
human hyenas a vigorous and oontinu-
| GUS dose of their own medicine. No
| sensible person acts with brotherly
i love toward a rattlesnake but scotches
it as quickly as possible; the crotalus,
| however, is a polished and chivalric
gentleman compared to Hun, for the
| former gives a warning Of his intent
to strike; the Huns torpedo hospital
ship without warning and jaculates
shrapnel at the helpless women and
wounded men struggling for life in the
| ocean.
Reprisal. swift, sharp and ceaseless
is the one method that will conquer
| the Prussians and their helpers; some
exploding bombs dropped on Berlin
will do more to assure the Germanic-
Austrian federation of the utter hope
| lessness Of their resistance to the in
evitable democracy than on the as
sertions in the world and if, as the
president states. the contending crisis
| has arrived, make that crisis the de-
| termiIIng factor in our warlike ac-
! tiViIy and smash the German line and
go on to Berlin as that city and Vienna
are terrorized by the effective destruc-
ton engenderel by our aeroplane at
/ lacks. Every anguished heart and
every tear shed by our American Wom-
en- for the apprehended or actual loss
of our brave boys, il a reprCach for
inactivity or official impotence and.
God knows, we have more than enough
of such reproaches justly aligned on
our side.
THE crisis has arrived" so the crisis
iarrived at Waterloo and the command
of Arthur Wellington should resound
through our navy and army, up
I9uards and at emf"
This is but the efferescence of an
individual, but of one who is gray in
the past service of our country and
our flag, and if it is permissible in
the columns of your paper to use de-
tonatory language, l. want to remark
damn the kaiser" and that sentiment
will be echoed by every American
woman and man, and that ejacula-
ton may also resound in every bullet.
bomb or shell fired at the despicable
and degenerate to knock the crisis
higher than Gilderoy's kite.
COLONEL FRED A. HUNT.