The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-04-07
WHITSETT STIRRED CROWD
Judge Advocate in Forceful Liberty
Day Address.

W. i. Johnson introduced Major
WhitSett the speaker of the after
noon. Major Whitsett made one Of
the finest patriotic addresses ever
heard in Ardmore. With readiness
of speech, he combines the positive
ness of soldier, and the greatest
applause coming to him in the
course OF his address was when he
emphasized the fact that we are not
fighting the German kaiser alone but
the German people, and that the
more fat-bellied huns our soldiers
kill the sooner the war will end.
His review of what the government
has accomplished in raising and
training, all within year, the finest
army on earth, filled with pride the
hearts of the parents, relatives and
friends OF the young mon who have
entered the service
Major Whitstt said he would not
discuss why we are in this war. We
were in it, and it is enough to tell
us what we must do, lie said. War
seldom, If ever, is a crime in itself,
the speaker declared, but in nearly
every case it is the result OF crimes
long continued.
Wrong has been heaped upon
wrong until the people OF this coun-
try can stand it no longer he stat
ed. Il am not here to discuss the
why or wherefore OF it and have no
patience with those who would cry
out against the war. That is not
what they should be interested in,
but when is it going to end. 1t is all
our business TO devote every ounce
OF energy we have to carry it on and
all the ability we possess toward the
winning of this war. This is not a
war alone against the German kaiser,
but against the German people. You
don't, and | don't, give a damn who
is the emperor Of Germany. We are
fighting that opponent of democracy
which made it possible tc issue an
order when Poland was overridden,
to kill all the men and children, but
to preserve the women so that when
Poland should be taken over it
should be ruled in all things by
Germans.
I'VE are fighting thar same spirit
now, the spirit that invaded Bel
gium and devastated Louvain; the
same spirit that on 4 beautiful
Eastern morn placed gun that
would send a destroying she'll into
4 church in Paris, into a church
where the men behind that gun
knew only old women ard children
and weak old men would be at
prayer. We are going tc keep on
fighting them until there will be
none to fight back.
Americas Job.
There will be no treaty of peace
The Germans will be sent mes
sage telling them where to get off
1t is not going to be an easy Job
The German people are in harmony
with their kaiser. They agree with
him. We have hard fight on hand
The German military establishment
is stronger now than it has ever
been since the war commenced. A
British officer, in addressing an as
semblage of army officers, said that
| England is now short of man
power that it is going into its mu-
milton factories and into every in
dustry where man can be spared
taking old men and the physically
unfit and sending them to the front
trying to hold weak line until the
United States can get an army there
1t is hard task, but the sooner we
get to it, the sooner we will be able
TO get back to something else 1t i.
going to require the work of every
man, woman and child ii the coun.
try. 1t is going to take team work
When a soldier is taken from hi,
work at home and sent into training
he is eliminated from the produc.
ing class. He has no time for that
In order to be trained he must work
at that all the time and increasingly
The people at home must take VI
the burden of those left behind. The
soldiers can no longer aid in thai
way. They are in camps being
trained to be killers. That is right
The more OF them able to stick ;
knife into a fat-bellied hun, tn,