Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1918-03-21

"In stratified rock the lower strata;
are held in place by the great weight
of the upper layers. This is like the
social strata of Germany. But a drop
in the ocean can reach any part Of
the great deep. Such Is the social
status in our country"
Every element from abroad has
added something to the American
spirit. For instance thrift and saw
ing have been brought by many Ger
mans. &7
Here are our interests, for we
have created them, they are here be-
caues here are the things our hands
have made. What interest. have we
in the success of Germany. Would
any of us change his position for any
in that land?u It is true that r,any
are fighting against those of their
own blood, but in the revolution, it
was Englishman against English
man, and in the Civil war, Northern
brother against Southern brother.
So If your own grandfather had
gone crazy and we're out on the
street with dangerous weapon and
one should come to you and report
the case, might you not say: Il have
pleasant .recollections of the old gen.
tEeman, but I think we had better go
out and catch him and get his knife,
away" &c
And If theve is a great conflagra-
tion, should we not first put&out the
FIRE, then afterwards find out how 1t
caught? is;ia
Everybody seems to be involved in
this war, condition unique in his
tary. Our sons have gone, and we
are not going to forget them, or let
the line Of connection be cut from
between us. t,5
The speaker devoted considerable!
time to the showing that it was inn,
possible at the present stage to. make
To deal with the kaiser was, he said,
like trying to catch a Bengal tiger
with 10 butterfly net. =
i, Germany is getting her indemni-
ties every day. She has already got
what she went after. She now says,
"Give me these things and when
get good and ready, I'll come back
and get the rest. The only thing left
for us is to fight this thing thru"
Hon. Wesley Mcdowell Speaks.
Wesley Mcdowell of Marion who
was appointed few weeks ago to
succeed ex-governor L. B. Hanna as
the state. manager Of the 81 Liberty
Loan, gave q short address. His time
was limited, but his brief speech waS1
replete. with the pithy statements
and enthusiasm that mark his ad-
dresses. He said In part: ''as an ann
ateur I am going to try to get into
the battle, and In this next cam
paign, We are going to go over the
top with the Third Liberty Loans'' 81
g He told how the men who came to
North Dakota thirty or forty years
ago with nothing but their hands
and theil heads and the help Of their
young wives, had made good In spite
of late springs and hail and gophers
and rust and frost and floods and
low prices and taxes. He stated that
we had always kicked about these
things, but had always succeeded,
nevertheless. ). IL "a true North Dako-
tan will always kick. Only 70 live
mule kicks .i n. II
& Nj. Mcdowell stated that; this
movement instituted ii JamestownI
was destined to spread over the na-
tion, and he contrastedi 4 with cer-
tain, disloyal ni1stingS which had
BEEN held IN .south theEn, llinnesota. .}.ss
gssS s Aftsr the sing einliai of Dixie ~ Led
by tho orchestra the aud lance 49,
digmisso6.