Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1918-08-22
Nh. BUYER RS Up TO YOU
ii. Rsy r. Soule, Editor Hardware
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ing this, but the straight. plain. hor.
rible truths that have come to us
fully verified have been kept out oil
print long enough. It Is high time
all our people knew OF them.
At Merlant the soldiers OF Ger
many amused themselves as might
the arch fends OF hell. Their last
act in the neighboring village oil
Etre'py was to club to death an old
woman eighty-three years Of age
That particular group OF soldiers
seemed to be possessed OF an inhu-
man desire to kill old people. They
signalized their arrival in Merlant
by tying an old man OF seventy TO
the tail OF horse which they beat
into frenzy Of terror before they
turned II loose to drag the old man
to death.
And the barbed wire Of, No Mans
Land separates us from those SOL
dierm Over two hundred miles OF
such entanglements on the western
front. Recently the Kaiser's fac
tories put out new wire containing
lot more carbon than had been pre-
viously used in the manufacture OF
such product. There wasn't single
handed plier In the American army
that would cut It. Word OF the i'm
provement came to US In America
with samples OF the wire our Sam
mics had obtained with bolt cutters.
The problem was put up to twenty
six patriotic plier manufactures who
met In New York with a well-known
young army officer. Every manufac-
turer present threw his patents on
the table and said to the others,
Help yourselves" One week later
those plier manufacturers met again
and brought with them Ave American
made single-handed pliers that cut
the Germans new wire with ease.
The answers are beginning to come
In, and those far-flung entangie-
ments are going to be cut just as
surely az the ever-increasing forces
OF Americans are going to be In on
the killing. The armies Of the Central
Powers have passed their meridian.
From now on they are going to taste
some OF the defeats they have In
fiicted.
But we we're speaking OF pliers.
Before the war they were selling
about two hundred thousand dollars
worth Of pliers in the United States
each year. Goodbye, business.
Those American plier manufacturers
who produced the tools to cut Ger
many's high-carbon wire are going
to get what they arc entitled to.
And the wire those pliers cut. How
about German wire goods? In wire
and wire articles they enjoyed two
and three-quarter million dollars
worth OF business every year over
here. There are wire mills and wire
goods factories here at home who
are n year or two behind with do
nestle orders merely because the
needs of the Government come first.
and Uncle Sam Is getting their out
put.
When our boys break thru and
sweep over that town OF Sommeilles
and give It's inhabitants the flrst Just
government they have had since ar
ter the war began, what are they go
Ing to find? Why they will again
hear verified the story OF the two
women and four children who took
refuge In Mr., Adnot's cellar from
which they We're dragged. German
soldiers raped both these women. as
suited them under most atrociuos
circumstances. The children Shrek
ed. one had It's head cut off and two
OF the other little chaps had their
right hands cut Off.
Are we going to cut Off the import
OF German and Austrian wire goods,
Are we going to cut Off shipments or
German and Austrian wire goodsr
Are we going to cut off shipments OF
German-made pliers into this country
Possibly we won't. II may hc that
We don't quite understand ourselves.
and some perverted power unknown
to us will keep up that old business
relation, but my candid belief Is that
a great nation OF men and women
who won't forget are going to stand
right squarely back OF the fellow who
is too busy even to see German or
Austrian business representative sell
ing these lines. Yes. there's little
doubt about 1t, Mr.. Buyer. It's up
to you.
Bavarian soldier writing home
from Belgium. said: IL have hayo-
Melted seven women, and four young
girls In five minutes" Great. brave,
heroic representative Of his country.
wasn't he?
woman over ninety years OF age
bayonetted In bed.
At Senlfs. France. civilian tied
to post and havonnttnd liz $500.