The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-06-29

packed them off t. training camps. S%M ralSaSSS
A na1e too sDt often ter tSe enm1 aFah n su m@ ~
ball would have sent them not in a mooo at all, but at least beginning to
y SeD T Ea t una ste SodoG Ero ms Oh R"r sopG w"t hat no his s0c co~nt wT reeds him. him.
No doubt the word Stacker" has had its uses; but it is possible that w
of us who have never wOrn a uniform are not well entitled to use Stacker"
proof, but W e should u leave Stacker to soldiers and those who have been
soldiers. We must judge not lest W be judged. Let is save our bitter
To a nation a comes as a great trouble comes to a family: When a
great great trouble nas comes sn tic a family mi the members members or nat tot FANNY nme E d%% o to- M u pn.
other than they have been in happier times: They forget Inference that
find many goodnesses and nobniues sin n another that they have not dis
1 11iy:d tn ssfs cannot 1 nset it s'f # fey t Sieh %sS and hn fan ap a%P' If on ope d Hs" not do
his share the others will get less from him by scOlding than If they say;
IT,. ONE day last Aprl..w we had a Iii" liberty eg Loan" parade ara I'm in l Indian 20
cheer and perhaps tried not to cry when ys3u the .9 flags went ct.d down I,d the street st
There we're soldiers infantry and artrery-n the parade, and hospital dtal
and city officials. and governors and senators and ex-ambassadorsi but the
owners marched with their men; labor leaders marched with mlionaires,
and unless you knew them you couldn't Hqldn tell which c n,wasstws which t: The The m to
railroad men the BARRIERS, the brcklayers, the steel workers, the Gamers
the bands played and when the bands didn't. The Catholic organizations
groes marched in their church orders. singing and free and in the war, like
called German, but would n o longer be called German they marched and
m n@E an" There @e's w meS Buig gapGns' shouting nT lg the allied n pb battle @ c CALI singing Sm Hg The
Battle Battle Cry oG Of Pus Ereedom M s and there ". wsre su R lou mani ans and Tns serG ims and
nse and there a band of Japanese, dressed as antique bOwmen. No.
where in the city was there anything that wasn't at wal with the Germans
And overhead sailed the arplanss But it was not 50 with Indianapolis
Indiana alone. The same manifestation "a visible all over America where
So we said: IF that Ro@nkranz and GurderHern pair of worthless in
Germany Hndendorr and Ludenburgh, could only get a brdseye view of
what is showing forth today, if they could get but a glimpse of this America
reused, they might also get a glimpse of what Is coming to Them
America not only reused, but America united. Our trouble
has taught us our unity We have said: "Come, brotherw and we stand
together, steadast. We are a war with miiarism. The kaiser, knowing
that he is the front and symbol of miHtariSn, said: "Those who wish to de-
stroy is are digging their W graves" He knows well enough what we
mean to destroy, and in his rage he talks graveyard to brighten u.s. His
worst mistake has been his thinking that "terr6rizauon' terifes; that
numbering a mans child subdues the ia and keeps him quiet! Zeppenns
submarines, 7Omile guns, poison gas, rape, setting peaceful towns o fire,
turning machine guns on women, children, priests and old men-these are
the ray head and bloody bones he uses, hoping through fear % make all
the wide world his W private ogres castle. But America will not have
it sc. Let him wave his ray head and bloody bones; let him threaten
us with graves, and let him make the German people believe that it is
Germany e mean to destroy; he knows what this republic mean to do;
he knows what the united democracy of the world means ito do-and it is
he that is afraid, and proves his fear, like a coward talking big in the dark.
America is marching. Leaders go before u.s., mighty and implacable
but a shining figures, alive today and alive forever, at the head of the ma
and Patrick Henry and Francis Marion and Paul Jones and Light Horse
rison and Zachary Taylor. And the solemn, great figure OF Lincoln marches
and Stonewal Jackson. We know what these men said TO u.s.: that the
word to is a always the same, yesterday and today and tomorrow-al-
ways their word to III is Forward" And we follow them.
in prosperity it seemed that we had forgotten our leaders. that we had
forgotten that the power of the spirit Is greater than the power of dollars,
that re had even forgotten to keep ourselves a nation, IN and indtvisble
and had become a collection of grabbers, living Of fat and laughing at cor
rupdon and shame-and 1t ws thus the German thought of u.s. Never was
there so fase q lel The time has come that brings us Our test America
woke and woke in arms. Not true 10 of America doubts the future