The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-02-11
not even knocked awry by the fight
ing around him.

not even knocked awry by the fight.
! ing around him.
At the Cemetery.
! A Bosche plane attacked the com
mission on its way to the cemetery
where the American soldiers were
buried. Il stood at the foot of the
grave Of the American whose throat
was slashed from ear to ear by his
captors, when they discovered his ma
tionality," Mr.. Lord said Two of his
companions who were with the boy
when he died. corrouorate the story.
| "The more l saw of this Hun kultur
the more / pity the people Of Germany,
for the people know not what they do.
They have not been civilized. The Ger
man soldiers took a figure of Christ,
stuck 1t on a pole and dared the sol
/ diers opposite them to USE it for
target practice. Can you imagine our
Sammies doing anything like that?
| But you can know this, that Hun and
happiness cannot go together, and if it
takes our all, such things must stop.
The world would not be safe or fit for
us to live in if we didn't stop it.
"Our allies must be fed. They must
have 213,0o0OO0 bushels of wheat.
F.! There have been left on the battle
their sons. Is it too much to ask that
we save the wheat, fats and sugar
Go home and think it over. It is up to
you and your willingness to serve. Let
your own conscience dictate what you
will do, and then 90 to it,
RutIedge Scores kutur.
John S. Rutledge, the next speaker,
characterized the war as free for all,
with no police to stop it. He excori
Gated the pro-German in America and
Numbered at the top of his voice
against the teaching Of German in our
public schools. He declared against
the use Of "a toothpick which has
stamped on it made in Germany and
said he agreed with Billy Sunday who
said that if you turned He'll upside
down you'd see made in Germany"
stamped on 1t. Mr.. Rutledge declared
that the Germans were the jackals,
robbers and underwater robbers of the
ocean
He pointed out that we must support
the army in the field and the sailors
on the ocean, who are lodging these
jackals. He suggested cooperation in
farming. And don't charge your
neighbor anything for helping him
with his crops either" he shouted. "He
may fall dead from the shock, but
don't do it, We've been in the habit
of charging too many things. We
ought to get some of that community
spirit that lived at one time and was
exemplif1ed in husking bees and apple
butter making"
Must Deny ourselves.
He declared that the man or woman
who would not deny himself luxuries
was not worthy the name Of American
citizen" He said that women were
doing the work in France. there were
not. exemption boards there, and that
every man from eighteen to forty-tive
was under arms. He paid tribute to
their army which stood up against the
greatest war machine ever invented
1--WE can lick 'em hand over fist" he
added, referring to~this war machine,
and well do it, too"
Send word to the kaiser that we are
in this, and that we are going to bring
home the bacon he Numbered
The German soldiers are going to
take care Of things at home, he de-
clared. when they go back and learn
that the German military has taken |
their wives and daughters, like so
many cattle and horses, and that they
have been officially bred to the officers
of the German army to re-people the /.
country. their wrath will not be as
suaged except by the wiping out of mil
itarism."
Women Make Sacrifice.
In introducing Mrs. Walter McNab |
Miller, who spoke from the women's |
Mr.. Sawyer said: after I
all it Is the women who make the real |
sacrifice. The mothers, wives and sis. |
tiers OF the nation are called on to !
sacrifice. If there is food conservation
it will be due to the women of America |
not to the men,"
Mrs. Miller sid that America. had
not been efficient in many things, and /
she wondered if our extravaganza and
mismanagement had been responsible
for the failure of democracy in Ger
man eyes, and whether or not this
might have helped to bring about the
war. We have been wasteful as she
pointed out, and she startled her aud
ence when she declared that if Ger
many had been as wasteful as Ameri- Il
3D. size WoulU nave pVen starved JDTe6
months after England posted her
blockade.
Mrs. Miller preached the gospel of
he clean plate. She urged the re- /,
of every family on a war
basis, absolutely necessary she said to
win the war. She urged the saving of i
1t least half the amount allotted OF
sugar and said that any woman who
made a cake with butter was a slack !
er
Children need butter but they do not Z;
iced sugar she said. Mrs. Miller de- /
Jared We should stand shoulder to {
shoulder with the men in the trenches.
Ind that We were not worthy the name
If citizens of democracy, if we did
lot voluntarily save. +:
Overflow Meeting.
The crowd which filed the Grand