Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-07-11

Verdun.
THAT was the first week in Feb
ruary, 1917 On Aug. % three Pots
dam airplanes flew over that hospital,
marked on the roof with a Red Cross
so large you could see it mile up in
the air, and dropped incendiary bombs
upon it and set one wing of the hos
pital on fire. And when the doctors
and nurses and the helpers of the
wounded ran out to rescue their pa
TENTS from the flames, those accursed
German vultures flew back and forth
three times over that doomed hospital
raking it with machine gun fire and
killing thirty of the doctors and nur-
ses and helpers and the German
wounded in their own beds.
EDO you ask me to sit down now
with people who have done and who
are doing things like that, and talk
over a green table about peace before
they have repented I say no! no!
no! / am an American.
Plots in This Country
"The last thing | will speak Of is
the way they forced us into this war.
You know why they did. They plant
ed their spies over here, their plotters
and traitors and seditious persons,
who have tried to set fire to our ships.
and in some cases they have succeed
ed. Men have been found in our naval
stations with explosive bombs, trying
to plant them on our transports. They
are doing that kind of thing still.
81 will tell you what I would do
with such men. When I caught
man under suspicion of plotting
against the safety and welfare of our
country, against the lives of our sold
iers and sailors, / would give him a
fair trial, and if, he was convicted, [
would hang him by the neck until he
was dead.
1.-THE very fact of Germany's prep
aration when no other nation was
ready in Europe is proof that she
wanted war.
Saw Troops Massing.
81 was over there in the winter Of
1913 and the summer of 1914 and
saw the preparation going on. I saw
Germany massing her troops ready to
attack by sudden blow down thru
the neutral countries Of Luxembourg
and Belgium.
There is one of the original med
ais I bought in Berlin. On one side
Of that medal is a ticket office with
a death skeleton at the window. SELL
ing tickets and on the other side the
Lusitania going down into the sea.
Underneath this inscriptions: Great
passenger ship, Lusitiania, sunk by
Germany on the 5th of May, 1916
THAT medal is a memorial of the
dastardly spirit of the Potsdam gang
"a medal that they themselves made.
If the kaiser wants to come out Of
this war with honor and glory, if he
wants the world to put a prize upon
him, I propose that this medal should
be the prize and that it shall be hung
round his neck with A leather string
after we have won this war. Until
then, propose to keep it lest I forget
the Lusitania.
Calls for Righteous Wrath
"Now, | have not preached to you
men the spirit of hatred but I have
preached to you the spirit Of right
eous wrath, the spirit of just indig-
ntaion, and I hope there is not a man
in the crowd, if he went out into the
street and saw a dirty ruffian tramp
ing the life out of little child, who
wouldn't clench his fists and go in as
hard as he could and put that ruffian
tc sleep.
"The Potsdam gang which controls
Germany is dirty ruffian that has
broken the peace of the world, that,
has trampled the life out of Belgium,
Serbia and northern France, and that
today is carrying on the same atroc-
ious and nefarious warfare.
81 hope that spirit of righteous
wrath will make every man of you
steady, strong and resolute, and de-
termined to win the war and crush the
kaiser"