The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1918-02-07
WOOD SAVING
We have purchased wood saving
machine and will do work in that line,
either by the day or by the cord.
GRANT 81 VILLEGIA
be Americans now. and We will speak
the American lanpunpf

Dc americans now. and we will speak
the American language.
The speaker said he doubted the
loyalty of many of the papers printed
IN the German language.
The nations that are free will fight
on until the right to be free is estab-
lished forever. We are making a.
new wesld. The world is on FIRE and
the soldiers are the firemen who are
called upon to put the confagration
out. We must not leave shoulder :.
ing spark. The helI,sh blaze of van
dalism, murder and plumber must be
stamped out. When we identity might
with right in the human world we
open the door for all sorts of outrages
and crimes. We open the door for
the justification of aggressive wars,
for German destruction of Belgium
and northern France, and for her eff
orts to destroy the British Empire.
If it were only question of might |
might seize my neighbours farm and
possess myself Of all his goods and
chattels. When man s moral consci-
BUSINESS became developed, when he
came to know good from evil, right
from wrong. new thing, biological
law became operative in the world.
as radically new as the appearance
of life itself in the organic world
In our day the fttest are the most
humane. the most just. They are
the fttest because they are the most
in harmony with the biological law
which man 8 moral nature introduced
into the world. Where the Germans
go wrong is in the nefarious assunp-
ton that it is might which prevails
In the lower orders is right when APP
piled in the world of man. Theworld
is yearning for peace. 1t ia war wea.
~. ] wish every king, kaiser and
car, who wages war for plumber and
greed, could be made to go into the
front line Of trenches and take his
place on the firing line, and / think
he would understand then. Shall we
make peace with the present rulers, of
Germany? We would not think of
making treaty with Villa of Next
co, he is bandit and robber. The
kaiser is murderer, a multi murder
er. The German government treats
treaties as. scraps of paper Let's
not talk of peace until they have TAX
en- their bloody hands off Belgium
and France. | would like to see the
Kaiser and his six "bomb-proof''
sons, who never get close enough to
the front to smell powder, tried by
jury of civilized people on the
charge of murder. The penalty for
murder is death. The Kaiser ought
to swing and I'd like to pull theIrope.
America has forced the issue and the
world must know that autocracy can
not live with democracy. We will
have peace CT righteousness, and
when peace comes to US, we will know
that it is because we have fought for
something worth while, as civilization
based on justice not greed. We are
fighting for the common peoples of all
lands, and we will fight on until a
lasting peace has come, and with our
faces to the light.
Why not be loyal?
One of these days the war will be
over, and the disloyal ones will be
wondering why they did not stand up
for Uncle Sam. There is going to be
great rejoicing and cheering when
the war is over and the soldiers come
home, not all of them, but many of
them, and they are going to know
who stabbed them in the back. Have
no misunderstanding about it, they
are going to know who is who when
the war is over. Where do you
stand? Why not be loyal now, when
Uncle Sam needs every ounce of
strength that be can get from loyal
people.
Methodist Episcopal Church Honor
Roll:
Lieut.. l. w. Leighton
Lieut.. O. D. Dixon
Sergt. S. Welk
Sergt. J. Lundeon
Or, Master sergt. Donley
Clayton Brown
Gordon Cass
Frank Colwell
Will Davis