Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1918-06-06

! aid h-'This vim cost GERMANY ~
vaf!' ne shook his head. did Mt
argue With hin.
Xea cannot tell what mar n q ,nv
tsday. You cannot tell Ae sort q
oothes he will wear, what NAV bs
ms rank or station In Me. what nav
DO his real ambition. his real aim IN
me. he may speak German alone, or
broken English. or many tongues nu.
emily. Buff any assurance be
needed after the long list Of incen.
diary fires. Of incendiary explosions.
OF losses OF ships, Of buildings, Of
manufacturing plants through the
treachery Of "German-Americans" lIy.
ing this side the water-you may be
sure OF n thing: That same secret
diplomacy. that same treachery, that
same faithlessness. which broke opeu
Russia for Germany and took Russia
on the firing line for US; that same
treachery which broke down the first
ltalian army ut the ~Isonzo; that same
German treacherous diplomacy which
was undertaken ut Washington; that
same treachery Of the German guest
at the American table which has
marked that faithless nation all these
years-that same unvarylng principle.
In the form Of n practical German
propaganda for the German cause.
exists all through the United States
today. The country Is h~oneycombed
with German spies. 1t is time wasted
to have too much sympathy with them
or those who back them and inspire
them.
Washington sent 1900 alien enemies
out Of the city limits not long ago..
In a Chicago court recently there were
more than 100 alien enemies on trial
at one time. These ore men whom we
may call bolsheviki in America. They
are doing all they to undermine
this government. They are doing all
they can here. there. and everywhere,
In countless ways, In countless places.
to kin the American enthusiasm for
this war and the American confidence
in u ability to win this war.
Those Worse Than Traitors
This propaganda Is an enormous
thing and a tremendously dangerous
thing. Any man who %countenances It,
any man who apologies for these trail
tors, is himself worse than a traitor
to his country today. He sides with
the murderers Of innocent women and
children. He indorses the German SUBJ
marine, the German bombing Of nom
combatant towns. the use Of liquid fire
In war. and gas in war-all those
abominable contriyances Of cownrdice
with which Germany has attempted to
impose her will upon the civilized por-
ton Of the world.
We Americans don't know how
many American troops there are on
French soil today 49, but Germany
knows; be sure Of that. There Is no
great move made here, nor any small
move Of military preparation, which
Germany does not know as well as we
do, or better. There has never been
in the history of the world SO com.
plete a campaign Of peridy and
treachery and undetermined faithless.
ness as Germany has shown to the
civilized world in this war. Why be
patient with 1t? Why not root 1t out
Why not call a spade a spade, a spy
a spy? And why not give to the spies
the things that we owe to spies?
have heard the mayor Of a very
big city-and a mayor for more than
one term, too-sit laughing at table
and say. just before n Of his cam
paigns, "What do I care for the Amer
lean vote? To - with It'll ! want
, !, the German vote!"
Well, he got the German vote. He
was elected. He could be elected again
by the German vote. But I fancy that
by and by It is going to be the ques.
ton Of a good many Of our Knownoth.
ings. What Is the American vote7
Does that really need to include the
spy vote?
Deprsdatlons Of splea
America Is being stabbed in the
back all the time by traitors and by
spies. It is not only the sort Of rough
neck spy who blows up q munition
plant or wrecks a railroad train. II IL
the shrewder and more Machiavellian
spy who attempts to wreak yet greater
ruin on us by undermining our own
national spirit. by instIlling a feeling
Of distrust Of the government. Of the
administration, Of our army, Of our
country, Of our aims and purposes In
this war.
Our aims and purposes In this war
are ratified by practically the entire
world outside of the central powers Of
Europe. II we had no other reason
In the world to 20 to war except the
sinking Of the Lusitnnia, that reason
alone were reason enough.
The horrors Of the German practices
In France and Belgium IRE 0 being
placed gtngerly before u American
readers. A few Of the writing men Of
/ .aa --..A.- t~-~ h~I ALc~n la-n a.