The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1918-04-02
FOR GODS SAKE, HURRY UP"
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If brute had attacked your wife |
and murdered some of your children, |
would you, while his hands were |
dripping red with the blood of your
loved ones, talk peace with him?
If such a fend wanted to discuss |
peace terms with you while still at
lacking your daughters, would you
fight, with all the power that God |
gave you, to throttle the beast, or
would you parley back and forth and |
suggest that the matter might be
settled on some basis which left the |
rapist and murderer unpublished and
free to take all the loot of which he
could rob your house?
On the battleields of Europe oul
loved ones are being murdered-for
remember Germany's war is definite
war of murder and outrage-and ev.
cry electric spark which sweeps
across the Atlantic from the trenches
in France will bring an ever-increas-
ing list of these murdered men who
have gone out to save US from the at
tack of the murderer and the rapist.
Our Allies, who for nearly four
years, with superb heroism and at a
fearful cost of men and money, have
stood between us and hell, are calling
to US, "For Gods sake, hurry up" ere
it be everlastingly too late.
But we talk about peace, when there
is no possible peace except the peace
of death to us or death to Germany's
fearful, hell-begotten power.
Caroa man and Hunrnnp do not vat
comprehend the meaning of this war,
some are pro-Germans, some are
German spies, some are towards who |
disgrace the mothers who gave them
birth, and some are simply plain ev-
eryday fools who should go out and
root and live with the swine of the
field until the appointed time to be
killed for the good of mankind.
Peace! There can be no peace be-
tween heaven and hell, between God
and Satan!
Peace with the unrepentant, I'M
hung, rapists and murderers!
Peace with the vilest criminals who
ever blackened the records of mans
history!
Peace with the outrager of your
wife and daughter as you look on!
Peace with the cold-blooded butch
ers who murder your beloved son and
the sons of millions and millions of
othersi
Is there anything on earth so
craven, so bereft of soul that it would
claim to be man and yet be willing
to parley with these accursed murder
ers and worse, led by "William, the
accursed?"
is life so dear or peace so sweet
that we are willing to permit any
word of peace to be uttered until we
have throttled the demon and fought
him to a finish? And then, when he
cries for mercy, let there be no mercy
except such as he gave to Belgium
and France, no mercy except mercy
to all civilization for all the centur-
les to come, expressed through the
gallows as these foul blots on man.
kind, the kaiser and all his associates,
pay the just penalty for their I'M
speakable sins.
Then and not until then should we
have one word more to say to Ger
mans or to Germany. Now our su-
preme duty is to fight, fight to kill.
kill until these brutes realize that a
mightier power than theirs has been
sent by God to do His work in their
utter destruction.
They are numbering our loved ones.
Every day brings the toll of death
and every day for months and per-
haps for years we must suffer the
awful agonies which our Allies have
endured, and there is no power to |
lessen this toll of our innocent loved |
ones, except we kill and kill and keep
on killing the murderers who like
wild beasts are seeking to destroy the |
world
This is our task. Let us forget all |
else, let US make sure that no word |
or thought of peace shall be uttered |
In this land; let us determine to |
create the mightiest fighting machine
ever built by man and to drive it with |
all the power of one hundred million /
freemen who seek to save ourselves
and the world from the destruction of |
hell's most active workers.
If President Wilson and Secretary
McAdoo want to make the Liberty |
Loan go with rush, if they want to
quicken with superhuman power the
energies of this country, let them
call the nation to the struggle on this
definite basis and on the basis of
death to every German spy and life
Imprisonment to every pro-German
and say that not a word of peace
snail be uttered in America, not a
word of parleying, directly or in
directly, shall be held with any of
these red-handed murderers, then the
nation will leap forward to war and
to victory.