The Washington times., 1918-05-26
The Worlds Worst Pests
The Brown Rat from Asia and the Horde from Prussia


The Brown Rat from Asia and the Horde from Prussia
There are as many kinds of rats and mice in the world
there Of human beings Every country mas It's pecu
liar tribes of humans and Of rodents.
The rat stands for destruction for the carrying OF hor
rible physical disease, bubOnic plague and others
Most dreadful of all the rats most ferocious savage
driving out and destroying Others is the brown raWth
wide jaws evil look appetite unlimited, and appalling fer
tHty.
As the Huns under Attia the great Khan and others
from Asia Europe the brown rat most fearful
Of its kind came out of Asis-n tbs eighteenth century
It spreads calamity destruction, and disease every
where.
And one Of the great problems Of modern civilization
and science is to check this demon Of waste the horrible
crawling hideous, Vermn-laden curse from Asia
The most shocking characteristic of the brown rat that
which presents the serious problem in the task of rat de-
EtruCtiOn, is the rats amazing fertility.
-Four or five times year the young rats are born
eight and ten at time blind hairless and in six months
THEY are breeding the rate of thirty forty year
f0r each female
Nature seems in creating this brown Asiatc curse to
have concentrated all her energies upon intensive desuc
tive, repulsive productivity.
Read the story of the brown rat in any scientific book
and you are the power with which it goes through
as the result Of its intense will to victory
The black rat that possessed India and nearly all
rat.
You are interested to read that the word prob
ably first adopted by the Teuns and from the root
rnd-to scratch
Dreadful repulsfve scratching claws; hideous low
forehead short brutal ears quick fuve swiftly moving
eyes, close together
Nothing more repulsive or horrible could be imagined
than horde of these creatures advancing from Asia toward
the West; nothing shocking, EXCEPT that other
horde of destruction murderous mob bearing the dis
ease germ autOaCy that pouring into France and Bel
GUM infinitely destructive than all the brown rats of
Asia
The sight of such horde fourlegged twolegged,
is hdeous but not necessarily hopeless discouragng
For while the brown rat penetrates everywhere carries
disease everywhere destroys everywhere yet BE CAN BE
CONQUERED AND HELD IN CHECK
And whenever you plan a checking Of the rat horde
from Asia you plan with the line of hope for the
conquest and checking of the other horde from Prussia
Intelligence fortunately is able to conquer and hold in
check both pestbrown rat from Asia and HOhenzouern
autocrat from cheerless Prussia
The rat may scratch with its claws but concrete foun
dation will keep it out.
The Hohenzollern may pound with his cannon but the
intelligence and devotion Of higher that refuse to be
conquered by rats or by Prussans will keep the HOhen
zoIes turn back the moral germs of disease that they
carry and keep the world for HUMAN BEINGS, allowing
it TO fall not the claws of the rats and NOT into the
hands of the Prussians-
There have always been rats IN the world brown
They have done harm have carried their diseases and their
destruction with them. But they have absolutely
ruled.
And there have always been savages of the Hohen-
Solen Prussian type wanting what not their own
carrying with them the germs Of the disease of autocracy
of bloodthsty hatred and stupid brown ignorance
They had their day under Frederick and their beating
under Napoleon they have played the bully with weak
SLAMS they have teorzed feeble Roumanans they have
butchered the courageous Belgians.
They have had happy, murderOus days. travelling
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