Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1918-04-12
MRS. DuBoisE SPEAKS

Mrs. FRED Il. DuBOlSe, VINO Is speak
ing for the National Department of
Agriculture and Food Administration
spoke in Shoshone last night on war
and production. The Baush opera
house was crowded and Mrs. DuBoise
held the audience spell bound. During
the day Mrs. DuBoise had spoken to
large audiences at Dietrich, Richfeld
Marley and Besslin and left here this
morning for a toer Of the southeastern
counties.
She said in part tonight.
There is no such word in the die
tionary as German American. There
is no place in the United States for
German American. Either the man is
American or German and I want to
say right now that if he is German it
is time for him TO go home, If he loves
the Fat1erland better than he does the
land of his adoption which has given
him his freedom and all that he pos
sesses of this worlds goods. 1t is now
time for him to take passage because
the Kaiser is going to need him on the
other side of the Rhine jujst as soon as
the great American army, the flower of
this nation, gets over there. For a big
engagement is due to be pulled off soon
that will forever determine whether
autocracy or democracy is going to win
Whether people will be slaves or free.
In speaking of the recent trouble
Shoshone had with one of the county
teachers, Mrs. DuBoise said: I have
spoken in nearly every district in Lin
coin county and I want to say to you
citizens here in Shoshone you had no
right to turn loose in the state any man
or woman who has been teaching or
preaching disloyalty to sthe flag and
for what it stands to little children.
I do not believe in mob rule. do not
believe in killing a man without trial,
but believe in putting away any
enemy of your children out Of the way
just as you would put a rattler out Of
the way. You have no right to turn
loose on this nation such a man with
out branding him in such way that
the whole world would know the harm
the man has done. You have asked my
remedy and I say once more. as I have
said hundred times in this state that
I would neither intern or kill such
person. But I would give them back |
the s25 they had when they landed |
here. I would coniscate all their pro-
perty they had gained in this country |
I would then place them on ship board |
and turn them over to the country they !
love best-first branding them in such |
a way that they could never return to
our ports again. Ladies and Gef tie |
men I believe we would never have to |
send but one such out. l would like
to see it tried out by the government. |
The time is ripe now when we must
make every foreigner and German SYM
pathizer understand the import of our
flag. They must know that the red
means the blood that was shed by our
at Bunker Hill and Gettys-
burg. We must teach them the mean
ing of the blood atonement. They must
know that the white bars stand for
purity of purpose and of life. That no
one can live under this flag who win
tear young girls from their mothers
and force them into slavery worse than
ieath. They must know that they can
not cut off the hands of little children
and cause other like atrocities. This
white stands for purity and cleanli-
less of soul and body. Then we must
point to the blue field in that flag
With its forty eight stars. meaning a
United country. stands for loyalty,
oyalty and truth that We who would
'ecome citizens of this country must ,
low pledge your allegiance to this |
lag and for the Nation for which it :
tands. One nation, undivisible and
With equal justice and liberty for all. I