The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1918-02-07

Bardell farm a miles north
west Of Scotland.
L. j. BARDELL
Justly be termed, by my grace, the
acting ruler of all the Germans in
the United States
+ Many other statements were made
showing Germapy's attitude toward
America.
Won Hartman, Won Moltke, and
the Kaiser, all encouraged brutality.
The forms for fines and punishment
were printed in French and prepared
several years ago. Won Kissing aaid
the innocent must suffer with the
guilty. Human lives cannot be spar
ed. and if isolated houses, fiourishing
villages, and even entire towns are
annihilated, it must not excite ill
timed sentimentality Nothing and no
one. must be spared. - The spirit of
these ideas has been carried out to
the letter. so that there is destruction
everywhere that the German forces
have gone.
The Germans whilst having a won.
derful military machine, miscalculated
when they issued to their soldiers the
little notebooks in which their daily
1pinro vuoro fo ho raonrdo0
Here the speaker read from the di-
aries of several of the German SOL
diers. giving even the regiment to
which they belonged. 1t was report
ed in one instance that the Russian
soldiers were marched into swamps,
and in spite of their cries for mercy,
they were shot down, and one soldier
reports that several officers and many
soldiers of the German army went in
sane as they listened to their cries
and saw death being dealt out to
them.
Quoting DR.. Perry, who went to
France and Belgium to Investigate
personally the reports of the atrocities.
Rev. Langdon stated that it has been
conclusively pro ven that outrages I'M
nameable were committed in thous-
ands of cases. Hundreds of infants
had been seized and their brains bea-
ten out by German soldiers before the
eyes of their fathers and mothers. 1t
may be that the grave of soldier
may only be known by the little
white cross, but in MANY cases only
a cross stood to mark the place where
once villages and towns stood. Won
Hertling said Germany was fighting
to save Europe from the United States.
Saving Europe from America! How?
What say here now are not idle
statements, they can every one of
them be proved. The power that
would save Europe from America put
the women and children of France and
Belgium ahead of the advance guard
as shields. 1t was the power that
poisons wells, that torpedoes hospital
ships and shells Red Cross hospitals.
Save Europe from America? They
carried away girls for worse than
bondage. We must realize all these
things, because if such thing should
happen that England should fall, men
of Iowa. you will die and it is better
that we all should die than to permit
any such thing as this to come to our
fair state and our country. One man
is responsible for all of this. He
hasn't suffered. He has brought
war Of or eed and plurder upon US
and the responsibility rests upon the
military powers of Germany Aus
tria and Germany have conspired for
years against the peace of nations
and Turkey is their partner. If l
had my way we would declare war on
Turkey, the most hellish of the out
fit. -
This is no time for the teaching of
the German language, 1t may be ex
cusable to have churches in which the
German language is used, as many
came to this country who are unable
to learn new language. But after
the first generation. the American
language should be adopted. Let's
boost for the American language, ev-
erybody likes it, and everybody will
like it better when they become boost
ers. = Here Rev. Langdon deecr bed
an immigrant coming to this count y.
and in conversation with Uncls Sam
he is told that if he will stand for
fhia country and nledue hi. allarianca