The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1918-07-17

pangs of hunger many a night: 7 had
5 years old. And / have felt the Ger
man whip. And then one. day a letter
came from America, and that letter
so many horses, we have SO many cat.
tie, and we have SO many hogs and
chickens, more than we can count Lo
we had not so much as one chicken.
came and you came. And the table was
|us, everything We thought that we
would come over to get little more to
get little home of our own, but not
one of US ever dreamed that We would
receive all these blessings 1t has been
said that we, the German born citizen ms
you that God made this great country.
We did not bring these opportunities
We did not bring the privileges ana
eminent. They were all here, every one
of them. All we brought was two will
ing hands to work, and we did work.
And we are entitled to the fruits OF our
labor and the American people and the
government are glad that we are here.
They are glad that We are doing Well
We. fled from tyranny and oppression
mere we had no opportunity. There
were classes and many of them. we
stayed in our own class. We knew our
place and we knew there was no nope
Here every, door was opened and the
American people have helped us Ana
now it comes to this, that the friend
who has been our friend all these years
needs friend say tn fhat co fhe yeiy
builded is shaken, and it's very life is at
stake. The very. privileges ana oppoc-
tunties and freedom which we have en-.
ioyed are in peril, and that government
from which we fled is again reaching out
it's hand to take them away from US
Now, what shall we do? Shall we bite
turn evil for good? No. We are COINS
to be true to this country. Every dol,
lar that 1 have, this country has helped
me make and every dolias III hey ;nd ca re
win this war, with the very opportuni-
ties and privileges and freedom that we
have, / can go out tomorrow ana make
it again. / know that when every Ger
man-born citizen knows that this Is q
rightequs war; ne too. WI" vas olt Sent ~ from
heaven to bring from the earth the dear
est thing it could find, and it found g
flower, and it picked the fioWer' S and
and it plucked the SMILE. and then at
last. it found mothers love and took
it all to heaven. When it returned to
wilted and the smile of the child had
faded away, but the mothers love was
still the same-unchanged. Ana SO we
too when we came to Castle Garden,
America mothers love met us. We left
our fatherland and here we found moth
erland for tenderly and lovingly she
gave us all and everything and is still
unchanged.
We hear it said, Peace peace" when
there is no peace. We hear it said ey-
cry day, Il wish this war was over.
How can you make peace with a wild
beast? How can you make peace with
serpents? How can X9u hs treat W.th 1s
be tanned, And those serpents must have
their heads cut off You cannot make
peace with that bunch Russia wanted
IN by Germany She was not con-
quered alone by German steel, by Ger
man intrigue, German propaganda, not
by German might alone, put by eFermaL
gold. She was sold out by Lenine and
Trotzky, Germany promised them peace,
no anneXations and no indemnity, ana
when the Russian army was DESTROYED
Germany grasped all Russia and made
pistol And that poor, brave Rumania
was made to, sign a peace treaty at the
point of a dagger. This should pc
lesson to ths soeiaiists, ana rse nae' bnl
sheviki of America. / want to tell you
that the day will come when, we Will
make that government retrace her steps
and give back every foot Of that land.
ana we Will lcdI up tlc'oC PSeISS, - SS"N.S'
as a scrap of paper and we will write
another treaty based on justice and
righteousness, for all nations. Russia
e ed. That 1,in government knows that if they
accept our peate terms, that will mean
the endo f them. Their people will then
awaken. They will see what their gov
eminent has led them into, that they
are not fighting defensive war; that
we and the allies do not intend to crush
them They will know the truth and
they will say to their government, Away
with you" II we accept their peace
peace restore Belgium and France, all
| except Russia, it would mean that we
! lost this war, that our country be turned
into a military camp ana our little ones
horrible than the present war. the ger
I man people would still be slaves to their
government # they should come over
! foot of land and Of every dollar, and
we German born citizens would be
counted as traitors because we did not
| them and we would be slaves. DO you
suppose that they would be more merci-
fui to US than they have been to Bel
| GUM and northern France? That gov
eminent knows no mercy, no compass
sion and no consideration for humanity.
| / had my neck under the yoke or the
HohenzoIlerns and I cannot and | will
not put it under that yoke again. No,
| there is only one way and that is we
must fight it out now. 1t is for the
American people to win this war.
And now you ask me, What will
| it cost us?", and 1 want to tell you. NOT
| money alone will win this war. It Will
mean self denial, self-sacrifice, toll and
| struggle. If you want to pay in install
sments a little next month and little
l. next year, it will mean so many more
| boys and so much more suffering. But,
| if you are willing today to make every
| sa crifice, then it will take so many less
boys, so much less suffering. II you
| grudgingly, unwillingly give,-if you say
| the government wants my boy, II you
| say, 1.-THE government wants my money!,
l want to tell you that would lose this
war. If you say to your boy, go, my
hoy, this is the most righteous cause that
was ever fought for" and bid him god
speed, and tell your government Here
is my, money, every dollar OF It, II you
need it," and then you say, I will stand
behind the soldiers and Will work FOR
them and l will fight for them, and !
will live for them, and I will work night
and day for them if need be, and l Will
maze every sacrifice" that and that
alone will win this war 1t has been
said that if we would not make one
dollar, during this war, we would do
well, but l want to tell you that II we
Hose every dollar that we have and WIN
this war, we are rich. We have only
one business now, and that business is
winning the war. And any man VINO mas
it in his heart today to make money out
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