Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-06-26

LANCASTER, WISCONSIN, w
were 5000 feet up and still climbing,
the Russian suddenly unbuckled the
belt that secured him in his seat, and
before the observer could even guess
what he was about to do, he stepped
over the side of the machine into
space.
Effort of Propagandists.
"That settled me. I said to myself
that l would rather be dead than to
be man without country. That's
what the poor fellow figured that he
was, and all other Russians. But I'm
not Russian, nor an International
list nor anything else but 100 per
cent American, and if they want me
to kill boches, I'm ready to begin any
minute"
! A man without country. Is there
any sentence in language, any combi-
nation Of words more dreadful? Yet
what the German propagandists,
which is the real name of many Of the
pacifsts and "internationalists, have
been trying to do to American youth
is to take their country away from
them. They nearly succeeded and the
proof Of that was the three years of
Indifference we loitered through be-
fore we woke up to the fact that this
war was ours, as we'll as England's,
Frances, and Belgium's.
We failed to realize that our coun-
try was in immediate peril because
we had almost forgotten that we had
country Are we all awake to the
fact yet? No, because if we WERE
there would not be left anywhere
from the Atlantic ocean to the Paci-
fic one single disloyal citizen, one sin
gle copperhead or so-called interna-
tionalist. No community would toll
crate them There would be no COR
ner where they could hide.
Socialists Begin To See Light.
The Socialist party leaders are be-
ginning to see a great light on the
subject Of loyalty to the government,
and are advocating new policy to-
ward the war. Their last platform
read like one Of Trotzky's messages
to the Petrograd Soviet, but now even
the late Socialist candidate for may
or of New York, who appealed for the
to talk about revising the platform.
i Unless it is revised, the Socialists
are going to lose their adherents at
present serving in France. The Jew
ish boys, who a little over a year
ago, were Grating from soap boxes
against the draft and against what
they called this profteer's war;" are
among the hottest young patriots and
keenest fighters in the American
army.
/ saw some of those boys at Camp
Upton last autumn. / saw one who
was sitting in corner blubbering
like a small child because he was be-
ing sent to Spartanburg. He was be-
ing transferred because he was con-
tinually begging to be allowed to go
home His captain told me that the
only thing to do with him was to send
him so far away from New York that
weekend visits home would be i'm
possible.
l saw other Jewish boys who were
unwilling soldiers then, but every one
l saw in France was enthusiastic
about his work, and as little of an in
ternationalist as the young man in
the aviation camp. The Jewish sol
der has made good. I was told so by
many officers, and I saw it for myself.
Merely LOathe the Germans.
Our soldiers have not been taught
to hate the Germans, and I don't
| think they do hate them. 1t is GER
tain the French people with. whom
our men associate do not But they
scorn and loathe the Hindenberg
| Of h Of
titude our men share. They regard
the Germans with horror rather than
hatred, and so must all Americans
who even family realize what is 60
| ing on every day and hour in the in
vaded districts Of Belgium and
France.
Our soldiers, many OF them, have
seen this terrible thing, and it has
made their blood run hot in their ar
! teries, it has set their jaws hard, and
caused their eyes to blaze. What the
cries they have ever had about inter
nationaIism have been dissipated by
the facts with which they are faced.
In Y M. G. A. canteen I came up
on a young corporal who had found
seat behind the piano, and he was sit
ting there weeping his heart out over
letter from home, letter telling
him how his brother had died when
the Germans torpedoed the Tuscania.
I sat down beside the soldier. In a
few minutes he was himself again,
outwardly at least, and he read me the
letter.
It was from his sister, because. she
said, mother was taking it very hard
and could not write yet. When the
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get on raft which was very much
overcrowded. There were SO many
men on the raft that the brothers
chum, who was in bad shape with a
broken leg, was pushed off into the
water.
Eager To Avenge Brother.
Brother was a good swimmer and
! he managed to rescue his chum and
to get him back on the raft. But
while he was in the water two more