The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1918-04-12

shrunk IN value over 81, l,UOO,UUO,.
900 in the past year, without q
word Of complaint from great cor
porations. The selective service act
absolutely ignores al distinctions Of
wealth ore social position. The
objects of this war have no appeal
to wealth as such. When we have
won it there will be no indemni-
ties. no annexations, and no oppor-
tunities for predatory wealth to ex-
ploit q conquered people. The
Kaiser's plunderbund, who thought
that America would not be willing
to make whatever sacrifices were
necessary were fools; the scare box
Kaiserite who yaps Of this being
"a rich mans war and q poor
mans fight" is all that and more
his proper title is a short and ugly
word Of four letters. beginning with
| and ending with r.
We were drawn into this war by
the insolent disregard Of our neu-
tral rights, but from the first we
have seen that these outrageous acts
Of the German government were
but the manifestations Of its pri-
NAL principles. Prussianism and
Americanism are 50 fundamentally
antagonistic that when they
come into contact an explosion is
inevitable, and the world has grown
too small to hold them both.
There was no refuge from war but
in submission; and after q year of
war, as after ten years of war, II
need be, we are still unwilling to
submit to the domination of these
Prussian overlords. these pastmast-
ers of treachery, these greatest ex-
emplars since the days Of Attilla Of
organized and deliberate rapine
and frightfulness, these monstrous
managers of massed murder.
This is no time to talk Of peace.
The whole nation-nay, the whole
worlds awaiting breathlessly the
utterance Of our president today in
Baltimore. Not since the days of
Abraham Lincoln have such winged
words been as those of the address
es and state papers of President
Wilson, and with eager confidence
we expect him today to make the
reiterated declaration that we are
in the war to the last dollar and the
last drop of blood until the beast
is beaten down. A peace made to-
day would be German peace, and
we and onr allies will have none of
it. At the beginning of the war
the solemn engagement to observe
Belgium's neutrality was torn up
by Germany as scrap of paper:
the war shall not end until Ger
many's map of Mittel-Europe,
spread like a bloody and Shiny
blot overEurope, shall be torn up in
its turn. General Pershing said
truly, Germany can be beaten,
must be beaten, will be BEATEN -
this year or the next or the next.
This war must be fought to q
righteous finish. It will take. our
wealth, but Prussian victory will
take both our wealth and our liber-
ties. 1t will take an increasing
toll Of lives. but l say solemnly
and sincerey-it is better TO be
dead than to live in q world supine
beneath the heel of a victorious
German militarism.
was never proder of my coun-
try, prouder of South Dakota,
prouder of Grant county, than Lam
today. Last year we sent l6O boys
to the defense of the flag. This
year we will send 200 more if Uncle
Sam needs them, and next year 500
more. and if these are not enough
to cook the Kaiser's hash Grant
county will just "pick up and 60
herself. Today, on the plains Of
Picardy. our boys are staining
shoulder to shoulder with Tommy
Atkins aud Jean Jaques. the French
pojlu, and - with set teeth and
steady eye they view the advancing
waves of gray, unrohing like !
moving carpet toward their lines.
they reach in the good mother
tongue Of the u. s. A. the motto
Of the French at Verdon-.'Ihey
shall not pass. A the shed blood
o. the Savior Of mankind has for
ever aanctified tho ruddy current
Of the bruised grape, the blood Of
heroes has made acramental the coil
Of France; II is forever dedicated
70 liberty. They shall not pan. =
By the sodden misery Of enslayed
Belgium; by the shrieks Of rayish-
ed women and butchered cAildren
Of Louvain; BY the bubbling death
groans Of the drowned women and
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