The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-16
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enemy die of hunger than to let single
German soldier suffer- ca "All prison,
ers are TO be put TO DEATH ordered
General Stenger, in Belgium (S) Writes
a Bavarian private: During the tat-
tie of Budonwiller | did away with four
women and seven young girls in five
minutes. The captain had told me to
shoot these French sows, but l pre-
ferred TO run my bayonet through
through them" (0
This is the concrete result of what
the Germans call The Religion of
Valor" and The Gospel of Hate" Says
one of their spokesmen: Must kultdr
build its cathedras on hills of corpses,
seas of tears and the death rattle Of
the vanquished? Yes, it must" uO)
If Germany wins the war the United
States will either be paying tribute TO
the kaiser or German soldiers will be
bayonettng American girls and women
in Jersey City 'ather than take the
trouble to shoot them.
If Germany wins, all our ideals OF
truth, Justice ana humanity we
call Christian-will be trodden down
into bloody mire under the iron neel or
the kaiser's armies and the coming
generation will be taught that there is
no God but the merciless God o. Battle
who speaks through Germany's treach.
erous tongue and by her brutal sword
uJ Mann in the "Neue RundscEau,r
November, 1914.
~ "Des Kulturideal under der Krieg,"
PIP. lib, 1892, Gl, 1O5, 1870.
81 Works Of Frederick II, Berlin Ed
lS4S.
a. Speech from the throne, April ",
1S47.
(0 Proclamation Of the Army Of the
East, 1914.
t6l The kaiser's speech to the Chinese
ENpeditionary force. July 27. 1900.
% General Won der GOltz, "Thc Ten
Iron Commandments of the German
Soldiers"
81 orders Of the Day, Aug. &c, 1915.
9) Johann Wenger, Peronne, March l6,
1915.
.QO Walter Bloem in the "Koelnische
Hcitung," Feb. 10, 1915.
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Maryland; who, in this new country,
sought to break away more completely
from refining influences" and social
restrictions; who crossed the Cumber.
land Mountains with Boone and served
apprenticeship to adventure in the sec.
ton which came to be known as Ken
tucky; who migrated beyond the Ohio
and the Mississippi, spreading over
part of Ohio and Indiana on the way,
and, later, all over Missouri who pc.
came the border ruhians" of the sos;
who filled the ranks of QuantrilTs and
Andersons guerilla bands; from whom
sprang the James and the Younger
boys; who drove the stages, the prai-
rie schooners, and the freightcrs, and
operated the pony express across the
plains before a rail was laid between
Omaha and San Francisco who had
taken the Southern side in the Civil
War; and who, as full of reckless daring
as their forebears who had penetrated
the wilderness with Boone, hunted with
Kit Carson, and traded in furs with
Sierras, at te first news Of the strike Of
the yellow metal at General Suffers
sawmill, on the south fork Of the Amer.
lean river.
The great majority of the miners in
the Sierras were Missourians, that is
were of races and types akin to those
whose development had been arrested
by the walls of the Kentucky and Ten
nessee mountains. These were the peo-
pie who blazed the way, hewed down
the forests, fought the floods broke the
soil, opened the West for the settler.
and made work easy for the husband
man and the schoolmaster. Mingled
with the pioneers were, of course, rep
resentatives of all the other classes and
types, but dominant was the Missourian,
and it was the transplanted Missourlan
the reckless, superstitious, high-temp-
cred, mastorful, childlike Missourian,
! upon whom Bret Harte liked to dwell.
Taking retaining, and giving impress
sions as correctly as Dickens, digesting
his material as thoroughly as Kipling
was to do later on, Bret Harte had pre-
served in literature type known to be
genuine. not only by those who min
gled with the miners of 40, but by those
/ who, through all the years since. have
/ been familiar with the class from which
those miners sprang. The type per.
sists. There are today, parts of the
West where it is as familiar as in the
days when Majors, Wells, Fargo, Wad-
dell and Ben Halliday employed its rep
resentatives to keep the trails open
across the mountains and deserts. Bret
! Hartes Caliiornians were as true to
this type as was sam Houston. Davy
Crockett, Kit Carson Buffalo Bnl. Wnd
| Bill or Captain Jack Crawford.