The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-04-19
"FOR GODS SAKE, HURRY UP"

If a brute had attacked your wife
and murdered some Of your children,
would you, while his hands were
dripping red with the blood of your
loved ones, talk peace to him?
If such a fiend wanted to discuss
peace terms with you while still at
lacking your daughter, would you
fight with all the power that God
gave you, to throttle the beast, or
would you parley back and forth and
suggest that the matter might be set
tied on some basis which left the
rapist and murderer UNPUBLISHED and
free to take all of the loot of which
he could rob your house?
On the battlefields of Europe our
loved ones are being murdered-for
remember Germany's war is a definite
war of murder and outrage-and ev-
cry electric spark which sweeps
across the Atlantic from the trenches
OF France will bring an ever-increas-
ing list of these murdered men who
have gone out to save us from the at
tack of the murderer and the rapist
Our allies, who for nearly four
years, with superb heroism and at n
fearful cost of men and money have
stood between us and hell, are calling
to us, For Gods sake, hurry up" ere
il be everlastingly too late.
But we talk about peace, when
there is no possible peace except tae
peace of death to us or death to Ger
many's fearful hell-gotten power.
Some men and women do not yet
comprehend the meaning of this war,
some are pro-Germans, some are Ger
man spies, some are towards, who
disgrace the mothers who gave them
birth, and some are simply plain ev-
eryday fools who should go out and
root and live with the swine of the
field until the appointed time to be
killed for the good of mankind.
Peace! There can be no peace be-
) tween Heaven and He'll, between God
and Satan!
Peace with the unrepentant, un'
, hung, rapists and murderers!
Peace with the vilest criminals wht
ever blackened the records of man.
, history!
Peace with the outrager Of you
, wife and daughter as you look on!
, Peace with the cold-blooded butch
ers who murder your beloved son an
the sons of millions and millions @
others!
Is there anything on earth SO cray
en-, so bereft of soul that it woul
claim to be man and yet be willin
to parley with these accused mul
~ derers and worse, led by civilian
the accursed?"
as life so dear or peace so sweet
that we are willing to permit an
: word of peace to be uttered until "
. have throttled the demon and fougl
:" him to a finish? And then, when
cries for mercy, let there be no nero
except such as he gave to Belgiu
lie and France, no mercy except mert
a to all civilization for all the centuri'
We to come, expressed through the ga
ty lows as these foul blots on mankin
I'd the kaiser and his associates, pay Il
re just penalty Of their unspeakab
IN sins.
re Then and not until then should v
III have one word more to say to &c
ne mans or to Germany. Now our s
n, preme duty is to fight, fight to Xxi
to kill until these brutes realize that
as mightier power than theirs has be,
at sent by God to do His work in the
of utter destruction.
ut They are numbering our loved ont
C. Every day brings the toll of death a.
+! every day for months and perhaps (
years we must suffer the awful ago
les which our allies have endured a
or there is no power to lessen this Il
TX of our innocent loved ones, except
or kill and kill and keep on killing t
murderers who, like wild beasts, a
OF seeking to destroy the world.
lin This is our task. Let us forget
es. else, let us make sure that no VIC
On, or thought of peace shall be utter
a in this land; let us determine to c.
es, ate the mightiest fighting machine I
ur- err built by man and drive it with
of the power of one hundred MILL
re- freemen who seek to save ourselV
m and the world from the destruction
of Hells most active workers.-MaI
facturer's Record.