The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1918-07-11

3I,Gertrude Anterior. The
woNId not be
; wrrth mentioning IL it were no for the
: reflection that the American race
wnmships Success. For genelatf0ns IT.
\ NrsS toadied to wealth, no matter bow
\ MLpotten, and every maj who achieves
yvwer, by whatever devious ways, is.
Scretly envied and openly courted.
m = majority of Americans are easy
na,, e, Indifferent, ~unideaiistic and not
Han, clever. They are also intensely
al and only ask to be let alone.
It - possible that the mass, there
fora xs It has q real awakening
worid ~, vide. the Germans, In the
rome Pr ~ ~ 'ctory. We're adroi'
remote eve. = OF '. d lnrwe amour
enough to le Me them 4sa,a SHOW,
of individual Berty, shru. Nov ,mns
'lcrs and say: sWell, guess - n,t
he right or I'll ey couldn't w. .n,e
Nothing to do b, u come round. IL.
change anyhow"
Abdominal tie Prospect
This is an abon EnM,lc prospect. but
1t is to be faced. Dur world, over here.
in the event Of German domination
would be divided into two classes
mean converts anx- proud Irreconcila-
bles-for even In tht; new and COM
poslte country there are enough men /
and women with higl, ideals and in
violate souls to lespise IL race with. |
out a glenn Of spirituality, of sports.
manship, of decency and good man.
hers, In whom cunning has taken the |
place of intelligence, and that wins
only by driving its millions of cowedhI
subordinates to mathematical slaugh- |
ter. One cannot even respect such a
race enough to hate it. 1t is as ifsone |
had been attacked by a herd of wild
ina from the jungle. Those that |
escape being devoured may at least
withdraw as far as possible, not re-
mould themselves into a scmblance of
wild beasts with a lust for human flesh. |
"cock-Sureness a Bluff"
| have not the ~faintest notion that
the Germans will win. All the proba-
bilities are against it. Moreover, IL
one projects his mind forward 1t is in
conceivable that history can read that
a The general conditions of the
world are not villa, they were In the
Fifth Century-that Is to say, unless
me idea grew insidiously that 1T was
lie destiny of the Germanic race to |
win and rule,the earth in other words.
tiiat 1t was the destiny of Earth to re-
vert to the Fifth Century and begin
over again. 1t ID incredible that such
4 thought should take possession of
any educated mans mind, but the
trouble is that our famous fand often
sive) cock-sufeness is only q bluff. AS
a race we are not really sure of our.
selves. We prove that by hlindly &C.
cepting the Nurapsan-made reputation
and hesltating to create and come out
boldly for our own Those of us that
think and have the power to visualize
the future must be OF the alert sNayH
moment to c9Nnteraet this tendency
Of an uncrNstaliized race to accept the
success Of might as a matter of course
and unconsciously adapt itself to the
inevitable" We must he knawp as
the IRRECQNeILABLHs, and if we
take q definite nncomnremising stand
there will be only one reau,t-the men
OF real courage who might otherwise
look upon a new future philosophical
ly' will not only wake up under the
direct example, bnt will be ashamed
to be reehoned as mere numbers in
the great mass of sheep or convicts.
There is no such insldious lowering Of
mornle threatened as this, because it
is not of German, Pacifst or Socialist
origin. 1t is born Of common human
weakness and national snobbery. The
result will be a vast mass of inertia.
and only a party Of sleepless Irrecon-
cilables will combat and diminish it,
X Xxx X X X X Xxx
r