The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1918-06-29
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Veteran Writes Prize Editorial

Colonel Henry Watterson, the vet
eran editor of the Louisville Courier
Journal, who is recognized rs one of
the most trenchant writers of the day,
entered into competition for the Joseph
Pulitzer prize Of 1900 for the best
editorial of the year upon n current,
live topic.
Colonel WAttersOn wrote upon the
war and questions incident thereto.
The America. ism that crept out in
that editorial stands out like the
Statue Of Liberty to a weary traveller
come back home after being In a for
eign land. Masterfully does he pre-
sent the situation of America before
and after the crisis OF entering into
the war with the central powers, and
bravely does he declare that there
shall be no compromise, no peace un-
til American troops have marched to
Berlin, and the rule OF the kaiser and
his band OF militarists have been
wrested root and branch from the po-
sition where they can make warupon
world engaged In peaceful pursuits
simply because they would rule the
world.
Read this extract from the editorial,
which makes you feel ashamed in the
first two paragraphs, but in the last
one makes you boil with patriotism
and love for right and Justice:
u tL. al M I,al hi In % haI
the war signal from the very heart OF
Europe. Across the Atlantic its re-
verberations rolled to find us divided.
neutral and unprepared. For fifteen
disguised as citizens have been march
ing and countermarching. They grew
at length bold enough to rally to the
support Of n pan German scheme OF
conquest and pro- German propa-
gxnda of .kultur,' dasing Its etfront-
cry in the German American vote,
which began its agitation by threat
ening us with civil war il we dared to
go to war with Germany. There fol-
lowed the assassin sea monsters and
the airsi,ip campaign Of murder.'---
"All the time we looked on with
either simpering idiocy or dazed apa-
thy. Serbia? 1t was no affair OF ours!
Belgium? Why should we worry?
Foodstuffs? the mercenary, the poor
of heart, the mean OF spirit, the soar
ing = warstuffs soaring - everybody
making money bleak and barren of
soul. could still plead the hypocricy
of uplift and chOrtle: Il did not raise
my boy to be soldier Even the
Lusitania did not awaken us to "a
sense OF danger and arouse us from
the stupefaction of ignorant and igno-
BILE complacency.
First Of all, on bended knee, we
should pray God to forgive us. Then
erect, as men, Christian men, soldier
men, to the flag and the fray-where-
ever they lead us-over the ocean,
thru France to Flanders, across the
low countries of Koln, Bohn and
Koblenz-tumbling the fortress of
Ehrenbreitstein into the Rhine AS we
pass, damming the mouth of the Mo-
ellie with the ruin we make OF it
then on, on to Berlin. the Black Horse
cavalry sweeping the Wilhelmstrasse
like lava down the mountainside, the
junker and the saber-rattler flying
before us, the tunes of Dixie and
Yankee Doodle, the cry being Hail
the French repubIic-Hail the repub-
lie of Russia Welcome the Common
wealth of the Vaterland-No peace
with the kaiser-No parley with au-
tocracy, absolutism and the divine
right Of kings; to hell with the Haps-
burg and the Hohenzollern'."