The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1918-07-31

breathe.
The pollution is SO terrible and the poison SO
deadly that unless this skunk is killed there will
be no living the earth.
Germany skunk of nations-all that has
been said of her is true
| Germany has, with contempt, broken the most
sacred treaties
| She has killed innocent women and children
upon the high seas.
| She has invented all manner of new, unusua.
and most extraordinary modes of torture
| She has broken all the rules and usages OF
civilized warfare.
! She has destroyed smaller nations just because
| it served her purpose so to do.
| She has broken all the laws Of God and man.
| She has been devil upon the earth.
All that has been said about Germany is true.
And at that the worst has not been told-the
worst is so terrible that civilized man shrlnks
from even mentioning it.
How long will the world be forced to endure
this poison discharging monster!
Well, probably not much longer.
America is coming to the rescue.
It NAV be that we are coming little late
but i. seems that any hardness on our part IS
being made up for by the speed and force with
which we are hitting the lne.'
War is crul-war is hell
But when there breaks loose poisonous rep
tile. beast that emits deadly gas, or skunk
tina. befouls the atmosphere so that life be-
comes impossible there is but one thing to do
kill the beast!
With all our heart we believe in peace
We believe in kindness, in charity, il love.
We believe that 20 knowingly i-1flict wrong on
cause pain 70 fellow mortal is a sin-a sin
against the rights of man and the laws of God
We believe, with the poet, that che who need
lesslv sets foot upon worm" is one whose
friendship may well be accepted with caution.
Yes, we think that we can qualify as a pa
cifist all right.
But stay!
That does not mean that we are going to fold
our hands and ask Almighty God to come down
off his throne and stay the hand of the brute
that is about to kill an innocent child before
our eyes!
We hope that we may have the presence of
mind to pray. But you can bet your bottom dol
lar that it will be prayer for assistance to
shoot stick, or stabe in the most effective, the
most deadly way.
IF brute enters our home and assaults our
family we are not going to stop and argue with
our conscience about the ethics of "non-resls-
tance"-Hell, no! We are going to get the
brute or die in the attempt
| If a hoard of savages descends upon the little
village that we love- and threatens the life of
our citizens, we shall want to be member OF
the home guard that goes out to meet them
and we are going to ask the God OF the weak
and the helpless and the innocent to help US to
do our damnest to shoot 20 kill
| Yes, we are pacifist
We believe in peace-wth all our heart we
believe in it. Yes, even to the extent of indors-
ing tina. we'll known, philosophic pun of the
Irishman: az am going to have peace if l have
to fight for it.
Your country is but your home enlarged.
. Your nation is but your family multiplied.
Germany, Gagged, bruised, bleeding, almost
| fair little sister in the family of n lions
was, four years ago, raped by brute named
dead was found the mutilated form OF our little
sister, Belgium.
The human family had allowed this brute,
Germany, to make his home in the house. He
had been treated by all of us like one OF US.
That he was the devil incarnate we dlo not
know until we came upon the outraged form OF
our little sister and learned that the deed was
the work of him whom we had befriended and al
lowed to grow in stature and strength upon the
food that we permitted him to help himself to
from off our own table.
| Like the tiger that tasted blood the beas-
went from outrage to outrage. Nothing was too
mean, nothing TOO low, nothing too dastardly
for him to engage in.
Strewn are the fields with the armies that ne
has slain, countless are the wives, mothers and
maidens that he has outraged, ruined are the
ho1v affairs with their precious relics from
, the ages past, wherever his foot has trod, sa
cred 20 him is neither time nor place, and be-
, meath the burden of his myriad victims moar
the mammoth caverns of the mighty deep.
Yes, we are pacifist, but please don't both
er us with any peace talk jus. now.
Our Only business now is to shoot and shoe
n to KILL
e It is terrible, but it has got to be DONE
The safety of homes, the lives of GU
loved ones, the honor of our country, the free