The Glenwood post., 1918-01-19

how to behave themselves when they
tasted freedom. That and the German
armies.''
1t is the very answer l expected. Tt
proves that you think about as deeply
as a mudwasp. Here is the truth of
the matter:
The same thing that whipped Russia
nearly whipped Italy-and may do It
yet. The same thing that whipped
Russia has blacked the eye of France
and England, and at this minute has
strong hold on the throat of America.
1t is German army, but not the Ger
man army you're thinking about. 1t
| is German army that works in tne
dark; that flatters you, and gives you
foamy beers, and smiles upon you, and
makes you think that your government
don't care anything tbout you. This
1t is that makes labor difficulties, and
| creates internal dissentions, and organ
ICES such things as the l. w. w. and
that aggregation that calls itself the
Peoples Council of America;' it
publishes such papers as Vierreck' IS
World; it digs up the old, old feeling
against England and burns enormous
amounts of food supplies, and causes
| explosions in ammunition factories,
and is so subtle in it's workings that
one can hardly recognize it. This is
the German army that we have to fear
now.
If there is anything that makes me
want to get my thumbs behind you-
eyeballs, sharphead, it is this: to hear
one of your ilk trying to resurrect the
rust-eaten hatchet that has lain buried
buried and forgotten, between America
and England for so long. Don't you
know that the King who sprung that
war upon us was himself Hun? And
don't you remember your history Tor
did you go to school) well enough to
know that that king had to send
red fighters ,hasiaas, ifsyou please,
over here to make war upon us, And
who were the Hessians4 4Esquimaux,
They were Huns, sharphead, Huns! So
shift the burden of your Revolutionary
war hatred to Germany.
>. You're against this war, sharphead,
simply because you're afraid to fight,
and for no other reason. Remember,
that: ga man who won't Law dowa
his life for his principle has no prin.
ciple. y The mere fact that you are
coward doesn't bar you forever. ri
Know man who was born a coward:
he has had to fight being a coword all
his life, and he still has to fight it
And yet, he'd give his life for what
he thinks is right; he expects to do it
before this war ends. For Gods sake
hit the sawdust trail to the altar of
manhood, sharphead, and hit it at
rapid gait!
One thing more about that army
that works in the dark. / have not
overestimated our danger from it, nor
am l merely expressing my opinion
concerning it. One of the greatest of
american diplomats, who was for years
stationed in Germany, and who is ac.
quainted with European intrigue from
garret to cellar, says this: "Our
greatest menace is not in the Teutonic
armies who bear rifles and machine
guns, poison gas and cannon, but in
| this underground German army And
the same, in substance, has been said
by hundreds of others of our best
American thinkers. That secret army
did thing, anyway, that the armed
armies of Germany couldn't do. It
licked Russia.
Now listen, Listen. This war ism t
going to stop under three years, and
you re sure going to have to wake up:
better do it now than later, and avoid
some stigma. Begin your new leaf by
thrashing the first man you hear saw
ing slanderous things of the govern.
ment or talking pro German talk. II
you can t thrash him, have him arrest.
ed. Keep your eye peeled for mem
Der of that army that works in secret,
don't care where you live, the
ehances are there's a member of it
within mile of you.
And when you find him-well, it's
up to you.-Hapsburg Liebe of The