Willmar tribune., 1918-04-10

, and let the building burn because they
started it. If my house was afire and
g. h asked you to assist me to put out the
fhe and you would sit down and want
originated. believe l wouldn't feel
Equne neutral toward you. l am afraid
Sif you would not assist me in putting
ment mel that " would as Hardly W be 9ea eonsidered
gentlemanly. l am not going to argue
with you who started the war but l
There is is Street ght goine o1 vs.
fight in the street," Listen. one Of the
on about him. and the biggest weapon
he has is little penknife that is too
dull to sharpen his lead pencil, and he
and rest. and the other fellow, when
you search his clothes, you will find
TN FELLOW X49a Es BRASS 1Huo-
pair of brass knuckles, a revolver in his
hip pocket and a great Big jack.knif!es in
didn't know how those two fellows got
into fight, l would rather think that
the fellow that was prepared with the
the little fellow who didn't have weap-
on. would start the fight. Now it is
very evident. ladies and gentlemen, that
war: It IS very evident that France
was not prepared for this war and we we
fort for this n war. III If we we had been cen prepared.
a whole year would not have elapsed be-
fore we were head over heals in it, and
into it before long: we were not pre-
pared, that we must admit Who was
prepared? If any country, in the history
country CO % was Germany: This is Very evi-
dent. don't see how anybody can deny
it. Why years ago, years before the
the towns in Belgium, to some towns
along the French border, came from
Germany, and said to the land men in
manufacturing plant here. I want to
hIy a piece of land, want to begin
excavatihg and lay the foundation for a
pries aies et0 ana the land and W. Was % sold to him him
Excavations were started. concrete foun-
dations were laid and when the founda-
rupt. he had not more money. He said,
Gentlemen. I will have to slow up on
the building project: I will have to go
capital and will then return and con
tinue the building of this factory and
until then it will have to remain All as 1t u Is IS
thought that fellow went bankrupt and
said, He never could get any more cap
1tal but we got good money for the piece
Of iand sc but 10 Pa and behold' when TT the
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1oUMDAT1oN FOR GERMANY GUMS
their Bertha guns and AZ, centimete,
guns and wonderfully enough, those con
crete foundations just fitted the seige
guns that they wanted to plant outside
those cities. And still Germany said
We didn't want the war" It looks like
they didn't want the war. What were
those foundations laid for? Not fac
i tories, except factories of death. Tha
! is the factories they were laid for. Now
the country that was prepared was thu
}country that wanted the war and nov
that we are in it, ladies and gentlemen
J ] say Germany must be defeated. Why
+ In the first place because German,
stands. dishonored before, the world
Why does she? Because she has brok
en- her faith. I admit that l detect
lie, I don't want to preach hate, no
, even to the Germans. but l admit that
i7fEpte lies. can never respect a liza
and when Germany said that her prom
tse to stand by the neutrality of Bel
gium. when Won Bethman Holweg an
swered the British Ambassador when h
came to see him and said that if Ger
many violates Belgium's neutrality, sh
will have England to fight and Vo1
Bethman Holweg said, Surely Englan'