The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1918-09-11
WORLD CRIES OUT FOR VEN
GEANCE.
BY Jno. H. D. Gray.

The speaker who starts off with a
numerous story has not caught the true
feeling aof the hour. This is no time
4 for Jokes. It is, a time for serious
{ thought and for action. The heart re-
fuses to smile when we think of the
4 rivers turned red with the blood of tho
Y flower Of our youth; our boys who
Joined the cOlOrs and went forth to
win the war for freedom, by fighting
the destroyers of happy homes, con-
i vents and hospitals and the beasts
who have murdered women and chill
dren, with the consent and approval
OF that prince of devils, the murderer
Of Pottsdam.
Like many of you, I have son "ov-
Il Ell there, and it is not strange that
q feel bitter toward the beast he is fight
4 ing. While regret that it was nee
sary for your son, and my son, to go
4 to- heIls furnace "over there" never
d theless, l thank God for giving me a
II man when he gave me son. When
i this war shall be over, as Roosevelt
( has said: "AH will be men who are
not women" Let US proudly remem-
sSsber that our boys are not simply fight
I ing for themselves, or for us, but for
every land and every race. They are
( fighting to set the world free from the
invaders and despoilers and to cut
Y out the cancer of autocracy.
There has been marked change in
\ the temper Of our people toward Ger
I many and its government, and our
ssbeloved president voices the true SEN
timent of the people when he asks for
ssa decisive military victory. We want
mo peace until Germany has been
\ whipped sthreadbare. America is arous-
K ed at last. Our peace loving and for
I giving natures have been awakened
to the real condition abroad, and we
! long to avenge the wrongs the huns
have committed
1t would be nothing short of a crime
against mankind to not bleed Germany
! for the damnable outrages she has
B committed. When the blood of our
own boys had been shed, because of
the skaiser's thirst for power-which
alone brought on this War-things be-
gan TO look different to my country
men. When our boys sent word back
home, confirming the stories of rape
and pillage, committed by these hell
fendS, mercy became blind. Be mer-
cifdi to the merciful, but show no mer-
cy where none has been shown, should
be our smOtto. The civilized world
cries out for vengeance. If Germany
lis not made to suffer many will lose
faith in God, and it will be the great
est victory of wrong over right that
the world has ever known. Our boys
will have died in vain If Germany is
not made to pay, pound for pound, for
the wrongs she has committed. The
little children of bleeding Belgium
will point their tingerless hands of
-sccrn at us, if we do not make the
penalty ft the crime. The little ones
who lie mangled in the oceans depths,
under the hull of the, Lusitania, will
haunt our sleeping hours, if they are
not avenged. Wrongs must be right |
ed, and the means used must be so |
firm that 1t will be impossible for such |
a catastrophe as the present war to
oyerwhelm us again. Our allied
armies must eat 'em up, clean down
to the Rhine. -.
ss3I never could understand this great
love for the foreign country where our
fathers cradle was rocked. Ny par