Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1918-03-06
DR.. LINCOLN CAV j!
ELOQUENT ADDRESS
Urges Patriotism and Food COnserya
tion.-Graphic Description of
Devastated France.

the allied countries. spoke to Il packed
audience at the Strand Theatre last
Thursday afternoon. DR.. Lincoln is a
OF Jamestown. New York He is an
eloquent speaker and for about two
hours he held the audience spell bound
by his vivid description of the terrible
conditions existing in the war ravaged
countries
He told about the trip across and how
anxious and watchful passengers and
crew became upon entering the sub
marine danger zone. Everybody dOnned
life preservers and one of the pathetic
sights he witnessed was a few months
old baby rugged out with a life pre-
server around the waist. Glad We're
they when at last they set foot on solid
ground.
Or. Lincoln and party travelled over
1860 miles by automobile over the de-
wasted area in France and saw hum
dre,lS of villages and cities in ruins.
Orchards and forests are cut down and
the fields are SO torn and pitted with
and barbed wire entanglements that an
enormous amount of labor will be re-
CURED to put them in shape for cult
walton again. Practically the whole
TOP soil is shot away. Often the de-
Struction has been wantOn and ruthless.
It was surprising how the French
:, people bore all their hardship and
Suffering almost without complaint
1t is all for France" they say.
The food situation is indeed very SER
iouS and all eyes are turned to the
United States as the source OF
food to avert starvation. In all
his travels in France and Eng
land he did not see any wheat
bread except in the trenches-the boys
have it. We can depend upon it that the
soldiers are well fed and taken care of.
Sugar is dOled out in half or quarter
Jumps a meal at the hotels and reStau
rants. If the people of the United
States knew how necessary it is to con-
5rve food that the hungry in Europe
may be fed and the war won. they
would not grumbe about the food reg
ulaTionS of MI Hoover.
The first law of a soldier is Obedi-
ence The first thing child is taught
is obedience The law 6f the nation is
obedience. Now then. when the GOV
ernment requests you to observe wheat
less. meatless and heatless days. why
do you hesitate? Do you suppose Presi-
dent Wilson and his men make these
requests to get back at us Republicans?
I'm a Republican. Do you think it is
done for a joke? No. friends. this is
all figured out and done for a purpose,
a big purpOse-tO win the war.
He told the people not to worry over
the boy in the trenches He is well fed
and cared for. But that boy is actually
worrying over the folks at home. and
he has a right to. There he is over
top and the people at home are hold
ING him back. He is there waiting
for what? For men, munitions, guns
and ships in which to carry the stuff
over. Don't hold the boy back. he is
willing to do his part to save liberty
and democracy.
When this war is over and our boys
come home, and after the first session
Of welcome greeting has taken place
between mother and son and father
and son. and brother and sister, hus-
band and wife. how proud we will feel
, over that hero. What a wonderful
feeling of satisfaction it will be- Will
10 har rrht tn If
Y pa?
- Surprising then, after this greeting is
OK 1er, and that boy Of yours learns that
so income in the family has been disloyal
" hat then? What excuse could you
81 We? What would you say?
lie had heard it said that some OF
the people of his nationality were dis
loya l, but he could not believe it. He
could not believe that any hailing from
the land which had furnished John
Hanson, the first president of the con-
federation Of states, at the beginning OF
the revolutionary war, John Morton
one of the signers Of the Declaration OF
Independence, John Erickson, who
rendered valuable service in preserving
the union, and John Albert johnson
former governor Of Minnesota, could be
disloyal in this crisis.
The ultimate outcome Of this great
conflict will be, must be, the bringing
Of all nations, all peoples and all creeds
to a closer understanding of the one
great ideal-liberty.
We are called the great melting pot
of all nations. German. Irish and
Swedish blood have been split for this
great and glorious country on French
soil under the~Stars and Stripes, and as
:, Americans.
AYDr. Lincoln has very acceptable
> Essence and possesses a strong, clear
= and well modulated voice that carried
to every part Of the hall, and his man,
ner in driving home a telling point was
pleasing yet forceful. 2.