Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1919-04-02
THE FOE OF THE AGES.
Do you know what is humanity's greatest foe :?

DelIlcaClOn OF poverty
Materialism?
-Industry-Theft?
None of these nor any other "isms" and what
not. The only foe we need ever fear is
Intolerance.
Intolerance in the middle ages slew Protest
ants in France and Catholics in England. In
tolerance drove the Puritan Fathers, "non-con-
fOrmists" they called themselves, out of Eng
land.
When the Puritan Fathers set themselves up
in England they too became intoerant and
wreaked their bigotry on the poor Quakers who
were newly arrived and decidedly in the minor
ity.
Intolerance stoned William Lloyd Garrison
through the streets of Boston because he held
that black skin did not mean servitude In
tolerance mobbed Horace Greeley in his New
York office because his paper upheld the govern
ment in it's fight against the secessionists.
Intolerance Inundated the stricken South af-
ter defeat came. The Souths great friend who
would have protected it and taken it back in his
arms like parent welcomes a hayward child,
was killed by a representative of Intolerance
John Wilkes Booth.
Now let us go back-away back-intolerance
put the Christ on the cross and drove nails
through his feet and hands-slew him.
Few men have nerve enough to stand up
against this Black Beast. We have the divine
example of one who was absolutely fearless
and we can see the inevitable outcome of it. We
are not divine-iust Humankind no matter how
high our motives we shrink from the test.
Now for the present again.
Intolerance went stalking through Belgium
Intolerance starved, raped and murdered mil
lions in Armenia.
Intolerance broke loose in Russia and the
world stands aghast at the He'll to pay.
Intolerance in Japan sends the soldiery to kill
helpless Koreans Intolerance in Bavaria Stays
Kurt Eisner because he dared to say that the
kaiser was to blame for Germany's awful plight.
Intolerance in France shoots Clemenceau, the
savior of the nation.
Intolerance in the North selects half-baked
fool accused of silly utterances that have not a
grain of weight with any one and sends him to
rot in prison for year. His property is sold to-
satisfy the monstrous claim of a slcker lawyer.
A wiser generation might have reasoned with
and converted this man. Ours sends him to
servitude. His family is broken up and he is
ruined forever. Why? Intolerance.
Intolerance in the South burns black man
and looks up his guilt afterwards.
The intoerant liquor man curses the temper
ance advocate (who is, in many cases, merely
trying to better the condition of the drunkard's
unfortunate family and the intolerant dry
damns the man who takes an occasional glass OF
beer.
Intolerance in petticoats spurns the unfortun-
ate sister who has fallen Intolerance in broad
cloth piously listens to comfortable sermons and
shifts at the unsaved outside the church doors.
Intolerance stalks abroad in America. 1t tells
one religious sect that another is devilish and
wears horns. 1t tells the man of one political
creed that the other party would wreck the coun-
try 1t shouts from the housetops to kill, Stay,
shoot and be damned!
st. Bartholomew over again!
Henry the Eighth hanging the priests and
burning the bishops who refused to let him be a
legal bgamist
What's the trouble?
What's the matter with US?
1t isn't our party-our church-our skin; God
help us it's ourselves.
We refuse to the other fellow an opinion Of
his own.
We want to kill him-stone him to outer dark
ness all because he thinks differently
All on the defensive; all suspicious and yet
All are Brothers.
Turn on the light
Play Fair!
It's all in the point of view.
None of us are entirely right.
None of us are entirely wrong.