The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1919-11-27
By a II. INGRAM

RAN came as al embarrassing S9c
prise. + rAaps they we're noi u.
pleased with his lack CT prepara
3on Tor the demand.
Il was not d long story, thai @
Jacinto Meyer attempt ~ selz.
the letter 10 the lady eatled Re-
Shy al first, Bruce warmed in IL.
telling Of It. and reached the eal
II quite 2 glow Of animation.
| would have gone ont ate.
MN TO the automobile" he con
Guided.
The other men exchanged
smile.
And he would hare denied Ii.
wLoIe affair, Senior Bruce.
ftffaz informed him. More! IL
might have gone away and con,
pi3ined bitterly Of the insult he
had suffered in S4nhor Noel 5
house he might have limited at an
attempt TO ruin his credit, for pu-
!iiical reasons.
Did Meyer hint of the affair
while you were with hirl after
wards, Dayid?" asked Bernardo.
Meyer is not stupid, Gil"
Noel dryly returned. NO"
Milo advised you wisely.
Senior Bruce" nodded the COVER
nor, Perhaps surprising. but
true"
He glanced across at his son
kindly, who laughed, and depre-
Gated the jest with a little ges-
ture, but said nothing.
II have been back in the SER
taon for three months" Grana-
does observed. He put the butt
of his cigar in the tray before him,
and lighted a fresh one, with ad-
mlrable deftness. Bruce first no.
tlced then that two fingers were
missing from his right hand.
What r we to discuss to-
night?"
Senior Noel will tell u.s." DR..
Valdez said. "He alone is clearly
determined; be alone among us
has foreseen an eminent danger
before us, but not yet upon us. We
need not tell one another. nv
friends, that the European war is
. mammoth whose tread shakes
The earth ever to our remote cor
her. We have suffered in our
and our pride. Let
Dom David tell us what more
vital things will suffer in the fu-
Our half the world is at
peace" objected Ferraz, uneasily.
Let Europe fight her W war;
No corner Of the world is truly
peace while Europe is at this
var, Noel contradicted without
leat. Yet, let us speak as if we
unaffected. Senior Ferraz,
Then you were-t the age of Milo,
low common we're Germans in
ne Fepubllcf'
Ferraz blinked his expression
irrespective.
Watt Watt" You ask me
# ~ yea= Senator Noel. You
lepurn TO the empire. The first
Serfaan | ever saw was the cap
am OF a boat. They were few
us then
And now they are many. You
NOW ; you have aided In the sec-|
'et census
There are very many; too
nany!' agreed Ferraz ponder
Business brings them. I dol
lot like Them"
Our prosperity brings them,
Noel said FIRMLY. 1They gather
about us like carrion birds about
IN animal apparently ,lusty and
strong, but which they know bears
] secret injury that eventually
will make it a corpse for their
seeding. Our country has not
Eilled WITH these people by natural
Immigration, as it has filled. with
those of other nations; it has been
.olonezed by the outposts Of a ma
lion which is an army. These in
vaders have not developed new
advantages for us; they have wait
ed until we discovered and devel-
oped enterprises, then they craft
lily seized upon them and made
our work their possession. BY
business methods, Senior Ferraz,
ssses! Stealthily, none too scrupu-
lously, yet still by methods out
wardly those of legitimate bust
ness or trade, they crap more and
more of orr commercial existence.
We hold ourselves aloof from
them, perhaps, socially, but we are
Indifferent to them, These invad-
ers are insolent. They will take
ehs to our weakness
es, our customs, our thoughts. But
In schools upon our own soil. do
they not educate their children ID
their Language and not ours.
which they teach them to desrisei
Do they not boast that thew oecnl