The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1919-05-09
Mark Well The
Trail of Dragon
By c. M. MORRISON.


claws an of Europe south from the
Baltic 10 the Swiss Alps. southeast 70
the Bosphorus. and northward aimo-r
N the White Sea lie had drlgs-G
his Shiny way through the blood II
"A peIgium till be stood on the shores
a OF the English Channel. facing his foe.
IN England
He had reached well nigh TO the Per
sian Gulf and had linked the Turk 10
his holdings And-he had long since
looked across the Atlantic and sp.ed
out the land in America.
The dragon had crept softly here
and there about the earth for forty
years He had intrenched himself in
South America and IN Mexico. How
strongly is shown by tne fact that svr
after the old empire OF the Hun
gone down in blood and dust. the iol-
lovers Of the kaiser are still stanli
by the old regime. still plotti7
scherning through Latin America.
And We know what out posts the IN
held here in America. We know W
Ne should have known and taken in
account ten. yes. twenty years ar0
We know the Efforts that were mao
'o make the Hun Language the require !
lsnEuage in the public schools OF some
% our American states In the pub
l. schools. mind you. Of the English
spe4king United States OF America
We know now beuer than We once
ola fAe meaning OF the many German
societies in this country. We know
what service they rendered and at
tempted 70 render 10 Hun Land when
ihe var first broke in Europe. The
NAl % the dragon was very plain in
DE United States during the first
years OF the war and We know tnar
iae spirit never died in many Huns
living in America Even the breaking
o. ne old empire failed 20 stamp il
oui entirely
WE DID good deal during The
WV war toward blotting out the
trail OF the dragon in the
United States. Had the var LASTED
longer We would have done far more
DO you recall that in your earliest
childhood you were taught sonewher.
somehow. that the taii Of a snake ney,
ef dies until sundown comes no mat
Ter how fat the serpent's head was
rushed!
That was a childhood superstition
ard yet We an know that SNAKES
tail wEiggles for long time AFTER the
serpent has been put out OF the way
o, doing any more ham And the
dragons tail still wriggles. the tail OF
The Hun dragon Is still ~riggling In
good many places In the world OuI
side oi Berlin.
frassianism may b. dead. but there
j. suspicious liveliness. a menac.ng
"rgging here and there over the
earth that vill bear watching Bolshe
'isn Is one OF the forms that this men.
ace. that this movement. f. taking.
Germany j. wrestling with % and IL
j. raising itself here and there over
me world. Spawned in Germany. n
h of The dragons brood. II has over
come Russia the Russia that Il was
loosed upon through German influence.
America wants no more OF Bolshe
Nsm than Y does of anything else thaf
y German Il bears the Made in
Iermany' on H. II carried that marx
Nhen u was exported from Germany
mo Russia In the carpet bsEs o.
Lenine and Troisky.
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