The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1920-06-18

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ems to see its loved form and COM
bined glinting In the sun and answ-
ering the breezes of this happy land.
Lofty pride and highest hope trans
port us from the humdrum Of life to
the ecstacy of patriotic nationality.
at speaks to us: OF peace and
happy home; of fireside and loved
ones; Of heroic combat; not. Of
cruelty and conquest, but of high
duty and many sacrifice for human
welfare. OF our battles for liberty,
against English King and German
serf; of Lexington and Concord: OF
Ticonderoga and Bunker Hill; Of
Saratoga and its decisive victory; of
Germantown and its no less heroic
and useful defeat, by which Wash >
ington and his Continentals won the
help of the French. OF Yorktown,
and the final surrender.
YEA, it speaks of Sumpter's init
ial gun; of organized secession; Of
Grant and his heroes; of Appamat-
tox and it's Famous Apple Tree
where armed rebelled against the
constitution expired for all time: OF
foreign battle fields, where brave
Americans unafraid of death. saved
hope to America, and re- established
Christendom.
"Of Cautigny, and the 18th of May,
where two years ago, Americans,
were first aligned with Americans
and proved the war like metal Of
our young manhood when put to the
supreme test against outnumbering
foes.
"Of Chateau Thierry, and the FIRST
of June, where the heroes Of the
Marine Corps and the Regular Army,
in the unfipching and immortal Sec
ond division, withstood unwavering
the utmost efforts of Germany's ar
tillery, in close combat met the
flower of the Kaiser's army, the
famed Prussian Guard, halted them
there, the last German drive, and
started the slaves of the Kaiser, his
instruments for enslaving the world,
backward and eastward, toward the
Rhine and Berlin in final defeat.
HeII-Hoie Of Civilization.
"Of Belleau Wood, that hell hole
of civilized battlefields,. from which
our heroic youths, facing machine
nests, high explosive barrages. and
attacks of Internal gas in desper-
fighting, mid, rocky wooded hills and
ines of tangled under brush
with their superb Workmanship and
nerves of yoeman steel, drove the
remnants of the entrenched Ger
mans, who escaped the unerring
American rifle, after ten days Of
constant battle; of Blanc Mount,
and its necessary carnage; Of st.
Mihiel, and it's captured salient; and
of the Meuse- Argonne the greatest
Of American battles. where 100000
Yanks in the fields and forests dealt
the death blow to Enslaved Prus-
slams and Austrians: of Lincoln, and
that sublime threnody his Gettysburg
address: of the Emancipation Proc
lamation, of race emapcipated, a
country reunited.
"Of Roosevelt, the last and great
est Of Americans. and Of his last
days warning against foreign Ian
guageism. OF the things, does our
beauteous banner speak and sing.
World Language.
Americans awake! Let us not be
deceived. The German nation is not
vanquished confident militant and
masterful it seeks work dominion
The aim of the German Is not so
different from the aim Of the Amer
lean.
ga world language. universal
tongue, is a world necessity. The
peoples of the earth will not forever
live In Babel. The confusion OF
tongues which halted the construc-
ion Of the tower of Babel, is hating
today, the greater tower of the
worlds unity and civilization, which.
in few centuries will rise heaven
high above the low plane of our pres
ent achievements.
"The English language. the Amer
lean language, win be, as we hone
and believe, the language Of 3 unit.
ed, civilized. moral and happy world.
Germany, and her people In Ger
many, in America and elsewhere,
recognize the certainty and neoessi.
hope and determination Is lthat thak
language shall be Deutsch. Rule. OF
be ruled. The two races cannot be
We believe, and intend, that
Americanism, national liberty under
people made laws, shall become uni.
"The German hopes and Intends
that German culture, 'Kultur.' Il you
please, shall become universal. and
Deutsch the universal tongue.
Americans, over whom. 6r TO their
ancestors for eight hundred pears,
no monarch has held absolute pow.
er, and who have proven the truth
of tho postulates Of human liberty,
will not at any time be ruled by any
king or emperor, either Prussianised
or Anglocized, nor will they accept
any language but their own.
1. "The German language teaches
contempt for America and for Amer
leans. Choose We, this day, whom
We will serve. For 1t is written that
'Ye cannot serve two masters You
must either fDrsaka G0runanv hnv
language and her Kultur,' or You
must forsaKe, or you have never
known. America and her liberty and
her spirit"
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WOULD HEAD W0MENS CLUB