The Bienville Democrat., 1922-05-11

He uOeS tuluSS IKE tuut UT uOl. w lldl
| care about Is that the principle
didn't reach him and that he Knocked
1t! don't care about petty treach-
cry to me, personally, but l."
FraternaI loyalty could not quite
brook this. Brother Colburn is per-
fectly honor'ble man." said Ramsey,
solemnly. HE is one Of the most
honOr'ble men in this"
"Of course!" she cried. "Oh, can't
l make you understand that I'm not
cOndemning him for little tattery to
me? l don't care two straws for his
showing that l didn't influence him.
He doesn't interest me, please under
stand"
Ramsey was altogether perplexed.
"Well, l don't see what makes you go
for him so hard, then"
II don't"
but you said he was treach-'
II don't condemn him for it." she In.
sisted, despairingly. Don't you see
the difference? I'm not cOndemning
anybody; I'm only lamenting."
"What about?"
"About all of you that want war"
MY golly!" Ramsey exclaimed.
"You don't think those Dutchmen
were right to drown babies and"
"No! I think they were CHASTITY
murderers l think they were detesta
BILE and fendish and monstrous and
"Well, then, my goodness! What dc
you want?"
Il don't want war;"
"You don't?"
II want Christianity" she cried. 81
can't think Of the Germans without
hating them, and so today, when al
the world is hating them, keep my
self from thinking of them as much a!
I can. Already half the world Is full
Of war; you want to go to war tt
: make things right, but 1t won't; 1t will
only make more war;"
"Well, L"
"Don't you see what you've done
you boys?' she said. Don't you Sc
7 what you've done with your absur'
!. telegram? That started the rest: the
t thought they all had to send telegram
like that"
"Well, the faculty"
;. "Eyen they mightnt have though
! of It If It hadn't been for the first ont
( Vengeance Is the most terribl
t thought; once you put 1t into people
t minds that they ought to have 1t,
1 runs away with them"
e "Well, it isn't mostly vengeance
; we're after, at all. There's lot MOI
t to It than just getting even with"
). She did not heed him. you're a
n blind! You don't see what you're d.
J. ing; you don't even see what you''
done to this peaceful place her
, You've filed 1t full Of thoughts OF full
\ and killing and massacre"
\ "Why, no." said Ramsey. 1T WI
\ those Dutch did that to us; and, b
I sides, there's more to 1t than you
y mo, there isn't" she interrupte
\ "It's lust the old brutal spirit that n
tions inherit from the time they we
! only tribes; it's the tribe spirit, al
= an eye for an eye and tooth for
" tooth. It's those things and the 10
y Of fghting-men have always low
q TO fight. Civilization hasn't taken
81 out of them; men still have the bru
M in them that loves to fight"
MI "I don't think so," said Ramst
III Americans don't love to fight; l dol
J" know about other countries, but
don't, OF course, here and the
there's some fellow that likes to hu
around for scraps, but never 81
more than three or four in my life ii
acted that way. OF course a footb
team often has a ecrapper or two
it, but that's different"
mo" she said. II think you
really love to fight
Ramsey was reused to become ar
mentative. II don't see where you
the idea. Colburn isn't that way, a
back at school there wasn't sin
boy that was anything like that"
,u+ "What!" She stopped, and turr
suddenly to face him. ....
"What's the matter? he said, st
to ping, too. Something he said h
ar startled her, evidently.
or "How can you say such thm|
OH she cried. "You love to fight"
ol- "Me?"
we "You do! You love fighting. J
er. always have loved fighting"
ith He was dumfounded. "Why, ne
My had fight in my life!" ..
She cried out in protest OF such I
aid varication.
Ity, "Well, ! never did," he insist
Ike mildly.
for "Why, you had q fight about me!
"No, didn't"
"With Wesley Bender!'
her Ramsey chuckled. That WASH
she fight"
in. ut wasn't?"
,he "Nothing like one. We were
al guyin' him about--about getun slic
go M