Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1922-06-23
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Dut you SdiO ne was LredCn-'
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 aboutr'
"About all of you that want warl"
my golly" Ramsey exclaimed.
"You don't think those Dutchmen
were right to drown babies and"
mo! l think they were CHASTITY
murderers! think they were detesta-
BILE and flendish and monstrous and"
well. then. my goodness! What do
you wantY'
II don't want war;"
"You dont?"
II want Christianityw she cried. II
can't think of the Germans without
hating them. and SO today, when all
the world Is hating them, keep my
self from thinking Of them as much as
I can. Already half the world Is full
Of war: you want to 60 to war to
make things right, but it won't; 1t will
only make more war"
swell, +"
Don't you see what you've done,
you bOys?" she said. "Don't you see
what you've done with your absurd
telegram? That started the rest they
thought they all had to send kilograms
like that"
swell, the faculty"
"Even they mightn't have thought
OF 1t II it hadn't been for the first one.
Vengeance Is the most terrible
thought; once you put 1t into peoples
minds that they ought to have 1t. 1t
runs away with them"
"Well, 1t isn't mostly vengeance
we're after, at all. There's lot more
to 1t than Just getting even with"
She did not heed him. you're all
blindl You don't see what you're do
ing; you don't even see what you've
done to this peaceful place here.
You've filled 1t full Of thoughts Of fury
and killing and massacre"
"Why. no." said Ramsey. ut was
those Dutch did that TO us: and, be-
sides, there's more to 1t than you"
mo, there isn't" she interrupted.
tits just the old brutal spirit that ma
lions inherit from the time they were
only tribes; it's the tribe spirit, and
an eye for an eye and tooth for
tooth. It's those things and the love
of fghting-men have always loved
to fight. Civilization hasn't taken II
out Of them; men still have the brute
in them that loves to fightw
II don't think so," said Ramsey.
Americans don't love to fight; don't
know about other countries, but we
don't. OF course, here and there,
there's some fellow that likes to hunt
around for scraps, but I never saw
more than three or four In my life that
acted that way. OF couKse a football
team often has scrapper or two on
1t, but that's different"
"No," she said ~ think you all
really love to fight"
Ramsey was reused to become argu-
mentative. II don't see where you get
the idea. Colburn isn't that way, and
back at school there wasn't single
boy that was anything like that"
What" She stopped. and turned
suddenly to face him.
whats the matter9' he said, stop
ping, too. Something he said had
startled her, evidently.
"How can you say such a thingT
she cried. "You love to fight!"
"MeY"
"You do! You love fighting. You
always have loved fighting"
He was dumfounded. "Why, never
had fight In my life!"
She cried out In protest Of such pre-
varication.
"Well, I never did," he insisted,
mildly.
"Why, you had fight about mel"
"No, didn't"
"With Wesley Bender"
Ramsey chuckled. "That wasn't a
fight"
"It wasn'tY
Nothing like one. We were just
guyin' him about-about gettin' slicked
up, kluQ VI, UeCduSc he SAT Ill lFUuL VI
you and he hit me with his book strap
and / chased him off. Gracious, no;
that wasn't a fighti"
"But you fought Linski only last
fall"
Ramsey chuckled again. 'That
wasn't even as much like fight as the
one with Wesley. just told this
Linski was goin' to- give him punch
In the sn- just told him to look
out because I was goin' to hit him, and
then did 1t, and waited to see If he
wanted to do anything about 1t, and he
didn't. That's all there was to 1t, and
1t wasn't any more like fighting than
than feeding chickens is"
She laughed dolefully. ut seems
to me rather more like 1t than that /"
swell, 1t wasn't"
They had begun to walk on again,
and Ramsey was aware that they had
passed the "frat house." where his
dinner was probably growing cold. He
was aware Of this but not sharply or