Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 93, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 April 1916 — Let Treasonable Dogs Bark Somewhere Else. [ARTICLE]

Let Treasonable Dogs Bark Somewhere Else.

Chicago Examiner. On Sunday night J. B. Maurer, president of the Pennsylvania State Federation of Labor, made a speech against preparedness to an audience in Washington Irving High School in New York City. * # After bitterly vituperating American. institutions of every kind Maurer concluded by shouting: “Down with the American flag! To hell with the Stars and Stripes.!” This country is too big, and there are too many of us American men ready to see that the Stars and Stripes do NOT go down, to permit any man of sense to worry .about the silly raving of a lunatic. But we do earnestly and strenuously protest against the use of the public school buildings in any city of this broad land being given to fourmouthed and lying aspersors of the flag, under whose inspiring and glorious folds our fathers and brothers died the death of patriots and heroes, to the end that the land might forever be filled with free schools for the descendants of free citizens. Let these treasonable curs yap elsewhere against the bright emblem that shelters even their base and contemptible lives and persons—but not in the schools.