Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 74, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 April 1917 — Shot Off His Bazoo and Was Made to Apologize. [ARTICLE]

Shot Off His Bazoo and Was Made to Apologize.

An incident which occurred on a Monon train Wednesday morning should serve as another warning co those who speak before they think, and don’t think the right sentiment when they speak, a custom “more honored in the breach than the observance,” in these times of war, when patriotism is the true gauge of citizenship. A passenger on the train Who had apparently become angered by th 6 war news he had been reading in a paper, tore up the paper and as he threw the paper to the floor of the coach, exclaimed: “Damn such white trash.” “Just what do you mean by that remark?” asked a mild-mannered looking man in the seat across the aisle. “What white trash?” “That man Wilson,” the scorner replied. “Which Wilson ?” the other inquired. “The little souled man of that name that is supposed to be the president of that name,” was the reiply. Whereupon the man across the aisle stood up and pulling back the lapel of his coat revealed the badge of a federal officer. “Now you stand up,” he commanded, “and apologize to the passengers in the car for that remark.” The man hesitated, but when told that if he didn’t apologize and do it quick he would be placed under arrest and taken before a federal judge for making treasonable utterances, he got to his feet and apologized to the coachload of passengers.