Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 208, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 September 1917 — The Souls of Ton Million Dead. [ARTICLE]

The Souls of Ton Million Dead.

(Gerard in Public Ledger.) Is it not a shame that the world should have been so disturbed; that peaceful men are compelled to lie out in the mud and filth in the depth of raw winter, shot at and stormed at and shelled, waiting for a chance to murder some other inoffensive fellow creature? Why must the people in old Poland die of hunger, not finding dogs enough to eat in the streets of Lemberg? The long lines of broken peasants in Serbia and in Rumania; the population of Belgium and northern France torn from their homes to work as slaves for the Germans; the poor prisoners of war starving in their huts or working in factories and mines; the cries of the old and the children, wounded by bombs from Zeppelins; the wails of the mothers for their sons; the very rustling of the air as the souls of the ten million dead sweep to another world—why must all these horrors come upon a fair green earth where we believed that love and help and friendship, genius and science and commerce and religion and civilization once ruled? The very bodies of those ten million killed, if placed end to end in two lines, would reach from New York to San Francisco. Think of -traveling this distance between a double line of stamig corpses! It is because in the dark, cold northern plains of German there exists an autocracy, - deceiving a great people, poisoning their minds from one generation to another and preaching the virtue and necessity of war. And until that autocracy is either wiped out or made powerless there can be no peace on earth. The golden dream of conquest was almost accomplished. A little more advance, a few more wagonloads of ammunition and there would have been no battle of the Marne, no Joffre, a modern Martel to hammer beak the invading hordes of barbarism. I have always stated that Germany is possessed yet of immense military power, and in order to win, the nations opposed to Germany must learn to think in a military way. The mere entrance even of a great nation like our own into the war means nothing in a military way unless backed by military power. And there mint be no German peace. The old regime left in control of Germany, of Bulgaria, of Turkey, would only seek a favorable moment to renew the war, to strive again for the mastery of the world. Fortunately America bars the way —America led by a fighting president who will allow no compromise with brutal autocracy. New creations in Fall Millinery that are distinctive and exclusive. Misses JONES & BRINEY.