Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 301, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 December 1917 — Red Blood—Or Yellow Streak? [ARTICLE]

Red Blood—Or Yellow Streak?

Which is it? Do you possess the same spirit which in the days of ’76 sent the farmers of the colonies flying from their ploughshares to fight oppression? Have you the spirit of *6l of the valiant men of the South* who took up arms in the defense of right as they saw it? Have you the spirit of thousands of men who have answered the call of the nation and have flocked beneath Columbus’s unfurled banner in the war for liberty, democracy and justice? Have you the spirit of our boys now in the service, your sons ahd brothers, who are standing in the ranks today ready to lay down their ives for you and your liberty? Do you love those boys, your country and your liberty? Does the red blood of patriots flow in your veins? Or have you a yellow streak? The next few days will spell the story. If you are a patriot you will rise in the fervor of love for your country and its defenders and join the Red Cross. If you are a member and a patriot you will get at least one more member—your wife, sister, mother,brother, child or friend. If you have Red Blood you will not permit your city to be disgraced, as there is a great danger that it may be, unless the red blood in the veins of patriots asserts itself.