Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 February 1918 — “REMEMBER.” [ARTICLE]

“REMEMBER.”

When the men of the army or the navy make up their minds to “remember”some thing, they do not forget. And they “remember” by acting. The Alamo was “rememberer” and the Maine was “remembered” —not in bloodthirsty hatred, but in the spirit of justice. It is proverbial that Americans are slow to anger that their good nature can stand a great deal of rubbing the wrong way before it becomes bristly. But, as was demonstrated in the Revolutionary, Mexican, Civil and SpanishAmerican struggles, the just anger of the American is not shown by wordiness, but by action. Because the American people as a whole have not been giving expression from the housetops to hatred over the unrighteous methods employed in German warfare, the German autocrats have been trying to convince the German masses that America’s heart is not in this war, that the stalwarts of the new world are being dragged into military service. Not long ago a handful of American engineers fought an overpowering force of Germans and fought it to a standstill. It was then that some of the Germans at least were convinced that the new foes could be “fightingsmad.’ r “Men can be fightig mad” said an American army officer recently, even when they are smiling. It is said by those who know him that General Custer always wore a gentle smile, even while in battle, and that he never allowed himself to become ruffled or excited. Whatever anger the American fighting forces show will be shown in action—and then these forces will prove their ability to fight against the finest of the kaiser’s warriors.

“Now, in this “remembering business, the men of the navy and the men of the army have determined to ‘remember the Tuscania’ and the gallant lads who went down with her. But these men should not be expected to do all the ‘remembering.’ The whole nation should ‘remember’ that disaster, and every man, woman and child in the land can do so. All of us can not go to the fighting front and do our ‘remembering’ but every one of us who stays at home can ‘remember’ that disaster and the illegal method by which the Tuscania was sunk, by lending the Government money with which to right the great wrong. Every person who buys Liberty bonds can put himself on record as having the Tuscania and the lads who lost their lives when she was torpedoed off the Irish coast