Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 80, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 April 1918 — THE BRIDGE TO THE RHINE [ARTICLE]

THE BRIDGE TO THE RHINE

(By Herbert Kaufman In The May Cosmopolitan.) Germany held us in contempt, believing avarice shall finally seduce our strength, that the cost of halting her infernal career must damn the United States and dull its steel. She thinks we love dollars too much to turn them into guns and fleets and planes—that YOU have set a shoddy price beyond which you’ll not pay for manhood and woman’s sanctity and rights of children.

Because we so long generously forebore against the measurement of any white race by the hideous truths shrieked from Belgium and Servia and Armenia and northern France; because such stark • atrocity challenged credence; because we did not strike at the first insult to our soverignty; because we had the patience of the brave just, giving the nation time to choose whether its soni should bleed and its great wealths be free to all Democracy. Berlin read cowardice and venality in America’s heart and still feeds fanaticism with this tawdry lie. Answer the Hun! Build a golden bridge to the Rhine, and crowd it with liberating armies until France is clea nagain and Albert may go home to heal his mangled realm. ■ V** , Show the Kaiser that we mean to keep launching ships, raising regiments, and financing the government. Tell the vandal kings that they “shall not pass.” Let the fortunes and the savings and the wages of native-born and emigrant cry across seas that we ARE money mad—FIGHTING MONEY mad —that we’ll empty our pockets and our veins to avenge justice and pledge the world to peace. The billions of the millions whose series endured humiliation and hungered of body ahd soul, yonder in Europe, must now end the brutal autocracies from which they fled. The one record of real AmTerican citizens today is the subscription list of the Liberty Loans. BUY ANOTHER BOND! *

Rev. Strecker received a check today for SI.OO in payment of a pair of binoculars sent to the navy department some weeks ago. At the end of the war this will be returned if practicable and the one dollar payment will then constitute the rental price. The navy some time ago made a request for the use of all binoculars, spy glasses, telescopes, sextants and thermometers owned by private individuals owing to tiie great demand for these created by the war. Floyd Elder, who was discharged from the service last week at Hattiesburg, Miss., where he was a member of the 137 Field Artillery, came Thursday evening for a visit with friends. He had been confined to the camp hospital for fifteen weeks prior to his discharge, suffering with an ulcer of the stomach. However the treatment he received there did not benefit him, and it is probable that he will undergo an operation soon. Floyd's parents now live in Indianapolis, but it is probable he will remain here and attempt to securer work on a farm in the hopes that his health may be benefitted. See Chas. Fefley for trees, vines and shrubs of all kinds. Guarantee stock to grow or replace free of charge. For spring delivery. If you have a house for rent, rent it through the Classified column of The Republican.