Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 205, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1918 — COLUMBIA TO THE FRAY. [ARTICLE]

COLUMBIA TO THE FRAY.

Defiant, now, she takes her stand, And. with her kind protecting hand, i She guides her fighting Yanks across the sea. All honest means she tried in vain To shun the war across the main; Pushed to the brink, She fights for Liberty. Her sacred rights are all at stake; No sacrifice that she can make, But finds her cause now worthy of them all. The Lusitania victims’ cries For vindication fill the skies, Nor will they cease ’till kaiser rule shall fall. . / .. .1 ’■ ■ 1 Indignant, she beholds her sons Endure the torture of the Huns, Whose cruelty all normal minds

abhor; . I She sees the wounded and the sock Attacked with bombs by airmen thick. I Is scientific barbarism war? No frightfulness can check or sway Her fighting Yanks, now on the way. From their true course. Their goal they will attain. With these and many millions more She’ll show the world, now, as before, She fights for Right, and nod for) selfish gain. All Noble Freemen of the world, Columbia hail. Her flag unfurled. Her countless throng she now leads to the fray; The war is on. The fight begun, Will never cease until the Hun \ Shall humbly bow, and God’s just laws obey. * . ...... t

M RANKIN HALSTEAD.