Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 207, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 September 1918 — ON AMERICAN TOLERANCE [ARTICLE]

ON AMERICAN TOLERANCE

By CLINTON SCOLLARD,

of the Vigilantes. Too long have we been lax and lenient: We have been patient, though we knew that we Harbored the venomous viper. Treachery, Ready to strike with foul and fell intent. But now the day of tolerance is spent: Let us have done with sleek hypocrisy, With those who strive to work insidiously!— Be there at last some stern arbitrament! Kultur’s apostles, you who are arrayed With the blasphemous Beast who drew the sword. And slew the Innocent the while he prayed, "Should on- your heads there fall some just reward. Yours is the blame who fatuously have made Your tongue abhorrent and your race abhorred! <