Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 214, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 September 1918 — WOUNDED INSIST ON DEFEAT OF GERMANY [ARTICLE]

WOUNDED INSIST ON DEFEAT OF GERMANY

Paris, Sept. 17.—“N0! No! No!” That is the reply of American fighting men—who have fought and been wounded and know what they are fighting for—to the Austrian proposa to talk things over. In certain American hospitals more than a score of men who were wounded at St. Mihiel, the Vesle- and at Soissons, were asked what they thought of the Austrian peace move, from the standpoint of men doing the fighting. Of twenty-three men interviewed, all except two said: “Let’s do the job first and talk afterward.” The other two said they' seen a newspaper and didn’t want to make any statement until they knew what it was all about. “I think it’s another peace dodge,” said one rancher from California. “We’ve got to finish this" job while we’re* at it * I live 6,000 miles from here. Now I can’t be coming back here every ten years or so. We’d better finish it now.” Everybody agreed in the position that the Austrian action is inspired by Gerinany, is lacking in sincerity, and is made for its effect on world opinion. k “There’s something tricky about it,” declared a big miner from northern Michigan. “I’m fed up on the war. Its a dirty job, but we’ve got to stick until they talk turkey. We came into the war for a certain purpose. We won’t quit until it is done.”