Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 261, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 November 1918 — Democracy. [ARTICLE]

Democracy.

“Well,” said the captain of artillery as he stood watching three Yanks playing baseball la the Tuileries gardens in Paris, “I guess that if we came Over here to make the world safe for democracy, we have finished the job and can go home. “Look”—pointing to the three ball players. “One of those men is an American soldier, one is a Y. M. C. A. secretary, and one is a darky from an American stevedore regiment. The white soldier’s father was killed while fighting to free the slaves, the ‘Y’ man’s father was a slave owner and the darky’s grandfather was a slave. They are playing ball in the grounds that were once the private grounds of, an emperor. If that isn’t democracy to the nth power, what do you call it?”— From a Bed Cross Scrap Book.