Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 96, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 April 1919 — WORLD WOULD BE CLEANER [ARTICLE]

WORLD WOULD BE CLEANER

Excellent Thing If the Profession of the ‘‘Spy" Can Be Altogether - Eliminated. ___ ■■ e We pray God that tlie next big thing the world will do will be to eliminate forever from the face of the earth that unspeakable creature known as the “spy.” In war it has sometimes become necessary for a good man to be a spy, but it was the direst necessity and nothing else that could induce him. Nathan Hale wag a spy, but he was such qniy to save the liberty of his country. His last words when he died were that he regretted that he had only one life to give in that holy cause. But, there are spies who are such by profession as well as by nature. And that kind of man is a creuture so low in the scale of humanity that a polecat is respectable compared to him. The spy is a person who will break bread with you, eat your salt, accept the kindly and hospitable shelter of your roof, worm himself into your affections, and then betray you. He will bite the hand that feeds him as a dog would do. He will send to death those who have taken liftp to the household of their hearts. A sublime effort is being made In the world’s" affairs now to let the light Jn on all the dark corners. The windows are to be flung open and the sunlight let in at the door. And, when this is done, the spy will disappear. He cannot endure in the light of day. His world is the world of tlie shadows. He must have the cover of darkness or he-cannot work. Of all crawling vermin that infest the earth the spy is tlie most detestable. He is the most poisonous of reptiles. The rattlesnake and sidewinder are scholars and gentlemen compared to him. Civilization will have taken almost its longest stride forward when the spy is removed from the scene of earth which he festers by his corrupting presence.—Exchange.