Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 June 1917 — EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS [ARTICLE]

EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS

If you can’t swat the kaiser you can at least swat the fly. Senator Lewis advocates hanging for the food hog. Get a rope! Pay up your subscription, brother. We want to buy a Liberty Loan bond. We hear less these days of war brides. “War grooms” have been occupying the spotlight. Up with the cuss who wants to down the government. The stouter the limb the longer he’ll swing. Twenty-five butter and egg speculators have just been indicted in Chicago. Give ’em twenty-five years apiece. * We art strong for the draft if it will take some politicians we might mention. Dying for one’s country is a whole heap better than living at the expense of it. —ASoon many of our young men will be hunting the trenches in France, while others will be ogling The pretty girls on the bathing beaches. Yes, there’s a difference. citizens of allied nations in this country should not be allowed to remain in safety here while our own men are. sent abroad to fight. Put ’em in the army or send 'em home.

Farmers will see that there is plenty of food produced in this country, but they can not keep it out of the hands of the damnable speculating hogs. Governmental action hpw will save trouble later.