Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 May 1918 — THE ILEXES DRAWN [ARTICLE]

THE ILEXES DRAWN

Ti.- iso-ur -Li long since struck when t-br-T- an be but two classes of _*••..:»,e nujs jomntry —American.- and j.-cv-nlecnnkas. There can !*• ik» i-nci shnaig as neutrality. Lf.ery its either for or against hisi ontii.try. The government is •caUing *(Si every man, woman and child wnui emr borders to declare . e-. aifci- the . all can be no more .iii-ded afcuj*. could the call to Ibe rnni.k. I'turtle Sam has no inleiniun «f ®aj<4uily oppressing - any P-r.-on. X- 1 ertm—less there is a war to aidi Win. a cause to be bani--d If lo a triumph, and in 1 u.- every :*•?**.• a * services are called for and 1 isiissc be giveu to the extent of thua one's ability. Tb*- boar has struck when we mu si jejuirxte sue sheep from the nuals —lie .’.L.:eas from the parasites aiid 3+ech-es- Ten million of our gieapde arc . already enrolled In The mraaii-ftwairfiiig division. But thert i- an arms-farnishing department to i*e ala-aned and financed, as we]] as Sic- ocher sinews of war. and to lib task the other ninety uualSao® are called. We s •me tuane ago arrived at the certain tz. ».--fge chat the world is at war tf-:* a principle, and every human led®?: Lx this country MUST either ic-;,* or reject that prini.ide. <1; re and foe all we must delenuire- ve.-t-ni-r or not man shall he a ag-ait or the puppet of a jetty tTraat. Oo.ee- and for all we •: x- % •:-tiler a people shall c-.rcwew their own allegiance or sii:.~et to the call of royal UutcheTf vl«> womld feed them to the Keikci of warr purely to further- their oiwna Bust for power.

And in vie if-termination of this mighty owsttom every person of >r :.a'y -a.tr... among us will ‘e re ■■• rd-d! « one side or the oiler. As we have stated, there is no r: id die ground—YOU, reader, are flaPer AuMTHfa® or anti-Ameri-can. This is TOrR home, and its safety is sttec-ieeA YOt'R services are demaai-iSei. iad you can no more evade the call! than you can evade the issues off He and death. We r-yei.’T. we must separate the sheep fnoan the goats. Every community fhotM label its entire cit-izenship-—->?yal or disloyal, as the case may le. Slackers, traitors and pro-Germans sb.JnM be placed in a c3a-s by i i -rn.seEves. Loyal Americans si'O-ic feu-ve no dealings with these teojwe. Trtey should be made to feel she heavy displeasure of their loyal nefighbeirs- be their station or saaudtaag; what It may. And ir t.:..s melting and remoulding 3 rteiess, race or nationality ebon IS iav» a abeolately no weight whatever. The loyal American of German bl.jrad oc nativity should be as waratSy welcomed into the rants of the country's defenders as the : iuresi-ieenSed American among ns. On tie •other hand the slacker or prw-Genaads should be so aligned,, as matters not if his ancestors came oner in the Mayflower or if his fathers fought the British

at Bunker’s Hill* The mighty engine of public opinion works slowly. But this engine is warming up for the race, and our advice to the man or woman of unAmerican proclivities would be to sing very slowly.