The Chemawa American, November 21, 1917, Page 4, Image 4

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W H Y THE R ED M AN FIG H TS FOR DEMOCRACY
T h e world m ust be free. A s th e w orld stan d s to ­
day, th e w orld is m enaced w ith slavery. T h e n ations
of th e earth are arrayed against one an o th er in tw o
divisions, one fighting for the freedom of n atio n s and
th e o th er fig h tin g for th e enslav em en t of nations.
T h e n eu trals in th e conflict are those who are too
feeble to fight or those whose nearness to G erm any
would be crushed by it.
G erm any stan d s as a great auto cracy , a n atio n in
w hich pow er springs from a ru le r who assum es th e
au th o rity to h u rl defiance at the world and to use the
blood of his nation to drow n th e w orld in sorrow .
T h e G erm an K aiser is th e sym bol of all th a t is evil
in m onarchies and he is the d ire c tin g ag en t of all the
evils th at G erm an in trig u e has plotted for d u rin g the
past forty years.
T he various governm ents of the A llies m ay not be
perfect, but th e rulers of the nations allied to g eth er
are lim ited in th eir pow ers by th e will of th e ir people.
T h e people give the.m pow er and th e people out of
tlitir freedom to delegate pow er rule th e ir several
countries. “ Pow er sp rin g s from the people w ho are
the source of pow er” say the allies. In G erm any
and o th er au tocratic co u n tries th e K aiser or E m peror
claim s to be th e source of pow er and th e people m ust
obey. W h ere concessions to the people are m ade, it
is th at th e E m p ero r m ay fu rth e r en tren ch him self.
K aiserism is freedom u p sid e -d o w n , it assails the ba­
sic longings of liberty loving people. U nder R a is­
es ism the w orld could never be free, but enslaved to
th e will of an au tocratic m onarch.
P'or g en eratio n s G erm any has been p lo ttin g to rule
th e w orld. G erm an im perialists have w orked o u t a
plan year by year w hich th ey hoped would even tu ally
succeed. E v ery nation was m easured and w eighed,
every possibility th a t th ey could figure o u t was co n sid ­
ered. In event one th in g failed th ey had a su b stitu te
plan. T hey g ath ered th e ir iro n , saved th e ir gold, in ­
trig u ed am ong the various n atio n s, and piled up th e ir
arm am ent. All th e w hile th ey were w aitin g for “ T h e
D ay” w hen th ey should strik e and su d d en ly startle th e
world w ith m ighty victory. • T h ey an xiously aw aited
for a good excuse to sta rt th eir arm y into m otion. Spies
were in every co u n try cau sin g disco n ten t, offering
bribes, p o llu tin g politics, and sp read in g G erm an ideas.
But m ore th a n an excuse th e G erm an w ar office w an t­
ed w eapons. F in ally they found one, th e subm arine.
T h ey review ed th eir book of conquest, th e G erm an
allies w ere in stru cted , and G erm any stru ck .
In su d d en horror th e w orld aw akened to th e fact
th a t G erm an treaties w ere only m easures th a t were
m eant to deceive o th e r n ations until G erm an y was
ready to break them for her ow n purpose. G erm an
treaties and g u aran tees were not kept an d G erm any
A merican
abandoned all her boasts of “ k u ltu r e ,” all th e rules
she had subscribed to, and then set forth on a cam ­
paign of frig h tfu ln ess w herein n eu trals and innocents
w ere not only tram ped upon, b u t m urdered.
T h e A m erican In d ia n has com m on’ couse w ith the
A llies. T h e In d ian weeps for devastated Belgium and
his sorrow for F ran ce is th a t of a b rother. T h e A m eri­
can In d ian is w ith A m erica to the finish. A ghast at the
savagery of the P ru ssian w ar m achine, th e In d ian has
sp ru n g to arm s. L ong before th e A m erican R epublic
entered th e w ar, h u n d red s of In d ian s w ent over th e
line into C anada to enlist in th e fight for the rig h ts of
th e sm aller nations and th e freedom of h u m an ity . T o­
day w ith A m erica actively in th e conflict ou r In d ian
m en and boys have enlisted in th e reg u lar arm y in al­
m ost every capacity and in a proportion, I am told, in
excess to other classes of th e population, race n u m ­
bers considered. T h e sam e is tru e of th e L iberty
L oan, to w hich th e In d ian subscribed.
T h e In d ian fights because he loves freedom and
because h u m an ity needs ‘the defense of th e freedom
loving n a n . T h e In d ian fights because his co u n try ,
h is liberties, his ideals and his m anhood are assailed
by th e b rutal hypocracy of P russianism . C hallenged,
th e In d ian has responded and show n him self a citizen
of the w arld, an ex p o n en t of an ethical civilization
w herein hum an liberty is a ssu re d .—A r t h u r C. P a r ­
ker .
“QUIT K N IT T IN G ”
W ash ington, N ov. 14.—Sw eaters are pleasing to sol­
d iers and sailors. T h ey give a little touch of lu x u ry .
But not a soldier nor sailor w ould have frozen if
n o t a single sw eater had been k n itted . All the hotel
porch debauch of k n ittin g and th e clin k in g of th e big
needles as they wove th e yards in tens of th o u san d s of
hom es, has not really stopped a soldier or sailor from
being chilled. I t has m erely added to th eir com forts
in about th e sam e proportion th a t an e x tra dress w ith
w hich to change pleases a school girl. Sum m ed up,
th a t is th e w ay S ecretary of W a r Baker and S ecretary
of the N avy D aniels view th e k n ittin g situ atio n and
th ey both disapprove of th e vigorous steps w ith w hich
som e wom en have urged th a t those who do not k n it
are slackers.
“ I am not surprised, th o u g h ,” said S ecretary D an­
iels, w ith a broad sm ile. “ T h e vigor w ith w hich some
wom en have urged other wom en to k n it is like some
of th e orators in the liberty loan cam paign. T hey
w ould tell th e ir audiences th a t if each individual did
n o t buy a $50 bond by 9 o ’clock th e n ex t m orning th e
credit of the governm ent w ould fa ll.”
“ W o n ’t a lot of these sw eaters be necessary to keep
such men as those in the destroyers in the N o rth Sea
w arm ?” he was asked.
“ Necessary! N o, ” he replied.
“ You have no idea how w arm ly these m en are clad
by the D epartm ent. W h y , if sw eaters were necessarv
to keep these men w arm , I w ould not hesitate to go
rig h t to C ongress for an appropriation to provide them .
A nd there would be no trouble in g ettin g th e m oney. »
I th in k I shall have to dress up one of the sailors in
th e d epartm ent here in the N o rth Sea costum e of our
m en. T h e only th in g th a t stops me is th e fear th a t
he m ight sm o th e r.”