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Whenever there 1s a far-reaching disaster, two
kinds of men always come to the surface—those
who forget themselves to aid their fellows and relieve
distress, and those creatures who see in the disaster only
an opportunity to plunder.
Today as never before 1n America stand out
these two classes. There are men rich and poor who
have made common lot of the nation’s danger, and have put aside every
selfish consideration to do what they can do to save the country’s honor
and insure its safety.
There are men rich and poor, so low and sordid, so blind,
so soulless, that these stirring times mean nothing to them but a chance to
“better” themselves-as if the forcing out of a little more money at such
a time could by any stretch of imaginatiOn do anything but degrade them A
in their own and the eyes of their fellows.
A crisis is here and the ghouls are out—not robbing the
dead, but doing worse, by—
Delaying—when delays on war work 1n America aid Germany
in deluging France with blood-our blood.
Shirking—when shirking at home means the piling of American ,
dead on French and British dead.
Profiteering—when money made so filthily takes toll of the,
blood of better men, of men who are offering THElR BODIES to save OUR .
BODIES.
Striking—when to strike now is aiding barbarians ”who have
enslaved millions of men, women, and children, and are working them at the
point of the bayonet.
Scheming—thinking in terms of moneyI dollars and dimes, when
such practices prolong the war and open wider e bloody floodgates of German
destructiveness.
Like the muckraker in Pilgrim’ s Progress Who would not look up when
offered a crown of glory, these men are unable to see the things of great price—freedom,
justice, the attributes of Christianity, the sanctity of womanhood.
Let men of other cities degrade themselves and bring their home places
into disrepute, if they will, but let the record of this city be such that, come what may,
the people of this city can proudly look the whole world 1n the face, saying, “We did our
duty; we paid our full share; we gave to the flag without stjnt our uttermost of labor,
of money, of men, of loving devotion,‘and ask nothing of the flag In return but an honor-
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