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Show Hero's Death Shames Them j It is good to know that one of the outstanding heroes of the war was the boyMcPherson of Idaho, who laid his all on the k altar of his country in a far-off foreign field, and the highest medal of honor has been awarded to his memory and his fa-; fa-; mily. This incident should shame some of the editors and some of the senators and congressmen of that state. They J tried to knife him in the back while he was performing heroic ?,' acts. They tried to help the enemy he was fighting, and had they had the power they would have opened the gates of this ! land to the raping, murdering enemy who would take pleasure in attacking their wivesand daughters. While this herosleeps a: in a grave that will forever be hallowed by patriots, the. wouW t be betrayers of him and his country will go down to the vile dust from' whence they sprung, unwept, unhonored and dis-- dis-- graced. While they did their utmost to help asatanicenemy, he, the soldier-hero and patriot, stood and fell in a cause that's " as holy as the cause of God. S They Called Him Communist A poor white man, one ot tens of thousands in the South- em States, lost his baby He said: :'The po' little young-un J just dried up like a rabbit skin 'cause we had no cow to give it tnilk Struggling to support a wife and seven children on a I dollar and a quarter a day, and often getting swindled out of N half of thet, he couldut give it a deeent burial aud made a M P'ne box and carried it to the potter's field. He was arrested f ; atd charged with starving the child. When the judge asked, '."Guilty or not guilty?" The man straightened to his full j ,eg'it, loaked the judgj level in the eye and said: "You cant I i get milk out of cedar bark. My wife Bessie can't stir flour out i f acorns. When yo" got seven youn 'uns to feed you can't I i 8've 'em nothin" but sowbelly and corn mush on an uneer A'' tain dollar 'n a quarter a day." jj And some culled him a Communist some like llie ,ocal re t baiters who kill and eat a Communist every morning just lo work up an appetite for breakfast. |
