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The day of the vagrant and loafer
is fast waning. City and county offi
cials are looking for the man who is
living off the fruit of some one else’s
labor.
The county jail is empty again.
This is a splendid endorsement for the
morals of Jackson county, but this
condition cannot exist very long, con
sidering the rapidity with which
booze and firearms are co-operating.
Arrangements are taking shape for
the big mass meeting at the court
house on next Wednesday evening at
7:30. Every one should attend, for it
is at this meeting that final steps
will be taken to form a Chamber of
Commerce in Newport. Do not only
attend the meeting, but come with a
progressive spirit, determined to
voice your approval of the organiza
tion and pledge your moral, physical
and financial strength to it. New
port’s future looks bright.
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On February 16 the friends of
German Democracy, an association
composed of resident citizens of Ger
man birth or parentage, adopted res
olutions declaring their loyalty to the
United States in this war “against
the autocracy which dominates the
German people and desires to en
slave the world,” assuring the people
of Germany that, though Americans
“loathe the military autocracy of the
German empire,” they “do not hate”
Germans as such, racial hatreds hav
ing “no place in the heart of a nation
composed of all the races of the
earth,” and urging the German people
to rise as freemen to “rid themselves
of their autocrats in order to estab
lish a democratic Germany.” Though
these “Friends” may find that the
German people and their rulers are
practically one in spirit, their dis
tinction is similar to that drawn by
President Wilson, and their own
worthy sentiment and purpose are
manifest.
Wylie McMinn arrived home Sat
urday night from San Antonio, where
he is in training at the Kelley Avia
tion Field. Wiley has just received a
commission as second lieutenant and
is receiving the congratulations oi
many friends at home who are like
wise glad to have him home for a
few days.
Read the Advertisements in the In
dependent.
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THE UNIVERSAL CAft |
The Car That Is Always I I
the Best and Most Ser- |||
viceable for the Money. I I
Enforced Loyalty
in Illinois Counties
Associated Press Dispatch.
St. Louis, Mo., March 2.—Enforced
loyalty has been placed on a business
basis in Macoupin, Madison and
Montgomery counties in southern Ill
inois where the activities of pro-Ger
man propagandists recently became
so pronounced that vigilance commit
tees in numerous towns have forced
hundreds of suspected persons to
make public manifestations of their
allegiance to the government. In one
town two alleged leaders of seditious
movements were tarred and feath
ered.
Branches of the American Defense
Society operating through vigilance
committees in practically every town
in the district have taken the lead in
stamping out disloyalty. The first
move to oust the propagandists was
made in Staunton where an alleged
leader of the I. W. W. and a Chicago
attorney were escorted to the city
limits, coated with tar and feathers
and started walking in different di
rections. The reason for this aggres
sion was said to be the activity of the
mep in causing dissension among
several thousand coal miners near
Staunton.
On the same night more than one
hundred persons were made to sign
pledges of loyalty.
News of the use of such stern meas
ures spread and within a week Word
en, Mount Olive, Gillsipie, Williamson.
Hillsboro and several other smaller
'towns made demonstrations. In some
of these towns scores of persons were
taken from their homes and requested
tn make nuhlic nrofessions of their
I loyalty. S'everal men were taken
'from their beds and, kneeling on the
sidewalk, were forced to kiss every
star in the flag. Some were made to
sing the national anthem while others
were compelled to play patriotic aiis
on musical instruments. Protests
against such actions were construed
as evidences of disloyalty. In sever
al such instances arrests were madv?
and federal charges preferred against
the men.
The most serious result of the dem
onstrations was in Hillsboro where
Clifford Donaldson, 21 years old. was
shot when the vigilance committee
called at his father’s home in search
of I. W. W. members. Shots were
exchanged. Donaldson was killed
and E. B. Emory, city marshall, and
Ernest Flath was wounded. Later it
was learned Donaldson had enlisted in
the navy only a few days before his
death and that his father was unac
quainted with any of the suspected
persons.
Members of the vigilance committee
deny that they counsel violence. They
insist that the district embraced by
Macoupin, Madison and Montgomery
counties for some time has been the
objective of an active campaign by
pro-German sympathizers.
As evidence of their success they
point to a recent meeting of repre
sentatives of more than 1,600 mem
bers of a miners’ union in Staunton.
In less than one week after two al
leged sedition leaders had been tarred
and feathered, the union voted a con
tribution of $810 per month for the
Red Cross, purchased $1,000 worth
of Thrift Stamps, reinstated all mem
bers who had lost standing because of
army and navy enlistment, arranged
for payment ai their dues during the
period of the war, and ended a mass
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meeting in such a burst of patriotic
fervor that the singing of the nation
al anthem was drowned in cheers for
President Wilson and the government.
Reports from other cities where
demonstrations were staged indicate
that the same leaven of patriotism is
at work and that prospects are bright
alty leaders that the district be made
for a fulfillment of the wish of loy
“one hundred per cent American.”
A WAR STAMP MESSAGE
FROM A CAMP PIKE SOLDIER
They say, who have came back
from “Over There,” that at night the
troubled earth between the lines is
carpeted with pain. They say that
death rides whistling in every wind
and that the very mists are charged
with awful torment. They say that
of all things spent and squandered
there, young human life is held least
dear. This is not the pleasantest
prospect for those of us who yet can
feel upon our lips the pressure of a
mother’s good-bye kiss. But, please
God! our love of life is not so prized
as love of right. And in this renais
sance of our country’s valor, we who
j must edge the wedge of her assault
j make calm acceptance of its hazards.
For us, the steel-swept trench, the
! stiffening cold, discomforts, hard
I ships, worse. But what for you, you
! millions safe at home? We shall
I need food, we shall need clothes for
; our bodies and weapons for our hands.
We shall need—need terribly and
without fail—arms, equipment and
supplies in a stream that is constant
and never ending. What from you?
You, who are hope of that democracy
for which we strive and smite; what
from you? There is but one answer:
I From you must come these things.
BOY KILLED BY TRAIN.
Batesville, March 2.—Howell Sear
cy, age 16, was killed this afternoon
about 6 o’clock when he fell under a
freight train near the local station.
His head was severed. It is said the ■>
boy “hopped” the train to take a
short ride. He is survived by his mo
ther, a widow, Mrs. Jim Searcy.
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