Behind the Backlog 



more than surpassed within the past 

 four years by a fiend incarnate claim- 

 ing partnership with the Christian God! 

 I stood one day not long ago on 

 Black Hawk's high Rock River crag; 

 and a few hours later traversed the 

 great armed camp at Rockford, where 

 forty thousand brave bronzed boys 

 were in training for the task of helping 

 trail the tiger to his lair beyond the 

 Rhine. I saw the Eighty-sixth Divi- 

 sion making ready for immediate ser- 

 vice overseas. They call themselves 

 the " Blackhawks." They have official 

 ly adopted the Indian word, or words, 

 that signify the old chief's name in his 

 native tongue, as their battle cry. 

 And so the spirit of a so-called savage 

 past has at last come to be invoked 

 in the common struggle in defense of 

 elemental human rights and liberties. 



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