July 4th, 1917 
W I S C O N S I N HORTICULT U R E 
SPECIAL EDITION 
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Lincoln’s Gettysburg- Address. 
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this 
continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the 
proposition that all men are created equal. 
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that na- 
tion, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. 
We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to 
dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting-place for those who 
here gave their lives that the nation might live. It is altogether fit- 
ting and proper that we should do this. But in a larger sense, we cannot 
dedicate, we cannot consecrate — we cannot hallow — this ground. The 
brave men, living and dead, who struggled here have consecrated it, 
far above our poor power to add to or detract. The world will little 
note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget 
what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated 
here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far 
so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the 
great task remaining before us — that from these honored dead we take 
increased devotion to that cause for which they gave us the last full 
measure of devotion — that we here highly resolve that these dead shall 
not have died in vain — that this nation, under God, shall have a new 
birth of freedom and that government of the people, by the people, 
for the people, shall not perish from the earth. 
stand how our minds were pois- 
oned. 
Noav is there anyone among us 
so trusting as to believe that this 
widespread, carefully organized 
and well paid espionage (poison) 
gang suddenly quit work on April 
6th? Has any one asked you this 
question: “Why should we send 
our troops to France?” If so, 
try to remember who first asked 
you this question and trace it 
back of the questioner, if you can. 
Frederic Cranefield. 
A Few Examples of German 
“Kultur.” 
The Lusitania, 1,300 lives lost 
including 130 American men, 
women and children. 
The murder of Captain Frvatt, 
commander of an English mer- 
chant ship. Captain Frvatt acted 
in defense of the lives and prop- 
erty in his charge by attempting 
to ram the submarine which at- 
tacked him. He was taken to 
Germany and shot to death. 
The cowardly murder of Edith 
Cavell, a Red Cross nurse in Bel- 
gium, the foulest act in the his- 
tory of civilized peoples. 
The shooting of civilians in Bel- 
gium. 
Zeppelin raids on unprotected 
towns in England, killing women 
and children bv hundreds. 
The recent air raid on London. 
These are a few of the things 
coming our way unless we send 
troops to France, send them in 
overwhelming numbers and send 
them quickly. 
“I pledge allegiance to the Flag, 
And to the Republic for which 
it stands; 
One nation, indivisible, 
With Liberty and Justice for 
all.” 
The Story of An American. 
This is a story of a real Ameri- 
can — and a testimonial for Uncle 
Sam. Four years ago Richard Pro- 
kop, 18 years old, was living with 
his parents in Bohemia. When he 
was seven years old, a young man 
in his native village came to Amer- 
ica, land of freedom and opportu- 
nity, and the boy had read over 
many times the letters which came 
back from Antigo, Wisconsin. 
The day he became 18 he, too, 
started for America, and because 
he knew nothing of this country ex- 
cept that Antigo, Wisconsin, was 
the place where his friend had 
found his fortune, he purchased a 
ticket for that city when he landed 
in New York. 
He had $12 when he arrived in 
the Wisconsin city. He found a 
job at once, with the Antigo Gas 
Co. Then he worked six months in 
a logging camp. He then turned 
to farm work. 
Three years ago he went to Prai- 
rie du Sac, in Sauk county, and 
when the president fixed June 5 as 
the day for registration he was 
working on a farm near that city. 
Decides to Enlist 
He placed his name on the roll of 
honor, and went back to his work, 
but that did not seem to be enough. 
He thought it over that night, and 
the next morning notified his em- 
ployer that he was going to enlist. 
He came to Madison on June 6 
and enlisted in the regular army 
for the war. He asked for time to 
go back to Prairie du Sac and ar- 
range his affairs, and this was 
granted. 
When he returned to Madison to- 
day he brought with him a draft 
for $650. his savings for four years. 
And he kept $50 for himself, and 
