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America IN A War WuicH THREAT- 
ENS EXISTENCE, SAys J. FRANK- 
tin Bass oF HAVERHILL. 
“You would think this was was a 
summer picnic from the way the 
average American talks about it,” 
said Rev. J. Franklin Babb at the 
Memorial day exercises in Town hall, 
Manchester, on Wednesday evening. 
“Take off that pleasant smile, . stop 
that silly talk about the war not last- 
ing long and that your boy won't 
have to go. It is going to take three 
years and an army of 3,000,000 men 
in the trenches of Europe before it is 
over. And it is going to cost $20,- 
000,000,000 of money. You couldn’t 
make the people believe the Civil War 
would last over a month until men 
dropped dead running away from the 
battlefield of Bull Run. We won't 
wake up until a German boat bom- 
bards Boston harbor. I hope it will, 
and the sooner the better. But Ger- 
mary is too wise to do that. 
“Tet us look the facts in the face. 
Russia is out of the war for two 
years. She is having troubles of her 
own; she is going through the birth- 
pains of a new nation. Whatever her 
condition she is inexpressibly better 
off than under the Romanoffs, but the 
Allies are not. France has her last 
man at the front now, Every man 
who is killed or wounded means a 
gap in the line. She is suffering from 
anemia. 1 doubt if the Almighty 
could break the heart of France, but 
she is bled dry. England—well, all 
the reports come from England. She 
says she controls the seas—the Ger- 
mans control the seas with the sub- 
marine! She says Germany’s navy is 
hiding out of sight. Well, where is 
hers. Over one million tons of ship- 
ping were sunk last month and there 
are only 50 million tons afloat. Let’s 
stop fooling and think! It looks bad. 
The German devils are not fussy what 
they do. Their latest annuncio is that 
all hospital ships will be sunk. They 
have already sent eight to the bottom. 
If that is culture, I prefer to be a bar- 
barian. We have nothing that will 
combat the submarine. If we had, 
they wouldn’t talk about ie Thats ne 
port was only soothing syrup for the 
mothers of the boys who were going 
across. 
“Why is it so hard to make the 
average man feel patriotic? He has 
been robbed until he has not respect 
left for a government which permits 
the things which have been allowed 
in this country. We have let men 
steal all of our natural resources and 
now they have got control of the 
sources of food production and con- 
sumption and they are going to take 
your hides. 
“Do you wonder why men won't 
enlist and leave their families to be 
robbed by the men who cry ‘patriot- 
isn’ and stay at home to make more 
money? The man who speculates in 
food or any other necessity at this 
time isn’t fit to play in the same yard 
with the spirit of Benedict Arnold— 
wherever it may be. Men are not 
going to enlist to protect men who are 
getting rich while they are getting 
killed. 
“You have heard William Jennings 
Bryan speak on the ‘Prince Of \Peaces, 
haven’t you? William said a million 
men would fly to arms over night in 
case of war. Someone asked him, 
‘whose arms?’ They didn’t fly so you 
could notice it, did they? And now 
Congress has appropriated a big lot 
of money to fight the war. It can’t be 
too much if they spend it for you, but 
if you let them spend it as they have 
during the past ten years while you 
have been so busy making money, we 
won't get far. You have been satis- 
fied if you had a bank account and 
enough left over for a good time. 
Your motto has been, ‘God. help me 
to cut my neighbor’s throat and use 
his blood for fertilizer. Now you 
are reaping what you sowed. lf you 
had listened two years ago to certain 
men you would have had an army of 
three million men today and a war 
machine which would have swept 
Germany off the map when war was 
declared. Do you think the Lusitainia 
would have been sunk if we had an 
army like that? We have had Con- 
gressman Gardner for two years fight- 
ing a lone fight, going up and down 
the country telling the people to pre- 
pare, until he nearly got nervous pros: 
tration. -Now we are going to spend 
seven billions in a lump when the 
same amount spread over the two 
years would have given us a fully 
equipped army. 
“We are at war. Any man who 
tries to stop the sale of a liberty bond 
or prevent the enlistment of a soldier 
is a dirty traitor and should be treated 
as such. The copperheads cost us 
more than southern bullets in the 
Civil War. Now, we call them paci- 
Gsts. No man today has the right to 
‘nterfere with or nullify the efforts 
of the nation to finish this war as 
soon as possible.” 
Mr. Babb spoke of the fairness of 
selective conscription and urged the 
selective conscription of incomes as 
well. “Why shouldn’t the people with 
‘mmense incomes pay the expenses of 
the others who are going out to fight 
for them?” he asked. “Take John 
D. Rockefeller, for instance, I would 
3 NORTH SHORE BREEZE and Reminder 17 
MEMORIAL DAY PARADE 
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BiccEst DEMONSTRATION IN YEARS 
Hrip IN MANCHESTER ON 
WEDNESDAY. 
There were over 350 in line for the 
big parade held in Manchester on 
Memorial Day. The column was head- 
ed by a squad of police and the: Pro- 
gresso band of Gloucester. The Man- 
chester troop of Boy Scouts with 35 
in line followed; 56 members of the 
home guard were next in line and 42 
members of Col. H. P.. Woodbury 
camp, S. of V., were next. Allen 
post, G. A. R., had 14 of its 15 living 
members in the parade. The proces- 
sion marched from G. A. R. hall te 
the Summer st, ceemtery where eight 
graves were decorated, thence through 
Washington, North and School sts. to 
the Union cemetery. Here ten graves 
were decorated with flowers and 
wreaths. At Rosedale cemetery 76 
graves were honored. Wreaths were 
placed on 16 unknown graves. 
oAtter thes. AcoR: ritual and the 
invocation by Rev. A. G. Warner the 
column returned through School st. 
to the Town wharf where 30 mem- 
bers. of Allen Relief corps were gath- 
ered for the service in honor of the 
sailor dead: Arbella girls and school 
children to the number of 150 assist- 
ed at the exercise. — 
A band concert was held on the 
Common following the exercises. 
only take 99 million dollars a year 
fron him. That would leave him one 
million a year, and as John lives on 
crackers and milk he ought to be able 
to get along. I don’t believe in con- 
fiscation, but I think everything but 
enough to run his business ought to 
be taken from any man who says it is 
necessary for him: to stay home and 
look after his buisness interests, Ii 
there is any justice in the present 
draft, no man will be able to buy a 
substitute. If he is worth a_ billion 
dollars and is drafted, he will have to 
go and fight.” 
He said the war would do away 
with kings by right of descent. 
The hall was filled for the exercises 
with members of Allen post, 67, G. 
A. R., Col. H. P. Woodbury camp, 
S. of V., and Allen Relief corps. 
Many others attended. The invoca- 
tion was given by Rev. A. G. Warner 
and the “general orders” of the com- 
mander in chief were read by Edwin 
P. Stanley. He also read General 
Logan’s orders of May 5, 1868. Lin- 
coln’s Gettysburg address was deliv- 
ered by Mark Sinnicks. | Selections 
by the Schubert quartet were inter- 
spersed among the other numbers and 
were much appreciated, 
