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Pershing HonorsWoultStubbyBy SANFORD HAMILTON. Stubby was in the war. So was Richard. Stubby is alive. Pershing pinned a medal on him. Richard is dead. Sick and neglected, he killed himself. Stubby is a dog. Richard was only a worker.Here are the facts, from the New York “Times'' for July 7, -Washington, July 6.—Stubby, a brindle Boston bull terrier, whichput ojust f slaves Mr.compiBellMo.MagnMailt vertif “Reat nnce, ter tbus inserved overseas as mascot of the',*,lscomeAmerican Expeditionary Forces, wasrtoday decorated as a wounded heroi u vof the World War by General John . 0J. Pershing, Commandcr-in-Chief of,,n.im| wjvOJthe American forces in Europe duringthe Ito th “1who cnc j of him ariwho of 11 it w prob poin thatTtthecent!relipsoneauihon.prisile18e-Dfhehely terseatanymodvsn-*inueicrrotasthat war. /S ^ ^“In presenting the medal the Gen-eral made a little impromptu speech,' hut Stubby made no reply. He merely licked his chops and wagged his diminutive tail.“Washington, July 6.—Dr. Thomas W. Salmon of New York, who was a Colonel in the Medical Corps of the army during the war, testifying today before the Senate committee investigating the condition of wounded, ill. and otherwise disabled ex-soldiers, I jeavj made the statement that in 1920 400 former soldiers committed suicide in New York State.“Most of those unfortunate men,Dr. Salmon added, “would be alive today if they hud been given the proper attention.Richard was one of the four hundred. He was in a fly-by-night “contract hospital, of which there are all over the country 1,100, operated by money-making doctors. Business is business. Medical attention costs money. The leas attention, the more profit. Richard didn’t get the right treatment. He suffered and suffered till he couldn't put up with it any longer.He committed suicide.And Pershing, under whose command he was driven to the hellish horrors that shattered this health, is making speeches to dogs, pinning medals on bull terriers.How many Richards—candidates for suicide—are there in the country? Tubercular and mental cases alone total about 100,000. And thousands of them cannot get beds even in “contract hospitals. Of the 1,725 former soldiers who last year applied in New York for mental treatment only 300 were taken care of.And Pershing honors Stubby.Nero is supposed to represent thelowest dregs of vice of ancient Rome.He fiddled while Rome burned. He fiddled; he didn't make a speech to a dog. That honor waited two thousand years for a representative of our own gang of murderers by due process of law.Pershing honored Stubby? No! Stubby honored Pershing by wagging its tail at him.Stubby represents a higher standard of morality than Pershing. A dog will not fawn at a fellow dog, gain his confidence and then get a bite out of hi ill. If he wants to bite—he goes to it. But capitalists the world over cringed before the workers with golden promises when they needed them to fight their battles for profits.And now! You see how they treat us now. What are you going to *do about it?Are you going to let those man-eating hogs keep on ruling you? If you don’t care for yourself, is therenone whom you promised to love andprotect? None to whom, bringing them into the world, you owe protection?What stuff is it running in your veins that you are satisfied to be flattened under the heels of degenerates who honor dogs and drive to suicide the thousands who survived their butchery of millions?Workers of America, where is your manhood? \Forsionpriais s sev» S our son lett sho kne ack wh weplomelubthethrnnlt;bewilbet(wollt;chiscl\vtyewihath.feJK*diltawisofo61T1ww.
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The Toiler
Cleveland, Ohio, US
Sat, Jul 16, 1921
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