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AS TO SENDING TROOPS TO
EUPOPE.
Let Us Look Before We Lea*.
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Tn the Revolutionary War, our forefathers
volunteered.
The Battle of King's Mountain, which
turned the gloom of disaster into the dawn
of complete triumph, was altogether due to
the volunteers.
It was the volunteer who fought at Lex
ington and Bunker Hill.
It was the volunteer who caused the sur
render of Burgoyne: it was the volunteer
who staved with Washington at Valley Forge,
shivering in his rags, and almost as hungry
as a starved wolf.
It was the volunteer who rode with Ma
rion, Sumter, Horry. Clark, and gallant John
Sevier; and it was the volunteer who dragged
his tired limbs after Nathaniel Green, in the
Carolinas, until hi* tracks were red with the
blood of his bare feet.
It was the volunteer who beat the British
at the Battle of the Thames, and at New
(Means.
It was the volunteer who stormed the
heights at Corio Gordo, and won the victory
at Beuna Vista.
Why is it that such a flood of contempt is
suddenly poured over the volunteer system?
That system gave the very best soldiers to
the Armies of Lee and Grant, Johnston and
'■ Herman.
The Old Guard of Napoleon w 7 as made up
• f the picked volunteers of me Revolution;
rnd bis most brilliant victories were due to
t’ a men who came to the Tricolor, volun-
I rily, when the tocsin tolled, when the Mar
s*'iliaise was sung, and when the Revolution
ary Convention called.
ll7m Kit that is now beating the machine
tuddiers of Prussia?
It is the British volunteer!
England had no law of Conscription; yet
i!!) army of four millions and a half sprang to
the dolors, when Kitchener stamped bis foot.
Is it not so? It Is!
No man can deny it. Those soldiers who
ere now beating the Germans, man to man,
: re Englishmen who, three years ago. were
f !lowing the peaceful vocal ions of life, and
d not know 7 how to load ami shoot an army
ride.
Everybody know’s this, or ought to know 7 it;
but the Invisible Autocracy which has seized
our Government, and is pushing us into the
’Vorld War, controls the press so completely
that our people, have become hypnotized:
they v'Ont recognize facts.
HERE WE GO, DURN OUR FOOL SOI LS I
The War-bug has stung Mr. Average Man.
It has come to pass that Mr. Average Man
has temporarily surrendered his bead to those
i ligher Fp, and the head of Air. Average Man
is now little more than that mechanical part
of his anatomy where his food goes in, and
where his hat goes on.
Mr. Average Man has dug up the war
hatchet, has mixed his pot of vermilion war
paint, has bedecked his head with eagle
feathers, and has Hung his feet into the War
1 lance.
Mr. Average Man has forgotten all of his
Sunday-school lessons, all of his pious
mother’s teachings, all of his good resolutions,
all of his turn-the-other-eheek Christianity.
Ills preacher did It, first.
WHO IS IT THAT CLAMORS “CONSCRIPTION?”
The fellows who are too old and too rich
to be conscripted, are yelling for conscrip
tion.
Millionaire Jones howls for the conscrip
tion of the sons of farmer Brown.
Millionaire Morgan, w 7 ho lias no son, furi
ously demands that Congress conscript the
only boy of tho Widow Smith.
THE JEFFERSONIAN
And so it goes. Money-mad Corporations
don’t fight: they cat blood-puddings, while
the sons of the people fight.
The Grandees of Special Privilege don’t
fight: they sit on bags of gold, while the un
derling unprivileged de the lighting.
Will the War kill out any of the Robber
Trusts, any of our Bloodsucking Speculators,
any of our Barons of ('lass Legislation?
No: not one: on the contrary, this brood of
vampires will increase.
DOES AUTOCRATIC POWER CONSTITUTE AUTOC
RACY ?
Give some thought to the astounding de
mands that the Government has made for
more poire r.
We never had a President who dragooned
Congress so relentlessly for despotic au
thority. as Wilson does.
The President has officially, approved the
bills which demand a huge army, and he
wanted to be vested with, autocratic power
over the war.
He says that he personally has no objection
to criticism; but lie officially favors a bill
which would annul the Constitutional guaran
tees of free speech and free press.
He discourses melodiously in behalf of
liberty, endangered ???. Europe, and at the
same time he demands that be invested
with a dictatorship’
Mr. Lincoln never asked for any such au
tocratic power during the Civil War, and
General Washington never sought it during
the Revolution.
Tn this country, we really have no more
war than we have been having, ever since
August 1914; but the President is acting like
an absolute Kaiser, whose throne is threat
ened by the embattled universe.
How can you explain it?
AVhat’s beneath it all ?
Is there a nigger in the woodpile?
IT USED TO TAKE TWO TO MAKE A FIGHT !
Germany has not paid the slightest atten
tion to our Declaration of Voir.
Had you noticed that!
Indeed, the German government has re
peal edily said, since our War Dance com
menced, that it did not intend to make war
upon us.
Far be it from me to say that the German
government i-n’t the biggest liar on earth,
for it Is; but. in this case, the facts bear out
the German statement.
The flower of the German army is being
withered on the front, in Northern France;
there isn’t a spare soldier anywhere that Ger
many could use against us.
Isn’t that true? If not, tell me where that
spare soldier lurks. He doesn't exist.
But I am told that the German submarines
sank one of our ships, awhile back; and that
another German submarine fired a tube at
another one of our vessels, and came within
30 yards of hitting it.
Very well; isn’t that what Germany was
doing before the November elections, when
tho German ambassador was the honored
table-guest of Vice-President Marshall?
When the German ambassador was wel
comed at the President’s New 7 Jersey home,
last Summer, weren’t his hands dripping with
the blood of the Lusitania massacre?
They certainly were.
Why w’as it that ‘‘Before’* and “After tak
ing." made such a difference?
Before the election, our Government vir
tually said to our tourists and our merchant
men. “If you cross into the War Zone, you
must take your own chances.”
After the election, and before a month of
Wilson’s second term had passed, our Govern
ment suddenly and completely reversea the
lever.
Why?
OTHER NEUTRALS TREATED THE SAME AS WE.
Last week, the neutral speculators of Nor
way lost 37 of their ships, which were run-
ning tJic Ceman blockade.
Did Norway declare war ? No.
Nearly every week, the neutral .< peculators
of Spain lose ships, trying to ran the German
blockade.
Has Spain declared war? No.
Holland and Sweden have al-o 10-t hund
reds of vessels, engaged In th< edeety neutral
trade, upon which our Specuiaha- have built
such stupendous fortunes: but Holland and
Sweden do not join us in declaring war.
WHAT HAVE WE TO FEAR FROM GERMANY ?
I have had friend- to tell me that Ger
many. if it won the War. would next attack
No doubt these friends sincerely believe
this: but will such an idea, liear examination?
Let us see:
The War must either end in the exhaustion
of all belligerents, or in a decisive victory sot
one side.
If it ends in mutual exhaustion, we cer«
tainly have nothing to fear.
If the British-French-Italian alliance wins,
we are in no danger.
If the (German-Austrian-Bulgarian-Turk
alliance wins, what shape will that alliance bt
left in?
Germany alone has already lost 1.300,000
of her best soldiers: Austria, more than that
number: and Turkey, at least 500.000.
With what force could Germany attack us?
To begin with less than a million, would
be foolhardy: and if she put an army id
America, her European foes would, immedi
ately take advantage of it. and attack her.
How can she transport an army across the
ocean ?
Her submarines have not affected the
British fleet, in the least, nor can they do so,
And what would our fleet be doing, were
a German army crossing over?
THE kaiser’s DREAM ’
But I am told that it has been discovered,
that the Kaiser was dreaming of traversal
Empire, and that his “Berlin to Bagdad”
schemes reveal a mighty plot against Every*
thing and Everybody.
Dear me.’ Let’s talk about it:
The German railroad into Asia Minor nm
questionably meant German expansion into
Mesopatania, into the valley of the Eu#
phrates, and into the regions of the Persian
Gulf; but what of it ?
We have expanded somewhat, haven’t me?
We benevolently absorbed the Hawaian
Islands, the Philippine Thousand Isles, and
the Panama Canal Zone; we virtually govers
Cuba and San Domingo: and we exercise a
military control over the greater part of Cen>
tral America.
Surely, it need not concern as, if Gert
many wants to colonize the vast barrens of
Asia, and redeem them to cultivate and popuA
lation.
Great Britain asked us no questions, when
she absorbed Egypt. Africa. India, and es*
tablished a sort of protectorate over Turkey.
'What do we care about these Asiatic and
African provinces?
It doesn’t matter to us which of the civi
lized European nations govern them.
The purpose of each is the same, namely)
commerce, profits. power and wealth.
It is a free race for them all: let the Devil
catch the hindmost.
It's not our business.
TAKE A LONG LOOK. AHEAD.’
.J
What bothers me most. is. the harvest.
Ihe world was forced, by its Rothchilds,
its Morgans, its Rockefellers, and its Bond*
holders generally, to adopt gold, as the only)
money of final payment.
Os this money, less than eight bdllon dol
lars exist: whereas, the War debt w hich must
finally be paid in gold or its equivalent.
*, d1 .us itlun sight of one hundred
billions.
Thursday. May 10. 1917,