Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 230, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 October 1917 — WE MUST PAY. [ARTICLE]

WE MUST PAY.

We must pay. We have not yet begun to pay as the pepole of Europe have had to pay in work and money. We must sacrifice. We have barely touched with our lips the cup of sacrifice which our friends and our enemies in Europe have drained almost to the dregs. We are fighting to keep what our fathers at Valley Forge were fighting to win for us. Which of us has walked in their bloody footsteps? Do we refuse these sacrifices? Consider, then, the Hohenzollem victorious and dictating what we shall pay! Does any one dream that he would show us mercy? The Prussian who conquered Denmark in 1864; Austria, Saxony, Bavaria, Hanover, Wurteemberg and Hesse in 1866, and France in 1870— the Prussian who has covered every agre of ground that he has conquered in this war with blackness and horror—that Prussian, if victorious yonder, will come here and we shall pay in blazing homes, in children slain and worsen violated. There was an American once that said to the pirates of the Mediterranean: “Millions for defense but not one cent for tribute.” There was such an America. And now —? President Indiana University. WILLIAM LOWE BRYAN,