Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 110, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 May 1918 — Time All Loyal Americans Began to Pull Same Stroke to Win War [ARTICLE]

Time All Loyal Americans Began to Pull Same Stroke to Win War

By GEORGE W. SUTTON

of the Vigilantes

When anybody tells you: That the war is practically over; e . That the vast majority of American people are not for the war heart and soul; That our greatest enemies are the Japanese and we must expect hostilities with them within a few months or years; That England is the real instigator of the present war; And other circular matter of similar trend, he is a pro-German spreading German propaganda and should be put down immediately in your mind as an enemy. ’ v Already a tremendous number of Americans are beginning to lose faith and interest in our efforts, in the belief that the end of the war is really in sight This is simply the result of the united work of thousands of disloyal Boche and pro-Boche people in this country who masquerade as friends and who are ready and anxious to sacrifice the land which shelters them. 2 We hold these things to be self-evident: That we are fighting the most loathsome and contemptible foe that anybody —white, black or yellow —has ever fought. That he is not afraid of the million and a half men we shall send against him this year, but that he is afraid of the addition of the five or more millions we are going to send to strengthen the forces of those who already have the upper hand of him. That he knows he is beaten and is desperately trying to swindle the world into a peace which will leave him with some of the things he has stolen and without paying any of the price he owes for the abominable, cowardly things he has done. That this peace will be used to prepare for another outbreak of Kultur when the world , has been lulled into a sense of security and he has completed a new alignment of nations with which he thinks he can carry out his unholy plans. That he is in a fair way to accomplish these results unless the people—especially the laboring people—of the countries allied against him take a grip on themselves and settle down to the long task of beating him so that'he can never again dare to raise his hand against his betters. All our lives we have been encouraged to think only as individuals. That is one accompaniment of democracy. It is time all loyal Americans began to pull the same stroke, to put over this thing which must be put over. Hoist the pro-Boche with his own petard!