Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 53, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 October 1914 — "See America First." [ARTICLE]

"See America First."

Have you tried to sell your neighbor All the products of your labor, Do the people round about you buy your shoes? Of the goods that you are making Are you certain they are taking All that they will ever want or ever use? You go reaching out for orders, I nto far off, foreign borders Your clever, busy salesmen yearly roam; Now the war that’s on off yonder Gives you double cause to ponder, Are you doing all you could do here at home? Are yon every minute filling Seeking franc and mark and shilling. While the dollar's lying idle at your gates? Are you sure your tale's been told to, Are your products have been sold to Every customer in these United States? Now in Europe bombshells hurtle Over fields that once were fertile And there isn’t any business 'cross the foam; Don’t you think some grit and muscle,. You could do more than you’re doing here at home? Here's a nation big and splendid, By the arts of peace defended, Here’s the heaven of the merchantmen of trade; Here's the home of honest labor; Why not cultivate your neighbor? Why not sell to him the products you have made? Why pass up the fertile home town For the far across the foam-town? Why for business must you tap at foreign gates? There is much more that you could do. There is much more that you would do If you'd give your time to these United States. ; —Detroit Free Press.