Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1918 — INVASION [ARTICLE]

INVASION

The last excuse of the pacifist has been brushed aside. The United States has been invaded—invaded by Germany. If there yet’ remains a single American citizen who is not willing to throw his all upon the alter of his country, that man should be banished from the land he dishonors. and disgraces.

Many people are asking the question, ‘ How can German submarines operate so far from a i»ase?” And they find no answer to their question unless it be that the base may not be so far away as* we suppose. Hun influence is almost supreme in a certain country on this continent, the people of which bear us no love, and a submarine base in that land would be no surprise. The sooner we awake to the fact that freedom’s enemies are in th» saddle and riding hard, the sooner will we take steps to bring those riders to a disastrous fall. While the Hun .is looming large in our view, let us not forget that there is, and has been, treachery much nearer home.