New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-09-14
SILENCE SEDITION
WITH BULLET SAYS
EARNEST FATHER
ONLY THING NOW is TO
WIN THIS WAR WITH THE
SMALLEST POSSIBLE sA-
CRIFICE, OF ARMS, LEGS,
AND LIVES OF OUR BOYS

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The mouth of sedition shoulc
be shut by a bullet.
| am not boiling with rage, Mr.
Editor. | am not even excited. The
point is this-my son, my only child
in prompt response to his country's
duly sounded cali, is to-day headed
for the French trenches, there to be
the target for German bullets. Every
voice raised here at home, t. dis
courage Others from going with him
they to back him and he to back
them, and 50 to make their mighty
work success at the least sacrifice
to any, increases the chance, already
considerable, that he will never come
back to his mother and me. I thinl,
that that voice ought to be stilled
before his has Observation-Disclosures.
The great thing is that until the
world rids itself of nations organic
ed into beasts oil prey no mans home
is worth building No mans business
is worth pursuing. No mans wife
or his Graded baby, getting a breath
of fresh air in the street in front Of
his house, is safe from rape or death,
No War Is popular"
have often heard it remarked that
this war is unpopular. What war
ever was popular" except to the
greed, lust and ambition that caused
it What war ever was popular to
people who want to live in the en-
joyment of peace, order and liberty?
The word popular" in connection
with war is despicable. But never
before has there been war where
the principle of individual liberty, the
right to make home, to go about
freely, to do ones lawful business
interruption, to protect ones
women and children against the bar
barity of lust and murder, has been
so definitely presented to the Amer
ican people as it is presented to us
to-day. Lexington and Concord were
not SO bad as this. The issue that
brought us into conflict with one an
other sixty years ago was not so
bad as this.
Not Popular! Do you suppose that
,ivemillions of fathers like myself
would permit our boys to be taken
away from us, hustled into barges
and then planted straight in the way
of bullets and bombs and killing
,tenches if we didn't think it was
heir duty to go and our duty to
Irgc them to go? Do you suppose
hat we five millions would permit
| handful of men down in Washing
on to impose upon us billions of
axes for us to pay next year if we
lidn't think they ought to do it and
hat we ought to pay? If the war
vas unpopular, do you suppose that
We would leave the manifestation of
hat fact to rabble on a street
,orner in Butte or onBroadway
Must Teach German People
What is the use of trying to keep
lp home and to conduct a busi
less. farm, a profession, to earn
living that will content your wife
md educate your children, if you
lave got to spend half of what your
abor earns and, to the interruption
# your business, spend years of
Our life creating military equip
nents and performing military SER
ice in order to be ready to beat
ONE ravenous beast. that is watching
or the right time to spring at you? |
he German people must now get
he sense of this, at whatever cost |
o them or us. They are response
lie. They don't have to have the |
1ohenzollerns and the German mill
ary autocracy unless they want
or unless they mean what their god
ess rulers mean. They are not obliged
o have William and his scheme any
1ore than we have been obliged to /
ave our Presidents, from Washing
on to Wilson. No blacksmith ever
hod a horse, no farmer titled field .
o better result than is got when our
Presidents speaks the mind of the
american people in his answer to the
'ope telling the German people that
efore this war can end the purposes
or which they have permitted their
rmies to be sent out must be defi-
itely abandoned.
Only One Ques stion Now
| don't care what anybody said a
ear ago about England l might
hen have agreed with a whole lot
f it, even if he had started with
William the Conqueror and had never
topped until the day when the Ger
lans invaded Belgium. | don't care
that men said a year ago about cap
alists and money power and the en-
ros chment of intrenched wealth on
ne rights of the unprotected poor.
might then have agreed with most
{ what they said, even though l
light not have been able to agree
18th all they suggested in remedy.
ut the only thing before this coun-
" now is how to win this war
18th the smallest possible sacrifice
the arms, legs, lives of the boys
lat marched down Fifth Avenue
esterday; of the arms, legs, lives
those who are marching from
throughout the country
, points of training and departure
,r Europe; of the wealth that is
lie sustenance of American industry
nd that earns bread and butter to !
eep them in the field and to keep !
leir wives and children. their fathers
I'd mothers, their dependents and
lose on whom they may have to
epend from distress an starvation |
hat is the only question before the
eople of this country just now.
Make Traitor Pay With Life q,
Only at the risk of his life should ,
~ man be permitted to say or do
thing that imperils the success of {
ir cause in this war Only at the c
SIX OF his life should any man be
to say things or do things {