The Kadoka press and Kadoka reporter. [volume] (Kadoka, S.D.) 1910-1923, 1917-10-12
WsseIu Newspaper Union News Service
SOME M'AOOO EPlGRAMS.

submarine edict, we were faced with
cowardly submission or valiant de.
Tense of our vital rights and it was
as selfreSpecting and brave people
that we chose to fight.
We can never concede to an alien
despot the right to order America from
the high seas.
America never was craven America
never was yellow and she never will
be.
The $3.400,000, 900 in United States
exports in the last fiscal year resulted
from the sale of our farm products
and our mines and factories and we
were prosperous. but we enjoyed free
dom of the seas without which we
would have been demoralized and in
state of panic.
Had we submitted instead of fight
ing, one stroke of the kaiser's pen
would have wrought more destruction
to us than all the armies and navies
of Germany could do in fifty years.
The first thing we have to do is to
support our valiant soldiers and sail.
ors on the battlefelds and high seas,
and billions are required for that.
Gentlemen, this is no pink tea affair.
We are going to keep the stars and
stripes undefeated in the skies as we
have kept them undefeated on land
and water.
The Liberty bonds are based on the
greatest, the most matchless, the most
unquestioned security on the face of
Gods green earth.
We cannot follow the example of
the German kaiser and turn out money
by working the printing presses of
this country.
There is no higher act of treason
than that of the man who is against
the majority in the war.
have three sons. They are in the
navy. If they were not serving their
country l would not tell you ! had any
sons
We are building an American fight
ing machine with American soldiers
backed by American dollars with a
bayonet long enough to reach to Ber
lin and pierce the heart of the HOhen-
zollerns.
The blood of any man who says that
American went to war without justi-
ficatiOn is streaked with yellow
There is sinister influence behind
every peace movement launched in
this country at this time, be the in
tentions of its propogandists sincere
or otherwise.
Peace? Peace? There can be no
peace until autocracy or democracy
is crushed.
Sioux City, Ia.-War profits, taken
by farmers through high prices OF
foodstuffs, should make up a large
portion of the second issue of the
Liberty bonds. William G. McAdoo,
secretary OF the treasury, told Sioux
Cityans and thousands from the farm
ing territory In three states adjacent
to Sioux City.
Mr.. McAdoo in Sioux City opened
new line of campaigning in the in
terest of the Liberty loan. He took
up the war from the standpoint of
the farmer and dwelt at length on the
economic situation.
In a terse manner which could not
be misunderstood, even 70 those of
national prominence, Mr. McAdoo bit
terly scored the so called pacifists.
He said the man who aligned himself
against the majority on war ques-
ton was a traitor of the most de-
spicable nature.
II want the farmers of this coun-
try to take a large part of this loan"
said Mr. McAdoo. They can afford
to do it. Wheat fields are said to
be golden at harvest time, but | must
say that the corn of northern Iowa
as | was it from my car window
cleaned with a golden hue.
Farmers have benefited by the
prosperity of this time as much as
any other class and | thank God that
they have been benefited. for the
farmer never has got any too much,
Farmer Escaped Before.
when the first bond issue was
made | expressly directed that the
farmer should not be solicited at that
time because he was planting his
crops; he was borrowing money un-
der the stimulus or advice from the
department of agriculture and the
treasury and earnest solicitation OF
President Wilson to make a greater
crop than he had ever made before.
II did not think it fair to the farmer
at that time to press him for loans.
But now that the crops have been har-
vested, or will have been harvested
before this loan drive is over the
farmer has the opportunity of getting
the most splendid investment on the
face Of the earth. and while doing it,
to help maintain our armies in the
field and carry our Cause OF vital
rights and world liberty TO a success.
full conclusion.
NO one class can win this war.
The rich cannot do IL alone and 1t
never would do for us to let them
do II il they could