The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-04-26

thinking men that the United States
could not allow autocracy, represent
ed by Germany, to become the dom
inant force in the world, and that
sooner or later we must fight her.
Such men were denounced as
''British agents" "war maniacs" and
persons that wanted to have our
boys sent to the front to be slaught'
ered."
When Germany murdered the Lusi-
tania passengers, when she persisted
in her monstrous policy of murder,
when 1t was plain that all attempts
to reason with mad dog would be
futile, when, on January 81, she pro-
claimed the savagers, she had long
spracticed, all thinking men said again
and again that this meant war for
the United States and that not mo-
ment should be lost in getting ready
for the inevitable.
Such men we're denounced as de-
PRAYED advocates of brute force and
impenetrable by the sweet allure,
ments of arbitration and the dreams
VI w. y. bryan.
At every stage in this progression.
Those That Can't had their way.
This newspaper, with others, advo-
Gated universal military training.
Every attempt to bring congress to
its senses on that subject was
blocked. More than year ago, the
Bismarck Tribune pointed out that
the essential development of infan-
try practice in the great war was the
machine gun. that this country had
no effective machine guns and should
proceed at once to get some. Many
times we urged that the army should
be made efficient and the navy
should be put in its best shape to
meet the stormy days that threat.
ened US. ia q. go
The Men That Can't were able to
beat all that .-,.r 4--
Today, where is the American that
does not wish the Men That Can had
been listened to and the Men That
Can't suppressed? ~ ~
We are caught, just as we might
have known we shodld be. 49,.
A few days ago we started out, a
year late to get In hurry some
Of those effective machine guns that
this newspaper advocated. We found
that months would be needed to sup.
ply our requirements.
There is not move we make in
this crisis that is not hampered.
famed and cursed. by the founder
ings. the stupidity and the ignorance
of the Men That Can't.
ers Own in this country, the Ameri'
can Hindenburg brigade, the German
reservists in and out of congress, to
prevent the things just as necessary
to our success, honor and safety as
were the machine guns, the citizens
army, the navy preparation and the
other things advocated by the Men
That Can.
1t is that as soon as possible, with
the utmost CELEBRITY, we should have
American troops upon the western
battle front.
We have regulars enough and to
spare, they are perfectly trained and
perfectly equipped, the best soldiers
in the world. Nothing is needed but
transportation and supply organiza'
ton, and in ten days an American
contingent will be thrilling the whole
allied front, from the English chan
mel to Mesopotamia, with indescrib-
able enthusiasm. ,t.s
THE MEN THAT CAN'T HAVE
ALREADY INFLICTED UPON THIS
COUNTRY AM INJURY HUGE
ENOUGH FOR ALL TIME. THEY
SHOULD NOT EE ALLOWED TO
DO us ANY MORE HARM.
Let them waggle their poor jaws
and mutter their nonsense and walk
their little circles. II they will, but
let them do it in c0nvOcations Of
their own kind. Let them listen to
themselves and have no other hear
ers, for the things they preach are
folly and destruction.
If they will do nothing to help, let
them get out of the way!
The democracies against the auto
cracies. NO MORE KINGS. NO
MORE WARS! And the Swift Punch
does the Business.