The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1917-07-27

Kaiser was off-handed with the Jap
anese, and see what he got for it. He
i said he would make the German name
feared in China, but the only name
they do not fear in China is the Ger
man. The German Ambassador tried
his hand on Roosevelt, but had to
back down again. A German admir-
al took particular pains to be nasty
to Admiral Dewey in Manila
Bay, but he had to back into OBJ
security. The German naval officer
used to drink to "the day" when they
would send the British navy to the
bottom of the sea. We are at war
because German officials have an
noyed and brow-beaten everybody and
carried chip on the shoulder until
somebody must knock it off. We are
at war to knock it off. The situation
resolved itself to this The world had
to lick the Germans or be enslaved by
the Germans, and that is why we are
at war. Under the German Kaiser
the Turks started numbering Chris
tians again. We are at war to stop
| that.
We are at war because the govern
ment forces of Germany are malig-
nant liars and assassins of women and
children. We are at war because the
German autocracy forced their ODE
dent soldiers to cut down apple trees
lin France for fear French child
might eat an apple. We are at war
because the German cruiser shot
down the American flag in American
waters and threw breadstuff into the
sea, and we ought to have been at
war with them the day after it hap
pened. We are at war because the
Germans deliberately sank a passen-
ger ship with the loss of over hun
bred American men, women and chill
dren.
We are at war with Germany be-
cause the people of this country know
when they have had enough. We had
more than enough Of German official
insolence. The patience of Job was
not fraction to the patience of Will
son. The German government thought
they were dealing with dumb animals.
They thought the worm would not
turn. They sank our ships deliber-
ately and without warning and thought
our people would accept it as joke.
They had a playful way of turning
guns on a few sailors trying to es-
cape from the torpedoed vessels.
When we were at peace with them
they conspired to turn other nations
against us and we caught them in the
act. We are at war because we do
not intend to allow them to conquer
France. We are at war because we
are going to force them to make res
titution to Belgium. We are at war
because we are going to force them
to get out Of the Grand Duchy of Lux
| emburg, and we are at war because
we will make them restore and re-
pair the independent country Of Ser
via.
We are at war with them in France
because we do not want to wait until
they have troops to send to Massa-
| chusetts. We are at war with the
German autocrats because they are in
human brutes, and we are not going
to have the Germans who came to
America for freedom disgraced by
them. We are at war with them until
they can make no submarines. We
are at war with them until they will
not have material left to make a
zeppelin. We are at war with them
until the business of organized muir
der and piarchy is lost art, so far
as the German junker autocracy is
concerned, and we ought to be at war
until all the professional murderers of
the German government obtain the
punishment they deserve. In diplo-
| of InY1 loo q
make the world safe for democracy,
which means that the military autoc-
racy of Germany will have to be re-
duced to helplessness, even if in doing
so it is necessary to kill every soldier
in Germany in order to have peace in
the world. D18di
In conclusion, we are at war for the
purpose of releasing the German ma
ton from the curse of militarism, and
no one knows better what that means
than the Germans who have found ref
uge in the United States of America.
Note by the Editor.-This article is
written in sorrow and not in anger.
For nearly three years we have al
lowed the daily and weekly newspa-
pers to tell the people about the war.
LIE udlly newspapers nave neSleCIeu
their opportunities, and this article
is forced from US in answer to the
positive question, which was: "Why
did the United States butt in on this
WARP" The question shows that an
answer is necessary. This country
stayed out Of the war until Washing
ton, Patrick Henry, Jefferson, Lincoln
and Mckinley were turning in their
graves. We are at war with the Ger
man government for the same reason
that we are at war with wolves and
snakes. If we do not tame them
they will kill us. We are at war be-
cause if we were not at war we would
be ashamed to look each other in the
face.-Greenville journal.
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