The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-04-07
The Hour Has Struck
Prussia is not a people who have an army
it is an army who have a =

The United States is at war today with this power so forcibiy and
so accurately described as can army who have a people" ms army
with a people has been making wal upon this republic populary Mo"n
in history and to the world as THE Cradle OF Liberty. IN I" - q"e
i'll keeping with the history of military despctisms that the asSaut "Po"
the cradle of liberty should have come from that government Known a
An army who have a people.
President Wilson told the truth in his message to congress last
night. 1t isn't now a question of plunging the country into war; IT
is a question of whether we will longer submit tamey to beng warreo
upon. No declaration of wal" is necessary. All that is necessary Is
list to formally recognize IN existing fact, That is !" III congress
is asked to declare, and such a formal recognition OF eNstmg tact Is
necessary before this country can legally defend itself; before II Can
meet warfare with warfare; meet treason, plotting m the e'ho
of the foreign spy with the effective treatment tina the a d var
fare alone provide. And the hour has struck.
President Wilson made It clear in his message that no action is
intended against Austria Hungary or the other nations allied with
GERMANY in the present war. He made it clear that our grievance is
not against the German people, but against the imperial government
that has set itself over them.
When peace between Germany and the nations already opposed to
her is declared it will mean a new code of international law I've
government that finally dictates peace will dictate the new ia"' TIT
upon which the world may remain at peace.
Shall we, the nation that gave free government tic tn wor!a' III
like towards and deeenerates while France and others defend the ideals
that, Jointly with France, we gave to the world! AND whhe heeo ome
deadGest foe murders our own people and drives our commerce from
the sea by weapons outside the pale of law and whose use Is Justheo
only by the apology that Necessity knows NJ law? IT the freedom
of the sea- is subject to the ruthless piracy of the submarine IN IN
hands of a nation ruled by a military despot whose family history IS
history of war; whose ambition is conquest; whose ideals OF glory LII
the glory of battle; whose ideal of liberty is the liberty 70 conquer ue
world and to rule it by divine right"|f we re to remain passive
while this is achieved, then indeed VIII te Dood spheu H D"Ne I'm
and Lexington and Valley Forge and Yorktown have been spilled !"
vain.
IF the freedom of the seas, if the terms upon which the world may
be at peace be left to the Prussian military caste that threw into thu
fire az a "scrap of paper a treaty it had signed, and then raped eel
pium and took the flower of her manhood and won1anhood, at the point
of the bayonet, to involuntary servitude in Germany; if the sons and
the grandsons of the men who died at Antietam, and GETTYSBURG and
Vicksburg, and Chcamaugra sit doing like dastards while this dot
on civilization endures-and make excuses for it while the same mill
tay clique that did il is plotting to divide or own country and appor-
tiOn it TO the bandits of Mexico and the empire OF lapan-then will the
blood that w spilled on American soil to Danish human slavery from
the earth have been spilled in vain.
The Tribune will rejoice for a nation of people with n o use or
need " tolerance for an army. But while there exists on the same
globe with the Cradle of liberty" an "Army who have a people" a
government that continues to teach the old doctrine that "The normal
occupation of man is war, while this exists the cradle of liberty" must
be protected and defended, at all times and with vigilance, by A PEG
PIE WITH AN ARMY.