The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-10-04
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WHERE DID NOt STAND FOR
THREE YEARS:


Manufacturers Record; As one reveia.
tion after another N made OF Germany
and Austria'S perndy. and the public
begins 10 awaken 10 the worldwide
propaganda OF deceit and lies and brib.
cry and murder which were the stock
| In trade Of the agents of these nations
foul blots upon civilization as they
lare--men naturally ask why, with the
knowledge OF these facts In It's posses
sion. our government for months and
even years waited before making ade.
quate preparation To meet the conflict
which everyone familiar with the facts
now made public must have known
was inevitable. The answer must be
because the people Of the country blind
ly closed their eyes and refused 10 see
and stopped their carr and refused TO
hear, and the government and the peo.
pie are alike Ia blame.
Nothing that has been revealed In re.
cent official publications has surprised
the Manufacturers Record. We have
known OF even more German and Aus.
trian deviltries than these diplomatic
disclosures made public. and any man
who cared Ia investigate could have
known the same. This il why we have
pleaded for preparedness. that the lives
Of our soldiers might be saved. As Il Is
now there VIII be thousands and per.
chance hundreds of thousands OF deaths
due wholly to the fact that our people
were blind and were absorbed In money
making or pleasure. They would not
seek the truth, and the pulpit. which
should have led IN teaching truth. look.
ed on the most fearful immortality In the
worlds history and with few exceptions
said nothing. IL was left to the secular
newspapers OF the land to denounce the
individual and national immortality.
which the pulpit as a whole and most
of our public men failed To do.
Men and women went about their
usual business affairs or gave them.
selves, over to pleasure or dissipation.
as suited their tastes. apparently car.
ing not that millions and tens of mill
ions OF helpless women and children
in the dying agony Of starvation stretch.
ed out their bony hands TO America,
rich and growing ever richer, almost in
vain. for sympathy and help.
The most awful tragedy in all history.
the most frightful suffering ever known
To mankind. the wall of the dying baby.
the cry for help Of the outraged and
murdered mother. unable TO save her
baby, fell upon ears almost deaf and
upon hearts almost Of stone.
II ever nation deserved to suffer
from the wrath OF God because it said
to its soul Thou hast much goods laid
up: eat. drink and be merry" it was
America during three long years of
world agony.
Reader. were you among the number
who refused to hear and heed the cry
OF the dying for help?
Were you among the number who
preferred peace and ease and prosperity
To duty and honor?
Were you among the number Of gul-
liblea who had neither the mental nor
moral activity and acuteness To under
stand Germany's plan, as plain as the
MONDAY sun, TO crush the world and
on the sorrows and anguish and graves
Of untold millions build world-domi-
mating autocracy which should recog
nize no God except kaiserism, no moral
,
lust. no honor among men or nations
worth a scrap Of paper?
II So, you can now bes; atone for your
failure and your governments by join
ing hands with the government to the
utmost limit of your power AS the
government is now working with al
most superhuman energy TO meet the
situation. stand by the government; sub.
scribe and keep on subscribing for Lib
erty bonds: work as you never worked
before to. make money, and then lay 1t
on the altar of human civilization by
helping the government. the Red Cross.
the Y NJ. &. A, and kindred interests
in this mighty campaign for the worlds
salvation from eternal perdition under
Germany's rule.