Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1917-06-22

VIII De secure. and with their pfesttbe
their political power. IL they failed, their
eminent accountable to h people
themselves will be set up In Germany
as 1t has been in England. in the United
States. in France, m in all b great
countries Of the modern time, except
Germany.
Germany n the world are undone; II
they fail. Germany is saved n the
world will be at peace. If they sue
coed. America will fall within the
menace. We and all the rest Of the
world must remain armed, as they will
remain, and must make ready for the
next step in their aggression; If they
fail. the world may unite for peace and
Germany may be Of the union.
Why Leaders Cry "Peace."
do you not now understand the
and why the masters of Germany do
not hesitate to use any agency that
promises to effect their purposes, the
deceit of the nations? Their present
particular aim is to deceive all those
who throughout the world stand for
the rights of peoples and the self gov
eminent of nations; for they see what
immense strength the forces Of justice
and of liberalism are gathering out of
this a They are employing lib
erals in their enterprise. They are
using men. In Germany and without.
as their spokesman whom they have
hitherto despiscd and oppressed. using
them for their own destruction-social-
lists. the leaders of labor, III thinkers
they have hitherto sought to silence.
Let them once succeed and the men,
now their tools. will be ground to
powder beneath the weight of the great
military empire they will have set up:
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cut off from all succor or cooperation
IN western Europe and a counter revo-
luton fostered and supported: Ger
many herself will lose her chance of
freedom, n all Europe will arm for
the next. the final struggle.
German Spokesman in v. s.
The sinister intrigue is being no less
actively conducted in this country than
in Russia and in every country in
Europe to which b agents and dupes
OF the imperial German government
can get access. That government has
many spokesman here. in places high
and low. They have learned discretion.
They keep within the law. It is opinion
they utter now, not sedition. They pro-
claim the liberal purposes of their mas
tiers; declare this a foreign war which
can touch America with no danger to
either her lands or her institutions; set
England at the center of the stage and
talk of her ambition to assert economic
dominion throughout the world; appeal
to our ancient tradition Of isolation in
the politics Of the nations. and seek to
undermine the government with false
professions of loyalty to it's principles.
False eetray Themselves.
But they will make no Roadway.
The false betray themselves also in
every accent. 1t is only friends and
partisians Of the German government
whom we have already identified who
utter these thinly disguised disloyal
world and nowhere are they more
plainly seen than in the United States,
where we are accustomed to deal with
facts and not with sophistries; and the
great fact that stands out above
all the rest is that this is q peoples
war. a war for freedom and justice and
self government amongst all the IA
tons of the world, a war to make the
world safe for the peoples themselves
included and hat with us rests the
choice to break through all these hy-
pocrisies and patent cheats and masks
free. or else stand aside and let it be
dominated a long age through by sheer
weight of arms n the arbitrary
choices Of self-constituted masters. by
the nation which car maintain the big
gest armies and the most irresistible
world has afforded no parallel and in
the face Of which political freedom
must wither and perish.
"For us there is but one choice. We
have made it. Woe be to the nan or
group of men that seeks to stand in our
way in this day of high resolution
when every principle we hold dearest
Isl to be indicated and made secure
for the salvation of the nations. We are
ready to plead at the bar of history, and
our flag shall wear a new luster. Once
more we shall make good with our lives
and fortunes the great faith to which
we were born. and a new glory shall
hin in the face of our people,"