The daily Alaskan., 1917-09-24
Daily Points For
 Citizen Soldiers
(IsSued by the War Department And all rights to reprint
 ReSerTed).
WHY WE FIGHT

of our war with the German Gov ernment. Yet this course would be incomplete if it did not contain II frief review of the events that fin ally forced Us into war, when at last there remained mo other means of defending our rights"
 The soldier of an autocratic Kais- CT nav fight best when he under stands least of the true mea0ing Of the war. To tell him the facts would De to chill his enthusiasm. But the ciizen soldier of g de mocracy is entitled to know for what purposes he enters the strug- gle. He fights best when he sees most clearly why he fights.
 German Insults And AggressiOns
 In his Flag Day address deliver ed at Washington on June H. .1sl7, the President summed up the events that brought on war as 1ol- lows:
 Ut is plain enough how we were forced into the war. The extra ordinary insults and aggressions or the Imperial German government left us no self-respecting choice puc to take up arms in defense of our rights as a free people and of our honor as a sovereign government The military masters of Germany denied us the right to be neutrad- They filled our unsuspecting coln- munities with vicious spies and con- spirators and sought to corrupt the opinion of our people in their own behalf. Whey they found that they could not do that, their agents dlh- gently spread sedition amongst us and sought to draw our own citi- zens from their allegiance - ana some Of those agents were men con- nected with the official embassy of the German government itSelt here in our capital. They sought by violence to destroy our industries and arrest our commerce. They tried to ineite Mexico to take up arms against us and to draw Japan into a hostile alliance with her and that, not by indirection, bup by suggestion from the foreign ot- flee in Berlin. They impudently denied us the use of high seas and repeatedl executed their threat that they would send to their death any of our people who YentuR ed to approach the coasts of Eu- rope"
 Our Liberty and Safety Involved
 Yet even this list of "extraor- dinary insults and aggressions" does not tell the whole story. Our mo tiyas for war go even deeper. Not cnly cur rights and self-respect, but our liberty and safety, are in- volved. Speaking on July 2S, 19lI at the officers training camp at Madison Barracks, N. Y, the Sec retary of state said:
 "The evil character of the Ger man Government is laid bare be fore the world. We know now that that Government is inspired with ambitions which menace human lib- erty, and that to gain it's end it does not hesitate to break faith, to violate the most sacred rights, or to perpetrate intolerable acts of inhumanity :. Let us under stand once for all that this is no war to establish an abstract prin- ciple tf right. It is war in which the future of the United States is at stake"
 Not Hostile TO German People
 One thought which you should keep always in mind is the clear distinction between our attitude to- wards the Imperial German Govern ment and our attitude toward the German people. The President said in his speech of June 14, 1917:
 "We are not the enemies of the German people and they are not ouS