Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-09-13
WHAT ARE WE FIGHTING FOR2

WHAT. ARE WE FIGHTING FORe
Strange as it may seem, we ocea-
sionally meet an individual who asks,
What are we fighting for?
It is difficult to explain the mental
makeup of such person. The man
who today does not know the cause
of the war, the influences that brought
it about and what we are now fighting
for, could not see the sun on the
cIearest MONDAY.
In speech recently delivered by
the British premier, Mr.. Lloyd George,
he asked and answered the question
as follows:
What are we fighting for? THE
DEFEAT OF THE MOST DAN
GEROUS CONSPIRACY EVER
PLOTTED AGAINST THE LIB
ERTY OF NATIONS. carefully,
skillfully, insidiously, clandes-
timely planned in every detail with !,
luthlessness and cynical determi-
nation.
There is the answer clearly and
truthfully given!
Mr.. Lloyd George is not sensation
alist in any sense of that term. He is
a statesman of high order with clear
vision, unquailing courage, ever ready
to face the facts as they are. His
answer states what now is known and
admitted by all thinking men-that
we are fighting to defeat the WICK
ELDEST CONSPIRACY EVER EN-
TERED INTO BY MEN in any coun.
try in any age.
President Wilson, in his recently
reply to the pope states:
The object Of the war is TO DE-
LIVER THE FREE PEOPLES
OF THE WORLD from the men
ace and actual power Of vast
military establishment controlled
by an irresponsible government
which, having secretly planned to
dominate the world, proceeded to
carry the plan out without re-
gard either to the sacred obliga-
tions Of treaty or the long estab-
ished practices and long cher
ished principles of international
action and honor.
We are fighting, then, to overthrow
a vast military establishment secret
ly and Systematically organized TO
dominate the free peopl } of the world
and undermine true democracy every
where
We are fighting because our own
institutions are threatened and our
own liberties are at stake.
We are fighting because we want
the words kaiser and "junkers" to
die out of the speech of men and all
that they represent wiped off the
face of the earth.
We are fighting for the same rea-
sons that England and France and
their other allies are fighting-TO
BEAT INTO SUBMISSION INTER.
NATIONAL OUTLAWS and establish
a peace that will be permanent in a
world where men shall enjoy true
freedom
Slowly our people are waking up to
realize the magniture and the import
ance of this great world conflict. It
is not only the small nations. but the
great nations as well that are threat
ened. Austria attacked Serbia and
Germany attacked Belgium - both
without the slightest reason or justi-
fication.
Germany was under the most sacred
treaty obligations to protect Belgium
and it was because Of her refusal to
withdraw a most insolent and insult
ing demand that England drew the
sword Sir Edward Goshen, British
ambassador to Berlin, under instruc-
tons from his government, demanded
that Germany withdraw at once her
claim of right to cross Belgium with
her armies The demand was not
complied with and Britain declared
war. Under her treaty obligations
she could not in honor do anything
else!
For similar reasons neither France
nor Italy, nor eventually the United
States, could keep out of the war The
rights Of all were and are threatened.