The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1917-08-24
Wilson Is Coming
Thru For Them; They'll
Come Thru For Wilson,!

Our understanding of war is that when
country goes into il. it has TO go into
il with all forces united. else the deuce
will be TO pay.
That just about means that everybody
must be ready to do his bit; that there
must be no faint hearts anywhere. no
Stacking and no slackers; that every man
will be found at his post, doing his best
TO win in behalf of the other fellow.
When the country isn't unanimously
for war, once it is in war, there Is some
thing radically wrong.
This country Of ours is in war. but it
isn't unanimously FOR war.
The percentage of exemption CLAIMS
proves that it isn't.
We attribute the fact largely to the
way they have been handling things down
in our national capital.
Congress has been Stacker but just
about now is SHOWING Signs 0A'Ne - '
enlisted.
II looks TO be the case that our repre-
sentatives have at last sensed what the
matter is with the fellow we are looking
to. to do the actual fighting and the actual
dying.
We mean the fellow who has been con-
scripted, and who is hanging back.
Something has told him-and that
something the quite undisturbed manner
of congressional he is being asked to do
a bit more than his share. and that others
who could do a whole lot toward the win
ming of the war promise to get by with
out making any sacrifices at all, and the
idea doesn't set well on his none too full
stomach.
The conscripted man has been hang
ing back for three things, the way we
have the situation sized up.
He wants Washington to show him
that If he goes to war, his family, first,
win not starve to death under prices ex-
acted by food robbers.
He wants Washington to show him
that if he goes to war, his family de-
pendents will not freeze to death because
of robber prices put on coal by the
barons.
He wants CONSUMPTION Of war PROF
IT'S.
The most of the enlisting in this war
Is being done in Missouri, figuratively
speaking, because that is where our
fighting men hail from, fguratively
speaking.
They are willing TO go, willing to
fight, willing to bleed and die in support
of the president who has termed this a
war to make democracy safe, but they
are not willing to go and have their suf-
fering and their bleeding and their car
cases capitalized by the crowd that
collects its billions from war and which,
therefore, is always very much for it.
So, at last, Washington realizes that
we are at war in the sense that calls men
to the FIRING LINE, and is now en-
gagged in conscripting WAR PROFITS.
And we are beginning to hear from
men that we are at last proceeding in
manner that is democratic; in manner
that is AMERICAN.
We are beginning to hear that Wilson
Is making good.
And he is.
He is making good not alone in con-
nection with the war we have on our
hands, but he is making telling strides
toward the permanent peace that is the
desire of a war-weary world.
The CONSUMPTION of war profits will
absolutely insure that peace, because
WHEN PROFIT is TAKEN OUT OF
WAR THERE WILL BE NO MORE
WAR.
Our coal autocracy has been broken;
the barons will have to abdicate
The food autocracy must come next.
There is progress represented already
in the search storage houses that is
being made revealing the presence there