The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1917-10-25
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(By ]. Frank Davis. of the Vigilantes)
Over in Belgium they are Saying
they know they can depend upon the
Americ an people to relieve them from
the heel ofsthe oppressor, seven as the
American Relief Organization relieved
them from starvation.
Wouldn't you like to send them word
that they are right?
Over sin France they are saying that
the American expeditionary armies
will attempt to repay the debt we owe
Rochambeau, even as the American
aviators, for more than two years.
have been trying tosrepaysthe debt we
owe Lafayette.
Wouldn't you like to tell them they
have not made mistake?
Over in Russia the German propa-
gandists are, telling the dazed, blum
dering revoluuionists that they cannot
depend upon America that the United
States is not a democracy at all. but
an autocracy of wealth" ansautoeracy
with ten Millionaire czars," they say.
Americas capitalists are getting ready
to make peace with Germany and leave
Russia in the lurch, they tell the
Russians; why not make a separate
peace atsonce and have it over with?
Wouldn't you like to tell the Rus
slams that the German spies are lying
to them?
Over in Germany the common peo.
pie, who still do not know who Started
the war. are being told. that the United
States has entered it only because Will
son is slave of munitions makers.
Their war lords are telling them that
LaFollette and Stone and Big Bill
Haywood are the real representatives
of the American people-not Wilson
and Roosevelt and Taft.
Wouldn't you like to tell the German
people that again they are being de-
ceived?
And the kaiser, what does he think?
The daily newspaper that is printed
for his august eye alone is carefully
edited. He reads what the overlords
of militarism want him to read, and
they give him only the news and the
editorial opinion that will flatter his
megalomaniac conceit.
Perhaps he really believes that the
people of the United States are fat
and prosperous and contented and
greedy and foolish as the German pa
pers say. Perhaps he really thinks we
did not mind the rape of Belgium.
Perhaps he really thinks we did not
care when he murdered the babies on
the Lusitania. Perhaps he really
thinks we are a contemplate people,
only to be despised you remember he
told Ambassador Gerard he should
''stand no nonsense from the United
States after the war. 4"
Wouldn't you like to tell him he is
woefully mistaken?
They are saying, over in Germany
that we are nation of buffers that
we talk a lot but never act, that our
help in this war will be Imaginary.
Wouldn't you like to tell them they
have failed to understand America?
Well, you can. But do not with
words merely. Deeds are what count
in the achievements of the world.
Send word, today, that the United
States is IN the war because it is a
righteous war-because the world will
be no fit place to live in without the
defeat of Germany and the things Ger
may stands for-because it is better to
fight Germany in Europe than to fight
her in America because the ideals of
liberty that this country was founded
upon are ideals worth living for, fight
ing for and dying for. r
YOU can send that word.
If the second Liberty Bond should be
undersubscrbied-if our people should
fail to take the three billions and much
more than the three billions-if we
should not enthusiastically float our
second war loan when Germany has al
ready started her seventh, then our
friends over there would be disheart-
ened, and our enemies would be
cheered, and we should stand ashamed
before the world and peace would be
postponed many months.
Send word to Belgium. Send word
to France. Send word to Russia. Send
word to Germany. Send word to the
kaiser.
Tell them the richest country in the
world is willing to do more than talk.
Tell them the LaFollettes and the
Stones and the Haywoods are not rep
resentatives of the American people.
Buy Liberty Bonds-to the limit of
your means-today. Every dollar so
loaned to the Government good in
terest-is letter to Europe; letter
of words that are backed by deeds. 1t
is letter that cannot be held up by
any censor.