The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1917-11-29
SOME REASONS WHY
AMERICA is AT WAR
The Supreme Duty of Every Citizen Now Dedicate Him
self With Unswerverng Intensity to the Support Of
the Government Because the War is Indi-
vidual to Each and Every One of Us.
BY Henry M. Byllesby.

BY Henry NJ Byllesby
Our country death grips with the highly organic
ed military machine of all time Our independent existence
nation and ability, at this late date to
land France Belgium Russia and Italy have stood between
and the sinister designs of Germany until those heroic
tons had well nigh reached point of exhaustion
We far removed from the actual struggle that many
failed and st fail to grasp the full meaning and sinister i'm
port of this onslaught upon civilization.
There any for this ignorance and nder
ence because the meaning and dire intent of Germany
fully disclosed in her history in her literature her amazing
military and naval preparations the uterances of her rulers
and her increasing and insults to the rest of
kind.
German wantoness
The German government to-day stands champion Of dis
regard of every Of honor between nations During her
history of the past ITO years she has without justification
violated four treaties and deserted her allies the heat
of warfare several times.
Since 1864 she has pecpated four vicious unprovoked
wars of conquest against eaceabe and unoendng neghbors
She has consistently refused all overures for any plan of dis
armament limitation of the increasing of She
wished attack United States Spanish 1898
and would have done except for the protection England
afforded
She has covered the world with her despsed spy system She
has again in all Its tortures e old
lof Divine Right of Kings and that might Makes Right "
Her ngues and roublemakng have set nation against
ton She has developed active working cruelty which here
tofore unmagnab She has been plotting the present
war for years. She intended beginning it 1913 but for sell
fish, perhaps necessary reasons, postponed it to 1914
Dupicity That Failed.
She expected in this cajoe England into neutrality
then and make conquest of heroic long suffering
France and to subdue Russia She then proposed
England and to make the United States dependency of Ger
many, and to infict upon all of her peculiar kutur
has been fully demonstrated in this present war;
She has and devastated Belgium because of
alleged military necessity. She has renroduced from the
DID, miserable dark ages poison gases and liquid fire projected
against her enemies She has deliberately and with CYNICAL
cruelty attacked hospitals nurses DOCTORS surgeons and hos
ptal ships She has attacked deliberately unarmed villages
and school houses She murdered cold blood in broad
day. in the darkness of night cold and stormy SEAS the
noncombaan officers and passengers Of merchantmen
of all flags repeatedly including She has prosecuted
tortured raped and abused her Victims and top OF all this
has loaded them with monetary fines which have taken from
those people all that have been left from her previous
/ Violation of Treaties.
She has declared her unwngness observe treaty
obligations when they stand in her path of She has
heaped insult upon insult upon country until patience final
ly exhausted and we declared
This is the government against which wagng the
greatest OF historya war from which shall not
until with devoted allies we have forever prevented
a recrudescence of this military brutality
This outlaw government to-day by of spies and
agents. the dissemination through certain porono the
of mendacous malicious and reasonable advice and mis-
information, endeavorng disrupt country and doing
this with incredible diligence and intensity.
Our solemn duty to dedicate ourselves the support of
government IN every and to the full meas
of ability 1t is solemn duty realize that this
is individual each and every u.s. and are with
personal warmus do bis full and patriotic duty merely
his bit' 1t duty put down by reasoning by
ample by statements OF facts this horrd unpatriotc
ganda which breaches sedon and treason duty to
port government agent any and all reasonable
intrigue may come across
Abraham Lincoln stated from the anguish of his heart that
the fire the from the copperheads dangerous
i than the fire from the enemys army.
Those who tied through blood descent with Germany
should remember that Woodrow Wilson has said to all the
world that the United States has quarrel with the German