Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1917-06-08

~AAAAA ga NNAAAAB up Out Oh the sea
where the Lusitania went down. And
Germany has never asked forgive
ness of the world.
We saw the Sussex sunk, crowded
with the sons and daughters of neu-
trail nations.
We saw ship after ship sent to the
bottom-ships of mercy bound out
Of America for the Belgian starving
ships carrying the Red Cross and
laden with the wounded of all ma
tions-ships carrying food and cloth
ing to friendless, harmless, terrorized
peoples-ships flying the Stars and
Stripes-sent TO the bottom hundreds
OF miles from shore, manned BY
American seamen, murdered against
all law. without warning.
We believed Germany's promise
that she would respect the neutral
flag and the rights OF neutrals, and
we held our anger and outrage in
check. But now we see that she was
holding US off with fair promises un-
I'll she could build her huge fleet of
submarines. For when spring came
she blew her promise into the air,
lust as at the beginning she had torn
up that scrap of paper"
Then we saw clearly that there
was but one law for Germany, her
will to rule.
We are fighting Germany because
she violated our confidence. Paid
German spies filled our cities.
Traitors I'm u. 8.
Officials of her government. re-
ceived as the guests of this nation,
lived with us to bride and terrorize,
defying our law and the law OF ma
tions.
We are fighting Germany because
while we were yet her friends-the
only great power that still held
hands off-she sent the thinner
mann note, calling to her aid Mexico,
our southern neighbor, and hoping
70 lure Japan, our western neighbor,
into war against this nation of peace.
The nation that would do these
things proclaims the gospel that gov
ernment has no conscience. And this
doctrine cannot live, or else democ-
racy must die. For the nations OF
the world must keep faith. There
can be no living for us in a world
where the state has no conscience.
no reverence for the things of the
spirit, no mercy for those who fall
before its force. What an unordered
world! Anarchy! The anarchy of
the rival wolf-packs!
We are fighting Germany because
in this war feudalism is making its
last stand against on-coming democ-
racy. We see it now. This ia a war
against an old spirit, an ancient, out
worn spirit. It is a war against
feudalism--the right Of the castle on
the hill to rule the village below. It
Is war for democracy-the right of
all to be their own masters.
Let Germany be feudal IL she will!
But she must not spread her system
over a world that has outgrown It,
Feudalism plus science; thirteenth
century plus twentieth-this Ia the
religion OF the mistaken Germany
that has linked itself with the Turk
that has, too. adopted the method
Of Mahomet. "The state has no con-
science" "the state can do no
wrong" With the spirit of the fran
tic she believes this gospel and that
1t 10 her duty to spread It. by force.
War of Feudalism
With poison gas that makes living
hell, with submarines that sneak
through the seas to slyly murder
noncombatants. with dirigibles that
lombard men and women while they
sleep, with 9 perfected system OF
terrorization that the modern world
first heard OF when German troops
entered Ghina-German feudaiism is
making war upon mankind.
Let this old spirit of evil have it's
way and no man will live in America
without paying toll to It in manhood
and in money. This spirit might de-
mand Canada from defeated, navy
less England, and then our dream OF
neace on the north would be at an
end, We would live. as France has
lived for forty years. In haunting
terror.
America speaks for the world in
fighting Germany. Mark on a map
those countries which are Germany's
allies, and you will mark but four.