The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1917-06-01
LET'S HAVE NO DiscoRDANT
NOTES

uom the Bradford county 1elegrapH,
printed at Starke, which the Times
declares is far the best deliverance
that it has read on the part the United
States should take in the war.
The dismal foreboding in the first
few lines will give very good idea Of
the purport of the article as whole.
1t says:
AS time passes we hear more and
more of the real status of the great
war, now since England and France
do not hesitate to tell the bare truth
about it, and what we hear is not at
all reassuring"
From beginning to end it draws
picture of gloom and almost despair.
and sets up cry OF sordidness and
selfishness which, from our point of
view, is not at all creditable or patri-
otto.
Here is another quotation:
England looks out for herself and
has done so ever since the war began
Let us look out for ourselves in this
war, with the starting of which we
had nothing to do
We make one other quotation:
There is no call for unduly sacri-
ficing lives and starving and bank
rupting ourselves, so that other ma
tions, be they former foes or pretend
ed friends, may take advantage Of
our weakness after the war is over.
Then, under the headline of Stop
Lying" we find long article in Dixie
reproducing an article from the How
ey Tribune, which Dixie prefaces with
the following comments:
THAT the people Of the United
States have been fed with thousands
of well-planned lies by the lingo press
is now realized"
And the following:
"The American people are fed with
one side of the struggle, while repeat
ed German victories have been sup
pressed"
Were these things true it were bet
ter that they were left unsaid But
they are not true.
Germany made her boast that she
would enter the gates of Paris in tri-
umph within a period of sixty or nine
ty days.
AS the declaration of war came so
like a clap of thunder from a clear
sky that it found France entirely un-
prepared for the conflict, and many
of her people shared the same belief,
so much so that her seat of govern
ment was removed from Paris to Yer
sailles.
But Germany's troops are further
from Paris today than when this
boast was made, and they are without
that confidence and courage which
then animated them.
They have been shorn of what the
French call their esprit de corps
More than two years ago they be-
gan their terrific bombardment of
Verdun, and confidently proclaimed
that its unconditional surrender
would be but matter of few weeks,
but owing to the heroic spirit that has
animated the French troops Verdun
stands today as a veritable rock of
Gibraltar
Several years ago one of Ocala's cit
liens ran amuck. He barricaded
himself in an unoccupied building. He
was armed with repeating rifle and
several hundred shells, and for sever
al hours kept hundreds of stalwart
men at bay.
He was armed and barricaded and
they were not
That was the position of Germany
when she defantly issued her decIara-
ton of war. 1t is different now. Her
enemies are as we'll prepared as she
is, and the fight will be fought to a
finish.
Have We no grievance against Ger.
many?
Why, the heart-rending screams of
mothers and the pitiful cries of suck.
ling infants that met their awful doom
as the Lusitania went down are still
echoing in our ears.
All the while protesting friendship.
Germany since that time, in disregard
of neutrality and the rights of hui.
mainly, has committed grave and
grieyous acts against our government.
and with a cruel disregard of the lives
and property of our people.
If under the belief that lit is none
OF our affair." and we permit Germany
to be victorious over the allies, don't
console yourselves that this will end
the war and peace will ansue.
Germany will compel the surrender
Oh the fleets of both England and
France. and thus armed will turn her
attention to the United Safes.
Her emperor has declared for
world dominion, and it behooves US