Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-10-14
THE BATTLE AT HOME,

THE BATTLE AT HOME.
Let us not talk of good investment,
safe security and substantial interest
Let us rather think of the task as
battle at home. If our dollars fail
where will our boys get the thirteen
million pounds of beef they need each
and every month, the three million
pounds of bacon, the thirteen million
pounds of flour, fourteen million
pounds Of potatoes each and every
month during the continuance of the
war? Upon our dollars depend the
millions of shoes coats, blankets and
equipment for our boys. We will fight
the battles at home, but our boys
must fight the battles In Europe. There
is only ono way of getting them over
there, and that is by getting the ships.
| These ships are dependent upon our
drive tomorrow.
A million dollars in our county means
that the responsibility rests upon every
individual In the county. There are
| only 10000 of us, 10000 men. women
and children. No one can say let the
others subscribe. We all know one an
other The honor roll of the county
will contain the name an. subscription
of every subscriber. Our drive will be
as personal as If we were on the bat
tlefield in Europe. We will go over
the top" together
Not only will victory and the life
of our boys depend upon our drive to-
morrow, but the spirit of the drive will
be the gage of our sincerity in this
contest apd our faith in the great
| principle for which we are fighting.
Not only that, but the eyes of Germany
are upon us. To them, the result of
our drive is the gage of our spirit. 1t
is indicative of the characteristics of
| American patriotism. To them, 1t is the
criterion of our standing behind the
nation. A reluctant, tagging, or half
hearted drive tomorrow will give the
German general staff just that much
| more moral courage to continue the
| war. Everyone of us must act tomor-
row to the end that there will result
in Ada county a subscription, the zeal,
ferVor and finality of which will do
| as much and more to discourage the
German staff and German people and
| to bring the war to a speedy close,
than the thousands of men that could
be sent to the trenches.
BUT ONE CHOICE.
| AS President Wilson said, For us
there is but one choice. We have made
| it. Woe be to the man OF group of
men that seeks to stand in our way in
this day of high resolution when every
principle we hold dearest is TO be vim
Dictated and made secure for the saliva
| ton of the nations. We are ready to
plead at the bar of history, and our
| flag shall wear a new lustre. once
| more we shall make good with our
| lives and fortunes the great faith to
which we were born, and a new glory
shall SHINE in the face of our people.
In the words of Abraham Lincoln,
I'VE accepted this war as an object
and worthy object and the war will
end when that object is attained. Tn
der God. ! hope it will never end until
that time
And when the end is come, when
| the story of our victory is told, may the
| glory be to him who has given his life,
| his body. his all, and TO him who has
| loaned his money to the nation in time
of need, and may God forbid that there
be an American in Ada county who,
when our children or our childrens
children, sons and daughters of liberty
look into his eyes, cannot with glowing
heart and new glory shining in his
face show them his liberty bond and
how he went "over the top" in. our
drive in Ada county on October Is
1917.