Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1917-12-13
OUR DUTY IS PLAIN
We MUST ALL Go TO WAR

| Ahe present session Off cOngre, as;
VIII last for a year and 1T
will have for its problem the put
ting of its country upon war
bal is. Up to this TIME Germany
has been winning the war. Only
lately have our allies developed
superiority i'm MUNITIONS and it
has been England that has armed
the millions who stand today be-
tween us and the Hun. With
our advent the job of supplying
OUR allies falls on us but we
can't do lit until the entire nation
goes to war.
England tried to let few
soldiers go to war while the rest
Of her people carried ON business
as usual but it did mot work. To-
day she has the largest effective
arng of amy of the allies, the
largest navy. the largest mer-
chant marine and the largest out
put of munitions. I'm England np
mans factory nor his capital is
his ownn. He must make what
ever THE government tells him to
make at a price fixed by the govern
merit after expert accountants have
figured his costs. No mans labor
is his own for he can not strike
Or change employment without tho
consent of his government nor can
amy change be made in. his wages
W1hout that consent. No coal
miners nor packing h,poses nor
railroads are Threatened with a
tie UP and those policemen I'm
| Phdlad elrhia who have voted to
strike for higher pay would be
treated as army deserters in Eng
land. Millions of women are at
i7o.k who never produced goods be-
| fore, and their is not am idle
man left in the realm, IN fact
there is nc hunger nor want for
the government fixes the food price
and is respon.sib fer an. adequate
supply. !.
England today is one vast muni-
tAon factory with every unnecessary
consumption of goods cut out. The
automobile factories are making
shells, the watch factories make
fuses and the clothing factories
make khaki uniforms instead of
Paris gowns. importation of nones-
sentials is prohibited luxurias are
neither made or imported hence are
not for sale and people cam invest
lin government bonds. New houses
can not be built without consent
of the minister of munitions. The
government controls all use of
steel, copper, lead, wool, leather
and other materials needed id war
By working every man and
woman and every machine and
every acre on the things that
are necessary to phys sical conn
| fort and wars supply, England
has been able to lend to every ally
| all that it has asked and has,
lent Them Ship, when ships We're
scarce. She has supplied them wiItll
guns and shells and shoes and
trucks when the steel and leather
had to be stripped into England
from abroad. All the time Ger
many has enslaved the women
and children ard old mem of ill.-
vaded territory and sent Them
back emaciated and eNhaukted from
her munitiom factonDes to die i'm
France, England has made mmnition
for herself and for her allies
without Wear and tear upcn her
people because she stopped all in
duetry which was not essential
to life and converted IS n.il-
chimes ard its labor to war
1 With all THIS Germany has been
winning the war until the United
States entered The first turn
was when we took over the finan-
chlS oI Tie WAL. 1nen our navy
tipped the balance against the
submarines and now there remains
the job for Pershfng's men in
tarasce. Strikes must be made
treason. Profiteering must be made
a crime as giving aid to am
enemy. Idlemess must be media
dlesertien from duty. Consumption
and production OF nomessentials
must be made destruction OF war
supplies. The whole nation must
go to war. Then we cam wsn.
Nonpariel II II.
/ A. l.. BoIen of Partition. Nehr..