The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-10-04
PRICE OF Liberty.


allies have to be constantly on guard
lest the enemy slip up on them. With
them eternal vigilance is not only the
price Of liberty, but it is the price OF
life and limb. After awhile, when Our
own American boys go into the
trenches in France and in Flanders,
they, too, will have to be constantly
on the alert.
But there are other places besides
lover there" where Americans would
do well to be On their guard. we
might all OF US try it "OVer here
The German enemy is ever busy. His
agents, his spies, his accelerators OF
public opinion, his poisoned neWspa-
Ders and magazines are constantly
trying to paralyze the hitting arm OF
Uncle Sam and to befOoi American
public opinion.
When you hear man denounclng
the selectiye service act, be on your
guard. When you hear one saying our
soldiers should not be sent abroad
without their consent, be Watchful.
When you hear one spreading the lie
about the tremendous mortality among
the soldiers in this war and assuring
all and sundry that when they kiss
their boys goodbye they kiss them
goodbye forever, be very sure that
YOU are in the presence OF one who
probably has German gold in his
pockets.
There are a thousand ways of pois-
0ning public opinion and of arOusing
undue public fears and the Germans
are very certain to try each OF the
thousand, They cold. bloodedly figure
that if they can frighten the American
people, if they can make them unduly
uneasy about the fate Of our boys, II
they can make them weary of the
war before we are really in it at the
firing front, they will have prepared
soil fertile for the spread Of German
peace propaganda.
Time fights against Wilhelm Hohen-
zollern and he knows it. He breads
it. He seeks to avoid it's conse-
ouences. Hence all this peace talk.
He wants peace and he wants it now.
He wants a German peace which
means that the big German and Aus
trian thieves and the little Bulgarian
thief shall be allowed to keep their
loot and prepare for their next big
raid where the, money, is,4,. v,t II ~,
| And tflatois where we mast he on
guard. we 'msut stand Steadily back
Of the administration in It's wise de-
termination to fight this Wan through
Il the bitter END, SO that this agony
/ mayaf,ot ,haVento' be- endured again NY
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EpanAinchiasly with tAedpreSfldlentr 81.
that America M anMiesrea take, their
? plateoBy the 'sideaof the French and
t,tilep English andsgive the: finishing and
III q BoAc t sii ny e S Sa'5
hdhine, to the criminalv hn1ppees, of .t the
|aHohen.ellern and the, Hapsblrg gang,
|stb yths lmanade, to our fndepend enco!'ni
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drlordsn and rtheirs ARMIES .thaYe4 ibaen
Ereally crushe 3D. only whenethe German
! p,eople Themselves are allowed to"fuie
thefrr' c66unfffy,, viii it bs sd Safe is
even to begin to think of talking
peace, or making peace.
We simply can't afford, we can't
dare to sit at peace conference with
Germany as at present constituted.
The Germans in power have shown
absolutely no adherence to their
plighted faith. They have shown that
they will treat solemn treaties as
scraps VI pupcI lAdI lhoJ WILL o'AAAS
to our. faces and stab us behind the
back. ai.@;: 5''H hi"' ID, a.
t There is only one answer to such'a
foe. 1t, is not to be given In the sub;
dued quiet of the council chamber, but
amid the din and terror of the battle
field, where the Prhssian believers in
brute, force will be crushed beneath
he,impact of superior force
ABOUT LAFOLLETTE, OF COURSE.
The silence Of the grave .reigns
around the mansion on the hill, at Bis;
marck. Wonder what our socialist
governor is thinking about, these
days?-Pierce County Tribune.
Somewhere the immortal bard has