The Oskaloosa herald., 1917-10-25
Our Position
in World War
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operation is, we are able to put it
through. We have to raise some
thing like eighteen billions of dollars
this fiscal year. 1t is staggering
sum of money when you think about
it, and yet it is not so great for Amer
lea. AS compared with our re-
sources, ii is not great sum. All
we need is to have everybody pull to-
gether. 1t is glorious thing that
already the spirit of nationality, the
spirit of unity, is triumphant in this
great land of ours. There must be
no politics, no personal ambitions, no
selfish interests while this war lasts,
because we must subordinate every
thing of that sort to the supreme in
terests of the nation.
Must BE Finish Fight.
This fight must be fought TO I'm
ish. The money derived from the
sale of Liberty Bonds viii be used TO
equip our men so that it can be fought
to successful finish. Eight billion,
one hundred million dollars will be
expended upon our splendid armies;
one billion, five hundred million will
be expended upon our Navy, for ad-
ditional craft TO sail the prohibited
waters in which the Kaiser's under
sea assassins operate; seven hundred
and fifty million dollars to build a
great air feet. manned by courageous
American pilots, to carry the Stars
and Stripes in the air, as we have al
ways carried them upon land and sea;
one billion, five hundred million dol
lars, or whereabouts, to build great
merchant marine, to protect the line
of communication between France
and America, so that our gallant sol
diers may never have their base of
supplies imperiled, and also to carry
the commerce of America, in defiance
of the German Kaiser.
No Premature Peace.
These are some of the uses to
which these moneys are to be put.
And, having provided these funds and
equipped our gallant men, on with
this fight to finish, Let us not lis
ten to those anemic peace advocates
who inopportunely talk of peace at
this time, when there can be no
peace until this issue is settled
right. God knows | want peace as
much as any man. but | do not want
a peace, a premature and immature
peace. which would only postpone
the time when We should have to fight
it out again, probably alone. and
when the sacrifices would be infinite
ly greater than now. This is our
time to strike and strike hard and
settle despotism forever. Let US see
it to finish.
Kaiser Pays For Peace Talk.
"Some of these peace advocates
are merely deluded and simple peo-
pie. Others, and I say it deliberate
ly; are in the pay Of the German Kai-
ser. We cannot tolerate men who
make arguments at this time which
encourage the German Kaiser to fight
harder. Rather let the Kaiser be
by the knowledge that
we are going to fight to the death.
The arguments of these peace adVo-
Gates will stab our gallant boys in
the back while they are fighting Ger
man bullets in the front. l do not
believe in compromising with anemic
or deluded American citizens, to the
detfiment of our country, any more
than l believe in compromising with
the enemies of our country.
U. S. Must End War.
IF we go forward with resolution,
il we let the Kaiser understand that
America is infiexible in her purpose
to restore peace to the world upon
the stable basis of justice and right,
so that hereafter the weakest nation
on earth shall equally with the most
powerful, be protected in the exer-
else Of its just rights so that the will
of peoples shall find free expression,
as the will of the people of this great
republic is permitted free expression,
as the will of the people Of this great
republic is permitted free expression,
If we go forward with that spirit.
under the leadership of that indomit-
able and courageous and farseeing
statesman, Woodrow Wilson, we
shall end this thing forever and
Americas liberties win never be i'm
periled again"