Evening journal., 1917-10-04
THURSDAY, OCTOBER a, 1917.
AMERICANS SHOULD BE ON GUARD COVER HERE"
As WELL As "OVER THERE"


ff<NVER THERE" the soldiers OF 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 Il is the price OF life and limb After awhile
when American boys go into the trenches in
France and in Flanders they too win have to be
stantly on the alert
But there other places besides there where
Americans would do well their guard We might
all Of try Il lover here in Wilmington, in Delaware
and throughout the Demarvia Peninsula. The German
enemy busy His agents his spies, his accelera
tors OF public opinion his poisoned newspapers and
magazines constantly trying to paralyze the hitting
OF Uncle Sam and TO befool American public opinion.
When you hear denouncng the seleotive SCR
vice act be your guard. When you hear saying
soldiers should be sent abroad without their
consent be vatchful When you hear spreading tho
lie about the tremendous mortality the soldiers in
this and assuring all and sundry that when they
Hiss their boys goodbye they kiss them goodbye for
ever, be very that you In the presence OF
who has German sold in his pockets German thought
IN his brain.
There thousand ways Of poisoning public opinion
and OF arousng undue public fears and the Germans
very certain to try each OF the thousand. They cold
bloodedy figure that II they frghten the American
people II they make them unduy uneasy about the
fate OF boys, II they make them weary OF the
before really in at the firing 'front.' they
win have prepared soil fertile for thespread OF German
peace propaganda.
war-makers want They want America that they can
lure into their peace pderrap They realize that they
have lost the objects for which they war They
have not crushed France. They have not defeated Eng
land. They have not taken Paris. Calais. They have
not starved the Allies into submission They have
swept sed ships or the with their murderous sub
marines.
In the meantime Germany Is getting hungrler and hun
srier, her finances becoming precarous.
her losses in mounting higher, her indus
try is going the dogs her people are be-
sinnins 20 wonder at peace talk. without being too
critical too skepesl suspicious whether. after ALL
ne Kaiser is quite a hesvensent leader.
Time fights against Wilhelm Hohenzolern and he
KNOWS IL He breads t. He seeks 70 avoid It's conse-
t1enoes. Hence an this peace talk. lie wants peace
snu ne wants Il now. Tie wants a German peace which
S Na' 'ne bls German and Austrian thieves and the
s an u'ei shall be allowed 70 keep their loot
@ prepare lot toeir next big raid where the nons, f.
And that is where must be on e,srd NJ. me,
sanu seeWN nsck OF the administration in f,s wise
oeterhinauon TO light This through 10 ne hs- end
50 1ha' lhis agony may not have to be endured , ~
the civilized world. We must sisnd ,,,o,..,s - -
the President in that war policy 50 tbs. ,-s e' ".'
can take their place by the side OF the Frenob 80 .,
English armies and give the final blow 10 ths c
military machine, to the criminal hopes OF the l5S
zoern and the Hapsburg gang, to the menace to our in
dependence.
Only when Germany's Prussian overords and ,bs,-
armies have been really crushed only when the German
people themselves allowed TO rule their country
viii 1t be safe FOR 10 begin to think OF talkin
3 peace, Of making peace
We simply can't afford. can't dare to sit at
conference with Germany as at present CONSTITUTED
The Germans in have shown absolutely no adher
ence to their pshted faith They have shown this
they viii tneat solemn treaties as scraps OF paper hs
they Will smile our stab us behind the bacl
There is only one answer TO such a foe. It is not
be given in the subdued quiet OF the council chsmbe
but amid the din and terror Of the battlefield SSher
the Prussan believers in brute force viii be crushed b,
meath the impact OF superior force.
II is our earnest hope that our Delaware troops VII
are leaving today for Anniston Aa to 1t themselv,
Sfor in Europe viii have hand in dealing tn,
blow.
II II can be shown that the two men IN custody /