The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-11-08
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Enemies
German Intrigue at Bot
tom of Pacifism.
~ HAPseURc LiEeE
Of the viQiiantes.

read | take 1t, the latest EXPOSITION
or German intrigue In America. II
you did, YOU now know what Is at
the bottom Of pacifism. don't YOU
You know now why Germany Is laugh
Ing in her sleeve at America. too.
don't You? There are. of course, q,
few shorfcseeing persons. q few de-'
uded persons, a few peculiarly 0e-
mcnted persons. who were not preach
ing pacifism at the motivation OF Ter
man money: but most of these were
actuated by men who did receive Ger
! man money. Ii were copperhead.
| n pacifist. innocent or guilty. / Woulu
| be ashamed to show my damned face
now. Do you get me? ! say I would
be ashamed to show my damned
face nov. Id hide it.
Only the other day, l heard man
| who lays claims to being an American
citizen trying to dig up the hatchet that
| has lain buried between America and
! England for several scores of years.
| lie was a so-cailed minister. and he
| was afflicted with q fatal malady, or
he would have Jared hard--you see.
/, this il eastern Tennessee. That poor
! man has great many contemporaries.
| These misguided mortals cannot De
made to realize that old England
| together with France and Italy, God
!, save them every ont,-ia all that
stands between the United States and
| conquest OF the United States by Ger
lsmany. 1t Is :, hard iron. cold.steel
fact, brother.
| Gentlemen, Germany meant to Ger
! manzc the world There Is not the
| shadow OF n doubt in my mind of that.
! believe that Germany has had her
| military eye on America for fifty years.
| Germany means. right now.--for Ger
many is still far from whipped. ! beg
! you to belieyc.--that America shall pay
| the cost this swar has been to her.
| And If she wins, America will GER
tainiy pay that cost. Now. do you
4 understand the why Of the pacifist!
| And now do you understand the why
OF yiercck's Weekly, and now do you
| realize the danger of the German
language press. the German American
| alliance. the Irish World and the l.
w. W.?
/
the government--or just we. for w
are the government. this being no land
of the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS this
state OF affairs to exist? We have
enemies everywhere among us; how
long shall they live? You necdn
think me rabid, simply because | thinl
they should be hanged. The welfare
| of the public demands that all traitor:
| and spies be hanged; always 1t ha
! been so. This is 4 time to call !;
spade II spade, my friend; I'm callini
a spade a spade. Compared with SOM
OF these peace preachers, poor Rene
diet Arnold was q thrice HONORABLE
man.
And you. you, ditch digger, lawyer
or congressman. rise. of course. to ask
What can / do?"
Il You. ditch. digger. lawyer, or con
! gressman,-cspecially if you are n con
/ gressman,-can do great deal
| you are ditch. digger or Il lawyer
; YOU can talk, or you can write. I
! your congressman. You can show hir
: that you're behind him for the com
! mon good, and YOU can ask that h
do all he can to remove such enemit
as the traitorous pacifist, the foreign
language press, and the anti Englis
and peace preaching press. This la1
n ter Is a great enemy in our midst;
a is slowly but surely breaking the wei
g of the crucible to an alarming exten,
= it is poison tosAmerica.
How long are we going to perm
y all this. How long shall we contin,
l. to allow ourselves to be hoodwinke
It blindfolded. duped? We are alreaG
9 in this great world war. which is Z
it should be, In order that the militia,
- yoke which Germany means to put {
IL the nations of the earth may be d.
1t stroyed. The preaching of pacifis
j. now. even II 1t were a good doctrln
n Is a hydrophobia- ridden hound at Il
throat OF the best interests OF Il
country: SO why preach it, Ask Il
!! pacifist that. He can't answer yo
And why permit it to be preached
id Is there nothing we can do to stop |
"a DO YOU know why Germany Is Eighth
=, the fight she Is fighting? Becau
;" she Is organized. that's why. Exact
e why. She is efficient. Why can't ,
ie be organized. efficient? Why car
we stick together just rs closely
anybody else
m! Do YOU think We can afford not
do SO. We can't! Think about 1t,
~ beg Of YOU: think abou, 1t.