The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1917-06-22

story Wn1eh seems W Ho'e ""~
effect and the widest circulation is
that McAdoo prevailed upon the pres
ident to bring on the wal because the
bankers had made heavy loans to the
allied countries, and Russia was about
to collapse. There is also a feeling
that all the big men on the national
council of defense are trying to get
their bit. They say the railroads are
putting over everything they tried to
put over before, giving war necessity
as an excuse. Stories are told of how
the big companies are forcing their
employees to buy liberty bonds and Red
Cross memberships" This business
man adds: "If these stories are not
true the newspapers should do some
thing to offset them.
What can the newspapers do, what
can anybody do, to quit these whis-
pered calumnies? Fost of them ap-
~parently have been laboriously manu-
featured by paid plotters against
American institutions. Those Ameri-
cans who choose to believe such cal
umnies in preference to the truth as
publicly set forth by the president of
the United States are singularly gull
lible. The arrogant, lawless, insult
ing demand of Germany that Ameri-
can vessels and American citizens
keep out of large areas of the high
seas under pain of destruction on
sight by German submarines was in
effect a denial of sovereignty to the
United States. Had this nation SUBJ
mitted to the demand it would have
become in effect a vassal country. 1t
went to war in defense of that SOW
ereignty through which it is enabled
to protect American lives and Ameri-
can property. There is no doubt about
this. Why, then, will Americans
thrust aside their own knowledge of
the facts to become the infatuated
pawns of dabblers in treason?
What do we Americans get from
the nation to which we owe allegi-
ance? Protection of our persons and
our property. Popular government of
which we ourselves form a part. Op-
portunity to live free lives and to
seek happiness in our own way. But
the nation is now imperiled. It's
demand that the lives and property of
it's citizens who are following peaceful
and legitimate pursuits on the high
seas shall be respected is repealed.
What then? We must fight or sur
render. We choose to fight. Con-
gress, speaking for the people of the
United States, to whom it represents,
declares war. Therefore, the people
of the United States themselves de-
clare war by the official vote of their
government. When agitators on
American soil challenge the right
eousness of this action in the hearing
Of any American citizen they insult
that citizen. 1t is his war.
The American who denies that it is
his duty to help fight this war makes
himself a mar without a country
Where, then, shall he look for protec.
ton to his life and property? He de.
tends no country; therefore, he rejects
allegiance to all lands. Why Should
this nation take the trouble to defent
him if some passerby decided to xii
him and seize his property? VIVA
right has he to claim the protection o
American laws if he will not help t.
protect imperiled America when for
eign aggression threatens the nation
Yet the cavalier, the trafficker i
nameless, footless lies, continues t
demand the protection of America
laws while he refuses to uphold tn
! power which gives force and signif
I canoe to those laws. He demands al
I in short, and gives less than nothin,
AMERICAN RED CROSS SOCIET'
The Red Cross society did not ha'