Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-04-30

c0Ilont 0Ght1uB ulon W0ul0 - u
4 from service. white u long, time wcult
elapeo before the others arc sent &
the front. Under these conditions. ~
ought to use the volunteer system &
nil the gap; II opens TO US at once
great possibility: let It be used. and
used exclusively. ito give to those whit
would Otherwise he exempt an oppor-
tunity to 20 to the front without claim
ing exemption.
Fears Policy Of Delay.
Il most earnestly hope that we shall
avoid any policy OF delay. Congress
has passed, without dissenting vote
a bill to appropriate $7,000,000,00o az
representing part OF our contribution
to the great war. This II fine; but only
on condition that we also put our men
into the lighting line. Half Of this
great sum liz to 60 to the allies; that
| is 1t is to be spent by them In get
ting their men up against the Ger
man and Austrian and Turkish shells
land bullets. Now, we Americans have
always prided ourselves on being able
to do our own fighting. 1t is right to
help others to fight in the common
cause for which we are engaged. But
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should fight ourselves.
1T would be an evil thing, q last
ing calmity to this country, X the
war ended and found us merely pre-
pairing an army in safety at home.
without having sent man to the firing
line: merely having paid some billions
of dollars to other people so that with
the bodies of their sons and brothers
they might keep us In safety.
For National Morality
Il ask that we send a fighting force
over to the fighting line at the earli-
est possible moment, and ask it in the
name Of our children and our chill
dren's children, so that they may hold
their heads high over the memory of
what this nation did in the worlds
great crisis. l ask it for the reason
national morality no less than for our
material self-interest. | ask 1t for the
sake of our self-respect. our self es-
TEEN, Our children will have to read
the history Of what we have done dur
ing this war. Let us make the chap
ter that yet remains to be written
that our children shall read with pridei
and they shall read 1t only with feel
ing OF self aba sement unless they read
that in the times that tried mems souls
we have shown valof and endurance
and proud indinerepce to life when tho
honor Of the nag and the welfare Of
mankind were at stake.
'.At the earliest possible moment
send an expeditionary force abroad,
show our German foes and our allied
friends that we are in this war In
deadly earnest that we have put the
flag on the firing line, and that we shall
steadily increase the force behind that
flag to any limit necessary In order to
bring the peace of victory In this
great contest for democracy, for civili-
zation and for the rights Of free peo-
Piles.
,uw thai we are ar war, let us
make il real war. not make be-
lieye war OF limited liability. We have
walked into the ring. and now we must
night. No fight ever was won yet ex-
cept by hitting. We have gone into
this fight: we have determined 70 hit;
and we must not hit soft.
Protected by England
I'VE owe our safety at this moment
to the-sritish fleet and the French and
British armies. ]. for one. am not con-
tent to. rest under that kind OF obii-
CATION, and I\do not believe that my
fellow countrymen are content TO rest
under 1t. wish to see US owe our
safety to our own strength and our
own courage and to the respect We In
spire In our foe. We shall inspire NO
respect IL we merely try 20 parry that
foes's blows and not 10 return them.
the Only way In which We can return
them il by Immediately sending an
expeditionary force 70 night in Europe
II would be q scandal and shame II
the war ended now with our part In It
limited to having furnished dollars be-
hind the shield Of other mems bodies.
we are in the war. Let as tight it
through ourselves. with our own
strength and courage. to : triumphant
conclusion.
This is the appeal make especi-
ally to the men and women OF the west
front. you men of the west. or to cheer
your men WHOM they 80, yon women
also ask you|to see that am given the
high privilege of making my words
good by my deeds and going to the
front with YOU have asked leave to
be allowed to raise division to take
to the front in tFe> first expeditionary
force. under the commander Of that
force: a division which after two or
three months preliminary training here,
can be taken for intensive training to
France. and then put into the trenches
at the earliest possible moment that
the allied generals deem it fit to render
service. ask that be allowed to join
with others who feel as do in making
good the presidents message.
Asks Privilege Of Fighting
T" ask that / and those dearest to
me and closest to me by blood shall be
given the chance to prove the truth of
our endeavor, and be sent at the earli-
est possible moment under the flag to
the firing line.
II do not ask for men in the classes
which would be taken under the sd
ministration.s plan for an army raist
under the obligatory system.--I ask for
men who would not otherwise be all
lowed to go. The force propose TO
raise would represent an absolute adj
dition to the nations military strength.
an addition which could be used at
once. which would serve to put the dag
on the firing line during the time that
the great army was itself being raised.
and while our flag would otherwise not
be on the firing line. The favor ask
is the great favor Of being allowed to
render service which believe that
my record entities me to say that am
able to render" 4 ~ ~