Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-06-18

pose OF bringing the free neon,es 49,,
NV neal OF barbareus Prussian
- - the task is not ACCOMPLISH
Wis monstrous dragon of savage
l' we must train and arm to
,,,;,L | win our every resource, and
MN grim determination prepare tn
sn' 70 the death, If necessary.
TWO years and nine months our
Me.thoors houses have been burning.
sner treasure pillaged, their cities de.
elroseo' their lands devastated. their
sohs murdered and their daughters
outraged. In the same time, Insult aft.
insult with injury added. in the de-
tuct,on or our property, in the MUIR
uer OF our citizens, have been heaned
upon US. "p01
we nave talked preparedness with
W. prepar'ng-we have threatened re-
,aHauon without retaliatins. We at
iast nave declared war. therefore we
must use every means at our command
TO mould our man power and our en-
IRE national resources to meet the
cohditlon under a declaration OF war
now plainly apparent.
ADMITTEDLY 1t is a Herculean task.
every citizen with patriotic devotion
mas responded to The call of the Chief
Executive Of the nation, ready to fight
under his command and offer on their
'country's altar their fortunes. their
iNes and their household Gods. They
can 90 no more-they should do M
less. Every American should Respond
TO the full. The time for defamation
ana word printed patriotism has pass
eo-the moment Of action has arrived.
we are proud to fight in the interest of
a civilization resting on the blood of
free men shed in the great cause of hu-
man liberty-our imperative duty is
immediate action-partisanship is not
to be thought of.
To the call of the President every
able bodied man in the country will
respond with Spartan devotion and will
DO the beet there is in him to accom-
pllsh the task assigned The ideals of
the English speaking race in unyielding
marshalled phalanx are opposed to
Prussian kultur, Prussian rorce and
Prusslan savagry. opposed to the proc
lamation OF an autocracy which calls
the solemn treaties Of nations a scrap
or paper and contrary to all law, hu-
man and Divine, enters an unoffending,
peaceful state and with unbridled fury
destroys its cities, devastates it's fields
and without provocation, on the plea
of necessity, murders it's citizens. men,
women and children, and with fiendish
cowar6ice torpedoes ships loaded with
defenseless people while it's cowardly
admirals with their war fleets pace
the decks of their unused warships in
the Kiel canal. not daring to venture
out to meet an honorable battle the
warships Of the Anglo-Saxon race.
Those fearless admirals of the Prus-
sian navy who heretofore are reputed
to have raised their glasses and drank
to the toast-"Here's to the Day" are
now utilizing their forces from be-
meath the sea to murder helpless men,
women and children in violation of
every human instinct that places on
the brow Of manhood the garland OF
courage
These CORY acts of Prussian barbar-
ism are emblazoned on the mind of
every civilized man. No such acts
heretofore have ever disgraced the an
nails of the history of any nation in
ancient or modern times. The apollo
gies of their statesmen make them all
the more conspicuous, while the whole
civilized world stands aghast at such
colossal trampling underfoot of every
human right respected even by saw
ages in whose untutored brains the
very instinct of animals restrained
them from making war on the defense
less and the weak.
These are admitted facts forever re-
corded which might be perpetuated by
devils and ought only to be recorded in
hell. Are these acts a sample of Prus-
sian kultur which they seek to engraft
upon the nations of men? Have no
fear-it can never be while there re-
mains a single living man who learn
ed at his mothers knee how to pro-
nounce in homelN Anglo-saxon the
word liberty" All the refined inf1u-
ence of our civilization cries out
against it tracing its foundation for
more than two thousand years under
the benign influence Of the laws and
liberties of the English of the Eng
lish speaking race.
Let US take our place. side by side,
with the heroes Of France. remember
ing that the immortal Rochambeau
led 5000 heroes of France at Work.
town, side by side with the soldiers of
Washington remembering that De-
Grasse sunk the English fleet in Ches-
apeake bay and helped lay the foun-
dations of our liberties as an indie
pendent people.
They are now fighting our war to-
gether with the democracy of England
they have saved the very underly-
ing principals of democracy and all it
stands for by their splendid chivalry
and abandon Of fear characteristic of
the race at the Battle OF the Marine
and with their allies are now holding
at death grips the minions of auto
cracy and slowly helping push them
across the Rhine.
Let US take our place beside the
English speaking race from which our
liberties and institutions come-know-
ing that every state in the Union. ex-
cept Louisiana which is under the Code
Napoleon, is governed by the great
principles Of the English common law,
that the statute Of every state and the
constitution of every state-that the
statutes Of the national government
and the constitution of the national
government are all construed. explain
Al and applied by the great principles