The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-04-05
RUSSELL URGES
SENDING ARMIES
TO AID ALLIES
United States up Against Real Thing
And Sooner II Realizes It
the Better.
CANNOT HIRE OTHERS
TO DO OUR FIGHTING
Nv CHARLES E, RUSSELL,

by Ill NLEN Z. NSJSSELLs
Washington, April 5.-But there is
one thing. brethren, we ought to be
mighty careful about, now that we
have this job on our hands and see
the size Of it.
We ought to look for the enemy in
disguise and look out just as much
for the mOllusk that talks like man.
1t is plain now that we are up
against both.
Working together sor~ singly they
are trying to put over a scheme that
would take all the punch out of our
| entry in the war and make this ma
tion bundle Of old clothes on a
stick put up in a field In order to
scare the little brides.
A very strong movement is plan
ned against congress to keep us
from sending any troops abroad and
to confine our share in the war to
supplying money, chocolate drops
and good wishes.
1t is not merely a thing talked
about; it is framed up and ready to
be tackled upon the army appropria-
ton bill the minute is reported, and
there are about enough halfwitted
or half-hearted congressman to make
the thing likely to get across.
Give our allies money, but no men!
That is to say, hire somebody else to
fight for us! Get substitutes! Do
the worlds historic stunt in side
stepping! Hire somebody to take
the risk we are afraid to take and
perform the duty we are too f1abby
to perform! Hire somebody else to
stand in the trenches and beat back
Prussian barbarism, but don't take
us from our dinners and tea parties,
our tangOs and our movies!
That's the idea, that's what they
really mean, the timid ones that are
trying to pull this stuff ON us, al
though they don't acknowledge it.
Their plan is to have the govern
ment's policy fixed on sending over
money but holding back all troops
until we have trained here an army
of at least 100000 men.
1t is the limit of laundering il it is
on the level, and the limit of pro-
German play, if it isn't sincere.
Which is which, you can guess II
you note that all the pro-German
agencies are hot for it.
II we waited for an army of mil
lion under such conditions We should
wait until perdition CONCEALED! Who
would enlist merely to pass months
or years in a training camp, to par
ade in the sun and pave the earth
with cigarette butts? The men that
would feel any enthusiasm over such
a prospect at time while the fate
of the world is being decided would
not be worth having.
The effect here of any such bone
head business would be to extinguish
the fine feeling now burning in this
nation, to do away with any chance
for US to he of actual use in the war
and to fill the world with laughter at
our expense. .....
The effect in Germany would be to
show the German fire eaters they
were perfectly right in thinking we
had gone soft in body and dOtty in
mind.
Would ProlOng 1t.
The effect on the war would be to
prolong it: The effect on the Allies
would be profoundly to discourage
them.
why should we want to fool with
seven-barreled disaster like that?
The astounding revelations of the
American correspondents lately re-
turned from Germany ought to teach
us our lesson. In Berlin all men be-
lieve that long before we could en-
list. train, equip and send to Europe
single soldier, Germany will have
won the war and be ready then to
beat us to bits and fill its empty
treasury from our hordes Of gold.
A large part of the world shares
the notion that we are no good for
any action. To millions of men
around this globe we represent just
. huge, ielliied. disorganized mass.
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