Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-10-06
Doth It Profit
A Man?

Germany is working, by every scheme that ingenu-
lty can devise and money can put into operation, to
make American workingnnen traitors to their country
in its hour Of need.
WHAT DOTH IT PROFIT A A if he sends his
sons and brothers to the battlefields, and after he gets
them there he bestrays them to the enemy by stopping
the industrial home work without which they can Meth
er win nor escape?
The courses of nations-the lives of millionaire
changed by very small events. Had the Monitor not
been ready for the Merrirnac exactly when she was, the
Union fleet would have been rendered useless and the
Civil War might have had a different ending. Had
someone then succeeded in making serious trouble in a
mine, a foundry, or a shop-had someone then succeed
under construction, what would have become Of the
whole Union fleet of wooden ships which was blockad-
ing the southern ports?
Germany wants us to be unready or confused when
a similar crisis comes.
Our whole, nation is preparing for the turning
point in this war which is to determine whether every
man shall have a chance to work out his destiny, or
whether he and his country are to become subject to the
dictation of a Prussian group.
If we are not fully ready when the test comes it
will be easier for German armies and German ships,
German submarines and German aircraft, to kill the
men that 60 out from your community to protect you
and your rights.
Whoever from any motive delays work bearing d.
rectly or indirectly on the war will be an accessory to
the murder of his fellow Americans.
Every strike in the United States, while this war
is in progress, is a blow in favor of Germany.
WHAT DOTH IT IMAM to aid a monarch
who has sharnelessly re-established the slavery of white
men? The workingrnan in America who obstructs the
cuttingfof wood, the mining of fuel, the weaving Of
cloth, the turning of wheels in factories or on rails while
this war is in progress-he is helping the slave masters.
the destroyers of civilization, the murderers Of women
and children.
WHAT DOTH IT PROFIT A MAN who has lived IN
a land Of Incompatible liberties, of advantages unparal-
leled in all the history of the world, to contribute by any
act, however small, to the success Of an autocracy to
whom a comrnon man is but a clod Of earth?
The workingrnan who stands faithfully by his
duties day by day, allowing no person and no thought
to get between him and an honest performance of his
work, is rendering the highest kind Of patriotic service
to his nation and to his family.
WHAT DOTH IT PROFIT "A MAN to sell his man
hood, his self-respect, perhaps his soul, for a little selfish
gain in such an hour? When life's services are measured
up at the end, those who have faithfully labored through
the war shall be entitled to their credit as well as those
who have led the charges in battle.
WHAT DOTH IT PROFIT A MAN who wants TO
improve the condition Of laboring men Of Belgian work
ingmef1, who now cannot gain their freedom but by
death, or through the victory Of the Allies7
Stand by your work for your own honor and safety,
for thessafety and success Of your fellow countrvn1en
who goSforth to fight, as well as for the sake of work
ingnen who are now5in actual slavery beneath, German
yeydEvers.