Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1917-12-27
war service.


s. S. Menken. in all kinds of
war service.
We are fighting because we found:
THAT Germany was determined
to ignore our protests and keep on
sinking our ships and killing our peo-
pie.
In no other age of the worlds his
tory. in no other war, has any civilized
people ever killed unarmed neutrals
travelling on the seas.
To attack the defenseless at sea and
leave them to its mercy was too bru-
tai even for the middle ages.
Yet Germany did this. ;,
Patiently in fact. too patiently
we objected. But agar and again our
people were killed. Germany would
not stop. She insisted that she was
within her rights-that it was the only
way she could assure herself of vic
tory and that her need made for light.
American honor, American lives, did
not count if, by disregarding them,
Germany could win.
Dividing u. s.
2.-We found that Germany was, as
Zimmerman stated, planning world
control and had already begun the
work of dividing up the United States
A part of it she would take for her
self.
A few more States she would give
to Mexico.
And she would bride Japan to be-
come our enemy by Offering her still
more of our territory.
3.+-We found that Germany's plan
was to crush each great country in
turn, to win in Europe first, and then
after conquest on our shores-do as
she liked with us.
Ave found that If we did not
fight with the Allies and help them
win, the Allies would be beaten and
we would have to fight Germany alone.
5.-We found that if the war re-
suited in draw the world would con-
tinue in arms, and that in the future,
in order to be certain of our freedom
and the. freedom of our children, we
of America would have to support
great fleets, always bigger than Ger
many's, and vast standing armies.
We fight not because we hate the
people OF Germany, but because the
world cannot, as President Wilson
wisely said, be safe for Democracy"
while a few men can force battle and
death on all mankind.
For Our Children.
We fight to maintain the right to en-
joy the returns of our labor to bring
up our children to be free men and
women, making the world better by
living in it.
We fight for the liberty to do and
think as we feel, while allowing 9TH
ers the same right-without fear Of
any Kaiser or Sultan bringing war
and sorrow to us ever again
This struggle is between supporters
of different kinds of government, one
based on individual liberty and popu-
lar rights, the other on the control Of
the state and it's subjects by Kaiser
or Sultan.
America fights because she and her
allies believe in liberal government,
which Germany would crush.
We fight not only for our own safe
ty, but to help those who believe as
we do.
We fight to win for all men our
kind of government The maintenance
of this liberty is vital to all patriots
of all countries
There is nothing in all the world
worthy of thought now except win
ming the war.
We must preserve for ourselves and
for our children all the progress that
workers for mankind have made
through all the ages.
Why You Must Help.
Only by victory can we have the
United States the land of peace ane
comfort that it was before.
The winning of the war quickly
therefore, concerns every man. ever,
woman, every child.
Soon new conditions will rule il
the land.
Men and women will have new du
tiles in life.
Much that we have been accus
toned to will be rchanged-so changed
that every American will face tn,
wor'd mere seriously.
Z RI Of rsNwill have to think of Our
rap.. 7, ',npe. 2sad do more For &: thar
h~a ar we, will mover agar
!, as inThe' past.
- win come through