Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1917-06-07
? We SACRIFICE AND SERVE.
We Must Fight to Protect Our Country
From Invasion.

Manu1acturer's Record.
The worlds future, as we'll as
that of this country, hangs upon
the war upon which we have en-.
tered. The finite mind mind can
not grasp the full meaning of the
situation. We are moved by for.
ces beyond our power to ocompre-
hend, but we know that the most
desperate barbarism which has
cursed civilization since mank ind
emerged from the Dark Ages,
when the Huns of old drank from
the skulls OF their murdered cap.
tives, makes it impossible for the
human mind to conceive any.
thing equal to the situation we
are confronting.
Let US not mlnamize the situa-
ton. Let us not for q moment
imagine that the task upon hich
we have entered will not be vast
enough to call forth every latent
power of the nation.
We must produce in food stuffs
and manufactures, we IN u 8
transport by rail and river, we
must finance. we must fight, be.
yond all that has ever entered
into the heart OF man to con-
ceive. Upon our doing this de.
pends not alone our existence as
a nation, but the future OF the
whole word. In this mighty con.
test all the forces OF civilization
OF every country on earth are in.
yolved, and we fight against the
power OF Evil which finds express
sion in q mighty fighting ma
chine, the outcomee not alone OF
SO years OF special preparation,
but of q century or more of pre-.
liminary work was the producer
Of the last half year of specific
war-machine.creating activities.
1t would be a vain delusiOn to
imagine that our enemies cannot
continue the contest. They are
relatively stronger today TO meet
the situation than they were a
year ago to meet the battles
they were then fighting. Stead
lily, from tbs day they overrup
Belgium and Northern France
and captured the iron and steel
interests OF those counties, to the
time when they spread their for.
ces westward and became t b e
dominant power in great mineral
and oil regions, with an efiicien.
cy in the production and the U.S.
ing OF food stuffs matching that
of their fighting machines, they
hase gone on until until t h e y
have probably made defeat, ex-
cept by theUnited States,an i'm.
possibility.
England and France and Italy
and Belgium have been pouring
out their life blood in the most
heroic contest known in the
worlds history. Their fight has
been our salvation. Their ma.
vies have been the shield which
saved US from destruction by our
enemy. Behind their navles we
have lived in safety, and but for
their navies the vandals who
have wrecked and ruined and
outraged so much of Europe
would have firmly planted their
feet on American coil. Our sal.
walton is in fighting them on Eu.
ropes battle ground. If we
would not be overcome or have
for years on our own shores such
ruthless, frightful horrors as
have marked the work of Ger.
many and it's unholy Turkish al
ly in Europe, Germany must be
defeated in France and that he
roic country and prostrate Bel.
gium must be saved.
1t is we'll that President Wilson
has moved with all the celerity
which he could command in AIDE.
mocracy such as ours, hampered
as any administration must be