Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1917-04-05
EMM0NS COUNTY RECORD
Linton North Dakota
By F. b. sTREErER
The Pioneer Paper of Emmons County
The Record is entered mt the Linton,
N. d., postOfiice MS second class mat
ter.
North Dakota

Bismarck Tribune: President Will
sons address is the articulated pa
triotism of great nation. There is
no rancor; no playing to the galleries;
no jingoism; no lust for war, but an
emphatic insistcnce that the Ameri-
can people prepare to defend their
rights.
He touches the nub of the situation
in this:
properties can be paid for; the
lives of peaceful and innocent people
cannot be-"
This in few simple words differ
entiatcs the infractions of Germany
against international and moral laws
from the violations of the Allies.
Our immediate participation in the
war, of course, will be limited, but
we can put power behind the arms Of
the Allies by extension of credit, ma
val assistance and in sending war sup
plies, thus releasing thousands of
men in the allied countries now forced
to do their bit in the factories and
behind the pillow.
President Wilson wisely declares
for union of dcmocracies against
autOcracies. His tribute to Russia is
significant coming from America,
which has offered haven for the OPP
pressed of all nations.
The nature of our participation in
the war is left to Congress to deter
mine. but the President does not
mincc words when he urges ''practi-
cal cooperation.
That is comprehensive term and
prepares the American people for any
cvcntuality. President Wilson is con-
WINGED that the time has passed for
half way measures. This is to be no
shaking of the fist first and the finger
afterwards.
1t means action. 1t means the
United States is prepared to retain
her traditional place among he ma
tons of the world as the champion
of right. 1t means that pacifists must
put their country above heir hobby.
But if anyone is in doubt what this
momentous message means he should
weigh we'll these words:
"The Allies are in the field and we
should help them in every way to be
effective there.
just what that way is to be, is for
our military officials to decide. But
President Wilson in this hour needs
the best brains obtainable. Political
considerations should be waved aside
Men like Root, Taft, Fisher, Roose-
welt, Knox and others should be given
portfolios in coalition cabinet.
This is essential to success.
American citizens of German birth
will find comfort in these words:
eve have no quarrel with the Ger.
man people. We have no feeling to.
ward them but one of sympathy and
friendship. 1t was not upon their
impulse that their government actec
i'll entering this war"
There is nothing radical in our atti
tude. 1t is fundamental and vindi
Gated by Il long, dastardly and bloody
attack directed under the guise Of
friendship, not by the German peo
pie, but by the Prussian dynasty thai
still CANDLES with human souls; thai
uses medieval methods; that steel.
itself against progressive thought
holding free loving people in bond
age.
1t is to be union of democratic.
against autocracy, drunk with fanciet
power.
But what of the future?
The stand now taken imposes al
obligation that is going to put ou
Americanism to the acid test. LIE
all take these words of Wilson t,
heart:
eff there should be disloyalty, i
will be dealt with firm hand of sterl
repression; but if it lifts it's head a
all, it will lift it only here and there
without countenance except from
lawlcss and malignant few"