Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1917-11-08
TAKE this from an editorial in the
Potosi Journal:

fOCOSl Ournal:
But, now that the nd mission is made
that it has been our war from the be-
ginning and that We were in 1t from
that moment, why did our Democratic
friends practice o deception upon the
people up to the moment of the rem
eral election a year ago by proclaim
Ing that 1t was not our war ut all, and
that we we're being kept out Of ii by
the personal efforts of President VIII
son, whom, 1t was urged, we should
get down on Dur knees and thank
God for. Maybe this wasn't a char
acteristic Democratic trick, but since
MIR. Wilson shot a declaration of wal
out OF his cuff Immediately after his
Inauguration to a second term, it has
all the ear marks of one, and any
party guilty OF descending to such
practices to win votes isn't worthy of
the confidence of the people.
Hindsight takes note of things often
not apparent to foresight. That this
war was virtually u war from the
start, is now plain to every observer.
Secrets recently disclosed, but for
months carefully hidden, show that
tho Prussian assault was upon us as
well as on France and Belgium and
England. For two years or longer
our every effort was to stand neutral
in the conflict, and President Wilson
went SO far in that direction, by act
and counsel, that many men con-
demned him. He pleaded with the
Kaiser In behalf of peace when our
dearest rights we're being assaulted,
and, relying upon the promises that
the wrong should be righted, abstain
cd until the eleventh hour from ask
ing that al be declared. AS has
since developed, the German embas-
sador at Washington was, oil those
months, directing against the peace OF
this country an army OF spies and AZ.
sassins in the pay Of his government,
Munition plants were destroyed and
citizens murdered through his agency
But 1t al the violation OF its wore
by the lying Imperial Government
that the U-boat outrages should cease
that finally made peace untenable to {
people possessed Of self-respect and
manhood. That our sympathies from
the start we're with the allies 10 true
and could not be otherwise. The de
%struction Of devoted Belgium and thu
insolent Junker propaganda tina
Right insists only in Might aroused
the manhood Of every true, God.fear
Ing American. Against this natura
feeling the President urged, as loni
as possible, forbearance toward tn
authors Of the misery being inflicted
upon humanity, and for two years b
steered the Ship Of State clear from
the breakers Of war. Finally, will
the murder Of our people upon tn
high seas, done In the light Of day b,
in~solently assumed right, the bresI
came when no other honorable cours
WAS left Us. MI. Deggendorf call
this "a Democratic trick" thus GOV
ering the feeling in his heart unde
the cloak Of partisanship, and beneat
that cloak venting his ill.will to q
that the Administration does. II
ID quick at fault. finding with his fel
low.citisens, but 10 slngularly siler
% to the enormities practiced by th
lords OF Vaterland. II he has eve
had 3 word OF ~denunciation for th
barbaritiss psrpstratsd BY the Col
! man Huns-the sinking Of nsutr'
! passenger ships and their freight +,
| unoifsnding men, women and chi
4 drsn, the deportation Of Bslgians, u
I ssping o. mothsrs and daughters, an
N cthsr outragss against decency On
4 oiyiisstion-l have not seen II In b
n Paper. But week altar week, I On
q Il ne Journal suoh spitsiul, co,
n 1empNbls paragraphs % these:
NJ, Alphonso, I'll Republicans q
N not traitors, some d th0m are yet q
III tjetAnt Democfats.
M II you don,t know what the war
& 060S1. w both0Ff The rest Of ,
{SE0e6nit - betGss Informed.
~ Y saSo8thst the American psop,
S2lASo oelIliO0 ApAthetlc. toward the ~
8lha6ith usied 70 sprinkle : lIttj
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