The Meeker herald., 1917-06-30
STAND ev THIS EMBLEM
Our Frontier Is In France


Denver News of last Monday has the
following timely editorial:
The American frontier today lies
along the Aisne and Scarpe. 1t is
there we must fight and defeat the
enemy If we do not want the frontier
moved to our own coast.
We are not sending troops to
France to save our sister republic and
the British empire. We are sending
them to save America.
Instead of deploring the fact that
we must cross seas to face our foe,
we shuOid comfort ourselves with the
realization that it is not too late to
defeat him on soil other than our
own.
The Pussian menace to the United
States is u real menace. 1t is not
merely peril to some abstract ideal
that we call freedom. 1t is that and
more. 1t is peril to our territory,
to the accumulated treasure of our
genius and toll, to the security OF
our homes, to our national independ-
ence and our International rights.
We have documentary evidence
that Germany was prepared to vio-
late our territory, to lay predatory
hands upon our wealth, to destroy
our homes. The Zimmerman letter
is convincing proof. Our national
Independence and international
rights have both been assailed.
If Germany should succeed in bat
tering down the wall on the Aisne
and Scrape and in breaking thru the
barrier of the allied fleets, there is
not a shadow of doubt that we
should have to deal with her in our
territorial waters aud on our shores.
We should have to defeat her or
accept her world mastery. And we
should have to defeat her without
help.
Instead of talking about going to
the help of France aud England We
should honestly recognize the fact
that France and England have been
fighting our battles for nearly three
years.
1t is time to quit talking about the
mistakes and weaknesses of our allies
and to turn our whole attention to
the Immediate and urgent task OF
taking our own part.
After two years in which che dan
ger has been before our eyes and in
which the warning has been dinned
into our ears by men who could see
and were not afraid to speak, we are
now in the maelstrom of war-and
unprepared. 1t is useless to cry
over the follies of yesterday. 1t Is
imperative to awake to the dangers
and the demands of today.
We are engaged in no quixotic ad-
venture. We are fighting for the
right to be Americans; for the sec
urity of American institutions, for
the defense of American soil. Whin-
ing and whining about what it will
cost us in money and blood is the
coward role. Whatever it costs, the
Job must be dome, and every man,
"OUlhU anu Cllilu hDip w o''
measure of ability. The war is not
an interesting incident or a vexatious
annoyance it is the supreme issue to
which our lives must be adjusted in
all their relations until it is victor
iously ended.
If the government seems dilatory,
if congress persists in delaying action
these things are so because we. the
people, are not awake to the stern
emergency that confronts us and are
not clamoring as we should for
pompt, effective, vigorous deeds.
Canada and Australia three years
ago recognized that their frontiers
lay in France. has been rs true
Of the United States since the begin
ming of the war. II we do not recog-
nize this truth now, in six months or
year it may be true no longer. Our
frontier then may be Manhattan and
the Virginia capes.
The Country Needs You