The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-05-31
We Are Al War.

many-that Fulton County is
at war withGermany-that every
township and borough in Fulton
County is at war with Germany
that every citizen in every village,
town, city, township, county and
state in the Union is in a struggle
with Germany.
Why ?
1t is not a condition of our own
choosing.
A certain individual known as
King Bill strutted around our
Uncle Samuel with chip on his
shoulder and grinned. Uncle
Samuel seemed not to notice
him; but Bill drew nearer and
tramped on Uncle Samuel's toes
with his great heavy boots.
While it hurt, Uncle Samuel pre-
tended to believe that Bill was
just in fun; but when Bill swung
out his sturdy arm and almost
knocked Uncle Samuel's hat off,
Uncle Samuel just pitched into
him.
The fight is now on.
Germany has shown that she
will do to the United States just
what she has done to Belgium
what she is trying to do Rus
sia, England, France, Italy, and
to any other nation in the world
that is not willing to bow down
at the shrine of the Hohenzol-
lerns and worship the Great Au-
tocrat!
The only thing that is saving
the United States from the raw
ages of the German navy is, that
it is bottled up in the North Sea
and held there by the English
navy; or from the ravages of the
German army is, that it is held
in check by our European allies.
These Allies have held Germany
in check for two years at a cost
of millions of lives and billions
of money. They are beginning
to stagger. While they are fight
ing primarily for their own pre-
servation, they are protecting US.
Should the Allies in Europe fall,
the battle-ground would at once
be transferred to the United
States. We are on the eastern
border. and would be the first to
suffer.
We are at war with Germany.
The sooner every man, woman
and child in the country realizes
that he has personal interest
a personal responsibility-in the
outcome, the more speedily
will the war be ended. Germany
is coming at US with an army of
of men equipped with
the most modern machinery for
on land, under the sea,
or overhead in the air. For bru-
tality in their methods, they have
the wild Indians of our colonial
days beaten to a frazzle.
We must go at them.
To save our country-our prop
erty-our liberty our homes the
dignity of our nation-we must
have an army equal to theirs.
Thousands of young men have
already stepped to the front and
offered their service in defence
of the Stars and Stripes, but
thousands more will be needed,
and Fulton County will furnish
her share as she die in the great
Civil War, and the Spanish
American war. And how we
honor the veterans of those by
gone wars, and how we will hon.
or the boys who now go in the
time of the nations peril!
Money, as well as men needed.
War brings on a great and un-
expected expense. To rails e
money quickly, Congress has
asked the people of the United
States to lend 5000 millions of
dollars. This is known as the
Liberty Loan" in which every
person-man, woman, boy, or
girl may have a part-may have
a feeling that each is doing his
bit" in helping to carry on this
war.
The act authorizing the Liberty
Loan Bonds of 1917 was passed
April "a, 1917. It provides for