The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1917-06-21
p p F. F. r. p
WE SACRIFICE AND SERVE.
We Must Fight to Protect Our Coun-
try From Invasion.

try From Invasion.
The worlds future, as well as thu
of this country, hangs upon the wal
upon which we have entered. The
finite mind cannot grasp the full
meaning of the situation. We are
moved by forces beyond our power
to comprehend, but we know that
the most desperate barbarism which
has cursed civilization since man
kind 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 anything
equal to the situation which we are
confronting.
Let us not minimize the situa-
ton. Let US not for a moment i'm
agine that the task upon which we
have entered will not be vast enough
to call forth every latent power of
the nation.
We must produce in foodstuffs
and manufactures, we must trans
port by rail and river, we must
finance, we must fight. beyond all
that has ever entered into the heart
of man to conceive. Upon our do
ing this depends not alone our exiS-
tence as a nation, but the future of
the whole world. In this mighty
contest all the forces of civilization
of every country on earth are in
volved, and we fight against the
power of Evil which finds expression
in a mighty fighting machine, the
outcome not alone of so years of
special preparation, but of q century
or more of preliminary work was
the producer of the last half year of
special war machine creating activi-
ties.
1t would be a vain delusion to i'm
agine that our enemies cannot con-
tinue the contest They are rela-
tiV ely stronger today to meet the
situation than they we're year ago
to meet the battles they were then
fighting steadily, from the day they
overran Belgium and Northern
France and captured the iron and
steel interests of those countries, to
the time when they spread their
forces westward and became the
dominant power in great mineral
and oil regions, with an efficiency in
the production and the using of food
stuffs matching that of their fighting
machine, they have gone on until
they have made defeat, except by
the United States, an ilnpossibility.
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 navies have been the shield
which has saved Us from de5truc-
ton by our enemy. Behind their
navies we have lived in safety, and
but for their navies the vandals who
have wrecked and ruined and out
ragged so much of Europe would
have firmly planted their feet On
American soil Our salvation is in
fighting them on Europe's battle
ground. If we would not be over
come or have for years on our own
shores such ruthless, frightful hor
rors as have marked the work of
Germany and it's unholy Turkish
ally in Europe, Germany must be de,
feated in France and that heroic
country and PROSTATE Belgium must
be saved.
1t is we'll that President Wilson
has moved with all the celebrity
which he could command in a de
mocracy such as ours, hampered as
any administration must be by the
smallness of many petty politicians
who are in office, and is preparing
to send abroad the first contingent
Of an American army.
American soldiers will 90 to hold
aloft the torch that lights the world
to human liberty. -
They will 60 in holier cause than
that of the Crusaders of old.
They will battle for the worlds
civilization,
They will fight against the power
OF Evil that it may not forever con-
tlnue to master that which is Good
Their struggle is not simply to save
human liberty aid democracy to
mankind, but it is to save all that
makes life endurable and existence
worth while.
Their light will be to save this
country and protect the women and