The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-04-19

ance we gained our independence.
Now we a only show our gratitude
by going to her relief in her hour of
necessity.
Some Unpleasant Facts.
IF the Italian Or French or English
line gives way, it brings the enemy
that near to us. Then, we must have
universal military training. We i'm
agine that one American is equal to
about three men of any other nation.
The fact is that it takes about three
Americans to defeat any soldiers OF
other nations. The time has come
for some man to write a truthful his
tory Of the United States. 1t is rath-
er 4 mean thing to lie to ourselves
it is infinitely Gamer to- lie to our
children. Few Americans seem to
know or want to know that 100000
Americans fought 10000 Englishmen
for eight years in the Revolutionary
war, and would have failed had it
not have been for the French navy.
We don't like to believe that it took
! $4,000 Americans two years and a
half to fight $4,000 British and not
! gain a single battle. Even in the
Mexican war, it took los, 900 Ameri-
cans two years to defeat 10000 Next
cans. Now we. must have universal
military training. Our weakness has
been Il voluntary system. 1t has
never succeeded. 1t cannot succeed.
Universal training is fair to all, the
rich and the poor. 1t puts the mill
ionaire's son on the same level with
your son and mine.
The Nation Is Calling.
"Now, the nation is calling for SOL
diers. The question arises, are the
American people patriotic as they
ought to be? At this moment, more
than a score of American fighting
ships are rusting at their moorings in
their harbors because the young men
of the nation will not enlist. The
fact that Our women and children are
lying at the bottom of the Atlantic
ocean and that every day the Amer.
lean flag is being sent to the bottom
! ought to stir the patriotism of every
young man. And yet the young men
are not enlisting.. s.s.,t,.
We Must Win.
Were in this war.Eand we, must
}.win ttffWeFinustFwin it, or we arc
done. To win it We must have men.
Now, WHO is going to- enlist? Mrs.
Smiths boy and Mrs Browns boy
why not your boy? Who has any
better right to fight than your boy?
| have great sympathy for the mother
who hesitates to see her boy march
away to what may be his death. But
have absolutely no. sympathy for tie
mother who would insist that her
neighbours boy should do the fighting
for the two families. v
, "We must have Immediately for the
navy 10000 men. We must have with:
in a few months a hundred thousand
men. II we can't get them by volun.
tary methods, We must resort to con
scriptiOn. The young man OR high
school boy who will enlist in the
United States navy can learn almost
any trade. He will develop more and
be better prepared for fighting the
battle of life after an enlistment il
the navy than a graduation from the
best high school in the United States
would give him.
Has Done His Share.
DR.. W., K. Weaver arrived this
morning from ROCKFORD, Colo, by
way Of Billings. Hence he goes to
Cody, WyO. Dr.. Weaver has five sons
in the war-one in the regular army,
another in the navy, two in the nj
tional guard, and a fifth son who has
been in the trenches in France for
two years and a half, where he has
been wounded three times. AT Ypres
he was shot through the shoulder, at
Langmarche he was injured; in the
eye by glass from a :bursted peri
scope. At the battle of Somme, his
leg was torn by a piece Of shrapnel
from knee to hip. lie had a sixty
days leave this winter, when. he Wis
tied Denver, returning to London on
March g., taking command of his COM
pany March IL. and participating in
the Vimy Ridge fight, since which
time no word has been received fyer
him. Dr.. Weaver is himself chap!ai,
of the national guard in his own
state. .l- NV ~, .g vi,
At noon, DR.. Weaver was guest of
honor at a luncheon rendered by "a
number Of Bismarck's, leading citi.
zens. At 4 this afternoon, on invi.
tation of Warden Talcott, DR.. Weaver
addressed the inmates of the state
penitentiary.
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