The Marietta journal and courier., 1917-11-02

the war.
Bryan is quoted as having said a
million would spring to arms in
night in the defense of the country
but what he failed to realize was that
they would not be able to use those
arms and weapons and instruments OF
modern warfare the next morning
after the night in which they had
sprung to arms in the defense of their
country.
The writer had letter just yes
terday from the northern part OF
Iowa, saying that paul leaves today
in charge of the forty men from this
county, going to Camp Dodge" Paul
happens to be the son of an Ameri-
can who was born in Germany, and
who, before the United States en-
tered the war, was fierce in his de-
nunciation of the Allies and their
cause and their methods, and warm
in his praise of the Kaiser and the
Fatherland, but who, since war has
been declared, on these questions is
discreetly silent. But Paul is in
charge of the forty men from his
county, going to Camp Dodge. Paul
is anxious to do his bit in the cause
of liberty and in the defense of hui
man rights. What is there bringing
Paul and the thousands and hundreds
of thousands of young men like him,
going from homes such as he comes
from? What is there in the present
situation to make him go willingly,
sacrificing the splendid position he
had which had promised so much
of success in the future? AS we have
said, it isn't the enthusiasm of pride
of big army, or ambition for power
or desire to conquer,-but what is
it?
What is it? What has come over this
people to lead them into these strange
with the spirit manifest
ed on every side? 1t is the American
spirit in action. 1t is the culmina-
tion of more than a century Of
thought and study and education and
in the lines of the great
est possible liberty to the individual
commensurate with his duty to the
whole, and in the great hour of stress
when there is absence of enthusiasm,
of ambition, of desire, this great
people startles the world in it's COM
prehensive war program, the spirit
of which is founded on the broad de-
sire for liberty for all mankind that
may have a safe place to
live. Fifty years living in the envi-
ronment and study and education of
in Germany has brought
forth a race who through love and
fear combined are so under the in
fluence of one mind and one thought
that they dare not utter a word of
criticism of that regime even to
other members of their own family
A hundred years and more in Ameri-
ca has brought forth a people, every
man of whom is sovereign in his own
right, yields to no one the right to
dictate to his conscience and control
his action, and yet as one man almost
to the last yielding his all to the
great cause of the common good, not
only for his own fireside and country,
55iut that democracy may reach to all
the peoples of the world. This is the
spirit that has inspired us
to go at the big job in a big way,
sober minded, without malice
and without hate. We have sized
up the mailed fist of the German En-
pire and are going to amputate it
close up to the shoulder and give
to the great body of the German peo-
pie a true freedom from their own,
a freedom from themselves.
1t is a wonderful experience just
to be an American citizen today and
see a people, without passion, getting
ready to wage war, getting ready to
free the world of the boasted power
of the autocrat's mailed fist, just feel
ing the great acquiescence of those
who stay at home and the affirmative
determination and spirit of those who
are going and are sacrificing all that
is dear to them upon the altar of lib
erty. Such is the American war, bot
toned upon the American Spirit.
the Loyal Workman, Des Moines,
Iowa.
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