Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1917-09-20
Is PATRIOTISM DRUGGED?
Germany's Hope is That Americans
Will Continue to Slumber


want to fight the United State-yet.
She wants to have all the advant-
age of walking over us, wiping her
feet on our PROSTATE form and going
ahead with her ambitious job of
whipping Europe. But she does not
want us to get angry enough to re-
sent her treatment with effective
force.
So Germany ostentatiously ignores
us as belligerent. She sinks our
ships because she finds it conven-
lent, and knows that we have grown
used to the stories of American YES
sells torpedoed and American lives
T, lost at sea. She reasons to herself
! that these little outrages no longer
! provoke a thrill in the United States.
But she will not do more than this
now, because to do more would be
| to inflame American feeling and a.
wake the country to its peril.
'Let America Sleep" Is the policy
of Berlin.
/ And In order that the sleep may be
long she fills the air with soporific
fumes; she permits much talk OF
peace and peace terms, Of political
and social reforms; she allows the
young ruler of Austria to emit elo-
quent antiquities designed to please
sentimentalists and moon-chasing j.
dealists; she suddenly becomes COM
placent in the face of socialistic
propaganda.
All this in the hope that those
"idiotic Americans" will sniff the
drug and lapse into deeper slumber.
1t was thus that for years before
the war she lulled Great Britain into
a false sense of security. 1t was
thus that up to the hour when the
scrap of paper was torn to shreds,
she allayed the alarm of Belgium.
Il Otherwise loyal and intelligent
Americans are going about today
saying: "Why should we send our
boys to France? Why should we
involve ourselves in foreign war?
1t will be time enough if we are in
vaded."
i Could Berlin write the words for
these citizens to speak she would
choose no others. These good peo-
pie are unwittingly serving her.
I Their patriotism is drugged, and
they are trying to drug the patrio-
tism of others.
Berlin wants America to fail.
She wants the liberty loan to fail.
She wants the selective draft to
fail. She hopes it will provoke dis
order.
She wants Americans to remain
asleep until she can save herself on
the western front, until she can i'm
oose her will by force or intrigue on
Russia, until she can establish her
! elf firmly in the Balkans and make
:ertain her empire of Mittle Suropa,
With its Asiatic annex.
| Then she will be ready for us,
| and then the hatred she has cherish
ID will find expression. Then we
will realize that we should have
ought her7in France when we had
friends to aid us, because we will
De fighting her on our own soil with
)ut friends.
Arouse yourself, America! German
and the friends of Germany she
lrugging your patriotism. The
'hoice lies between being the kai-
'er's fool OF self-rcspecting nation
maintaining the traditions of its her.
nc past and paying with full devo.
ion the price of freedoml
| President Wilson'S answer to the
Pope's peace note took the foreign
diplomats in Washington by sur.
prise. 1t was not the general tone
OF the note, for that was expected,
out the promptness with which the
reply was made and the straight for.
ward manner in which Mr.. Wilson
stated the terms on which the Ger
man people might expect peace that
surprised the diplomats. 1t is more
| than reply to the peace note from
Rome. 1t is an ultimatum to the
German people and plain state
ment to the world that peace can
come only when the present Ger
man government is sent permanent
| ly to the scrap-heap. II should also
be timely hint to the weakened
pacificists at home 10 close their
talk-traps until patriotic Americans
have time to listen. -Withrow, Ban
ner.
Get your canning peaches now at
the A. l.. Tucker orchard, / mile
northeast of Coulee city.