The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-10-09
AMERICANS SH OULD BE ON
GUARD "OVER HERE" AS WELL
AS "OVER THERE"


but it is the price of life and limb After
awhile, when our own American BOYS go
| into the trenches in France and in Flanders
| they, too, will have to be constantly on the
alert
But there are other places besides "over
| there" where Americans would do we'll to
be on their guard. We might all of us
| try it cover here" The German enemy is
ever busy. His agents, his spies, his &C
celerators of public opinion, his poisoned
| newspapers and magazines are constantly
trying to paralyze the hitting arm of Uncle
Sam and to befool American public
opinion.
When you hear man denouncing the
se1ective service act, be on your guard.
When you hear one saying our soldiers
should not be sent abroad without their
consent be watchful. When you hear one
spreading the lie about the tremendous
mortality among the soldiers in this war
and assuring all and sundry that when they
kiss their boys goodbye they kiss them
goodbye forever, be very sure that you are
in the presence of one who probably has
German gold in his pockets.
There are a thousand ways of poisoning
public opinion and of arousing undue
public fears and the Germans are very GER
tain to try each of the thousand. They cold
bloodedly figure thatf<shey can brighten
the American peop4s411 they can make
them unduly uneasy about the fate of our
bows, if they can make them weary of the
war before we are really in it at the hiring
front, they will have prepared a soil fertile
for the spread of German peace propa-
ganda.
And that is precisely what the kaiser
and his Prussian war-makers want. They
want an America that they can lure into
their peace spider-trap. They realize that
they have lost the objects for which they
went to war They have not crushed
France They have not defeated England.
They have not taken Paris, nor Calais.
They have not starved the allies into sub
mission. They have not swept allied ships
off the seas with their murderous subma-
rines
In the meantime Germany is getting
hungrer and hungrier, her finances are be-
coming ever more precar1ous, her losses IN
men are mounting ever higher
Time fights against Wilhelm Hohen-
zollern and he knows it. He breads it He
seeks to avoid it's consequences. Hence all
this peace talk. He wants peace and he
wants it now. He wants German peace
which means that the big German and
Austrian thieves and the little Bulgarian
thief shall be allowed to keep their loot and
prepare for their next big raid where the
money is.
And that is where must be on guard.
We must stand steadily back of the adj
ministration in its wise determination to
fight this war through to the bitter end, so
that this agony may not have to be endured
again by the civilized world. We must
stand unf1nchingly with the president, SO
that American armies take their place
by the side of the French and the English
and give the finishing and final blow to the
German military machine, to the criminal
hopes of the Hohenzollern and the Haps-
burg gang, to the menace to our indie
pendence.
Only when Germany's Prussian over
lords and their armies have been really
crushed, only when the German people
themselves are allowed to rule their coun
try. will it be safe for us even to begin to
think of talking peace of making peace
We simply can't afford we can't dare to
sit at peace conference with Germany as
at present constituted. The Germans ~ !
power have shown absolutely no adherence
to their plighted faith. They have shown
that they will trsat solemn treaties as
scraps of paper: that they will smile to our
faces and stab us behind the back.
There ONLY one answer n SI,cI foe