Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-10-25
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81 DESCRIPTION OR tONStItlbJlDN?
The slackers on the Liberty loan bond
issue might as well make up their
minds that II is going 10 be one Of two
things Either they must subscribe
for the loan or, II it fails. the govern
ment viii conscript necessary money
to carry on the war and not pay a
dime OF interest on II. II Is useless %
say that for the government TO take
the necessary money TO pay the eN-
penses Of the war is unconstitutional,
that IT is piracy or rapnclty or high
way robbery or anything else. You
may call It what you please, but the
| It would be untrue to every man In the
army OF the United states now in
! France, II would be untrue TO every
! soldier and every sailor in the army
and navy wherever located. 1t would
be untrue to every mother and every
father OF every soldier and sailor in
the army and the navy OF the United
States, II would be untrue 10 every
principle for which the fathers OF the
republic fought and died. lastly. it
would be untrue 10 humanity itself in
every cline, in every nation, in every
phase, If 1t did not right now take the
money necessary not only to wage war
hut TO wage successful war. The time
tc be squeamish has passed for this
country The time for action has been
at hand for many weary months, and
hope deferred not only makes the
heart sick but desperate. Either the
Liberty loan sackers must subscribe
or they must take their medicine Just
like the slackers In the selective draft
campaign
1t will not do to say that the confis-
cation OF wealth Is more autocratic,
smacks more OF autocracy than any
action of the German emperor him
self. and that 1t has no standing I'm a
free country. During ordinary times
when profound peace reigns in the
world, when nefghbor lives on terms
OF amity and even affection with
neighbor, when men go home peace
fully to sleep without fear that their
daughters and their wives will be raw
ished before the morning. when ships
sail the seas with their cargoes OF hu-
man and inanimate freight fearful OF
naught save the wrath Of the winds.
plowshare and the factories produce
everything but munitions Of war, II
might be rather shocking to have n
presidential proclamation taking over
several billion dollars without refer
endum or specific constitutional and
congressional authority. But when
reigns over nearly one-halt
OF the globe, when the legions Of hell
rejoice in the destruction OF homes,
in the ravlshment Of women and
young girls, when such butchery as
never Turk dreamed of Is practiced
daily and hourly In the name of civili- |
zation. when wild beasts run amuck
brandlshing the sword as the chosen
instrument OF God. when the rivers
run red with the blood OF innocent
babies as we'll as OF those who have
died and are dying by the thousand |
every hour that democracy may be
made safe thruout the world, Il is no |
time TO strain at gnats and swallow |
camels What we must think about |
now IS the quickest and most effect |
i've way OF destroying the beast. ItI
has been decided that the Liberty loan |
bond issue is the best way at this time
to suppress the Hun. Whether rightly |
OF wrongly that decision was made. II |
is the duty OF every man In this coun- |
try with red blood In his veins TO sub |
scribe for the bonds, and right now.
When n man kills n burglar the |
community applauds the removal Of
an enemy OF society in that particular |
The Hun is the enemy OF
all society, of every form and manner |
OF civilization, of all religion. of all |
sacred and profane, Of
every race except his own. He is at
cnce the most vicious, the most bar
barous OF all the races or the earth. |
and it is doubtful II his equal for
ahysmal cruelty existed In the prehis-
toric days when the cave men
the bones of the slain. Byl
deliberate, premeditated defiance OF
all law he has put himself out OF the
pale of consideration. lie is no more
a human being with human attri-
hutes than the tigers roaming the In
dian jungles. To kill him is at last
to confer a benefit not only mankind
but on himself
Confiscation OF wealth will become
necessary II the loan issue fails 1t is !
up 10 the slackers OF wealth to say
whether the bond issue fails or not
II has happened before. Letter