Arizona republican., 1918-05-08

(Continued from Page One) every flag in the city had stood at half-mast today, for this should be penitential day for ever for America. When the Lusitania was sunk we still failed to prepare, and the fact that we thus failed, the fact that we failed to act, showed that our unpreparedness was as profound in the soul as in the body. We suffered from spiritual no less than from physical unprepared- ness. Thank, and humbly thank, our God that at last our people have walked. It was the eleventh hour, but it was not the twelfth.
 One-HaIf of One Per Cent
 Our business is to do the fighting, and do it now. We have gone into the war, but do not forget that we have gone in only one-haif of one per cent as yet. For three years and three quarters the English and French ar mies-aye, and the Italians and the Belgians and the other allies-have battled in a quarrel that was ours as much as theirs. They have suffered the heartrending loss. Their leaders have stood as high priests between the horns of the altar and poured out the1 life blood of their best and their bray- est Their sons have died that we might live in safety. Now let us fight that their death shall not have been in vain.
 Wants Army of Five Million
 "No American has the right to feel satisfied until we have in France so many million fighting men that the strain will have been taken off the French and the English armies and transferred to us, for we deserve to bear it.. I hope to see immediately provision made for an army of 5000 l 900 men and at the same time tell the war department that, if they need them, another 5,000,000 men can be had too. And remember that under the conditions of modern war not only must men be trained, but they must be armed with the admirable and deli cate mechanisms of modern warfare. Speed up the building of the ships, of guns and of airplanes.
 Men Are Moving Fast Now We have a gallant, but a small army on the other side. We have for the last six weeks been sending troops rapidly across. Perhaps most of them l have as yet only been able to take the places of the English troops that have been sent to the front. That is not ene~ yh. I want to see our troops sent | to the front.
 "As yet we have not field gun or l airplane of American manufacture at the other side and hardly a machine gun. The cannon, the airplanes and machine guns that our army uses have been obtained from our hard pressed allied fronts and we have gotten the clothes that the men of the army wear from England
 l Delay Crime Against Nation We must remedy these conditions at the earliest possible moment and we l must understand that every "A hours needless delay in remedying them is a crime against this country and a crime l against civilization. Let us speed up the work behind the lines and at the front, speed up the building of ships, the building of guns, the building of airplanes. Work three eight hour shifts out of every 24 and have it un- derstood that any man who makes an improper profit out of this war is a traitor to this country. If there is q single man of wealth who at the end of thls war is not poorer than when the war started, he will have much to ex- plain.
 So much for the capitalists and the l same thing applies to the wage earner. See that the big man of means gets no more profit out of the war than is necessary in order that the business shall be run and see that the working man does his work up to the handle, If any riveter in a shipyard drives only 50 rivets where he could drive 120, he has driven 50 for freedom and he has left 50 undriven for the sake of the Hohenzollerns. If any man works three days at high wages and loafs the next three because of the high wages received during the first three, he is an enemy to America, and an ally of the kaiser. If any man, if any capital
 ist makes an undue profit or if any
 workman scants his job. he is playing
 the game of tyranny against liberty
 and he is false to his brothers in uni
 form at the front
 Bring Kaiser to Knees
 "There is just one way to get peace
 and that is to bring the Hohenzollerns
 to their knees. This war drive may
 very possibly be succeeded by peace drive, and a peace drive adroitly de-