The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-01-18

of united action unless he was pre- pared to accept it's responsibilities The nation is after all, but the larger union and no citizen of the nation has a right to accept the benefits of national citizenship unless he too ac- cepts it's responsibilities.
 'In this war, the cooperation be- tween Uncle Sam's industrial army at home and his military army abroad, is just as essential as the co-opera- ton between the artillery and infantry at the front The artillery goes through carefully prepared wired en- tanglements of Germany so as to make the bayonet charge possible and effective. Uncle Sam's industrial army in America will by its unity of purpose cut these carefully prepared entanglements at home laid down by the von Papens and von Bernstorffs.
 Ships today are as essential for victory as big guns and ammunition. Without ships, five million splendid Americans cannot be transported or supplied at the front. Ships are needed to feed the hungry nations of i Europe.
 Australia has food in abundance Its wheat harvest of two and a half years ago awaits transportation; a quantity amounting, approximtely to 250, ,0OO, 900 bushels. or something be. tween five and six million tons. The meat works of Australia, extensive as they are, are filled to their full ca- pacity. If ships were available, there
 might be no such need for meatless
 days and wheatless days as America
 has imposed upon herself in order
 that she might send more food to the
 front.
 "The man who drives a nail into a
 wooden ship is driving nail into the
 coffin of the kaiser.
 "The man who strikes the rivets
 on the heads to fasten the boiler
 plates on the side of a destroyer o1 transport should regard himself a'
 not only striking a blow for liberty
 but as hitting the kaiser on the heaC at the same time.
 'The man or women who produce:
 metals, clothing, food or in some way helps to contribute his or hel share to the war is doing as mucl as if he or she were turning a ma chine gun on the enemy ranks. we are in this war not because WI
 love war but because we want to mak'
 peace secure for coming generations
 A premature peace now would in
 volve a renewal of this conflict in dead1ier and b1oodier form in five O
 ten years time. Germany woulC
 have learned the lesson of her mis takes and would make sure of victor, and domination next time. The onl
 security for the world is not to trus
 the word or bond of the kaiser be
 cause he has been branded as an in
 terRGtio1al defaulter but to take iron | him his weapons of aggression an
 to establish a united allied force tha z should act as the police of the world 'Mr. Lloyd-G George has state . clearly the irrevocable and irreduci ' ble minimum of the Allies. To la ' down now would be to dishonor thos valiant dead who had laid down thei :, lives in order that we should be free
 We have made such terrible sacrifice z, to this great cause of freedom as W s cannot afford to accept anything els o than the complete extinction of tn z German menace from the world. o "It is impossible to pursue ou if peaceful avocations successfully wit a one hand on gun and the other o 4 a blow.
 a ''It will be equally impossible t V solve those social problems which wi l. arise for solution after this war fo q the world is to be burdened with tt o enormous cost of always being prepal n ed for a renewal of this conflict W d are fighting for a principle greate n than that of individual life and eve "a of national life. We are fighting fc l. the principle expressed by the woode q. cross of calvary against the iron eros v upon which mankind is being cruc re fed"