American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1918-04-09

L thank you for that. And we will
continue to fight, by the eternal, un-
III victorious American arms have for
ever ended the intolerable arrogance
of that scientifically trained brutality.
We will have peace-but only peace
by victory, and never a peace by COM
promise bargaining.
What is sacrifice? What is sacri-
flee when things like this are at stake?
The president of the United States
wrote a declaration of the war aims
of this country. l think it is a Magma
Charta for the freedom of the world,
a magnificent, wonderful instrument.
But, between that victory and this
moment stands the Prussian army,
the greatest military establishment in
the history of the world. That vic
tory will be ours; we will win this
war, but the war will not win itself.
There are still SNUG individuals in
this country who sit with their hands
folded and expect to wake up some
morning and find this war over
Wrong, woefully, criminally wrong.
This war will not be won until the
resources of this country in men and
material have been taxed to the last
possible atom. 1t may take five
years, five millions of men and hun
dred billions of dollars. We might
just as we'll, as intelligent men and
women, prepare for just that kind of
conflict
~MOre Bonds. Less Blood"
More bonds mean less blood. Our
immediate duty is the third Liberty
loan We must buy and buy and buy
until it hurts, and continue to buy un-
til it quits hurting. The necessary
expenses of the government are in
calculable. Of all the crimes possi-
BILE of conception, the greatest is to
send our brave men to give their lives
and then not give them that support
without which their efforts are use
less.
There is but one side to the ques-
ton of war, and on that side, abso-
| lutely supporting the country's cause.
shall stand every political party and
every member of every political party
entitled to any consideration whatso-
ever.
We must have such industrial peace
as will make certain that every atom
of brain and every ounce of Drawn
goes where needed most to help the
common cause. And that is not a
charge on labor solely. We must
have less profiteering and more vol
unteering in this country.
The manufacturer who will take
advantage of his countrys emergency
to profit unduly or force concessions
unduly from labor is just as bad as
the laborer who would take advan
tage of his employees emergency tC
force unfair concessions from. him
And that lawless individual called al
Industrial Worker of the World, who
goes about the country thinking only
of himself and seeking what he car
destrOy-that man is a traitor to hi
; country. absolutely. and nothing else
and should be treated as such.
Now, I do not mean that ther'
should not be constructive criticism
.. and sympathetic suggestions. We. il
Indiana. expect it in the war work a
in everything else. Our great wa
executive. Governor Goodrich. asks il
could not understand the menta
processes, frankly, or the heartbeat
of those in authority. if there are any
who wants otherwise; If there is, an.
; place. in any state in the nation, any
one in authority in this awful crisis
ie there is anyone who won't use ever
conceivable possible effective instru
ment to help win this war then he i
guilty of conduct most reprehensible
= and if that should be so there will b
an awful accounting therefor as sur
Sc. af no ri nt ism and inTnl
! ligence of the American people.
The one purpose of everyone is I
= win the war now, and to strive an
5 stand for a peace by victory only an
4 not by compromise bargaining, an
! to prepare in a sane manner for IN
[ great problems of reconstruction. Tn
e responsibility resting on men and VIC
4 men of the intelligence, substance an
e character of you gentlemen is measui
$ ed by the strength of those aualitie
g in you If you do not feel it, act i
e live il. and talk it. then how do yo
K expect the man on the street to do it
{ Sacrifice? Yes. Yours and mine
= Yes. Thank God, We are in a CON
? pany tonight where we do not hav
T to apologize for real heart patric
l. tism.
T Sacrifice? Yes. And why not saC
rifice? When we think of this cour
n try and what it stands for Of its glol
e ious past, its magnificent present an
;, its sublime future. of the anguish, tn
q heart-throbs. the bleeding and the dl
u ing which it took to conceive and pre-
serve tive must be stirred to III
depths of our souls and moved wit
n an imperishable determination to kee
y ii where our forefathers. with God