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Don't Talk For Germany
(By Governor Boyle, of Nevada.

(By Governor Boyle, of Nevada.)
The Germans are killing our boy:
"over there with lies.
, Every American soldier transport
! ed to France since we entered the
war has gone to replace the Russian
and Italian resistance which was de
! stroyed by murderous German lies
| Every lie told in Russia, in Italy, ,anG
in the United States itself may vel
! cost an American life and the tota
may destroy civilization.
This is a shameful tale, but there
! is one that is worse:
! Every deadly, poisonous lie made
| in Germany to kill our boys is tole.
rated, accepted, and circulated by
Americans. Without the help OF
Americans Germany can not win this
war.
We must wake up to these facts
| Every person in this country, wheth-
er he be an American, German-Amer-
lean, or any other kind of fractional
American, who tolerates, credits, OF
conveys statements capable of re-
straining us from giving our whole
will, our whole heart, and our whole
strength to this war is doing coward
ly and traitorous work for Germany
We can not take refuge in ignor-
ance. We must recognize treason
when we see it, as clearly as we
identify poison on our own shelves,
and we must brand it with the skull
and croSs-boneS so that all who come
across it may shun and abhor it.
1t is a German-made lie that Ger
many is fighting a defensive war.
Germany has increased the terri
tory and population under her do
minion fourfold since the war be-
gan.
1t is a German lie that the Govern
ment and power of Germany are
destined to rule the world.
The PruSsian principle is that the
individual is the servant of the Gov
ernment and exists for the Govern
ment. 1t is mere despotism. Des-
potic power can not survive in the
world.
1t is German lie that Germany is
not our most dangerous enemy.
Germany has slaughtered our men,
women, and babes when we were at
peace with her. She has destroyed
our property. She has denied our
rights to the sea unless we should
make war on her enemies She has
officially threatened to break down
our Monroe doctrine-the wall that
has kept war from the Western
World She has by law, directed her
subjects to swear perjured allegi-
ance to America, but to serve Ger
many under penalty when the test
should come. She populated our
country with spies, dynamiters, and
incendiaries at a time when she
claimed the privileges of a friend.
Her friendship has been as deadly as
her friendship for Belgium, for Rus
sia. or for Italy.
1t is a German lie that any war
measure impairs the freedom of
Americans.
Without war we have no freedom.
Our alternative is German slavery
a slavery that works the same with
every nation, every people, every age,
and every sex. No man may commit
treason under the cloak of freedom
of speech or of the press. He may
not even further anarchy, -ssf1uch less
treason. No enemy may assail this
Government under the protection of
it's laws.
1t is a German lie tnat this is a
capitalistic war.
Capital profited by this war so
long as we were out of it, because
capital and labor made and sold war
goods at great profit without tax
or sacrifice. Capital and labor in
this country would today be the prey
of Prussian conquest had not both
combined against the common dan
ger threatened by the Wolf of the
World.
1t is German lie that our war ac-
tivities are mismanaged or charac-
terized by neglect or incompetence.
With over million men encamped
in plain sight of the American peo-
nation open, no radical defects or
abuses have been discovered. The
best brains of the country are COOP
Grating in this war and the accom-
plishments of the past year are con-
tory of the world.
The German lie has unmistakable
marks. 1t typically refers to some
grievous wrong inflicted on the Amer
lean people, so fragrant that were it
operating it could not escape wide
public knowledge and investigation.
1t tends to set the people against
war in general, against this war in
particular, and against one or all of
the necessary means and methods OF
conducting it. 1t tends to sickei and
terroriZe people, to undermine their
confidence in the Government, md to
arouse dissensions, animositie, and
distrusts that will weaken the deter
mination and the power of th peo-
pie in the prosecution of thi war.
1t promotes Indifference or espair
respecting the future and evafon or
disobedience of the laws. eyond
all this it is privately circulatd and |
is without a known or acknoVedged |
author. Any statement resecting |
the war, meeting this defniti1, was |
made in Germany. 1t was 1ade to
help Germany kill, conquer, ad rule |
Americans.
The manufacture of these es can
not be stopped, but the trade-ark of
| treason can be branded OF them
| wherever they appear. ThAmeri-
can who repeats these traparent
| ISLANDERS is doing traitorou work
and should know it. If he les not
know it, he is tool of Gernny. He
must choose to appear eithe fool
or a knave.
| The time for argument gone.
| Our dead lie silent on the ads of
France Loyalty to them vs. more
than life. We must strike i'd fight
here, no less than abroad, it'll the
| free air they left is purgedf Prus-
sian pollution and the free ad they
! died for is saved from the btal ma