The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-10-17

plenty for the classes and poverty for the masses
But peace that goes hand in hand with justice.
Peace that says, not only My County, but My
| Country and Thy Country.
America has been chosen the arbiter of the
destinies of the world. To this nation it has
been given to give the decisive word that will
mean an abiding peace or compromising alter
native.
On the throne Of Germany, exalted as leader
of the powers Of darkness, Anti Christ holds out
his lure of pretended peace. With the world
crushed and bleeding, the very heart of life pal
pitant with the pangs of brutalities undreaned
| of by any but the Hellish Huns, now that Ger
many finds Christendom risen against her. now
that she finds her own minions shrinking from
her, her own people spurning her, for her own
protection she cries: peace! Peace!"
She has brought suffering to the world. she
mas invited retribution and now that it has
come she turns her craven back and asks the
mercy that she would not show
There can be no surrender, no terms that are
not unconditional The people of the nations will
demand the life of the KAISER who is marked
with the brand of Cain. There can be no COM
promise with the House of Hohenzollern.
How can there be talk of peace, as long as
there is fighting American on foreign field
How can there be peace talk. as long az there ;s
pltiful mother who gives her son to the nation
How can there be peace talk, as long as q how
lays down his life.
II ever there was reason for the men of this
nation being furnished with munitions Of war
it is today. If ever there was reason for v;o;-
lance, it is today. # ever there was need If
money, it is today.
what can we say to those mothers who crv to
us Tor their sons. when it is too late? How can
we reckon with those boys when they come home
II we fail them now. Will it help them. when the
American forces have lost battle, and because
OF that battle, the Germans have gained Sec
tor, because there were not enough guns, to saw:
we thought some time, somehow, peace might
be declared, and possibly the guns might not he
needed"
This is not the time to think It is the time To
night The leaders Of the nation are doing the
thinking That is just what we made them
leaders for
President Wilson and the war leaders can
think to more. purpose than you can, for that is
" ~ooo' VudL you nave 70 do to give
them the money to translate thought into action.
Suppose those boys over there should rise I'D
today and say: Il think there is no necessity to
night this battle" And should lie down on the
job. What would happen? Would the battle be
iost! No. Other good men would be put in |
their places and they would be shot
And that is just what should happen to the
man VINO refuses to invest in Liberty Bonds. He |
Is traitor to his country, just as surely, and an
ally OF Germany just as certainly, as if he cried
Hoch der Kaiser and invested in German Sc
curities.
1he American people are going to put this loan
over the top. in spite of the traitors. Woe be TO
the man or the woman who refuses to do part
the right part. Better that milestone were
hanged about his neck and he were cast into the
sea-
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