The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-09-16
HELPING Finance
WAR 4 PRIVILEGE
Not Only a Duty Which Every
Good American Owes His
Country at This Time.
AMERICA is RE-OISCOyERED
Autocrstlc Rulers Of Germany HaVe
Learned That They Cannot FoIst
Their Theories Of Kultur Upon
Our Democracy.
py TAomAs 8. MARSHALL.

Nlce-PreStdent OF thC United States.
A very remarkable thiag about
America consists In the fact that II
does not remain discovered. for a
country Is discovered only when the
world knows whe it is and what
IL Is. II the world be mistaken Ia
either particular. it remains still IN
unknown land. Historians say that
Columbus discovered It in 1892, and
so far rs rev, ing its geographical To-
cation to the world is concerned that
IS true. But n 1870 1t was rediscov-
cred when the fet-headed German
who sat on the English thron made
the great mistake In the life of the
British empire IN thinking that ne
might treat the c~olonists as he chose.
Dream OF World Dominion.
The average German junker. II he
had any religious sense which rose
higher than the mere worship Of
power. would have made a splendid
theological professor in those days
when It was wittily said of AndOver
that every five years the professors
took a solemn oath to the effect that
they had learned nothing ia the pre-
ceding five years and would learn
nothing in the succeeding Eve. This
German hierarchy became obsessed
nth the idea OF world dominion eua-
sing from q great empire Ia middle
iaaope. II proceeded with a dipioH-
ay that would have made Nachia-
SELL seek admission into the kinder
aartea. It organized by an act of the
congress Of the United States what is
kaown as the German Alliance. Os-l
easibly a frnternal organization. its
underlying purpose was to obtain pos
ession Of the schools. colleges and
universities Of America. and by a
course os training from generation 20
generation teach this people that the
iadividuai was nothing. that the state
ris everything. II thought in forty
wears it had SO divided the American
people that there we're bat two courses
open to them, either 4 ready acquies-
cence III the purposes ana aims Of the
imperial German government or ia the
having Of sufficient power at the close
Of this b~loodthlrsty and cruel war 10
collect OF the American people 8 stuff
cie-t tribute t. indemnify IN dollar,
HRv cents the vast expenditures Of The
German empire ~ The waring os ttis
war and the making CT the entire
western Continent a mere ~appendage
of the German crown.
Now that the war is on some Of its
leading men boldly disclaim the right
OF the American government 70 have
any immigration laws whatsoever.
nI.- 49, r-F.-,
bus discovered America fer the world
that the Germans have an unrestrict-
ed right to come to America. and il
they can get a sufficient number here
imbued with taeir theories Of kultur
10 shift our individualistic democracy
into a state autocracy. The Lusitania,
the Arabic and he Sussex would never
have been suaken, the i~ndiguities
heaped upon tie flag would never have
occurred, the brutal and autocratic
course Of conduct would never have
been taken, had their government not
imagined its forty years influence
upon the thought n purpose Of
American life had SO weakened the
fiber of American citizenship that In
the hour Of trial 1t would be as impo-
tent as a ieprous hand. or as water
spilled upon dry ground that may not
be gathered up again.
Peaceful Man Can Fight.
It has rediscovered America. It has
found that II vas mistaken. II has
been suddenly confronted with the
fact that the peaceful man is the most
dangerous man when he concludes TO
engage in n fight.
But this eight is not yet won. There
are no half dozen courses open to the
American people. They must win or
they must lose, and II they lose. what
was sought 10 be accomplished by In
sidious propaganda VIII be given TO
them by the mailed fist of the con-
queror. Holy Writ declares that al 8
MN hath will he give for his life. but
more than a century ana a quarter OF
American life has disclosed that life
IS not life unless with it goes liberty.
We are therefore up against the real
thing. We must win or we must be
contented TO be slaves. despotled Of
our houses. our lands. L stocks. our
bonds, our mortgages and our money
I am not q graduate OF the Wharton
School Of Finance. learned my 6nan
clal system from the Indiana official
who felt tina he had been q faithful
public servant when he made a report
In his fduciary capacity which simply
showed that the money was all paid n
and all paid out. But with blood In
my veins, not E drop Of which on either
side Of the house has landed on this
soil since 1916. my idea of what con
stitutes America in not extent Of terri
tory. 0 vast resources. nor unlimited
power. II is rather that America Is
the land OF opportunity and obligation
OF e chance to get on IN the world hon
estly Il you know how to get on. ano
9f he daty to see to It that you 90 no
lay an unkind hand upon the chance