The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1918-05-08
AMERICANS AND
TRUE DEMOCRACY
Douars Are Needed as ExempIifj-
cation Of Spirit.
TIME TO BUY LIBERTY BONDS
C't'zens Must Lend Their Financia,
Assistance to Government to Fo-.
ever Eliminate Effects Of Ger.
many's influence.
TIME TO BUY LIBERTY BONDS
BY GEORGE &. BOWEN
Of the Niniianten

In the main, II cannot be said of
America that She IS without her Amer. !
leans, Or that the faith ana service of
the mass is un-American in spirit.
Dollars u" not always 90 With de.
mocracy, but when Informed, inspired
ana enlisted they can be mighty useful
to it,
There has been mistaken idea in
certain sections of America that dol.
lars, according to the number of them.
spelled "aristacracy."
They don't That is an imported
idea. And that it is pcrshing in the
land of It's origin, witness the war and
the CONSERVATION of the few aristo.
Gratis, both external and inbred.
There have been, possibly are,
few external aristocrats in America,
who, in a moment of excessive vanity
measured their social importance by
the size Of their material fortunes.
The war erased that absurd notion,
almost with the first blare of the
trumpet
Millionaire Privates in Ranks
There are millionaire privates in the
ranks of the American army and navy
who have renounced all the prestige
OF fortune for the privilege of comrade-
| ship.
In the crucial test humanity was
first. last, and all the way between.
Men are more than money. The outer
veneer has been quickly shed. The
| man has emerged.
What he thought was his pride, in
days Of social and financial triumph,
he finds was but a cheap and trivial
| plaything Now, his real pride is
thing of purpose, power and dignity.
| Before the war is over, dollars that
| hid in aristocratic seclusiOn or vaunt-
ed themselves in ostentatous power
are going voluntarily and humbly to
Join the forces Of democracy.
After the war they are going to de-
velop a system Of popular redistribu-
ton relieving the old congestion whose
feverS broke out In many forms of lux
ury and extravaganza Incompatible
with universal contentment
The only aristocracy America wants
or needs is of the heart and Of the
mind.
The shoulder touch of men on the
march or in the trenches has welded
this feeling into a living creed a saw
Ing faith.
The escutcheon of American man
hood may be either splash OF Bel
pian mud or splotch of German
blood.
Drawing True Men Together.
In place of the dollar crest Will be
the sign of the courage test.
There was lot of sound democracy
in the old millions Tor de-
Tense but not one cent for tribute.
Therein is the basic principle of re-
sistance of Prussianism. That pnh
chile is drawing all true men together
1t is putting service above self. IL Is
asking America to take the SoIo "l
vanity and pour 1t INTO the cause OF
| humanity.
The spirit OF democracy is the only
vital, uncompromising thing N hu
man world.
l, ,onghs ut dollars and dynamite
and royal dc-enerateS'
The America annointed of this splri
Is NJ Inst to carry i; forth to PERISH
Ing world. ,,o
And the despised American ooila'
shall. with the courage sehef"si''
and chiyalry of American manhood OF
rho Instrument of salvation.
The day of contribution Is at ''anu
Where is your dollar!