The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-02-23
placitly in a world where the Prussian
may prepare again to do his CHASTITY

lily to conclude a useless peace, and live
placidly in a world where the Prussian
may prepare again to do his CHASTITY
will.
There is no possibility in this family
! of a broad and generous charity which
| can acilnow ledge II brotherhood OF hui
manity with the Hun after the war.
- They hate. and they viii hate as long
as they live. and they have n right To
rhate.
I No. no more than q right, n duty.
AS you look into the faces Of these
people who have gone through such
awful horror. as you meet one after the
other Of them, and acquire an actual
knowledge Of what, the Bcche has
meant By his boldly proclaimed inten-
| ton OF Pam merchandising the world.
something more thana mere logical
knowledge that such things must not
be permitted surses alp in you, and grip
the heart, mad sends the darker blood
tinglinE in the cheeks aud into the
IeycS.
Passion comes. as il must come,
We OF America went into this war
las matter of principle: ITO make the
world safe for democracy" We said.
1t was like following a preccpt from
a copy book, such as Now is the time
for all good men to come to the aid of
the party or ITO the stars through
labor" or Virtue is its own reward
, or some other high sounding Spence
, rian principle.
What We Must %.
u We have met hundreds Of fine, good
, American soldiers, volunteers, who
have explained as their reason for COM
: ing into the war that they did so be
cause every man should be willing to
t loffer his life to preserve liberty and
freedom. or because Frussian mill
ltarism threatened the world"
1t is rather miraculous that we have
=. done so much inspired by cold ethics
! and it is tremendous tribute to the
, Thigh morality of the American charac-
ter that this is so.
Here is a big and Il worthy thing
. to be accomplished. YOU have said, and
everybody must help; SO you at home
almost unanimously, save your food
and buy liberty bonds and send your
: sons far across the sea, t" fight fol
= the cause Of justice.
There is something majestic in that
: lsomething ecstatically uplifting in the
= spectacle of n great nation, far from
. the scene of this colossal emotiona
: FRENCH WOMEN-THREE~-
tragedy. rising en- masse in Response
, to the sacred call Of duty, answering
u an appeal To the highest and bes
promptings of the human soul
q Our Duty.
But by and by, when the facts tina
n you know with your mind become
= truths burned on your heart, when yo'
learn more and more through the love-
IT ones whom you have sent here to rep
resent you in this titanic struggle be
1t tween the God of right and the devil o
[, might, when they tell you of the awful
h things the impossible things. III
atrocious, unhuman, british things 0
n. which the hell -spaWned Hun Is capa
re bic, you will have something deepe
* than duty in your more and more pas
~ s!onate support OF our boys in France
You will have hatred, and 1t win b
re a just hatred
J. You viii understand why the Frenc
nation, enduring SO much with n calI
f. and steadfast courage which has bee
to the marvel OF the world, keeps Its fac
ID turned sternly toward the west. an
to it's determination set on but one en-
AZ to this demoniac struggle: that enc
ar permanent peace. the peace whic
can only be secured by exhausting tn
1t German empire beating ii to It's knees
D. encomDassing the complete and entir
re defeat Of the Boche an end whic
10 must be ours. too, If II takes ever
last dollar in our pockets every las
l. ounce of our resources, every last dro
Of our blood.
As for ourselves. we who write thi.
"a we are absolutely and unreservodi
40 committed to the views of Andre Fue
a Hot.
,s We want peace: Andres peace,
more Monday.