River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1918-04-18
Buy a Liberty Bond II, You WouId
Show the World Where
You Stand.
YOUR HELP IS NEEDED NOW!
There Can Be No Such Thing as Neu,
traIity on the Part of True
American Citizen in This
Great War.
BY RENE BAcHE.

It is a cry for help. What viii you
do about it?
There is a kind Of man who under
such circumstances says: ut is none
of my business. / am not called upon
to interfere"
"Such a man calls himself peace
loving citizen"-a pacifist, to use
word recently popularized.
But you know, and l know, that he
is only a coward. His only anxiety Is
to keep out of danger, 10 matter at
what sacrifice Of his manhood.
Even though he knows that his
neighbours wife or child is being at
tackled he will not interfere. It is
"none Of his affair" Besides, he him
self might get hurt.
The unprovoked invasion Of Belgium
by the predatory Huns was exactly an
alagous to the breaking and enter
ing of a peaceable mans home by
armed burglars. Theirs was a Grim
inal enterprise pure and simple.
Later it became manifest that we
were likely to suffer similarly in our
turn. In fact, the same criminals be-
gan to attack us. They killed our
peop1e-eyen our women and children.
So, much against our will, we were
at last compelled to fight. II ever
there was a just and righteous fight,
1t is ours in this war. Will you per-
sonally stand aside, playing the cow
ards part, or will you helpl
Buy q Liberty Bond.
If you cannot do your bit with bomb
and bayonet, you can help very i'm
portantly by buying Liberty bond.
Would you prefer to help the kaiser
and his gang Of professional murder
ers? You can do so by refusing to help
your country with your money.
There can be no such thing as neu-
trality on the part of an American
citizen in this war. Either you are
q patriot or you are a traitor. Which
of the two shall you choose to be?
If you refuse your help, merely
standing aside, you are actually aid
ing the kaiser You are TIE accom-
plice, at least constructively speaking,
of the greatest criminal since Nero.
Do you approve of the rape Of Bel
gium and the ruthless slaughter of it's
inoffensive people?
If not, then show it by buying
Liberty bond.
Do you approve Of the wholesale
violation of women and the mutilation
of little children?
If not, then buy a Liberty bond.
Are you in favor of the poisoning Of
wells, of Smelling unarmed and help
less people in open boats, of indis-
criminate warfare upon nOncOmbat-
ants?
If not, then buy a Liberty bond.
You Are For or Against.
You cannot compromise with your
conscience in this matter. Either You
are for these things, or you are against
them.
Civilization is engaged in desper-
ate struggle against barbarism-nay,
indeed, something much worse than
barbarism, scientific savagery. 1t is
q fight of right against wrong.
Do you wish to help the right?
Then buy a Liberty bond
The happiness of your children and
of your children's children is at stake.
For there can be no happiness without
liberty, and liberty will cease to exist
If Prussian power achieves the OBJ
1ects for which 1t is now contending
One word more. Do you believe in
q life that is to follow this life? Do
you believe that your welfare in the
hereafter will be influenced by your
conduct in your present state of ex-
istence?
Then how can you hope fo- happi-
ness in the ''next world tf, in this
struggle between right and wrong, you
deliberately choose to stand with the
Hun murderers against your God?
You are helping them if you stand
neutral" and fail to help your coun-
try.
Make your choice. And, having
chosen, buy a Liberty bond.