Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1918-04-18
Colonial Quotations
Fit Present Days.
to Show They ForesaW the
Liberty Loan.

George Washington-"It is an old
maxim that the surest way to make
good peace is to be prepared for
war"
Thomas Jefferson-4Weaknes pro-
vokes insult and injury. while a con-
dition to punish it often prevents it"
Benjamin Franklin-"We must in
deed all hang together or, most as
suredly. we will all hang separately"
James Monroe-"A defenseless posi-
ton and distinguished love of peace
are the surest invitations to war"
Andrew Jackson-"We shall more
certainly preserve peace when it is
well understood that we are prepared
for war"
Robert NOTES.-The enemy will
ask for peace only when we are in a
position vigorously to prosecute war"
Liberty Loans of Other Days.
Robert Morris, Superintendent of
Finance in the American Revolution,
in circular to the governors of the
states on October 10, 1871, wrote:
at is not by the brilliant successes
of war, the splendor of conquest or
the shouts of victory that wise min
istry are to be affected. The superb
Gritty Of national resources is the sure
ground on which to hope for success,
and that superior resource, steadily
and perseverinoIy applied, must even
tuaIiy attain it's object.
cit is possible that we are near the
close of this war, and perhaps we are
only in the middle of it. But if the
war should continue, we have to
blame ourselves; for >~ere these re-
sources called into action which we
really possess, the foreign enemies
would soon lose all hope and abandon
their enterprise.
"If we do our duty now the war will
soon be brought to close; if not, it
may last for many years, and what
will then be it's termination it is not
in our wisdom to foresee. The enemy
will ask for peace only when we are
in a condition vigorously to prosecute
the war.
ait is necessary that we should be
in condition to prosecute the war with
our arms with security, before we can
treat of peace honorably, and before
we can conclude it with advantage.
Between opposition and submission
there is no middle line. The idea of
submission is, and ever ought to be,
rejected with disdain. Opposition,
therefore, becomes a matter of neces.
sity, and that opposition involves
expense.
cit remains only to provide men
and money, and to make that pro-
vision as early as possible. for the old
adage that he who gives early doubles
thereby his gift can never be more
applicable than on the present coca.
sion. For whatever may be the diff
ferent opinions of different men. all
must agree that the only way to Sc
cure peace is to be prepared for war
Our Fathers Influence.
AS If to conclude the argument that
we. of today, should heed the wisdom
of our forefathers, that other great
American, Abraham Lincoln, said:
81 do not mean to say we are bound
to follow implicitly in whatever our
fathers did To do so would be to dis
card all the lights of current expert
ence-to reject all progress. all i'm
provement What l do say is that il
we would suppIant the opinions and
policy of our fathers in any case, we
should do so upon evidence so con.
elusive, and argument so clear that
even their great authority, fairly con.
sidered and weighed, cannot stand"
With these words of great Ameri
cans fresh in the mind who can say
that the subscribing, and moreover
the over-subscribing of the Third Lib
erty Loan is not the most important
thing in all America today.
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