Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-10-14
MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER II. 1918.
PRESS THE FIGHTING

Probably to say that SO, 900, 900 Americans in America
are today entertaining the thought that peace is in sight
would be putting the matter conservatively. All of this
Is folly. and folly Of a very dangerous character.
No such curiosity and speculation are INDUCED in oy
Americans at the front. They are leaving the business
Of diplomacy to the government at Washington, and
pressing the fight. They see no way. and hope for no
way, out Of the war than by the establishment Of peace
through force. They know the enemy they have to deal
with and they are entertaining no illusions about that
enemy's methods and aims. Rejecting the view of the
soldiers at the front, while the president was studying
the Macmillan. proposal, the United States ordnance de-
partment was asking the house committee on appropr1a-
tons for another billion dollars to be expended upon
the immediate manufacture Of big guns; and while mil
lions Of people were conjecturing whether Germany's lat
est advances would not eventually lead to peace, those
who have the financing of the war in hand were increas-
ing. the estimates for artillery equipment from over two
and a half to nearly four billion dollars.
Every war activity of the government is at this mo-
ment being speeded up; the entire western front is ablaze;
the resources of all the Allied nations are being drawn
upon heavily, fresh divisions Of Allied troops are being
rushed to the fighting lines, all in response to Germanys
demand for peace. on what she regards as a satisfactory
basis. Instead Of resting on their guns, silencing their
batteries. pausing to hear from Washington or Berlin.
the armies of the Allies and of the United States are
pounding the German lines night and day, driving them
back. occupying additional towns and cities. and captur-
ing prisoners by the tens of Thousands.
This is the quickest and surest way Of ending the
war; the quickest and sdrest way Of winning a satisfac-
tory and permanent peace, and it is a method that cannot
be carried on successfully if the people of the United
States. to whom the fighters are looking for support,
constant, never failing support, fall into the way Of in
dulging in daydreams to the neglect of their supreme
duty.
The armies in the field, under competent command,
of the United States has proved himself to be capable
Of dealing with German diplomatists He is attending
to his part of the task. The United States government
at the present time is permitting no war activity to pause.
1t is doing its part we'll. Only the ordinary citizen lags.
In the fourth Liberty Loan drive. taking him at the
average. he has done less than one-third Of his duty. If
the general, the captain, the corporal, or the private at
the front, taking each at an average. were doing less than
one-third of his duty, the war for democracy would be
lost. If the president were doing less than one-third
impeachment and conviction Of a high crime against the
republic. .-.
Now is the time to wage the war with all the vigor
the nation can command, and now is the time when
nearly every man, woman and child can perform a full
part toward winning the war. Let the soldiers do the
fighting: let the president do the writing; both will be
helped to attain the great object in view if the public
will only do the bond buying. do it to the limit, and do it
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