Connecticut western news. [volume] (Salisbury, Litchfield Co., Conn.) 1871-1970, 1918-08-29

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testifying to the fact that a larger
percentage of her citizens needed the
appeal of this most worthy cause
than did so in any other town within
the territory of the Litchfeld Chap
ter.
We all know that this war cannot
be fought and won without money,
and when speak the word money"
l do not use it with any meaning
heretofore given it. 1t is not dollars
measured by thousands, hundreds of
thousands, or millions, but it is by
billions. Billions upon billions; not
ounces of gold, but tons of it, ship
loads of it, and thank God we have it.
When we consider our woeful state
of unpreparedness at the date of our
entrance into the war, the fact that
we had no army, an insufficient navy,
few if any guns or munitions, and
even if we had them, no ships to
transport them to places of useful
ness. The fact that the ships of all
countries allied with US were fast be-
ing piled up on the bottom of the
ocean by the deadly submarine, and
that every country which had been
fighting for the cause for which we
had pledged ourselves to fight had ex-
hausted it's resources to the verge of
bankruptcy, and that we had to back
the whole bunch of them, that we had
to biuld not only ships but cities to
build the ships, we can appreciate to
some extent why today a billion
sounds about like a nickle few years
ago.
1t is of course impossible for any
country to finance itself under condi-
tions such as these except by issuing
bonds, and then issuing some more,
and of course it is of no use to issue
bonds unless the people buy them,
! and there is where we can help. There
is where the American who loves his
country and who can't shoulder a
musket in her defense can show his
loyalty and help to protect his home
and his material interest, and when
he buys those bonds, while he is per-
fectly justified by all of the facts in
regarding them as good investments
my advice to him is not to so regard
them, but to ragard them rather as
certificates of his birth right Let
him think for moment that in the
great game that is being played while
he is entitled to participate with a
few paltry dollars the boy who puts
on uniform stakes his life.
In helping to finance the war North
| Canaan has done we'll. We shall soon
be called upon to do more. l do not
believe that very many of us have yet
given to the point where it hurts.
Before it is over we may have to do
it, and let's be prepared to do it
cheerfully. Think for a moment
what the people of France and Bel
GUM have done and are doing for the
aid of a cause in which our interest
is as great as theirs. know when
the time comes, if it eevr does, we
will not be slackers. We can't be
and ever again hold up our heads
among men.
Again it behooves us to watch our
selves closely to the end that never,
even in our innermost minds, do we
find ourselves thinking it might be
we'll to accept some easier and cheap
er course in this conflict than the
course in which our manifest duty
| lies; that we never consider any
terms with the enemy which would
by chance leave to our children, or
our children's children, the possibility
of a recurrence of the events of to-
day. Germany has tried and will try
again by subtle propaganda to make
the world believe that she will con-
slider any fair terms of peace. AS
we see it today, any terms of peace
fair to the German intellect are such
terms as will permit her military
masters to resiscitate her war max
ing powers at the expense of some of
the countries of Europe which are to-
day overrun by the German military
hordes. Any compromise less than
the absolute breaking of the military
spirit of Germany is a compromise at
the expense of the home and birth
rights of those who are to follow US,
and is one which we, as Americans,
should never consider, if for no other
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any such compromise we would be
guilty of treason to our ancestors.
Cheap peace or peace at the ex-
pense of their country's honor never
entered the minds of our grim fore
fathers and any such conduct on our
today we are the keepers of the ma
part would be betrayal of trust, for
TONS honor.
! In order to obtain maximum re-
suits from theh great resources of our
country and apply these results most
effectively to the winning of the war,
many rules have been established and
are being effectively enforced under
tn direction of recognized experts.
do not propose at this time to at
tempt any discussion of food conser-
walton, nor do l believe Brother
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