The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1918-07-25

been at war with Turkey since 1911.
Seven long years. Boys that were
eight years old in 1911 are filling up
the ranks today. Do you think !
want that for my boys. Do you think
want my three little boys to grow
up into ten years war. Not on your
life. I'll do all that's in my power to
prevent it. If every civilian in this
country would do everything h his
power to prevent it, the thing would
be easy. Listen, I'm strong for two
years war, or a three years war.
That's going to clean us up-that'll
put the kibosh on Germany once and
for all. That's what call rapid fire
business. We can clean up inside Of
two or three years in this war. We're
quick, we Americans. Quick, when
we go to it. Well, all we've got to
do here at home is to back this war.
hot and heavy now. Then therell be
an end to it. But if we don't, good
night. If we back it up now"
"By backing it up you mean?"
money. That's the thing that
talks. A little Of the cream off the
top. A little self-sacrifice now-or a
whole lot Of unnecessary hell later.
Listen. Look forward ten years from
now. Suppose there's still war. What
will it mean to you? Your little kids
Of today all over there-all getting
killed. Your wife and family sick
with deprivation. Your Income neces-
sarily taxed down to one-third of its
size. This whole people, this govern
ment, even slaves. Sounds funny,
don't it? Slaves-to what? To Ger
many? No-slaves to war. Do we
want war that is going to last SO
long that the mark of its heel as it
grinds US down in the mire is going
to show and be felt for two or three
generations? Do we want that? We
can have it if we want it? We can
have it easy enough. We can all sit
back and say: America will win the
war; She will, if that's all we do
about it-just say that. She will win
it, in the end. She's got to win. But
here's what I'm interested in: Is she
going to win at the end Of two years
or at the end Of ten. At cost of
twenty billions or a hundred billions
of dollars. At the loss Of hundred
thousand men, or five million? That's
what interests me. Now, want just
what every man ia America wants.
He wants to win this war and he
wants to win it quick. Every man in
this country, and every mans family,
will be N this war somehow or other.
at some time. don't mean in the
trenches mean in the grip Of war,
aid what it means. All right. If
every man in this country viii realize
that if we all get in now we can get
in quick and make quick finish, that
when we're saving ourselves from
few years Of hell on earth-if he
would only realize that, he'd get in
quick. He'd put every cent, every
dollar he possibly could spare-he'd
make every monetary sacrifice to win
this war"
Pretty good philosophy, / thought.
Was it all talk. Not a bit Of it. III
discovered that this man and his
young family, with the pride of pa
.rlotism shining in their faces, for
over year have been denying them
selves everything save the absolute
necesaries of life. They have, in
Tact, been putting their livelihood,
heir comfortable living, into this
var. What for? So that his little
boys won't have to grow up into a
ong war. 50 that his wife may in the
'uture have eaough to eat-so that
'ther American families in the future |
nay have enough to live on. 1t struck
ne that if everybody in the country |
'ould hear this man talk, and the
way he said it, and could know the |
uprising amount Of War Savings
stamps, and Thrift Stamps, and Lib
rty Bonds that he and his little fam
" have purchased. the rest of us
you'd begin to wake up and come to
is way Of thinking that if we, you
nd !, would all Of US jump into this