Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1918-05-15
Truths Brought Home to Amer
cans by Great Fight for
Democracy.
ALL CAN SHARE IN BATTLE
Send Your Dollars to Government
Rout Our Enemy Within Our
6ates-Your Patriotism
on Trial.
BY oELErT BURGESS Of The visi.
iantes.

i2ntes.
What have you learned from this
| first year Of the war;
Have you learned that no peace 10
possible but one founded upon the trl.
unph OF democracy
Germany's faithlessness to her
/ treaty agreements In Belgium has had
Its sequel In her deceit In Russia. Ger
mans frightfulness Is the deliberate
| policy Of autocracy in Its design TO en-
slave the world. All preteuses of lib
erai reforms have been drowned In
the rising lust for world-conquest.
Intoxicated by self love and ruthless
ambition the kaiser and his war lords
seek 10 bring all civilizations under the
| reign OF brute force. Nation after ma
ton has fallen their prey. II We are
TO survive. that maiign doctrine OF
might-makes-right must be destroyed
forever.
Have you learned that you. too, can
fight In the battle for freedom7
Lend your money to the Liberty
Loans; give II to the Red Cross. Every
dollar lent the government helps equip
soldier: every dollar to the Red
Cross succors him in his time of need.
II you are a patriot You can no more
keep out OF these drives" than, II
soldier, you could refuse to go over
the top into No Mans Land.
Dollars Are Soldiers.
Dollars are soldiers, too Your dol
Ia x.EI Ruh 20 ~ @h
private may think his own worth small
but all together they make an army.
Your dollar seems small. but II each
does his share the war win have suffi-
Client backing.
For your boys sake, II he Is "over
there" subscribed You would not re-
fuse to help pal7 Wen. you have a
million pals Help them
Have you learned that the enemy 10
herewith Us, too7
The soldiers blood. In the trenches.
is not only drained by flying shells--it
is sucked by rats and lice. Here at
| home we have human vermin preying
| upon us. Just as evil and insidious as
| the trench pests are the pro-German
spies and propagandists and the paci-
fists who seek to impede or discoun-
tenance the war. Watch them. watch
| for them. seek them out.
| Let no sedltious word or act 20 un.
| reported. Let the alien enemy sub
4 tect declare plainly where he stands.
whether he Is for us or against us II
German born. urge him to join the
Il for A - III
in and thus manifest at once his In
eradicabie love for the fatherland and
his devotion TO his adopted country.
| Those who are not for us are against
| usl
| Have you learned that your patriot
ism Is being tried by your faith and
| your works7
! Be not cast down by defeat. Spread
| no rumors Of calamity. When the dark
! days come. encourage the timid and
| fearful, reprove the alarmist and back
/ sliders. Aroused now to the solemuity
/ Of our task, the duty will be perform
/ ed to the end-yictory Yet only when
I every one does his full share shall that
| victory come.
War Is Grim Work.
! Urge haste, urge thoroughness, urge
unremitting effort. Take the war seri-
ously. for war is grim work. and we
have an enemy who thinks OF nothing
but efficiency. Our soldiers are not on
ly TO he amused. but armed and taught
to fight. Insist that this comes first.
More guns. more ships, more air
planes Is your congressman or SEN
ator lagging7 Punch him up Act ev-
cry day as II your life and your wife
were in danger. They arel Speed up
the warl
Have you learned that waste IL
treason9
Upon us our allies depend not only
for men and munitions but for food
and clothing. If our permanent liberty
is to be won, they must for while de-
fend II for us, till we. too. can fight.
Shall we waste, then. while they
want, While they are to be fed and
clad, waste is treason. Save wheat
save meat, save wool The war needs
everyone's strictest economy.
The good ship Democracy Is sorely
beset by the storm. Shall the passen-
gers revel while the crew starvef d.
videi Divide. and save the ship lest
| all hc ln1tt