The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1918-10-04
WINNING WAR IS
OUR FIRST DUTY
Ex-Governor Harmon Calls This
Americas "Only Business"
EULOGIzES OUR FIGHTING MEN
IN Patriotic Address at ereenvIIse
Declares Our Goal is "Made In
Germany" Peace "6ut by the United
States of America and Her Asso-
ciates.D

Greenville, o., Sept. 28.-In a
speech that breathed patriotism In
every line former Governor hudson
Harmon last night warned Ohio that
nothing must be left unGone that will
help win the war and that to do this
We must defeat every candidate for
public office who at any time in his
career has expressed himself as Oh.
posed to the war aims and policies of
the United States.
Governor Harmon made a strong
plea for the defeat of congressman
who have been found underweight In
the scales of patriotism, and, after
comparing the pacifist tendencies and
utterances of former Governor Will
lis with the aggressive, progressive
and thorough war administration of
Governor James NJ. Cox, asked: "Why
risk a change at this eime?"
ooFSAnOI harmon empna-
sized the fact that Il am not here to
talk politics, but business-public
business-the business in which we
are now engaged-war."
Continuing, the former governor
said.
Every patriot supports his country
in war, without stopping to discuss
the right or wrong of II. But it helps
nightly to know that the cause is
Just and that the government, after
exhaust1ng all peaceful means to
maintain it, was at last compelled to
choose between war and national dis
honor.
II seems amazing, now, that the
rest OF the world was blind so long
to the designs OF Germany. And now
we learn from secret documents re-
Gently secured and published by our
government, that before the war be.
gan scoundrels were being organized
to burn and blow up our factories and
terroirze our people.
Naturally we did not at first realize
that the war had or could have any
special concern for our country. We
were astonished by the wanton inya.
sion Of Belgium, with the shameless
assertion that the treaty by which
Germany guaranteed her independ.
ence was "a mere scrap of paper. .
Knowing and liking, as we did. the
honest, peaceful, law-abiding Germans
living among us, it seemed incredible
that those in Germany could be so de.
based by vicious government, as an
innocent substance can be charged
with deadly poison.
Enlarged the Old He'll.
The Germans, as they stepped on
Belgium and French soil, enlarged
the old he'll and made new one into
which they have ever since been
flinging the innocent and helpless, in
cluding women, children and even
babies, numbering, outraging and
sending them away into slavery.
The allies, taken unprepared had
to supply their needs in other coun.
tries. 1t is a recognized right of
neutrals to sell war munitions to bel
ligerents. Otherwise an unmilitary
country would be helpless when at
tackled When Americans began to
fill orders from the allies Germany
could not protest, her people had too
often and too lately done the same
thing, but she had her officials here
hire and organize scoundrels to burn
and blow up our factories and sneak
| bombs into our ships.
Then she went to sinking merchant
vessels by submarines, without warn
ing and securing the lives of passen.
gers and crews, as required for cen
| turies by universally established in
ternational laws. The Lusitania was
| thus sent down with LOO passengers,
many of them Americans. All Ger
many celebrated the crime.
The president called the kaiser to
| account He was met with lies then
known and since proved in a court
| of justice. Then came fallacy, sub
terfuge and ridiculous conditions. AT
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repetition.
Discover Mexican Plot.
Many thought the president toe
patient under an this provocation.
Meanwhile we discovered German
| plot to induce Mexico to attack us
by promises OF assistance and large
slice Of our country. The kaiser told
our ambassador he meant to attack
! America when he finished the allies
The outrages multiplied. The gigan,
tic system of spies and murderers
was more fully uncovered. And Ger.
many broke her promise and began
again to murder Americans on high
seas. Truly until then the president
had kept us out of the war, and
wisely, too. 1t took more courage in
him to keep us out than to put US in
or rather let us in. But when the
case was clear and the time ripe the
president called to arms. Congress
and the nation promptly responded
We have taken our rightful place In
conflict which we now know In
VOWED our welfare from the start
We no longer leave to other nations
to fight off the common enemy. Our
soldiers, battling beyond the seas, are
defending our homes and liberty as
truly as though they had awaited the
foe on our own shores Nobly they
are doing il and proud we are OF
them. ChearSIlly we pay and lend