The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1918-03-21
the WAR, THE FARM
AND THE FARMER
o, s.ereers Quick

most from war All that he poas
esscs lies out OF doors In plain sikh,
and IL spoil Of war his house. hi
grain. bis livestock but the farme
everywhere Is warrior when wa
la the only thing which viii max,
and keep him free-tather a warrior
or SORT He Il sometimes the las'
70 heat mp; but he stays hot. and ia
a long night he is always found sturd'
lily carrying the battle across No
Mans Land 20 the foe, in the laSi
grim struggle
This war was At frss hard 10 un
ferstAnd No armed foe Invaded the
United States The night skies were
not reddenes by the burning byres
and farrrsteads OF America No raid :
Ing parties harried us OF our cattle or
horses No sabre rattlers lnsultei
our women We did not then know
that monster had arisen with a
! thousand arms who could reach across
the seas and take from us three
fourths OF everything we grew with
ont our being aware OF II. and who
could follow up his robbery with In
yaslou, subjugation and national
death
What the Imperial German govern
ment offer the farmers OF Amer
lea In Its ruthless submarine warfare
was not the loss of profits, but
slavery to the saber- rnttlers OF Pots
dam. by numbering the people who
take our products to market BY
all the laws OF civilized warfare COM
merce under q neutral flag was rec
from any hindrnnce except the legal
Interference justified by war; but
the Germans not only stopped mer-
chant vessels, they sunk them with
out warning and without trace,
Having the right, according TO the
laws of war. 10 take the sea with
his fleet and fight the thing out gun
to gun, but being afraid TO do so for
fear he might lose his fleet. or un-
able to stop the selling OF our pro
ducts TO his enemies or to open his
own ports to us By fair means. he
declared his intention to do 1t by
the fouest methods ever resorted to
in war.
To have submitted would have cost
us dear in prosperity; but that would
have been the least OF our loss. BY
so doing we should have accepted
degradation. We should have ac-
cepted. at the behest of half crazed
autocrat In Europe. lower standard
of living In America We should
have basely yielded up our birthright
MS Americans Peace Mt such price
would not be peace, but only a pre-
paration for future revolt against
subjugation Better any sort of war.
better war forever than that
This, then, is the war in which
we are fighting. Whenever the time
comes FOR new sacrifices. let US re-
member that we fight not only for
the liberty Of the Belgans. tho
French the Servians, the Rus
SLAMS, the British, the Montenegrins.
the Roumanlnns. the Italians, but OF
all nations, even OF the German peo-
pie themselves; and most OF all, for
our own liberties--for our freedom
today There Is loss and sacrifce
In the war; but there would have
been far more In accepting the Ger
man terms. We should have lost
more In money than We shall spend
In the war; and something far more
precious than money-our souls
This 10 the crucial year OF the war.
Our solders-hundreds Of thousands
OF them-nre In the trenches, and a
million more are ready to 60. The
whole burden OF carrying on our own
part in the war. and Of aiding our
sister nations In arms, rests on the
United States Treasury. Therefore
every cent We can raise and scrape
together belongs TO the Treasury.
that our boys may come back to as
victorious. We can whip the Ger
mans, not with the money In our
pockets or our bank accounts, but
with what we put into the Treasury
in subscriptions to Liberty Bonds
Never since the Turks threatened
to overwhelm Europe, perhaps not
even then, was the world In such
danger rs now Germany Is not yet
defeated We must defeat her this
year. We must withhold nothing
from the support Of the war We
must give our sons. We must bring
forth food In abundance multiplying
our labor to that end. We must give
into the Treasury Of tho United
In subscriptions to Liberty
Bonds, every cent we can spare.
This summer the support of the
war Is up to the farners and Uncis
Sam has never called upon the farm
srs In vain.
WHY We FIGHT.