Weekly journal-miner., 1918-04-24
OUT DUTY IN REGARD ID
 LIBERTY LOAN
IRREFUTABLE ARGUMENTS PRE- SEN TED BY D. l. SULLIVAN INDICATING WHY EV FRY CLASS
 SHOULD BUY BONDS.
(FIom Thu-sdav's Dailv.l

Oi lis treasure, pTaCtlcally Tor me dc- fcnsc and protection of the posses sons. rights. interests and opnortuni- ties of all Of the people, 1t becomes the practical as well as the patriotic duty of every adult individual, who is not actively in the nations war service, 10 share the nations finan- cial burden, in proportion to the value of the possessions, interests, and privileges that are being protected for him. This is especially so when these interests are dangerously threatened in the present desperate efforts of the enemy for victory, and in the destruction and coniscation which would surely follow such an event.
 In what has already been done to the people of Belgium, of France, of Serbia. Roumania, and Russia at the hands of the German military pow CTS is practical evidence of what is in store for the American people if they and their Allies should be beaten by Germany in this war. Each of these nations except France IS now practically a vassal nation, and its people vassal people, whose public and private interests, and social and moral welfare are entirely at the mercy of the greatest bandits and the greatest vandals whose acts have ever shocked the world or darkcncd the pages of history. To be saved from such a calamity, and to pre- serve intact the physical, social, and moral conditions of the nation, every capitalist. every manufacturer. every business man and professional man, every farmer and every wage earncr in the nation should willingly make personal financial sacrifice, even be- vond that demanded of him by the government. for. if defeat should come. no class of the people will cs- cape the effects of the ruthless greed and ruthless brutality that have marked the German occupation of the countries mentioned.
 And concerning classes and their interests in the war: am reliably informed that. in our own State. the doctrine has been preached by labor leaders who are neither alien enemies nor alien friends. but Americans. that this is a capitalist war. that the work ing usr oi the nation have no in tcrcst in 1t. and should not be eN pcctod to purchase Liberty Bonds or to assist in any manner whatever in the prosecution of the war. What ever may be it's purpose, this is posi- lively a false doctrine. for it is an absolute truth that no class Of American people is more vitally in. terestcd in the success of the United States in this war, and in success fully resisting the introduction of the industrial system of the Germans into this country than IS the laboring class. Relating to this, 1t IS an indis putablc fact that. in the matter of working hours. of labor compensa ton. and of labor conditions geuer- ally. the American industrial system has over the German system an ad- vantage oi three or four to one, ir actual benefits to the wage carncr and 10 those dependent upon him. The retention of this system is surely worth fighting for by the American wage carncrs. and is worth paying for bv those of them who are not obliged to fight. IL is another fact that connot be disputed that the vic tory which the German militarists arc now desperately striving for would give them the power to control the American industrial system. and, with it. to control the dcstinics of the American people. What such q control would mean to Americans is fearful to contemplate. Think of this. American working man, when you are told that you have no inter est in this war, and think of the en- slavcmcnt, the robbery, and the bru- tai treatment of thousands of men. women and children of Belgium and Northern France. and then ask your self fl your government is demanding too much from you when 1t asks you to contribute to the price which must be paid for delivering you, your fam lilies and your friends from such fate. And then resolve that, to the end oi the war, you will do every thing in your power to assist the gov crnmcnt to prevent the duplication of this tragedy in your country and your homes.
 But the government of the United States is not asking the people to sacrifice any portion of their original possessions, interests, or privileges: it Is asking some of them to contribute minor portions of their excessive in comes and their excessive profits, and ii IS asking all of them to buy Lib crty Bonds. which are in themselves a double benefit to the purchaser, be- cause they assist effectively in his in dividual protection, and they provide for him a safe and profitable invest