The Carlisle independent., 1918-04-25
Buy a Liberty Bond If You Would Show the World Where
 You Stand.
YOUR HELP IS NEEDED NOW!
There Can Be No Such Thing as Neu- traIity on the Part of True American Citizen in This
 Great War.
By RENE BAcHE.

It is a cry for help. What will you do about 1t?
 There is kind of man who under such circumstances says: Tt is none of my business. am not called upon to interfere"
 "Such man calls himself peace loving citizen"-a pacifist, to use word recently popularized.
 But you know, and I know, that he is only coward. His only anxiety is to keep out of danger, no matter at what sacrifice of his manhood.
 Even though he knows that his neighbours wife or child Is being at tackled he will not interfere. It is none of his affair."" Besides, he him. self might get hurt.
 The unprovoked invasion of Belgium by the predatory Huns was exactly an- alagous to the breaking and enter ing of a peaceable mans home by armed burglars. Theirs was crfm- inal enterprise pure and simple.
 Later 1t became manifest that we were likely to suffer similarly in our turn. In fact, the same criminals be- gan to attack us. They killed our people-eyen our women and children.
 So much against our will, we were at last compelled to fght.s If ever there was just and righteous fight, it is ours in this war. Will you per sonally stand aside, playing the cow ards part, or will you help7
 R,iv iherfv Bond
 If you cannot do your bit with bomb and bayonet, you can help very fm- portantly by buying Liberty bond.
 Would you prefer to help the kaiser and his gang of professional murder CTS? You can do so by refusing to help your country with your money.
 There cap be no such thing as neu- trality on the part of an American citizen in this war. Either you are patriot or you are traitor. Which of the two shall you choose to be?
 If you refuse your help, merely standing aside, you are actually aid ing the kaiser. You are the accom- plice, at least constructively speaking, of the greatest criminal since Nero.
  gium and the ruthless slaughter of its inoffensive people?
 If not, then show it by buying a Liberty bond.
 Do you approve of the wholesale violation of women and the mutilation of little children?
 If not, then buy Liberty bond.
 e. @l,o oP wells. of shelling unarmed and help less people in open boats, of indis- criminate warfare upon noncombat- ants?
 If not, then buy Liberty bond.
 You Are For or Against.
 You cannot compromise with your conscience in this matter Either you are for these things, or you are against them.
 Civilization is engaged in desper- ate struggle against barbarism-nay, indeed. something much worse than barbarian, scientific savagery. It is fight of right against wrong.
 Do you wish to help the right? Then buy Liberty bond.
 The happiness of your children and of your children's children is at stake. For there can be no happiness without liberty, and liberty will cease to exist if Prussian power achieves the ob- jects for which it Is now contending.
 One word more. Do you believe in a life that is to follow this life? Do you believe that yoHr welfare in the hereafter will be influenced by your conduct in your present state of ex- istence?
 Then how can you hope for happi- ness in the "next world" if, in this struggle between right and wrong, you deliberately choose to stand with the Hun murderers against your God? You are helping them if you stand neutral" and fail to help your coun- try.
 Make your choice. And. having chosen. buy Liberty bond.