The Coconino sun., 1918-03-29

The time has come for us to know the facts. We must put the in stark and naked words. The mil lions of going complacent Americans, to whom the yet has real meaning, who have not realized what this means, must be aroused They must be made to realize that their lives their liberty and happ, ness are at stake They must be given to understand that whether this war is ost depends upon their realization of their personal responsibility, and whether they willing not to make the necessary sacrifices to themselves
 Entered into by in the interest of free nations and for the benefit of free peoples everywhere the war has resolved itself into life and death struggle for the safety of ourselves The situation critical in the extreme and should know it. It is time for facing facts instead of feeding on illusions. .......
 Forced into war by Germany, who violated our rights ruhlessly she did those of Belgium, fighting of self defense. We are today in peril We fighting to defend wives and children from the deing hand of the German We fighting to protect homes from beast who knows mercy; fighting to preserve the institutions love- the liberty cherish, the freedom dear to us.
 'We are fighting in France because it is there strike the enemy. Our peril is great and only courage and determination avert it. It is not for glory, honor riches that fight but for liberty, which good man loses, but with his life"
 We must not underestimate danger overesti- mate strength. We should understand that nearer victory today than we were in the first month of hosties and that Germany is today the victor; must get into heads and hearts fact for such is, that though with the help of our allies finally going to win this at this moment only the great white fleet in the North Sea- and the western line from Flanders down to Italy and chil dren at least the Atlantic eabord from the fate of Rurnana and Serbia and Belgium, and the devastated
 
 'We must put away from our minds all clouds of it. lusion The task is still unfinished and victory is far from The military party in Berlin still is in pete control of the whole not only of Germany but of Austria Hungary, Bulgaria and Turkey and they have not yet abandoned hope of a decisive military victory. .. ized for not afraid of facts and must face the truth unfnchngy because by that means alone shall we succeed"
 The magnitude of the task we have undertaken is appalling As Winston Spencer Churchill British minis to Americans has well said "Never in history has so great nation undertaken great task. The Allied nations have suffered severely and in maintaining ten twelve million soldiers in the field have result three four million graves.
 Our resources have been poured out, homes are scared with sorrow and industries and finances and institutions have melted down in the cucbe of the world Come to aid! Come in your thousands but come at once to Europe.
 at their sde month by month in increasing numbers the sons and grandsons of the who fought with Grant and Sheridan and with Jackson and Lee"
 'The German armies released from the eastern front by the defeat of Russia steadily traversng Germany fast their deteriorated railways can carry them They are their way to the west hundreds of thousands of men with thousands of guns The greatest storm of all is gathering So he the situation and describes it.
 The time for idle and sedtous talk is passed. The day for action is at hand. Let man say that not forced into this or that if we had minded our business should not have been attacked nor n volved in the No competent to comprehend the situation can now deny doubt that Germany intended after conquering Europe to attack and conquer us
 Through the patient years of our honest attempt to keep the peace of nations the record of the German auto cracy is damnable
 With fanatical faith in the destiny of German kul- tur it's submarines in defiance of law and the concepts of humanity have blown up neutral vessels and covered the waves with dead and dying men, women and little children alike it has set the torch of the incendary to factories work shops ships and our wharves laid the bomb of the assassin in munton plants and in the holds of ships sough to corrupt our manhood with selfish dream of when there is no peace destroyed and murderousy butchered our citizens the high seas sough to terrorze the world with its heish policy of frghtfuness; violated every canon of international decency set at naugh every solemn treaty and every precept of international law, and plunged the world into the maddest orgy of blood, rapne and murder which history records.
 To refrain from entering into the this stupend civil of all the world this campaign in the ageold the prize of which is liberty, struggle in which all who love freedom have stake would have America entered the ,Udr April