The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-03-05
THE HUN is AT THE GATE
prepared Vermont Committee of Public Safety
today meetings throughout the state the
patriotic halfhour observance


millions easy going
occn Americans whom the war yet has no real incoming who
realize that their lives their liberty happiness
lost dePnds their realization their response
y dod weh h sT are Wiling Or not t" make the
Entered in the nations the bene
ut OF free peoples everywhere the has resolved itself into
Life and death struggle for the safety Of ourselves The situation
faetl instead Of feeding on illusions
ssy she did those Belgium fighting Of self de-
he lgsHs Of s'H
ing the institutions love- the liberty cherish the
We fighting France strike
but if defeated France shall be conquered in
meess and brutal asmaster the world has ever known Our peril
glory honor riches that fight but for liberty which
We danger oyemate our
than we were in the first month hostieS and that Germany
today the victor must get into our heads and hearts as fact
going this at this moment only the white fleet
save and our ed5e at least the Atlantis
put away of
Of u of 81 and rnrR nd Ss have no
abandoned hope of decisive military victory
afraid Of and the truth hnehg because BY
The magnitude of the task have undertaken appalling As
seTn d b Tt ti 10 As mas Yt a heVsT N
soldiers in the field have as result three or four million graves
and industries and finances and Institutions been
in your Gus o but come t,n at one to hqF2 Rt.
month by month in increasing numbers the sons and granons Of the
THE German armies released from the Eastern by the defeat
Russia steadily aversng their detoad
Of Of men wiz" thousands Of guns The greatest storm of al"
The time for idle and sedtious talk has passed The
that "mS had me @ mat T w n9 1 into Th a
tackled nor involved in the war No man competent TO comprehend
conqnering Europe to attack and conquer US
Of n1 W 4 Tf Of 5 G 5 sg, az amna5s is
rne in defiance Of law and the concepts Of humanity have blown
incendiary
to G"T r "f' our GF p n and and our %haT a
ships, sought to corrupt cur manhood with selfish dream of peace
6gtshd our 1fn on the hg seas s6 to ,rrrog5o the wG
national deeenc set at naqs solemn treaty and every rrecep
Gloon apn and mar ap dh history T roeord "' me
To refrain from entering into the war this stupendous civil war
which liberty struggle in which all who love freedom have
ancestors gave lives in order
asana neutrality that made Us s' ashamed 5hat
things outraged every
alarmed at 43D wh f,f ns day Wen T Nave
to know that from the day of the invasion of Belgium the German
steady strides to invasion of our shores
virtue further endurance eowad submission Psan de
50 into for self defense 50 Presiden
%9 4G United f h t a"r ssT n had
St Sss must vi kno% P but M "4 s h DSsns uu fn M
aPy ns s1' Aa ys hat g % '8s aRF that % ass %
that idea the better will
the better will be all us.
battfed Europe help France and England
further depleted brought
plain duty fight in self defense and for
while We have them and to the end that there be end
We are as nation in the presence of great task which Dc
crisis and the achievements TIL
. determine the
We geti o heads in "
which
selves soldiers for the soldiers of
home This will be q millions
massing millions
be months
sacrifice, the like which the world h
This life death struggle which
to all
shall perish the earth
We fully comphendd the magnitude of the co
which realized that private