The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1918-03-18

al for our own liberties. Not for oul
own libsrtiss tomorrow, Or next year, Of
20 years from now, but for our free
dom today. Not for the right to hvs
in tho future, but for the right to make
q living this year.
German oppression had begun to pinch
US before we entered the war. If We had
not declared war, but had accepted the
conditions Of life ordered for Us by the
Kaiser, we should today be q poverty.
stricken people, our factories shut down,
our worknenk unemployed, our people
starving, our farmers ruined by the pov.
erty Of those for whose consumption we
grew our crops. There is loss and sacri.
flee in this var; but there would have
been far mofe Of loss and sacrifice in
accepting thu German terms. We should
have lost more in money than we have
spent in the war, but we should have
lost more in money than we have spent
in the war, but we should have lost
something far more precious. We
should have lost our souls.
The farmers of this country could car
ry the war to a victorious conclusion ev-
en- if all the rest of the nation should
quit. The rcs+ vii: rot quit; but ~e
could win it without them if we had 70
10 it.
The farmers Of the United States can
whip Germany. We can whip them with
guns. We can whip them with our
products. We can whip them with our
money.
Every farmer in the United States
rlust remember that the war has a first
mortgage on every cent he has. The last
spare cent in the pockets Of every farm
er in America should be devoted to the
war.
. The Kaiser began foreclosing his mort
gage on our farms when he declared
ruthless submarine warfare, and the
war is our answer to his bill Of fore
closure.
Our contribution is, first our sons and
brothers for the trenches; second, the
last pound Of food-products which we
can grow by mobilizing our scsnty labor
supply, utilizing the men, women, chill
dren and the townspeople about US; and
third, money for Liberty Bonds.
This is the crucial year of the war.
Our soldiers are at ths front, hundreds
Of thousands Of them in the trenches, and
a million :aore ready to 90. The Whole
burden OF carrying ono ur own part in
the war and OF aiuins our sister nations
in arms, rests tl tIe United States
Treasury.
If the Treasur fails or falters or
finds itse.f unable to respond to every
call upon it, the war is lost. Do you re-
a,ize ti.a.: Your SOL, and all the na-
tor 8 SOILS are relying on the United
States Treasury to furnish things with
which they may fight. Their lives are
lost if the Treasury fails. Our country
is lost if the Treasury fails. Germany
wins If the Treasury fails.
Therefore every cent you can rake ard
scrape together belongs to the Treasury
that our soldiers may come back to us
alive and victorious. This is literally
true. We can whip the Germans with
our money; but not with the money in
our pockets or bank accounts. 1t must
70 into the United States Treasury il
subscriptions to Liberty Bonds.
While Gerard was our Ambassa or IN
Berlin, the Kaiser said to him ore day
that he would stand no nonsense from
America after the var. Do you ,-nc.T
what that meara! It means that t''c
Germans intend to subiugate this or :
Wv If they cone oct o. This war r.:: -
ious.
The German Imperial Gevornmert i.::s
preached the superiority Of Gc"'n":'v to
all tho -cst # he vc. i a.,t.i IL Ger
nan naricn Is lru.,i- '>.:h .,egalemania.
Gne &C their great writer's expressed the