Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-24
What We Are Fighting For.
BIZ ARCHIBALD HOPKINS.

IT'S a year since. belated. unready,
We at last took our place in the line
Where the allies. grim, bleeding and steady,
Had awaited with longing the sign
That we were not immersed in mere pleasure.
Enervsted by wealth and by fears,
With no high ideals that we treasure,
A nation Of war profteers.
Now we stand with them shoulder to shoulder
To fight for one grand common cause,
With a zeal that shall never grow colder.
With blows that shall never know pause.
Till kultur and the Hun. its creator.
Can menace no longer the earth;
Until, be it sooner or later.
Pull freedom for all has its birth.
OF COURSE We are hoping and praying
The terrible carnage may cease:
OF course. in orr hearts We are saying,
Oh. Lord. in our time give US peace.
Though Of long dstance verbal disputing
The wisdom very much doubt,
4nd think that cold steel and hot shooting
Will soonest bring real peace about.
Peace talk is now empty and spurious,
A willy device Of the foe,
To the cause OF the allies injurious.
To our soldiers morale It's a blow.
To be peace. it must be Of our making.
Ours. and our brave allies. of course.
peace there can be no mfstaking,
Brought about by superior force.
Proclaimed to all peoples and races
BY the tongue OF our Liberty Bell,
Lighting up untold millions Of faces
By the sound of autocracy's knell.
The President now is directing;
We all must stand solid behind.
With none breaking ranks or objecting,
Till we win the great fight for mankind.
Bringing hope for wars final cessation,
When the battle flags droop and are furled.
And the wise and the great from each nation
Make laws for unified world.
No histories have ever recorded
In all their voluminous works,
Conduct infamous. cruel and sordd
As that of the Huns and the Turks.
partnership close and well suited
To what the world knows OF them both.
In sayagery sunk and embruted,
To all sorts Of crime nothing loath.
OF outrages they have committed
None venture forgiveness to teach,
By common consent not permitted
To appear in our everyday speech.
To slaughter. to burn and to piiage.
Like ravenous, mercfless beast,
To destroy every hamlet and village,
OF their fendish black crimes are the least.
Their constant and cherished ambition
Is to hover at night overhead
And give to kultur full fruition,
By numbering children in bed;
When the U-boats. Hell's extra edition,
Go forth on their murderous trips,
Their most satisfactory mission
Is blowing up hospital ships.
The supreme. the all highest, the kaiser,
Has publicly time after time,
uie's the champion self -advertiser)
Claimed God YVES his partner in crime.
We fight for own lands protection,
For the homeless. the starved. the oppressed,
For the helpless, in cruel subsection.
Till wrong. monstrous wrong. be redressed.
We fight that no tyrant may ever
Dare make war for conquest again,
And that down through the ages II never
BE said that our dead died in vain.
We should punish all pacifst sIackers
With the utmost Of scorn and contempt.
We should hang all the spies and their hacker
Too long we have left them exempt;
Bomb pacers and fendish fire settlers,
When caught. should be instantly shot:
And the infamous dangerous lot
OF l. W. w. destroyers
OF socialists hnderny the draft
Boisheviks. who would kill all employers.
Half wicked. hall fools aud all daft
Should be closely informed till wars ending.
And then forced to instantly hike,
with all to them countenance lending.
To some land they think they will like.
For the foe that against ms is pitted
We need all the help we can ind:
Too long we have weakly submitted
To be harried and stabbed from behind.
We can now have but one occupation,
One duty that waits to he done
And we only exist on probation
Till we've beaten the barbarous Hun
NO IHatttl may Iret US
We will quail or lose courage for none;
Whatever reverses beset us
We will fight and fight on till we've won,
! For this every man will be furnished,
For this every dollar is pledged
For this every gun is kept FURNISHED,
Every bayonet bright and keen edged
No matter how long its protracted,
We count not the cost or the pain,
Nor will be for moment distracted
Till tyranny's conquered and slain
We must front the terrific upheaval
l And guide. ft1 VAST forces ar5eht,
TN We put down the Kingdom a evQ
And bring IN the -kingdon- OF ItEkt