The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1918-10-01
AMERICAN BREASTS
SWELL PROUDLYAT
GREAT WAR aims
Nothing in History Compares to
Army of Five Million Men
in France Next Year.


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The breast of every American must
swell within him at contemplation oil
the sheer size of our plans for ouI
war part next year.
Five million men in France!
The nation which for more than q
century has sought only to be left
alone in the West with it's Freedom,
has reused to the call for help from
itsssister democracies on the Eastern
side of the globe and is pouring
across the Atlantic mighty stream
of men and arms, a stream SO great
that history offers nothing in CON,
parison.
German military autocracy, which
sought to supplant the Liberty,
Equality and Justice" of France with
its horrible will to power" under
the doctrine that might is right"
has already found that Right has
hidden sources of power for self
protection.
The unwelcome lesson of American
valor, learned by Germany at Can
tigny, Chateau Thierry, and since at
a score of other fierce battles, has
shown the Hun an inkling of the
mightiness Of right.
AMERICAN VALOR
AWAKENS HUN
For every man on the battle line,
the rudiments of military tactics tell
us, ten men must be behind.
Not. all of-the five million Ameri-
cans between the Channel ports and
the Rhine next year will be in the
battle line. But we at home may
justly consider that all of France is
our battle line. We must see that
for every man in France, giving his
utmost efforts daily, ready to give
his life, ten men at home are strip
ping their daily lives of every non
essential effort, dropping every task
that does not help to win the war.
With fifty million men at home
guarding the interests of the fighting
men abroad, they cannot fail. of sue
cess if those fifty million are active
and not passive in their efforts. If
they are not active, watching every
chance to make war work effective,
denouncing and Furnishing every at
tempt at delay or hinder, ten million
men in France would be helpless.
FIGHTERS MUST
HAVE BACKING
Five million men in France means
that every resource here at home will
be strained to support them-to give
them food, to give them arms, to
give the wounded care, to pay them
that those dependents they left at
home may live in comfort, to give
them safe transport across and safe
passage home again.
No less authority than Clifford
Pinchot has said recently that one
third of the population of the United
States Is agricultural one-third of
the men are farmers.
One-third, therefore, of whatever
glory comes to us in our crushing of
autocracy, will shine in the farm
homes whose stanchness has been
our safeguard. One-third Of. any one
Of our co-ordinated war efforts can
not be allotted to the farmers any
more than any. other one share to
any other class.
The farmer must raise all of the |
wheat and all of the meat, without |
which our army would be helpless.
But the miller and the packer must |
prepare them. The banker must |
handle all of the war funds, since he
is the accustomed channel for our
but he cannot provide it all.
FARMER HAS
TWO-FOLD PART
Every man and woman must have
a direct share Of our national war
loans. Vast sums of money come to
The farmer. Instead Of the ordinary
forms of investment, stocks and
bonds, or stocks and mortgages, or
more acres or better house or
barn, the farmers money must now
90 into Liberty Loans.
For fifty years after peace treaties
have been signed, the great war will
be fought over and over again
wherever men gather for discussion.
The fierce light of uncomfortable
facts will reveal every angle of the
conduct of the war. at home and
abroad.
The finger Of righteous patriotic
,corn will point out every man who
has helped the barbarous Hun by not
helping America to his utmost,
The record Of the American farmer
las been proud thus far, whether
written by him at home or by his
sons abroad. The Fourth Liberty
loan gives him new opportunity to
pledge his full strength toward
Victory.
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