The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-03-29

the flrSC month OF nOStllltleS. we
must get 1t into our head and heart
as fact, for such it Is, that though
with the help Of our allies we are nm
ally going to win this war, at this
very moment only the great white
fleet in the North Sea and the west
ern line from Flanders to Italy save
US, our women and our children, at
least on the Atlantic seaboard, from
the fate of Rumania and Serbia and
Belgim. and the devastated region OF
noble France. nj @
"The task still is unfinished and vic.
tory is far from won. The military
party in Berlin still is in complete mil
itary control OF the whole resources
not only of Germany, but Of Austria
Hungary, Bulgaria and Turkey; and
they have not yet abandoned hope of
a decisive military victory. r
... The Grim Fact. .,t !.
ut is grim fact that had better be
plainly realized, for we ere not afraid
of facts and must face the truth un-
ftinchingly because by this means
alone shall we succeed
The magnitude of the task we
nave undertaken is appalling. AS
Winston Churchill, British minister Of
munitions, In recent speech address
ug himself to Americans, has we'll
said. Never in history has so great
nation undertaken SO great task,
md the allied nations have suffered
severely and in maintaining ten or
twelve million soldiers in the field
have as result three or four mil.
lion graves. .'.' .',
"'Uur resources have 1een poured
out, our homes are scared with sor-
row, and our industries and finances
and institutions have been melted
down in the terribleness of the world
war. Come to our aid Come in your
thousands, but come at once to Eu.
rope.
LET the soldiers Of France and
Great Britain have at their side, month
by month In increasing numbers, the
sons and grandsons of the men who
fought with Grant and Sheridan and
Win Jackson and Lee -
Z 1.-THE German armies released from
the Eastern front by the defeat OF
Russia, a:e steadily traversing Ger
many as fast as their deteriorated
railways can carry them. They are on
their way to the west, hundreds OF
thousands of men with thousands OF
guns. Yonder the greatest storm Ia
.aging.' So he Gees the situation and
describes 1t.
40 time for Sedition.
The time for idle seditiols talk has
passed. The day Ct action is at
hand. Let no man say that we were
not forced into this war, or that il
we had minded our own business we
should not hare been attacked. not
involved In he war. No nan com
petent to comprehend the situation
can nov deny or doubt that Germany
intended after conquering Europe to
attack and conquer US. q. -, 4,
Through the patient years OF our
honest attempt 10 keep the peace Of
nations the ,eco"d Of the German au'
tocracy is damnable. q,
with fanatna! iaith in the des.
tiny Of German kultur its submarines
in defiance c. civilization have blown
up neutral vessel-, and covered the
waves with dead and dying men. wom-
en- and little children, 1t has set the
torch of the incendiary to cur factor
les, our work Shops, our ships, and
our wharves; laid the bomb OF the
assassin in our munition plants and
in the holds OF our ships; sought to
corrupt our manhood with a selfish
dream of peace when there is no
peace; destroyed our commerce and
butchered our citizens on
the high seas; sought to terrorize the
world with its hellish policy Of fright.
violated every canon, Of in
decency: set at naught
every precept Of international law, and
plunged the world in the maddest orgy
Of blood, rapine and murder which
history records. Co.
When ePaee 10 Criminal.
ITO refrain from entering into the
war, would have been a crime against
civilization and our ancestors who
gave their lives in order that we
might be free. ~
FOR years we were lulled to sleep
by German propaganda. We held to
q neutrality that made us ashamed.
that made every red blooded American
deep down in his heart apologize for
the human race, for those things
which outraged mans every sense of
decency, fair play and humanity.
There came a day when we aw0ke,
genuinely alarmed at the peril which
confronted US. We have come. to
know that from the day Of the in.
vasion OF Belgium the German war
lords plan led onward across bloody
fields westward. with slow but steady
strides to an invasion of our shores.
80 now, as President Wilson says,
We are fighting as truly for the lib.
erty and self-government of the Unit
ed States as II the war Of our own
had to be fought over
again, and every man in every bust
ness in the United States must know;
by this time, that his whole future
les in the balance" ..-, ''r -
Be Cheerful! " /
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