The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1918-10-04
ATTORNEY
IS FOR CRUSHING
GERMAN POWER
CLARENCE BARROW DECLARES
THERE CAN BE NO PEACE UN.
TIL AUToCRACY CAPITULATEs.
WORKlNGMEN BUYING BONDS
Union Attorney Has No Patience
With Those Who Would
Compromise.

Clarence barrow, regarded by many
as the greatest labor attorney in the
head when he said that "peace will
United States, struck the nail on the
come when the German military ma
chine is destroyed, and it cannot come
before"
The words Of Darrow are in con-
sonance with the advice of the great
est labor leaders throughout the world.
They are symbolic of labor's atti-
tude toward the entrance Of the
United States into the war, together
with all of the issues that forced the
American nation to reach the fighting
decision and then to carry on the
war vigorously.
All of the advice is urgent of la
boris active participation in all Of
the preparations to make the war a
success from labor's standpoint. It
includes a decision on the part Of the
workers throughout the United States
To buy of the Fourth Issue of Liberty
Bonds until it hurts. From every sec
ton Of the Eighth Federal Reserve
District this decision to buy bonds is
apparent.
Darrow's own words as to the rea.
son why labor should take even a,
more active part in the wal activities
than they have taken in the past prove
the necessity for such action.
Darrow's Vigorous Views.
AT present we have but one duty
and that is the duty to fight" barrow
said in an article in a recent issue in
the Trades Council News of st. Louis.
81 have no patience with those people
of any allied nation who are busying
themselves in a vain effort to settle
the terms of peace. When the foe is
in front of us with all the weapons
known to modern warfare, we have
no time to think Of peace"
Peace will kme when the German
military machine is destroyed, and it
cannot come before. Neither have l
any use for the faint-hearted or those
who say we cannot conquer Germany,
that we cannot win, that it may be a
draw, 1t would be better that our
cause should go down in ruin and de-
feat than that we would have an in.
conclusive peace in the end.
'-y. lose (Which we cannot and will
not, but if we lose, our people, crush
ed and bleeding, will still have be-
fore them the example of Poland, dis
membered, under the conqueror's heel,
that still for more than a hundred
years has kept the national spirit and
fought for the freedom that would
one day come"
The words Of the great labor law
yer are in full accord with President
Wilson's rejection Of the plea Of Aus.
tria and the Presidents prior utter.
ance Of force to the utmost"
No Peace Now.
"Peace?" asks Darrow. There is
no peace in the world today. There
is no chance for peace. This earth
is not big enough for peace and Prus-
sian militarism at once. a we uali
peace? The United States did not
seek this war; it came to our shores.
We entered this war because the bar
barous, ruthless military machine of
Germany murdered our people on the
seas, destroyed IL commerce, and
bade a great nation of a hundred mil
lion people to keep off the German
ocean.
we entered this war to protect
our national life because we no long
er could have held up our heads had
we been so cowardly as to take orders
from Berlin. No doubt the great mass
of our American people were already
with the Allies. From the day Ger
many oyerran Belgium, I'll feeling hu.
man beings loved Belgium and hated
Germany. We we're with the Allies
in sentiment, in hope, in feeling, but
we entered this war clearly, definitely,
when we We're attacked and when II
was necessary to defend II national
honor; but today we are in; today
. we have Joined with our Allies in a
great, a glorious, a sacred cause; and
while we entered to protect our own
national life, we will not stop until
the great wrong NAT Germany has
done to civilization and to all the
world shall be repaired"