Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-04-04
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Every financial resource of the PEG
pie is going to be touched by the
third Liberty Loan and by the appeal
for funds for other war activities. The
people are being called upon persist
emily to subscribe and contribute, and
as a matter of fact they must subscribe
dan contribute. 1t takes billions to
run the war machine along its ordin-
airy lines 1t takes many millions to
maintain such auxiliaries as the Red
Cross, the War Y. NJ. c. A. and SINH
lar institutions.
And the people must pay. The PEG.
pie must go down in their pockets,
and they must raise every dollar they
possibly can. The more that is paid
in, or loaned, to the government, the
sooner this war will end. For in war
like the present food and money are
lust as vital as men and ammunition.
Any scheme. therefore, designed to
take money, especially money in large
sums, out of this country, for expen-
diture abroad in any but a most ma
terial and war-assisting purpose, is in
direct and fragrant opposition to the
best interests of the nation For that
reason, The Times-Recorder cannot
contemplate the Hearst project for
raising an enormous sum to rebuild
destroyed French cities with any de-
gree of complacency or federation. We
honestly believe it is identical with
the worst and most insidious form of
German propaganda
In the first place, the most reprehen-
sible feature is that it takes from this
country money that is badly needed
here by the government for war
purposes and puts it where, at the
present at any rate, it will do the
least possible good. Secondly. even if
of genuine merit and sincere motive, it
is for a sentimental cause, unre
serving of serious consideration at
this particular time. War and senti-
ment do not mix very well.
A still more notorious aspect of the
proposition is that in the attainment
of the scheme Germany's material in
terests are excellently served. Ger
many ought to pay, and pay in full
with interest, for every French home,
building and town that has been de.
stroyed-Germany, not the people OF
the United States, ought to pay this
debt! When the French towns are re-
built, Germany must do it, and must
do il if it places a burden of debt OH
the German people for generations to
come. Every dollar spent now on re-
building French towns will be, in the
ultimate and in the aggregate, JUST
that much Of saving to Germany. 1t
will really be aNpre-payment Oh the
German indemnity
And the suggestion that the German
indemnity should be paid out of the
pockets of the people of this country
is not only preposterous but outrage
GUS and downright disloyal If we pay
Germany anything, we should pay with
hot shot and she'll poured down the
throats of this pariah among nations
with all the fury of righteous Amer
IlCan vengeance and Inauguration.
1t is incomprehensible that the loyal
Ipeople of the United States will muck
longer tolerate this insolent, infam-
Gus and insidious pro-German propa-
ganda that the Hearst newspapers
one of which is the Atlanta Georgian
are daily conducting. Not only should
these papers be suppressed, if theg
persist in this unpatriotic activity, bur
their owners and editors should be
thrown behind steel bars and kept
there a seasonable time.