The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-06-24
VOTE AS YOU WOULD SHOOT

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VOTE AS YOU WOULD SHOOT
Put none but Americans on guard.
Il This thought should be uppermost IN the NINA
Of every North Dakota citizen when ne casts MS
ballot Wednesday.
The American people, unsuitable in their re-
serve to win the war, are awakening also 10 Inc
necessity of restoring the United States TO thell
own CONTROL or, as one paper puts it,, retaklng
America
PUT none but Americans on guard, WASH
ngtons order at Yorktown, is recalled by the
National Unity leagues appeal for the election
next November of an all-American, 100 per cent,
war-till-victory congress. It is equally essential
that in our state administrations we have jealous
men of simonpure Americanism.
An American at this moment IS one VINO
believes in united nation, who recognizes tne
need for solid front, who realizes that dlvlded
ranks at home mean defeat for our boys over
there :. ...... ... = ~.
An all-American is one who will not for poll
teal prefermspt nor financial gain sell out ms
country to t9s1un; one Who will not serve ger the
kaiser by ar6using dissension, or by creating a
suspicion as to* the motives which prompted
America to enter this war; one who does not
spread the kaiser's poison by word or act; one
who is big enough to wait until the war is over
to crafty personal grudges against an enemy
class or individual. ,s q y,
There is only one issue in North Dakota.
That issue is LOYALTY.
No one faction or set Of men have monop-
oily on this precious privilege. We know ones
loyalty by what he does and what he does not
do. The peobleof North Dakota are familiar with
the record 81 every candidate who is seeking their
favor at the polls next Wednesday. The people
of North Dakota are the sole Judge. Upon them
rests heavy responsibility to their state and
nation, solemn duty to their ten thousand sons
now fighting "over there" or preparing over here
to participate in the great struggle against autoc-
racy.
What should be considered test for 10y
atty? 49,.
The League for National Unity took refer
endum of the 500 signers of its appeal to voters.
AS result, it gave out the following practically
unanimous view of these men and women who rep
resent the various elements of our national life
labor, agriculture, manufacturing, commerce, fin
ance, the church and the bar:
'"That candidate, in or out of Office or that
citizen can be regarded as loyal who since the
declaration of war has by word or act unreserv-
eddy supported and will support the government
in the vigorous prosecution of the war to a COM
plete and decisive victory, and who has not at.
tempted to destroy allied unity and effort by at
tacks upon nations fighting with US against a
common enemy" ....
The Milwaukee Journal believes there is only
one way to make sure-"to elect men who are
known to be-to have been from the very begin
ming absolutely and Internationally American,
without ifs and butts This is no
time for petty or party politics. Broad-minded
Americans cannot be championed by the men who
voted to surrender American rights even after
Germany had outraged US again and again"
Most of all, here in North Dakota, we need
AUGMENTATION. ...... s..
We have in our state foreign communities in
which children have been born and reared to man.
hood and womanhood, and have brought forth
children Of their own, and yet have never mas
tered the tongue of their adopted land have never
surrendered in the least their fealty to their
European despot and who are today as much
enemies of America as the Huns who face our
boys in the trenches. We have had in the past,
(and we are afraid we have even now, with Amer
lea at war with the fatherland of these foreign
elements), politicians who have stopped to bar
gain for this VOTE Today such tactics are a real
menace to the nation. We must have Americans
who stand for an America for Americans. These
enemy aliens must be assimilated, informed or