The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1919-05-10
LAST DuGLE CALL.
SOUNDING NOW FOR
OUR OTHER ARMY
THOSE WHO FOUGHT FOR AMERl
CA AT HOME ARE HAVING
THEIR LAST REVIEW.
MAKE COED THE VICTORY WON
Final Demand Upon Us Is Oolv 4
Matter OF Dollars and is
Easily Net.

rOT tuS last time III the Great War
that is now ending he trumpet cell
is sounding over all of America.
1t is like the to that other
army for the last great review. That
Other Army, the men and the women
and the little children of America who
fought for America here at home just
as truly and just as courageously as
thouTa they had fought at FerdUn, at
B~anthevile, Or in the Argonne.
DO 0 remember, may be it was
Bret Harte's lines suggested by the
Grand Review of Grants and Sher-
mans Armies at WASHINGTON at the
close of the Civil War. i'll which. lie
describes a dream review Of all the
dead Of both armies who swung
through the darkened streets OF the
Nations Capital all night long.
The review Of that Other Army here
in America viii never swing past 3
{ given point, it will never pass a re-
viewing stand-but all over tho conn.
try how it has swung to attention
again at the sound of thu last long
trumpet-tlast that is Calling to Amer
leans to fall in for active duty unce
more.
For this Nictory-Liberty Loan must
be put over. That Other Army of the
working, ~bond-Luying, toilin. Amcri-
can is being called upCn to nee more
Jump Off into NO Mans Land and
make good tie victory won by the bay.
onets Of the American Expeditionary
Forces.
That Other Army met the test on ac-
tual warfare right nobly. Loan after
loan was rolled up as it was called for.
There was no doubling the heart and
core loyalty IF America while the ac-
tual fighting was going on. No matter
how dark the outlook seemed there
was no .falfer:aS here. There We're no
whisperings from our "defeatists,"--
the Huns WHO were scattered all over
the country. They were afarid of be-.
| ing blasted by the white-hot flame OF
American loyalty.
And this would be a Rightly poof
time for Americans to develop the
cutters yellow ~streak-for the sons
Of the men of Lexington and Lundy's
lane and Gettysburg TO start wear.
ing the white feather. We have not
developed the habit of turning our
backs upon the enemy. Since Lexing.
ton we Fave made a proud record and
We al want to keep that record un-
! tanished.
No Too Late Nav.
1t is too ate for us to begin row
We are not in the habit Of ignoring
our sacred obligations and DENYING
our pledges, and we do not intend to
break that proud record that has come
down to us since 1878.
The United States Government
wants $4,000, 0G0. 0G0 ard wants it now
1t wants to borrow this from its pee
pie, the mer and the women who main
tain this government and whose crea.
ture it is. This money is wanted tc
finish up the gigantic job tina we took
n hand in April, 1857, two years ago.
This job has insured tie freedom OF
The world as nearly mankind Of the
present generation can insure it. I
las substituted the ballot for The bay
onet in directing how and by lhon
mankind shall De governed.
!; We knew that this job would havs
20 be finished 4 good while before we
undertook it. The great mass of Amer
! a knew tha: as soon as they heard
Of TIE sinking Of the I,usitania. There
may have been governmental doubts
uncertainty in high placss, but the
Heart of America knew. and now il
rs all but over ana done with. We
know that we have saved American
institutions for the future. We know
That the United States OF America will
stand, that # rced never he a province
of Deutschland, a heritage for some
dubious eyed German princeling.. Tha.
no ~fat-necked Hindcnburg viii ever d.
rect the dc:tinies CT the United States.
We know tat we have smashed the
German dream of laying Us under .rib
ute ard boiling us sheep for the shear
! ing. We know that American woman.
/ kind is safe from the Hun, thai the
Junkers will never lead an invading
army into America.
After all, the demand that IL made
upon us this time is only a mater of
dollars. Certainly there is nothing in
the demand to stagger the American
loyalty of that Other Army that hA-
alleaay raised something like twent
billions in bonds and was sta llps TINS. |
siil clean up that LOa issue as tn /
loousts strip a tree, as erasshopper
lake a corn field. as American soldier
took a German trench. The Victory
Liberty Loan is as good as over wkw
that Other Army gets into action