New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1919-01-22
nations verywhere?

nations verywhereY
Is the United States Treasury to be
aicharity institution, supporting all The
boggars Of the eartha
. Because if this is the idea that pre-
walls the American people will have to
make quick choice between bank
ruptcy or turning down such ideas.
The only way to end these intolerable
war costs is to end them.
3 The only way to get back to a peace
basis is to quit the war basis.
!, Get our troops out of Europe.
! Get our troops out of Asia.
Bring the boys home!
Bring them home and paw them Sly
months wages and let them get back to
work
Let Europe pay for its own war.
We ended it, but we didn t begin it.
Let S mind our own American bust
ness.
That's big job, as things are--big
enough for even our big people.
End the war bureaus!
End the war costs!
End the war taxes and the war loans!
Let us have peace!
And in the great name of common
sense, let's get back to Americanisln
and drop this supersentirnenta hysteria
over Europe.
Believe it, the gentlemen running
things over there are amply able to
look out for their own interests.
They are exactly right i'll doing so,
too.
And we ought to initiate their GOOD
sense and look after our own interests.
Why should we keep on increasing
our war costs, when we are to get moth
ing in return and other nations arc to
get everything?
Why should we continue to pay the
bills for them, when they are to collect
all the bills and we are to collect moth
ing?
Is there rhyme, reason or any sense
at all i'll such programg
Why, here we are still lending hun
dreds of millions to foreign nations at
4 to 5 per cent and taxing our own peo-
pie to get the money, which plenty OF
them have to borrow at per cent.
Is there any sense in such doings?
What do you folks who have to pay
the bills think of this unreasonable and
inexcusable extravagance9
Of course, you don It like it.
But what are you going to do about
it?
We will tell you what you ought to do.
You ought to make a roar of pro-
test that your representatives in Wash
ington will hear and heed.
You ought to storm the Ad,ninistra
ton with protests.
You ought to make every congress
man know that his seat depends upon
whether he votes for or against keeping
up this war establishment in time of
peace.
Write letters Of protest, send tele.
grams of protest, hold mass meetings Of
protest.
Demand that our soldiers be brought
home.
Demand that these huge war costs be.
ended.
The war is over and it is time to- end
war autocracy, war bureaucracy and
ridiculous war extravaganza.
For two years we have submitted to,
be ruled by our public servants, have
submitted to autocracy and bureaucracy
IS war necessities.
Now let US resume people s rule, let.
rs get back to Democracy.
Let us have peace. Let us give our
money, our time, our thoughts and our
efforts to America.
Make. your voices heard in Washing.
y ( E.
tom
Speak to your public servants in
tones that they will heed.
And tell them plainly that if they
DO not heed your will, you VIII throw
them out of Office the first day you get:
to the polls again.
Away with war establishments
Forget Europe!
Bring our boys home.
Let Europe settle its own affairs,
Let the sentiment in every American
heart and on all American lips hence
forth be-
America First!