| Show DWARFS CIVIL lL WAR WARI AU I I I believe that the A American I I I people perhaps hardly realize I sacrifices and sufferings that are arc before them We Ve thought the scale of oC our Civil war was unprecedented but In comparison compari compari- son with the struggle in which we have now entered the tho Civil war warr seems almost insignificant in its proportions and In its e. e ex expenditure expenditure of treasure and of oC blood President President Wilson May 30 was Memorial day Where the day was rightly celebrated it brought to our minds the the dark days of oC the Civil war It also brought memories of or the days of the war with England Countless graves tell the tho story o of sacrifice e. e Orators told of the glorious victories No doubt many a bitter defeat was brought to mind mind In it all the cost in human life Ufe and happiness must have been emphasized Now we are face to face with a struggle which our President says ays dwarfs the other wars we have fought The cost in human life Ute will j I Ibe I be far ar more The cost In money in innot innot innot not so material although one cannot compare the amounts being heing spent to today today to to- day and the amounts spent in the theother theother theother other wars One can be counted in I millions while the other already has reached billions We must prepare ourselves for sacrifice This war tar has hag only begun as far tar as we are concerned The most hopeful of ot those who are In a position to know feel that It will be bea a question of years and not of oC mouths During the coming days daya we will anxiously 1 aux scan the bulletins of the dead I and wounded Day by day we will realize the cost He who Is Js content to let others suffer and die for him and do nothing is unworthy of he lie privilege of ot American citizenship We all must give of self and means to win this war Mark l well that m man man n who in this time when this this this' county has need sits by to criticize For him the blood of the seventy seven and sixty five has been shed in vain Living in a country of light he yet walks in the miserable darkness darkness darkness dark dark- ness of Ignorance s selfishness an and 1 cow cowardice I Many are the men who say that the I Iwar war will soon be over Such uch is the j prayer of eYel every true citizen But to delay now in concentrating all our forces means to delay the day of peace The Civil war cost thousands of lives unnecessarily simply because because be he- cause the men of both the north and I south and the war will soon be hI over Thus Thus' excusing themselves each side failed to win When the theda da day came that the proud sons son of both hath north and south saw their homes in ruins their fields barren their loved ones dead and dying they awoke May 1 It not be so In this war P Peace ace will come anI only when Germany Is beaten It Is idle to talk tall of revolution revolution tion in Germany The German has been taught taught from his mothers mother's knee for tor this struggle Germany must be beaten To do so means a terrible i gle For three years ears all the force of orl Europe has been arrayed against her Still they have not been able to reach I her lter soil solI or or to drive her from hers hep lu rl s stand sUd Ud in territory outside her bound bound- aries arJes With Russia demoralized by demagogues such as filled our own southland in the days of reconstruction tion lion the task before the tho Allies Ames looms gigantic Let us awake and bend every energy to the duty at hand When the victory comes it will be a victory victor for Germany as well as all the world She will be freed from the tyranny of do despotic rule The cause cause of individual liberty will be given anew a anew anew new birth The German people With their splendid genius will turn to the tho work of oC peace and progress and thus realize reaUze a. a 3 higher destiny that could ever be bo theirs with their present dream of or military dominion t-t-t t Says the Record Hostilities I Ie ceased e eJ Says the the Standard Let us t have haye peace and get to work Says tI II I the Free Press Amen But how about the Express I t f The foreman has just Informed me that I l lack Ck a little COP copy on the editorial editorial editorial edi edi- column So lets use it this way How was good roads road's day observed ed Then Titan while you are buying a liberty liber Uber- liberty ty loan bond buy two Buy Duy one Corthe for Cor forthe forthe the children Persuade somebody else to buy one Dont Don't take the Ute pleasure out of life Ute by being a grouch We e agree with the weather man now The war in Eur Europe pe is our war The American boys bors will show the spirit of or 76 and 65 GG o 0 o |
