Show ARE YOU WITH OR AGAINST THE HUN buy a lib liberty erty bond if you would show the world where you stand YOUR HELP IS NEEDED NOW there can be no such thing as a neutrality on the part of a true american citizen in this great war by RENE BACHE murder it Is a cry for help what will jan do about it there Is afkind a kind of man who under such circumstances says it Is none of my business I 1 am not called upon to ito interfere such stich a man calls himself a peace loving citi citizen zent a pacifist to use a word recently popularized but you k know no w and I 1 I 1 know that he Is only a chowni coward A his only anxiety Is to keep out of danger no matter at what sacrifice of ills his manhood even though hi he knows that his neighbors wife or child Is being attacked he will not interfere it Is none of its his affair besides he himself might get hurt the unprovoked invasion of belgium by the predatory huns was exactly an to the breaking and entering of a peaceable mans home by armed burglars theirs was a criminal enterprise pure and simple later it became manifest that we were likely to suffer similarly in our turn in fact the same criminals began to attack vs us they killed our people even our women and children so much against our will we were wera at last compelled to fight it if ever there was a just and righteous fight it Is ours in this war will you personally stand aside playing the cowards part or will you help buy a liberty bond if you cannot do your bit with bomb and bayonet you can help very importantly port antly by buying a liberty bond would you prefer to help the tha kaiser and his galg of professional murderers you can do so by refusing to help your country with your money there can be no such thing as neu on the part of an american citizen in this war either you are a patriot or you are a traitor which of the two shall you choose to be if you refuse your help merely standing aside you are actually alding aiding ng the kaiser you are the accomplice at least constructively speaking of if the greatest criminal since nero do you approve of the rape of belgium and the ruthless slaughter of its ita inoffensive people it if net then show it by buying a liberty bond do you approve of the wholesale violation of women and the mutilation of af little children if not then buy a liberty bond are you in favor of the poisoning of wells of shelling unarmed and helpless people in open boats of endl criminate warfare upon ants it if not then buy a liberty bond you are for or against you cannot compromise with your ons clence in this matter either you are for these things or you are against them civilization Is engaged in a desper ate struggle against barbarism nay indeed nc leed something much worse than barbarism scientific savagery it Is a fight if lit of right against wrong b do 0 you wish to help the right then buy a liberty bond the happiness of your hildren and of your childrens children Is at staked for there can be no happiness without liberty and liberty will cease to exist if prussian power achieves the ob ejects for which it Is now contending one word more do you believe in it i life that Is to follow this life do you believe that your welfare in the hereafter will III be influenced by your conduct in your present state of existence then how can you hope for happiness in the next nest world if in tills struggle between right and wrong you yon deliberately choose to stand with the hun ellin murderers against your god you are helping them it if you stand neutral and fall to help your country make your choice and having chosen buy a liberty bond |