Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, September 20, 1918, Page 4

'PAGE FOUR: a b I iy fo fenieh g nEeralE By HERBERT. QUICK -YE-MUS T‘:bujrbondv:ta::the—‘iasmmf our ability, because.our.. country is-fighting for its wery lifé. . Mdke=no :mistake, citizens of America, the crisis is just that—we are fighting for our very:life.- We must fight this' war through. We:must fight it through to a peace the basis of ‘which will be written by us.and. our allies. - Germany -must not: ‘write-a single clause: in' the Treaty: She must be whipped until she will sign' a treaty every word of which will be drawn by the :Allies. Germany -must-not be:allowed:to dot an i or cross-a-t. : v This war was to bea* step—toward - world:: conquest: If we-do not fight the war through to com= plete - victory she ~will: still Keep on andiishe. will succeed. She «willsurely succeed? Russia with’ her nearly 200,000,000-people— . lies' -prdst‘rateratmGémany'g feet::Germany could: now give:up the Ballkan: States;-give up Belgium, - force "Austria, to yield a*upfi:?:th&wlt“_&fian_ierfltofias.— give up conquered: France;ves, shecould "give up these, and. even-Alsace:Lorraine; and . if al-. - lowed :a ‘free hand: in: ‘Russta~she i(would still . ‘have won a victory greater” than -any-of-which-— shetever:dreamed -at~the‘beginning iof the war. Why ? : ' WP (ive her control of Russia-and:she-can; and - : . will, within a few-years: come: pbaelh with power” to take .bach-Alsace-Lorraine, crush poor 'Bel- - gium’once more ‘and ‘destroy-exhausted France,* sweep every vestige-of resistance#fromEuv ; Asia-and Africa;-and-therrwhat? - Then she will thunder at our doors —from". Asia she will invade us on the West; from-Europe— Germany bégan with ' the intentiontof rob- on the E,ast. anc} from ony possible seized vantage ™ bing France of her iron, her coal, her best land POt ot any side. ‘ : and her great factories; of mahing Belgium with If :Germany : hasv antrqlf‘fgygrf'tl‘te terms -of - -her rich mines): great cities and immense fac- | peace, we ‘who read this will live -toisee one-of tories a part of Germany; of® gaining the Bel- the Kaiser's sixsons Emperor-of: America. gian coast, from which: she might conquer Engs ‘The timeto‘whip Germany-is'nowd =’ land, and of combining under her flag the hordes . It is now or never! . . : : : of Mohammedan Turks, and all the Balkan The}’rinces-ofiééhnanyare shaking dice for-the-United— L Because Germany has become nothing but a robber empire, a murderer empire, an: empire every purpose of which is the: enslavement of the rest of the world. Such purposes:admit of no compromise;.We musticonquer Or dia. If we do not congquer< we: shall,. nevertheless, die — and die slaves. ' States, so that she might. train soldiers in count- States! ; Itwvil}"takrmaney;vmonmvmm'-thabwc may:-send-i i less millions, build naviestosweep theé+-oceans, and conquer the world. S i S Buy Bonds, for so only cart the:war be:won. Unless it is wory everything:you possess is lost,..and -with.it the American soul is lost This Space-Contributed-to Winning the War by e gyl FAIR STORE BEMIDJI.BOX CO. O'LEARY-BOWSERICO. © TAGLEY' & WOLD FRED BRINKMAN J. C. PENNEY CO. HOGANSON BROS: C. W. JEWETT CO. 0. G. SCHWANDT THIRD STREET CAFE ABE GROSSMAN BAZAAR-STORE E. F. NETZER . GUST. BROWN EDWARD/JACKSON DR:E. W. JOHNSON BEMIDJI ELECTRIC CO. DR. D. L. STANTON C. E. BATTLES P. J. RUSSEEL - - FARMERS STATE BANK™ HARDING-WHALEY CO. 3 ST. HILAIRE RETAIL LUMBER co. BARKER’S DRUG STORE .i MINNESOTA ELECTRIC LIGHT & POWER-CO. GRAY: BREAD CO. A S STORE JOHN A. DALTON GIVEN: HARDWARE CO. BEMIDJI-MFG.,CO. | NORTHERN NATIONAL BANK LARSON & LARSON C. A. KNAPE GEO. T. BAKER GILL BROS. KOORS BROS. €O. FIRST NATIONAL BANK DR. E. A. SHANNON SCHAVITCH BROS. 0. J. LAQUA SCHNEIDER BROS. CO. HENRY MILLER » i' | | : Defé%hve