Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), July 26, 1917
This is Our War Whatever the President does toward winning this war in the shortest and most effective way has our enthusiastic sup port But to swear unswerving allegiance to his administration is beyond our power For remember this is precisely the same administration which has been at Wash ington since the war began The very men who surround Mr Wilson now are the men who sat still with folded hands while the world was ablaze for two and a half years and never did one solitary thing of any importance to prepare this country for the tremendous burden now thrust upon us These are the men who laughed the idea of universal service to scorn voluntary universal service was their substitute and who now rush to conscription and refuse even for one mo ment to utilize whatever of value the vol untary system possesses These are the men who saw the science of war advanc ing by leaps and strides so that the attack became a terrific combination of force and mechanical skill in which huge guns of all calibers and aeroplanes of all sorts and speeds played the crucial part They built no guns and they built no