Identifier: independen89v90newy (find matches)
Title: The Independent
Year: 1849 (1840s)
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Publisher: New York : S.W. Benedict
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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the treasure of the world has been pouring into our laps.It now becomes our turn to pour it out again in thegreat cause in which we are to take our part. But not only money. We must give our energy in everyform in which it will be useful. Resources, munitions,food, clothing, medical and hospital supplies, everythingthat the fighting men of the Allies need and their fami-lies behind them need we must send in an ever increas-ing stream from our abundance. But we must send morethan that. Men. They say that the Allies need our moneyand our munitions, but they have men enough of theirown. Men enough for what? To endure and suffer andbe broken and die? And in our quarrel? Shall it be saidthat the American people, going to war side by side withFrance and Belgium and Russia and England against acommon enemy, sat safely and comfortably at home, giv-ing money and munitions and things, and lettingFrenchmen and Belgians and Russians and Englishmendo the dying for them? If this quarrel is not good
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Drauru for The Independent ly II 1 s -■■• r DIE NACHT DEB TAG, THE DAY TO WHICH GERMAN MILITARISM FOR YEARS LOOKED EAGERLYFORWARD AS ITS GOAL, IS RAPIDLY DARKENING INTO NIGHT April 2, 1917 THE INDEPENDENT enough for Americans to die in it is not good enough forAmerica to be in. Wars are fought with blood and treas-ure. We cannot without eternal disgrace offer the treas-ure and refuse to shed the blood. So we must fight this fight. We must draw the sword.against a ruthless enemy of humanity. We must fight inthe cause of human rights and the peace of the world.We must not sheathe the sword until those sacred thingsare made secure. THE BUDGING LINE THE snaky line of trenches that sprawled acrossthe map from Switzerland to the sea has lain sostill for more than two years that it seemed as fixed afeature of the landscape as a river or a mountain chain.The sacrifice of millions of men and billions of moneyhas not availed to budge it perceptibly. But now we be-hold it in motion, recedi

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