"WE HELD OUR PEACE."

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LII, Issue 160, 4 July 1918, Page 4

"WE HELD OUR PEACE."

The United §tafces- Governments Committee on Public Information has •published "The Issues of the War at a Glance." In Bulletin No. 2 the following official appears •- . „ '■"' ' THE ORIGIN.

All the world is at "war with Germany. ~" .. , .Since Germany makes war on all tne world— . , , r Germany • defiles all the ■ world. *Gt-rmany would master the world. Germany would sack- the whole world. Germany so declares. Germany provoked;.war — We held bur peace. Germany invaded Belgium- . We held our p.ace. < ... Gjermany dealt in frightfulness—'We held ; our peace.'* Germany . exalted ruthlessness — "We held our peace. * 'Germany slew women and children — Wo held our peace. v Gtrmany promoted massacre— We held our Gormany enslaved captives — We held our peace. _ , Ovn:a-n\ sank the Lusitania — We held our peace. Germany set spies among us— We-held our peaca. Germany plotted within our gates—iWe held our peace. Germany intrigued against us— We held our peace. Gtrmany fomented strife among us— We studied forbearance.Gei.'many. destroyed, our .goods-r-. We swallowed our indignation. Germany murdered our citizens — We choked down, our wrath. Germany broke solrann promises---' We clung- c tq shattered, faith, . Germany'— ' At length loosed war on us. and or. all neutrals. • ~-,' » 'Then wo saw- ... The only way out was to go through. - --* Beset by war—, The, - United States fight* for world pi ace. Our State is founded on the consent .of the governed:— Germany makes war on that.

Our Government is established on the people's willGermany makes war on that

Our 'Civilisation, is seated in equal rights— .....■'. ■•-,,-.. Germany makes wai* on that. Our life, is shaped 'to the way- of freetlom—-

.'Germany makes war on that. "There is oniy one law in Germany and that is my, will." —jKaiser Wilhelm. •

"Henceforth - nothing in America shall ibe done without me.' - Kaiser Wilhelm. '