ike mercy, pity, and love are only words of weaklings; that
they were a nation of liars and falsifiers and the most brutal of all
people of recorded history; when, added to this, the Americans realized
that for over two years France and England had really been fighting for
everything for which the United States stood and which her people held
dear, for her very life and liberty, then America almost as one man
declared for war.

Meanwhile Germany had declined to recognize the laws of nations which
allowed America to sell munitions to the Allies. She had scattered
spies through the United States to destroy property and create labor
troubles. She had challenged the right of peaceful Americans to travel
on the high seas. She had sunk the _Lusitania_ with a loss of one
hundred twenty-four American lives; the _Sussex_, the _Laconia_ with a
loss of eight Americans, the _Vigilancia_ with five, the _City of
Memphis_, the _Illinois_, the _Healdton_, and others. She had tried to
unite Mexico and Japan against us.

Not until then, after the American people had become fully aware of the
German character and purposes, did Congress on April 6, 1917, declare a
state of war existed between Germany and the United States. On that
day the outcome of the war was decided. Through her hideous
selfishness, her stupidity, and her brutality, Germany, after having
spent nearly fifty years in preparation, lost her opportunity for world
dominion. The resources and the fighting power of what she looked upon
as a nation of cowardly, money-loving merchants decided the conflict.

AMERICA COMES IN

We are coming from the ranch, from the city and the mine,
And the word has gone before us to the towns upon the Rhine;
As the rising of the tide
On the Old-World side,
We are coming to the battle, to the Line.

From the Valleys of Virginia, from the Rockies in the North,
We are coming by battalions, for the word was carried forth:
"We have put the pen away
And the sword is out today,
For the Lord has loosed the Vintages of Wrath."

We are singing in the ships as they carry us to fight,
As our fathers sang before us by the camp-fires' light;
In the wharf-light glare,
They can hear us Over There
When the ships come steaming through the night.

Right across the deep Atlantic where the Lusitania passed,
With the battle-flag of Yankee-land a-floating at the mast
We are comin