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kindly courtesy, 1 think it helped 

 the boys 1)\" fixing in their minds 

 at least the logical and chrono- 

 logical sequence of events and in 

 bringing home to them the vital 

 concern we have in the issue of 

 this war. 



Tin; NECESSITY 1 ; ()R PROPAGANDA 



This war differs from other 

 wars that we have been in, in the 

 necessity for propaganda to ex- 

 plain its issues and its profound 

 importance to the people of the 

 United States. When it came 

 on, in August, 1914, the whole 

 people rejoiced that we were so 

 remote from the seat of war, 

 separated by the Atlantic Ocean, 

 and so barred from it by our na- 

 tional traditions that we would 

 escape the vortex of destruction 

 and suffering that was opening 

 to the European nations. 



For three years we occupied 

 as near a judicial position as the 

 circumstances permitted and dis- 

 cussed the issues between the na- 

 tions with an impartial state of 

 mind. Then we were forced into 

 war through a violation of our 

 rights at sea. It was difficult to 

 arouse our people to the impor- 

 tance of those rights in a zone of 

 the high seas so far away as 

 Great Britain and Ireland. 



The statements of the Presi- 

 dent properly set forth as our 

 object in the war certain ideals 

 of a world character and impor- 

 tance. Our material interest in 

 maintaining those ideals, how- 

 ever, it was difficult for the peo- 

 ple to appreciate. 



The issue was not as it was in 

 our Revolutionary War, at our 

 doors, and had not been the sub- 

 ject of political discussion for 

 half a century, as the slavery and 

 secession issue had been before 

 our Civil War. Prosperity and 

 money-making, high wages and 

 high profits, absorbed the inter- 

 est of our people, and it was diffi- 

 cult to challenge their attention 

 to the inevitable consequence of 

 German victory. Hence the con- 



