AMERICA IN THE WAR
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AMERICA IN THE WAR
BY
LOUIS RAEMAEKERS
EACH CARTOON FACED WITH A PAGE OF COMMENT BY A DISTINGUISHED AMERICAN, THE TEXT FORMING AN ANTHOLOGY OF PATRIOTIC OPINION
NEW YORK THE CENTURY CO. 1918
Copyright, 1918, by The Century Co.
Published, October, 1918
List of Cartoons
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The Stars and Stripes in the Service of Humanity 2
“When I was a Child, It was You Who Saved Me” Hon. Myron T. Herrick 4
The Hun: “Keep Neutral” Robert Underwood Johnson 6
Peace Plots Revealed in America and France John Jay Chapman 8
Belgium, 1918 Ralph Adams Cram 10
“We will not Wear Convicts’ Stripes, Wear Them Yourselves” Poultney Bigelow 12
The Final Argument Charles Hanson Towne 14
The End of the Hindenburg Line Meredith Nicholson 16
“Something’s Wrong. She Doesn’t Seem to Inspire Confidence” Robert Grant 18
Angels of the War Zone Gertrude Atherton 20
As Thou Sowest, so Shalt Thou Reap Hon. A. S. Burleson 22
“Don’t Stop, Old Chap, Keep It Up!” John Philip Sousa 24
“So We Are Only a Dollar-making People, Are We?” John Kendrick Bangs 26
“No, Thanks, I Know These Princes of Yours Too Well” Herbert Adams Gibbons 28
Speeding Up 30
Toward the Valley of Decision Rev. Stephen S. Wise, Ph.D., LL.D. 32
Wake Up, America! Mary E. Wilkins Freeman 34
“There are Plenty of Lamp-posts!” Hudson Maxim 36
“We Don’t Seem to Inspire Enough Confidence” Hon. Henry Cabot Lodge 38
German Submarines Fire on Open Boats Alice Brown 40
Not This Time! 42
The President to the Workers 44
“Well Done, Fellows! Keep the Home Fires Burning!” Hon. Lindley M. Garrison 46
A Bit of the Hindenburg Line David Bispham 48
The Rats in Our Home Trenches E. S. Martin 50
Seeing Stars Booth Tarkington 52
The Two Giants Hon. James W. Gerard 54
“Will They Last, Father?” George W. Cable 56
“The Ugly Talons of the Sinister Power” John Burroughs 58
Restitution and Reparation Ellis Parker Butler 60
The Only Possible Position for Traitors H. C. Chatfield-Taylor 62
“Do You Mean to Make a Real War?” 64
Justice! Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve 66
Another Peace Proposal Henry Dwight Sedgwick 68
The Fine American Spirit G. E. Woodberry 70
Poisoning the Well of Public Opinion 72
The Enemy Within William Roscoe Thayer 74
Count Von Bernstorff: “Noblesse Oblige” George Trumbull Ladd 76
Peter the Hermit Ida M. Tarbell 78
The Germ-Man Albert Bigelow Paine 80
“A Tid-Bit for ‘The Sick Man’” Hon. George W. Wickersham 82
Plain Language from Truthful James 84
Helping Hindenburg Home 86
A Bad Prophet 88
At the Holland Frontier Hon. William Jennings Bryan 90
A Rehearsal 92
The Path of Kultur Edwin Markham 94
To the Victor! Geraldine Farrar 96
The Eyes of the Army Thomas Mott Osborne 98
“Is It Nothing to You, All Ye Who Pass By?” Rachel Crothers 100
The Rainbow Division Leaves for France Hon. Frederic Courtland Penfield 102
Russia Reborn Edward Alsworth Ross 104
Higher Than a Sour Apple Tree Samuel Hopkins Adams 106
“What a Mean Trick to Turn on That Strong Light!” 108
Christmas, 1917 Henry Mills Alden 110
Helping Uncle Sam to Get Up Speed 112
The Wind of Democracy 114
“This One for the Babies!” Rev. Lyman Abbott 116
A Scene on the Somme 118
Hollweg as Robespierre J. G. Phelps Stokes 120
President Wilson’s Declaration John Luther Long 122
“Don’t Stand in Our Way to Victory!” George Haven Putnam 124
“German Soldiers Cut the Throat of an American Sentry” Cleveland Moffett 126
Bang! 128
“I Must Break in Here Before That Comes Down” Palmer Cox 130
Bring Her In! Charles Edward Russell 132
Germany’s “Peace” With Russia Arthur Train 134
The Better Fighter 136
The Dungeon of Autocracy Hon. Maurice Francis Egan 138
“Hurrah for Peace, Lads!” S. Stanwood Menken 140
Ecce Homo! Robert W. Chambers 142
“We Must so Destroy France That She Can Never Resist Us” Rev. Hugh Black 144
The Japanese Mouse 146
“Ueber Alles” and Underneath 148
Expostulation and Reply 150
The Second Election 152
The Mad Shepherd Alice Hegan Rice 154
“Sink Without a Trace” Oliver Herford 156
Changing the Guard Agnes Repplier 158
The Penitent Artist 160
Peace Angels of Doubtful Purity 162
The Black Flag 164
The Annexation of America Rear Admiral Robert E. Peary 166
“Welcome, Mate; You’re Just in Time!” 168
The Editor 170
German Intrigues in Mexico Albert Bushnell Hart 172
German “Militarist” Socialism William English Walling 174
The Old Hammer and the New 176
The Spirit of Washington 178
The Massacre of the Innocents William Dean Howells 180
In the Ring to Stay Harvey O’Higgins 182
“We Attacked the ‘Fortress of London’” 184
Not a Bad Start! Hon. Thomas R. Marshall 186
An Echo of the Luxberg Case 188
German Chivalry to Wounded Officers Hamilton Holt 190
Socialism in Germany John Spargo 192
The Spirit of German Science J. Mark Baldwin 194
Humanity and Her German Lovers 196
The Strikers Carrie Chapman Catt 198
1776-1917 William Allen White 200
“Now, Hindenburg, Bring on the Rest of My People” Hon. David Jayne Hill 202
The Master of the Hounds 204
Processional Cale Young Rice 206
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