THE FREEMAN'S JOURNAL AND NATIONAL PRESS DUBLIN: MONDAY, AUGUST 6, 1917 PRICE ONE PENNY SPIRIT OF AMERICA An Irish Priest's Enthusiasm for the War Rev. Patrick Dolan, S.J., Campion College, Wisconsin, U.S.A. in a letter to a relative in Roscommon says:- "The Allies will get 350 million bushels of our wheat within the next half year; the corn is waving in unnumbered acres now, and will be more than enough to feed ourselves; our gold we'll give, all you need of it; and last, and best, we'll give an army of five million to help you drive the last vestige of militarism from Europe, and make it a free as our own free land. "Between us and Canada is a boundary line three-nearly four thousand miles long, and there isn't a gun, or a sign of a gun between us- that's Democracy- that's freedom, people so free that they don't know how to mistrust a neighbour- or arm against him. Well, we're going to help you to beat down the barrier of militarism which is keeping nations and peoples apart, keeping them in mutual distrust, and we'll stay by you till you have border-lines as safe as the one between us and our neighbours and fellow democrats of Canada." Cathy Joynt Labath Abstracts from Irish Newspapers http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/Ireland/index.html