Valdez daily prospector., 1915-01-04

UdCh u WACAC IL oIOou VhCA ~ AA 6s encountered the French. Calais is
 freed from her menace, Tannenberg | was but an incident to the swarm ing hordes of Russia. What boots it if she enters Lodz, if she seize War
 saw, what even if by some unlocked for turn of fortune she again an.
 proach the walls of Paris? Kitchen
 CTS new million of trained men will be in France before the snows have melted in the Vosges, and Russia s inexhaustible.
 There is within the German view
 an even more sinister potent. The
 world cannot, will not, let Germany win in this war With her dominet- ing all Europe peace and security
 would vanish from the earth. A few
 months ago the world only dimly con-
 prehended Germany, now it knows her thoroughly. So if England, France and Russia cannot prevail
 against her, Italy, with her two mil lions, the sturdy Hollanders, the Swiss, hard men in a fight, the Danes, the Greeks and the men of the Bal kans will come to their aid and make sure that the work is finished, once for all. For their own peace and safety the nations must demolish that towering structure of militarism in the centre of Europe that has become the worlds danger-spot, it's grea-e menace.
 The only possible ending of the war is through the defeat of Ger many. Driven back to her Rhine strongholds, she will offer stubborn resistance. Even with the Russians near or actually in Berlin she would fight on. But for what? Why? Be- cause the German people, the very people, are resolved to get themselves all killed before the inevitable day of the enemy's triumph? Not at all
 The weary men in the trenches and the distressed people merely obey the orders given by imperial and military authority. For the men in those high quarters defeat would be the end of all. Desperation, with some possi-
 ble admixture of blind confidence, will
 continue the war. But why should
 the German people make further sac-
 rifce of blood to save the pride and the shoulder straps of German off cialdom? It means a million more
 battlefield graves. It means frightful additions to the bill of costs and to the harshness of the terms Since the more dreadful ending is in plain
 view, why not force the better end
 ing now?
 But this is revolution. That may be so; call it so. Definitions are usa- full, they are not deterrent. Is there in all history any record of whole people rising against their rulers in the midst of a great war? Let the historians answer the question. Is it
 conceivable that the loyal German
 people, made one by the love of the
 Fatherland and devoted to the ac-
 complishment of the imperial ideals, could be stirred to revolt while still
 unconquered? That concerns the
 prophets. We are concerned neith- CT with precedents nor with prophecy.
 We have aimed here to make clear the certainty of Germanys defeat and to show that if she chooses to fight to the bitter end her ultimate and sure overthrow will leave her bled 60 I.exhaustion, drained of her resources. and under sentence to penalties of which the stubbornness of her futile resistance will measure the severity.
 We could wish that the German peo- pie, seeing the light, might take timc- ly measures to avert the calimitiee. that await them.
 It may we'll be doubted that they will see the light. But have not the men of German blood in this coun- try duty to perform to their be- leaguered brethren in the old home' Americans of German birth or of Ger man descent should see and feel the truth about the present position of Germany, the probability for the near, the certainty for the remoter, future. At home the Germans cannot know the whole truth; it is not permitted them to know it. It will be unfrater- nal and most cruel for German-Ameri- cans further to keep the truth from
 them, or to fail in their plain duty to make known to them how low the
 imperial and militaristic ideal has