The states-graphic. (Brownsville, Tenn.) 1???-1984, 1916-08-04
PREPAREDNESS
RIDLEY WILLS.

between the Atlantic and the Pacific,
three generations ago she began hsr
treacherous conquest. Like a wolf
bowling at the threshold of our nation
she has been working, bit by bit. to OBJ
tain, not small opening in which she
would perchance get her head fasten-
ed, only to be hacked off by the dull
axe with which America defends her
self, but great hole through which
her whole body, with all its fighting
strength might enter. She began
, to gnaw many years ago.
Germany determined to stab at the
heart of America. And she knew that
the nearest way to Americas heart
lies through her stomach. In the pros
porous year of 1884 six thousand bar
rels of sauerkraut were sent from
Hamburg to a wholesale grocery
house in Philadelphia for distribution
throughout the land. This shipment
was followed by large imports of 30
logna sausage and Limberger cheese.
The conquest had begun.
The consumption of these products
rapidly spread. At the end of two
years the nation was fairly glorying
in these delicacies. Frozen sauerkrant
was served at all social functions, and
he who did not constantly carry a sau-
sage in his pocket was in fair way tC
become social outcast. The despica-
BILE strategy of the Kaiser was attain.
ing its hateful end with unlocked foI
success.
! 1t was far look into the future, but
Germany had taken care that che
should not lose by her actions. The
Emperor was a firm believer in the
old proverb:
"The best laid plans of men and nations
Are formed by long elaboration"
The fiendish plan was this: An in
side war was to be waged by Germany
The digestive systems of the people Of
Ameria were to be wrecked. Nor was
it entirely a direct war. The plan was
mainly to ruin the future defenders of
America by destroying the health Of
their progenitors. The Germans knew
even at that early time that moral and
physical weaknesses are transnittal
to children by unhealthy parents. Ard
they knew that there was no better
way to make invalids Of the parents
than to feed them indigestibles.
All this is not mere talk, have
positive proof that | am dealing strift-
ly in facts. What educated person is
there who cannot quote the immortal
words of Snitzen, the most famous
Teutonic poet of his time?
"The goat whose daily rations
Are tin cans and carpet tacks,
Begets the kid which can eat
Only rags and paper sacks"
Not only Germany, but even Eng
land has conspired against us. Eng
land, the mother country, has hopes Of
once more controlling her maynard
child. She even has turned against
us. But there's a reason. When Eng
land first took up woman suffrage she
confined her fanatical rawlings ss17Al.-e s
her own bounds. But suddenly and
without warning she began to turn heI
mind to America. She determined to
convert her to the cause--and so she
sent Mrs. Pankhurst and her cohort:
across. The invaders Landed Their
cause from one end of the land to the
other. They spoke wildly and rapidly
as only women can, and by their rosy
promises they attained remarkable
l success converting the American wo
= men into home haters. Then domes
d tic trouble began. Homes and hus
!, bands were neglected. Children wer
: left to become self-made men and wo
h men. The protests of the men wer
+ unavailing. Proper attentions wer
+ not given to the kitchen departments
5. properly cooked food was scarce
e But that is not all. There is worse t
o come The men were Inundated, hacl
y ed, and humbled by those who ha
I'd once promised to serve and obey thei
al forever Calamity forbade man to d,
t. fend himself, He must accede to II
es feminine wish or arouse the feminir
1T anger. The entire masculine gend,
lie of man was severely browbeaten III
C. til the women's ENTHUSIASM for the ba
nd lot began to wane.
u England, too, had looked far into Il
u future. She had not sent the suffr
as gettes to America for nothing. H
IS intentions were to kill two birds wi
mt but a single stone,-make two pla
he work as one. Not only were the dige
ms tive systems to be wrecked, but Anne,
Tor cas- most dangerous weapon, the figl
ing spirit of her men, was to be re
dered useless. The plan of quelli
that spirit by means of suffrage:
int was the product of England's gre;
be est minds.
md Germany and England have 10
all felt their needs for the United Stat
put But they are not the only matte
ice which have had secret designs again
our great country. Italy, with
grand opera singers and shoe make
to say nothing of the black hand CT
spiracies, has made her inroads in [
UNI general undermining. France, e,
before the war began, had more ii
half bankrupted this style-crazed
'ar ton. China has spread disease TIL
the out our land by her unsanitary la
his dries, undoubtedly at the instigat
nit Of Japan. Mexico has even threat
var ed to annex the United States III