Middletown transcript., 1917-07-14
CERMANY'S END NEAR

THE end of Germany's frightful con-
L spiracy to rule the whole world is
fast drawing to the humiliating close
that will lay her proud and brutal face
in the very dust.
More than one-half of her total 9,000,-
600 Of soldiers are out of the contest.
Of these, almost 1000, 900 are dead, and
millions more are permanently disabled
or prisoners.
The war debt of Germany has reached
the staggering sum of $40, 900, 900, 900,
the yearly interest on which at a per
cent is almost as much as our whole
national debt
Her annual export commerce of ST.
100000, 900 is wiped out, and her three
biggest and highly profitable world-mo-
nopolies, aniline dyes, potash and car
bolic acid are gone, probably forever.
Her worldwide commerce is utterly de-
moralized and much Of it will never be
recovered. The made in Germany"
phrase that met the eye on every CT n
ceivable article of manufacture in
metals, pottery, wood, glass and fabrics
of all kinds, has disappeared never again
30 universally to be seen. Her 100000
square miles of colonial territory have
been taken from her.
Her treachery, brutality and want on
breach of every principle of honor,
mercy and honesty. have made her the
pariah of the Nations without single
sincere friend in all the world, not even
her kindred Austria or her half barbaric
allies Bulgaria and Turkey really trust
ing her
The worlds thirteen foremost nations
have broken with her, and most of them
are making war upon her. She is econ
omically exhausted; her people already
suffering keenly for want of food. will
soon face starvation, now that the
United States is about to close the door
to her supplies from the neutral nations
about her.
The spirit Of her armies is broken
She has touched the apex Of her great
est power and is now going down hill,
while the allies are constantly increas-
ing in numbers, spirit and efficiency
the enormous addition of Americas
money, ships, men and supplies making
the odds against her absolutely fatal.
In few weeks 1,OOO,OO u S. soldiers
will join the thousands already on the
western firing line, and millions more
will follow. In few months an end
less stream of American blrdmen will
be pouring eagerly into the world fight,
against the huge German wild beast
and some experts declare that the Issue
of this awful war will be found in the
air, not, as Germany so fondly hopes,
under the sea.
If all these signs from without do not
show that Germany's end is approach
ing, the growing discomfort and dissen-
sions from within, most certainly pres
age that result. So far as she is con-
cerned, an internal collapse may at any
moment end the war.
Yet with colossal conceit her states
men are solemnly debating whether or
not when peace comes they shall demand
big war indemnities and the retention of
despoiled Belgium, France Servia, etc.
Germany is utterly ruined for genera
tons to come. She is being fatally gored
with the cruel horn of her own desperate
dilemma as expressed in her naughty
slogan, "Welt gemacht oder nieder-
gang, "i"wsrld dominion, or downfall"
for is downfall" Of piteous and hope
less sort. In the words of the great
Cardinal in Hen. Will, "And when she
falls, she falls like Lucifer, Never to
hope again."