The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1917-10-29
Fighting For American
Existence
CBy Herbert Quick. United States

Farm Loan Commissioner
Some say that this is a European
war, not an American war. This
falsehood if it were generally believ-
ed would put America itself in great
er danger than ever existed in all our
history. 1t is a world war. On the
result of it depends your right to live
our American life, and the right OF
your children to be what Washing
ton and Lincoln waited them to be.
Look about you, Americans, and
see things as they are. Do not hide
from yourselves the awful state OF
the world in which you live. Other
nations have done that to their ever
lasting ruin. The nations of Europe
each thought that the uprisings OF
the Turkish power was a thing for
the Eastern Roman Empire to tight
against. and they allowed the un-
speakable Turk to sweep into Eu-
rope and make half Europe a hell OIL
earth for centuries. II they haG
combined against the OttomanS as
we have combined against the Kaiser
there would be no Balkan question
today. and all Eastern Europe would
for these 700 years have been enjoy
ing the orderly civilization which il
possessed before the accuTsed Turk
conquered them.
Great Britain, France, Germany,
Spain-aIl these should have com
bined against the Turk as we have
combined against the Kaiser. They
slept. and they inherited hell foI
their sleeping.
Once in every few hundred years
Viii al,
crushed or submitted to. Germany
is such a power today. When it is
fought off, the old order goes on de
veioping. Our old order is a better
order than that of the German En-
pire. We are lighting against Ger
many for it. We must fight for it tG
the last gasp, or take what German
world power gives us.
If Germany wins, she will add to
her domain all the lands she can get
out of this attempted assassination
of freedom.
Is it not an American question,
when Germany adds Austria, Hun
gary, Turkey, Serbia, Montenegro
Roumania, Belgium, part of France
and no one knows how much of Tur
key to her possessions?
Why, if the world, united against
her. fails to hold her back from con-
quest now, what shall We do in years
10 come when she has welded all
these lands into d power as solid as
the present Germany? What can the
world then do against her? Never
again will the world be so united
against her as now; and never again
will she be as weak as now, if she
wins.
\ little German girl writing to
q little friend in Switzerland, eX
pressed wonder that any nation could
be so presumptious as to deny the
Germans what they need III terri
tory: for she said, mo people have
any rights against the superior rights
of the Germans" Out of the mouths
OF babes and stockings comes the
truth. All Germans believe this
They have revived the old pagan god
Thor under the name of a Christian
god. They actually believe that no
other peoples have any rights as
against them.
They are as full of the idea of con-
quest as was Attila the Hun who
called himself the scourge of God
and was proud of the title. The Kai-
ser shows his admiration for Attila
by naming his fayCrite son after him
Prince Eitel. In the German plans
there is no mercy, no honor, no pop
ular rights, no quarteT fr any other
people. no thought for anything eX
cept German expansion.
Alexander of Macedon conquered
the world as he knew it and wept for
worlds
brought the whole world to her knee
Other conquerors have had the plan
of doing the same thing and failed
but they do not all fail. If Ger
many wins a victory in this war she
will only await her chance. as Prus-
STA has done every year of her life
since the Hohenzollerns have sat On
her throne. to pounce on her fellow
nations.
She waits like tiger by a spring