Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1917-10-27

not an American war. This falschood ii il
were genrally believed would put America
itself in greater 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 Washington and Lin
coin wanted them to be.
Look about YOU, Americans. and see
things as they are! Do not hide from your
selves the awful state of the world in
which you live. Other nations have done
that to their everlasting ruin. The ma
tions of Europe each thought that the up
rIsings of the Turkish power was a thing
for the Eastern Roman empire Ia fight
against, and they allowed the unspeakable
Turk to sweep into Europe and make half
Europe a hell on earth for centuries. If
they had 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 enjoying the orderly civil
ization which it possessed before the ac-
cursed Turk conquered them.
Great Britain, France, Germany. Spain
All these should have combined against
the Turk as we have combined against the
kaiser. They slept, and they inherited hell
for their sleeping.
Once in every few hundred years a new
power arises which must be crushed or
submitted TO. Germany is such a power
today. When it is fought off, the old order
gpes on dclevoping. Our old order is a bet
ter order than that of the German empire.
We are fighting against Germany for il.
We must fight for it to the last gasp, or
take what German world power gives u.
IL Germany wins, she will add to her
domain all the lands she can get out of
this attempted assassination of freedom.
II is not an American question, when
Germany adds Austria. Hungary. Turkey,
Serbia, Montenegro, Roumania. Belgium.
q part Of France. and no one knows how
much OF Turkey To her possessions.
Why, If the world, united against her,
fails to hold her hack from conquest now.
what shall we do in years to come when
she has welded all these lands into n
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.
A little German girl writing to a little
friend in Switzerland expressed wonder
that any nation could be 50 presumption.
Is TO deny the Germans what they need in
territory; 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 Ger
mans believe this. They believe in o Ger
man God. 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 a. against them.
They are a. full Of the idea of conquest
as was Atilla the Hun who called himself
the scourge Of God-and was proud of the
title. The kaiser shows his admiration for
Attila my naming his favorite son after him
Prince Eitel. In the German plan, there
Is no mercy, no honor, no popular rights. no
quarter for any other people. no thought
for anything except German expansion.
Alexander of Macedon conquered the
world as he knew it and wept for more
worlds to conquer. Rome brought the
whole world TO her knee. Other con
qucrors have had the plan of doing the
same thing and failed-but they do not all
fail. IL Germany wins a victory in this
war she will only await her chance. a.
Prussia has done every year Of her life
since the HohenzolIcrns have sat on her
throne. TO pounce on her fellow nations.
She must not be allowed To win n foot
his prey. BY a short victorious war she
seized Sehleswig- Holstein. BY a similar
tigers leap she seized Al>ace- Lorraine. She
fought eight years for Sile>ia and took it..
She Fought Austria out of the German con
federation, because with Austria in il Prus-
SIN could not control it-and now by this
war, having got control, she fights to get
Austria and other countries into il again.
She must noe be allowed to win a foot
offend in this war. II she does. We shall
find that her winning Of territory i a.
much an American question as the annexa-
tion of Texas.
Soon, Ii she wins, she will seize island,
or bases in our own waters. We bought
the Danish Islands To prevent that very
thing. We went into Haiti To prevent that
very thing. We are forced To scheme and
plan in Central America, in the West In
dies, everywhere, 10 prevent that very
thing. And if she wins in this war, she will
he too strong to be denied. II we can not
balk her with III other nations fighting
with rs, what shall we be able to do when
all these nations are weakened and dis
united by Q German victorys
Across the channel from England is a
little ;sland called Helgoland. once owned