The Glenwood post., 1917-11-10

such hurt, before we can relieve that
wearicd western front, that she may
emerge from the war with all possible
advantage.
"America must hurry up. British
and French alike have assured me thar
the western front can hold out until
next spring. But the evidence is just
as manifest that even if the front holds
out Germany is making preparations
to test it all along the line and to get
at the British fleet before America can
reinforce and make drive into the
heart of Germany such as alone might
give hope of German revolution.
"Germany is going to be beaten. The
immediate problem facing us is to
hasten her defeat with the least loss of
life to our own boys and with adequate
insurance against the breaking of the
western front and the smashing of the
British fleet.
The situation is more serious than
on the surface would appear. Germany
understands. Germany knows that she
has struck twelve. But she also knows
that there are chances of which she
means to make the most to emerge from
the war with conditions more favor
able than those her foes mean that she
shall have.
"In England and in France I have
talked with men and women who have
the right to speak concerning this i'm
portant problem, and they all tell the
same story. Not one, whether occupy.
ing an official Of an unofficial posi-
tion, believes that Germany is beaten.
She must in years to come pay the
awful economic price of entering upon
such war
"She might have won a world success
in trade without war. No country
was showing such high intelligence i'll
the development of commercial rela-
tions with South America, Africa aud
even our own country as Germany. She
risked all on war which she believed
would duplicate the advantage she al
ready was enjoying. However, the war
may end, the German colonial system
is ended for the time. Not even Ger.
many herself expects to get back all
her colonies.
But one must go to Europe in or
der to understand that for the sacri-
flee of colonies Germany has compen-
sation in some measure in the exten.
sion Of her power throughout central
Europe. She entered the war an en-
pire with Austria dependent and Tur-
key like ripe plum, ready to drop nto
her lap.
"When the war shall end she may
not have Alsace and Lorraine, Belgium
will have to be restored. Not one inch
of French territory will be hers. She
Will not realize her pan-Germanic
dreams of an empire from Hamburg to
Bagdad. But if it is safe even mod
estly to forecast the future amid the
complication of the present, she will
have an empire for all practical pur-
poses stretching from Hamburg to Con-
stantinople.
Europe will be broken in half.
Germany may, whatever terms of peace
be granted her, have more solidarity
across the center of Europe than she
ever had before
"To those who have with difficulty
brought themselves to the perception
that the present war is closer to us
than the Napoleonic wars, the fact is
now emerging that America must take
her turn in suffering.
Mothers who have said goodbye to
their boys must make ready to see them
nevermore. I know from observation
and from conversation that unless in
fluences not now at play appear, Ger
many it not to have a revolution. Ger
many is Prussianized The bundesrath
is but the plaything of the Hohenzol-
lerns The reichstag is a mere debating
school. Socalized Germany was silenced
when the war began and only here and
there, even now, is a voice, however,
Influential, crying the true message of
democracy for the Germany that is to
be when autocracy has been defeated.
Germany is fighting a defensive
war. But Germany is not exhausted.
Her interior lines of communication, no
matter how depleted, are her economic
resources, enable her to use, with an
efficiency not possible to her foes, her
fighting forces.
Statistics about German losses must