New Britain herald., 1917-08-18

l to restore order. Germany is the cul- I prit before the world court. She
 must be punished for her crimes, no
 matter row great the suffering caused | by the administration of the penalty ! "To hell with the Hapsburgs and
 the Hohenzollerns' is the forceful 1 modus operandi suggested by Col l Henry Watterson of Louisville, and l the world is rapidly seeing the value l of this plan of action. Until the | Hapsburgs and the Hohenzollerns are stripped and shorn of their power
 there can be no peace in this sad old world Until the ermine has been stripped from the shoulders of the l Kaiser and his royal neighbor and
 all who uphold the doctrine which , proclaims the Divine Right of Kings
 the civilized world must be kept in l the state of being a field of death. 1 And Europe, so glorious and so four i ishing, 1t too must wend It's bleeding way to the abyss. For, one way or the other. death and disaster walk in the path of Europe. Either Eu- rope can give in before the oppres- sve hordes Of Wilhelm and his pup pets or Europe can fight to the finish. In the first instance Europe faces certain death. h.-even a suicidal death.
 In the second place, Europe has a chance to shake off the shackles that Prussianism has almost succeeded in placing round her ankles.
 the House of Hohenzollern under it's present management. The war lord will first have to get down off his perch. The world is practically unit ed in that purpose. The civilized world will not finch in this deter
 imitation. To do so would be to turn it's back on the millions of brave men who have sacrificed their lives and their treasure to fight tho monster that threatens not only Europe but other parts of the earth. Those men
 
 the heat of the trenches shall not have died in vain. Those heroes who suffered the hell of a thousand nights and days in the mire of the battle fields shall not have risked their all for nothing. Future generations must profit by the great expenditure of life blood. The world must be made safe for democracy, or all the great endeavors and sacrifices of the past three years have been futile.
 When Germany is ready to ac- it's wrong before the world; when the degenerate Kaiser is willing to step down and hand the reins of government over to some competent representation of a great people; when the barbaric sins of a lust-crazy fighting machine have been atoned in part; when the culprit has been made to realize the enormity of a foolish ambition; when the blood is wiped off the hands of German butchers and the double-edged sword of militarism laid low in the dust of repentance, then, and not till then, shall peace come on earth, and good will enter the hearts of men.
 These are sad things to contem- plate. These are sad days for the race of man. Yet the situation is clear-cut and sharp featured, and there is only one way out The world knows now what must be done, and the world will see to it that it is done. The olive branch extended at this time contains under the folds of its leaves sharpened sword, made in Germany That sword, if peace were accepted, might not show itself for thirty years; but it would l come to the surface just so soon as | the leaves on the branch were with 1 cred and decayed, as soon as Time, | the heeler of all ills, had buried the l pain and anguish of this present day.
 And then another generation would l be demolished. A peace at this time
 would be but an armistice, a truce,
 a breathing spell in which Germany
 could remodel its military machine
 and go forth to finish the job ii
 world This must never be.