Douglas Island news., 1917-12-28

Tho following article by Harvey .OTuggm5 is issued by tho Commit tee on Public Information:
 "Thc Germans" their beloved Bis murck said, "are a nation of house servants"
 His successors seem to have made them a nation of army worms.
 An their Gnc qualities Of loyalty and service which Bismarck sum med up 80 contemptuously- have been turned from ideals of domestic peace and labor Co Che ravoging Of their ncighbors i'm devastating war A nation of army worms, led by imperial locusts. they have ad- yancod upon Che world in their fa- nous mass formations. a gray-green swarm of devoted loyolists, at once admirable and horrifylng.
 World Banded Against Them
 And Che world has banded against them. Ono by one a score of States have been forced Co arm and defend themselves. Not even the peaceful traditions of China or tho determln- ed isolation of the United States could save themselves from the un- provoked assaults of this submissive people led by ambitious maniacs. Tho war has become a war Co rid Germany and the world of Cor many's Mad Mullah. And just as there could be no peace a hundred years ago in Europe, and no free dom in France until Napoleon had been caged, SO now there can be no security for any nation and no lib- crty for Che Germans until their Hohcuzollcru has been crushed and his loyal victims awakened from their national hypnosis. The free peoples of tho earth arc battling against thc last scrfs Of military autocracy not only Co protect them selves. but to lIbcrate their enemy. America is fighting Co establish among thc nations of Europe an other such peaceful league of self governing States as our War of Inc dependence founded on this conti- uent. It is war against war against international injustice, and predatory ideals of empire, and the slavery of willing slaves assaulting Freedom.
 Again and again thc nations made terms of peace with Napoleon. It was useless until he made his final terms of unconditional surrender af- ter Waterloo. The French of his day were an admirable, a wonderful people; but led by his military am- biuou they became the conquering enemies Of mankind It was his wars that imposed militarism in Germany It is his tradition that now animatos the PrussIan imperial buzzard. Useless Go talk of terms of peace with this new Napoleonism Useless Co plead thc virtues of the ! German people. They have become tho outlaws of civilization. surround ed by a posse of nations and fight | ing desperately at the mouth Of their cave. There can be no enduring peace uu they have deposod their rohber chicfJoin and reuounced their creed of blood and iron
 Forced Upon the United States
 Tho United States has been com pellcd Co join the posse. After en- during ouragcs with a patience that cxasperatcd mankind, we have enrolled in the league of peace | against Germany. Our navy is fight ing iu European waters to protect our own shores. Our army is go- ing Co Che trenches in France that we may not have Co dig trenches in America. We have organized for | war because We have been denied peace. We have accepted conscrip- ton against conscription We have given our government the powers of military dictator to save our selves from the military dictator ship of the Most High of Potsdam. We have surrendered all our peace | ml liberties in order Co organize our
 country for purposes of war, be- cause war can be efficiently waged in no other way. Only with blood and iron can we save ourselves from the dcvotcos of blood and iron. When !