The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-09-16
GERMAN NATION WILL NOT
STARvE OR REVOLT

Nor should any one believe that
GERMANY will break under starvation
or make peace because Of revolution
The German nation ts not one which
makes revolutions. There will be
scattered riots in Germany, hut no
Simultaneous rising Of the whole p%a-
PIE. The officers Of the army are
all OF one class and Of a class devoted
10 the ideals Of autooracy. A revolu-
tion Of the army is Impossible. and
at home there are only the boys and
old men, easily kept In subsection by
the police.
There ts far greater danger ~ the
starvation OF cur allies rhan OF the
starvation Of the Germans Every
available inch OF ground In Germany
n cultivated. and cultivated by the
aid OF the cid men. the bows and wo-
men and 900 coo prisoners Of war.
The arabic lands Of Northern
France and of Rumania are being
cultivated by the German army with
nm efficiency never before known in
tt1es# countries arzu most % tttZat food
win be added 20 the food supplies NJ
Germany Certainly the people sur
FER. hit sttIi more certainly this war
viii not he ended hecarse Of tbs star
walton of Germany.
ALTHOUGH thinking Germans know
tina. il thew 60 not win the war the
financial day of reckoning will come.
nevertheless. owing TO the clever n
uarcial handling OF The country BY
the govern m ent, and the great banks,
ttere Is at present no financial dis
tress in Germany, and the knowledge
that unless ir6ennities are obtained
from ether countries the weight OF
the great war debt VIII iall upon the
people perhaps makes them ree der
to risk all In Anal attempt 70 win
the war and impose irder9rtttes upon
not ONLY the nations OF Europe but
upor the United States OF America.
We are engaged in a war against
the greatest military power the world
has ever seen, against q people whose
crrrtry was for SO many centuries
theater ~ such devastating wars that
fear ss bred in the very marrow ~
their souls making them ready 10
submit their lives and fortunes 30 an
Autocraev which for centuries has
around their faces hut which has
rroYrfsed them. 2 result ~ the war.
mot only security but riches untold
and the dominion Of the world.
people which. as from = high noun
tAin. have looked uron the cities Of
the world and the Elortes ~ them and
have heen promised these cities and
these Elories hv the devils Of autoc-
rarr ard OF war
We are warning against q nation
whose poets and professors whose
pedaEoxues and whose parsons have
united In stirring it's people to q white
pitch ~ hatred first against Russia
Their against England and now against.
America
The U-bost peru Is very real one
FOR England Russia may either
hresk ur into civil war or hecome
50 Ineffective that the millions of Ger
man troops engaged on the Russian
fYnrt NAV be Withdrawn and hurled
aeasnst tbs western lines We stand
III great peril, ard only tire exercise
~ sfuthiess rea lfsn can win this way
far ne II Germanv wins this war It
means the triumph ~ the autocratfc
a46Aens --~-I Il means the triumph Of
fhNNe whc believe not only in war as
4 National industry not only in war
keF Itself but In war az high and
N9f4e cxcnpatinr Unless Germany liz
MG4ens every nation vii! ne compelled
IA turn :tself into an armed camp un-
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