The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-11-09

ruin 1t must be stopped. To look
ON. tmpassive, as the Allies appear to
be doing, is to invite defeat. Strong,
stern. relentless action may yet change
the current, which is leading to ca
tastrophe, into the channels of tri-
nmph. What, If anything, is being
done to stem the flood? Surely they
who are giving their blood and life
to. emancipate civilization from the
peril OF the Hun have right to ask
the question, and we who make bold
10 say we speak for the people, are
Ia duty bound to demand an answer.
A weak and futile diplomacy dragged
Us Into this war; albeit we were in.
honor bound to make common cause
with splendid France.
We dare not allow the diplomats to
handle the new menace-it must be
left to the soldier and the fighting ma
ions Where stands Japan-that fine
martial people who taught the Gear.
'e lesson he never forgot, and whose
defeat OF the Russian soldier and
over-running of Manchuria was the
f1rst luminous knocking of the East at
The gates of the West?
Japan is loyal to the Allies. But for
the dwelling doubts of Downing
street and that monstrous bogy of the
yellow PERIL with which our arch
enemy has played upon the fears of
Europe, the stiff, short men of the
wonderful island set in the Eastern
Seas would have been joining forces
with US In France and long months
ago have stood shoulder to shoulder
with the soldiers of the Gear. This
II no time for color prejudice or racial
jealousy- All that humanity and free
dom hold dear Ii at stake.
XH Japan Joined with the still loyal
Anxions of Russia, the invading forces
o< the Hun would be instantly arrest
Cd No more with sickening ease
would they break down the Russian
ba<r1ers and make clear the path to
F@trograd. Bloody conflict would
take the place Of price-free victories;
and the whole course of events in
U4sfern Europe, events for which
-4ur tmplacable foe has schemed and
man0euvred with hellish ingenuity,
would be turned into the right road
Nothing. I repeat, should be allow
"a to stand In the way of Japan's
massive armies. They are ready-they
have been prepared ever since the
t0catn OF war was first sounded to
beAr any part in the struggle demand
cd Of them. Munitions they have fur
nished in dnstinted measure for the
Russian Offensive that once promised
so fair. Their splendid navy, which
crushed the Russian Fleet in Far
Eastern waters and taught the Gar
how to respect and fear little ma
lion having much in common with our
OWN early island history, has done all
that has been asked of it. They have
the men; they have the fine fighting
fr1ddtions of a martial race. Their
feariess and well disciplined troops
Wonderfully trained, wonderfully
9-equfpped-Acould be passed in their
'hundreds Of thousands into Russia,
there to stiffen and hearten the stall
WErt remnant Of q once fighting peo-
pie
Who will give the word The time
= short, the sands Of opportunity are
19se running out. Therefore the deci-
sion must be made now-the invita-
\ ton given without an hours DELAY
Once given, know what the response
would be- The brave descendants Of
the Samurt would raise again the fiery
I, cross IN Russia, and the Kaiser's con-
quertng hordes would be hurled back
w death and destruction. In the first
41ann or bitter anger and disappoint-
uenf over Russia's betrayal of the
common cause we might have felt in
cxined to leave her to her fate. And
WAT fate--to be ground under the
neeI OF the ruthless and lying Kaiser.
p feel the burning iron of Autocracy
once more soaring the flesh of new
round Freedom, and making slaves
4@aln OF Russian, Pole and Fin. The
I2oneezoLern IL struggling for his
t8roWn and his head. He cannot. dare
not, let Russia remain a Republic If
fpy cruel repression and the ruthless
mefhods of Prussianism he can WIN
back those vast territories for the
Car and reseat a Romanoff on the
I throne
I = But something more than the fu-
4 <ure OF Russia is in the cauldron of
wAr. If there be a single man today
VINO does not yet understand the pur-
pose Of Prussia and the plot of the
Kaiser. SO long and stealthily prepar-
"a. then God help his intelligence.
Even that fool. Haldane-fool or
traitor; but prefer to ascribe to an
arrogant self-conceit, rather than to
ltrattorous elaboration, the BLOODY
{! muddles and deadly outcome Of his
fmeddlings with diplomacy-nust bv
now realize the depth and extent Of
his own criminality.
~ HOW they denounced those who
doubted bloody wilhelm; how fhev
r1Qiculed the voice sof warning and
spnt In the face OF patriotism!
Yet all the time the creature of
FoDdam--the grandson of our own
Queen, the man who stood by her grave
a. Windsor and walked through the
Mreets OF, London amid our sorrowine
multitudes, honored guest and mourn
er~-has never ceased to plot our
downfall, to scheme for our Imperial
undotng. Just as hisc hief spy stay-
90 with him at Buoking ham Palace
keop1ng the eye of diplomatic deceit
on all our doings willis his Majesty
shed tears over the memorial to his
loyal grandmother so the Imperial
scoundrel himself went as a guest 10
the Danish court, there to develop his
unnoly plans and play his infamous
oesigns for the undoing of Denmark
Inls he did, In readiness for the time
when her neutrality, like the virgin
neutrality OF Belgium, should be dis
pon0redi to minister to his lust OF
conquest, This fiend, whom the pom
pous Haldane dared to tell us was an
apostle or peace--this raisher of fair
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