New Britain herald., 1917-06-15

chine that 1as at this moment . great belt of psopfe within its grasp. . line that extends from Hamburg to the Persian Gulf. from ~Berlin to Bagdad.
 Unless Democracy is cowed and frightened 1t will not lfsten to any terms of peace that may be advanced by Germany and her military masters. Cruel as the war is. great as the suf- ferings must be for this nation, and all the others lined up against the biggest military power the world has ever known, there can be no turning back. It may take millions of men to accomplish the purpose, but the world must be ridden of this evil,-the ugly head of militarism
 It is terrible indictment that President Wilson reads against The German military masters. It is based on facts, and no man with a mind to think for himself can refute them. He,has seen through their plans for a peace that would be but nominal truce. Here Is how he expressed 1t:
 They have but one chance to
 perpetuate their military power
 or even their controlling polit-S
 ical influence. If they can se-
 cure peace now with the immense
 advantages still in their. hands
 which they have up to this point
 apparently gained, they will have
 justified themselves before the
 German people; they will have
 gained by force what they prom
 ised to gain by it--an immense
 expansion of German power, an
 immense enlargement of German
 industrial and commercial op-
 portunities. Their prestige will
 be secure, and with their prestige
 their political power. If they
 fail, their people will thrust them
 aside; 8 Government accountable
 to the people themselves will be
 set up in Germany as it has been
 in England, in the United States,
 in France and in all the great '
 countries of the modern time ex-
 cept Germany. If they succeed.
 they are safe and Germany and
 the world are undone: If they
 fail, Germany is saved and the
 world will be at peace. If they
 succeed, America will fall within
 the menace. We and all the rest
 of the world must remain armed.
 as they will remain, and must make ready for the next step in
 their aggression.
 These are words that demand careful study. They sum up the en- tire situation. They tell why we arc lighting Germany. They transcend all petty things and go to the very heart of fundamentals. The sinking of the Lusitania was mere incident. The rape of Belgium was another. They were but steps in the progress of affairs that finally drew this pa- ton into the war. . nation that is 'builded upon the principles of Mb- erty and freedom. Every principle of our government, of our independ- ent lives. Is antagonistic to the things that have been set up and sanctioned by the drill masters of Germany. Knowing the program of Germany. the extension of so-called Kultur over the Seven Seas, we realize that if the Entente Allies are defeated we must meet upon our. own shores this monster that struts up and down the shores of Europe, attempting to bend everybody and everything to its will. We know now that 1t is one thing or the other for the world,-Democ- racy or Autocracy. Either we are to live or die. We are to destroy or be destroyed
 The message of Woodrow Wilson on Flag Day is clear. It should be studied by all those who are even at the present at 8 loss to know why we are fighting in war that takes place three thousand miles from our shores. It- should be read over once, twice, three times, by those who have not the vision to see the handwriting on the wall. The challenge is sharp to the doubters. The president has framed it in this fashion:
 ''For, us there is but one choice. We have made 1t. Woe be to the man or group of men that seeks to stand in our way in this day of high resolution when every principle we hold dearest is to be vindicated and made secure for the salvation of the nation"