New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-06-05
Stay or Be Slain"
a Call for Righteous Hatred to Ala
Our Awakening
To the Editor Of The Tribune.

T. IN
June Atlantic" "Thc United States ana
Pan-Germanism," will come with a shock d
Americans now somewhat complscent over N.
| eginnings of military preparation. Tvo
months ago the general opinion in Ameri,,
was that Germany was weakening bavir,
begun a retreat on the West front, having
lost Bagdad. and with the Allies pressi,.
on all sides. Since then the alarming sur.
cesses of the German U-boats, the collsn..
Of Russia, the grave statements made By n.
French and British missions, have given
warning of the desperate character Of n.
struggle before US. It has remained for N,
Cheradame to enlighten US as to the real
scope of the war and its bearing on our mar.
ticipation. Mr.. Cheradame's article present,
the same argument which is stated at length
in his book "The Pan German Plot Exposed
perhaps the most important book write,
on the war.
Pan-Germany
Contrary to general opinion, the real Oh.
jectivc Of Germany's war aims is not e,.
pansion east or west, but the seizure Of ,hs
Orient together with the contiguous teri.
tory living between Berlin and Bagdad Ger.
many has conquered and absorbed her pseudo
allies, Austria Hungary, Bulgaria and Tur
key. more thoroughly than she has conquered
and absorbed her enemies, Belgium, Poland
Serbia and Rumania. Germany started NE
war with 6s,0OO,O0O people, but now control,
in both a military and economic sense l76.
900 people. To quote Mr. Cheradame:
This is the brutal, overwhelming fact which
Americans must face II they wish to learn
the sole solution Of the war which will as
sare to them as we'll as to the rest Of II.
world n durable peace. The following fe.
Tres will show how the great groups Of the
population of pan-Germany are divided a,
the beginning of 1917:
|. "The masters Germans 70 900 000
>. "The vassals Magyars, 1O,O0OOOO; Bul.
CARS, 100000; Turks, 100000 2lOOOOOO
3 "The slaves French (about) 100000;
Bolgians, 100000 Alsatians, Lorrainers, l..
100000; Danes. 100000; Poles, Lithuanisns,
22.OO0,OOO Ruthenians. 100000; Czechs, s..
500. 900; Jugo-Slavs, 100000; Rumanians
100000; Italians, 100000; Armenans, ..
100000; Levantines, 100000; Ottoman
Greeks, 100000; Arabs, 100000.
Total -176OOO,OOO
"To sum up, 100000 Germ,ni rule over
100000 yassals and $4,000 OeJ slaves, who
arc bearing the most cruel and uniustifabe
yoke that the world has ever known It is
undeniable, moreover that each extension Of
Prussan militarism over a now territory has
enabled Germany TO prolong the struggle by
obtaining new supplies of food, new rein.
forcements to press into her service and ter
ritory to exploit, new civil populations, whose
labor is made use Of even in works Of
military nature. The annual leyiy
of men from the various territories or pan
Germany certainly outnumber the losses sui-
tanned each year by her troops. VI,
may safely say that never before has the Ber
lin government, from military point Of
view, been so strong
The Invasion Of America
This amazing situation is certainly not
understood by the American people What
answer can America make? First. let us grasp
intellectually and thoroughly tho painter
man plot in all its bearing Next, JET Us
summon to our aid two motive powers which
have not yet been enlisted fear and hatred
Mr.. Cheradame says: "If Germany achieves
the ruin of the Allies. it IS entirely probable
that the General staff Of William II would
launch a formidable expedition against the
United States without delay, in order 70 al
low her no time to organize herself against
the Prussian tyranny
Righteous hatred should be allied 90 fear
Let us refute the nsidious campaign of Tho
balf-hearted and the half-witted. The pac.ists
and the pro-Germans, who. counsel that 80
should fight without hate or bitterness. u
there ever was q time in the history Of the
world when hatred was morally justifablo
now is the time. Shall we not hate the preda-
tory nation-in-arms, passionately one with
the Kaiser and the General staff, all equally
obsessed with the megaomania Of imperial
ism and an-Germanism? Not 10 hate
them would be 70 morally condone the
vilest cruelties which have ever irrepara-
bly, stained the name Of a nation. Every JUS
tfable basis Of both fear and hatred exists
to rouse America 10 the implacable detcrmi-
nation that at the cost Of her last man and
her last dollar Germany must BE dc .royed.
England started with a small concept Of
the war, and only after two years realized
in the words Of "The London Globe" that 1--WE
must Stay or be slain" Can America intel
lectually grasp the ultimate need and realize
now that we also must "say or be slain?
RICHARD VI. HCRD,
Trustee American Defence Society.
New York, June 3, 1917