The Hawaiian gazette., 1917-08-28
RODERlCK .. MATHEsON. EDITOR
We Must Win

IF there Isl one man who, knows exactly what h
i is talking about regarding the necessity o
America awakening to the seriousness OF the wa
we are engaged in, il IS James w. Gerard, our am
bassador to Berlin from before the beginning o
the war up To the severance of diplomatic relation
Mr.. Gerard is now relating his diplomatic expe
riences in the columns of the Philadelphia Ledger
his writings being OF the most intense interest a
this time His foreword, he explains should reall,
be his closing summary, but is given first in hi:
series of articles because of the gravity of the stu
alton not as yet sensed by Americans, He says
in part, in this foreword:
We engaged in a against the greatest mill.
tary power the world has seen; against peo-
pie whose country was for many centuries the
Of such devastating that fear is bred in the
very marrow of their souls making them ready to
submit their lives and fortunes autoeracy which
for centuries has ground their faces but which has
promised them as a result of the war, not only Sc
curty, but riches untold and the dominion of the
world; people which, from high mountain have
looked upon the cities of the world and the glories
of them and have been promised these cities and these
gIores by the devils of autocrary and of war. G
We warning against nation whose poets and
professor whose pedagogues and whose parsons have
united IN stirring its people to white pitch of
hatred, first against Russia, then against England
and against America. h..
The U.bOat peril is a very real for England.
Russia may either break up into civil wars or become
Ineffective that the millions of German troops en-
gagged on the Russian front may be withdrawn and
hurled against the western lines. We stand in great
peril, and only the exercise of ruthless realism
win this for If Germany wins this it
the triumph of the auOcratic system. 1t
the triumph of those who believe only in as
national industry, not only for itself but in
war as a high and noble occupation. Unless Germany
is beaten, every nation will be compelled to turn it,
l. self into armed camp until the German autocracy
either brings the whole world under its dominion
forever wiped out as form of government
. We are in this war because forced into il,
because Germany not only murdered citizens on
the high seas but filed country with spies and
sought to ineite people to civil We were
forty eight hours utmatum by Austria to Ser.
bia not as Bernard Shaw said, "a decent time
in which to ask man to pay his hotel bill.'' What
of the sx'hour ultimatum given to in Berlin ON
tde evening Of January 81, 1917, when / notified
at that ruthless warfare would at 12f
Why, the German government, which up to that
ment had professed amy and desire to stand by the
Sussex pledges knew it took almost days to send
cable TO Americai / believe that we are not only
justly in this war; but prudeny in this war. If we
had stayed out and the had been drawn or won
by Germany would have been attaeked-and that
while Europe stood grinning by-not directly FIRST
but through attack Central South Amer
lean State to which il would be difficult for
us to send troops for Germany. And what if this
powerful nation, vowed to war, firmly es-
tabished in South or Central America! What Of our
boosted isolation then3
1t is only because believe that our peopIe should
be informed that have write this book
n the United States; from e need the doers
the organizers and the realists who alone can win
this contest for for democracy and for permanent
" peacei