Arizona republican., 1917-08-05
IVY FOUR YEARS w GERMANY"
 By AMBASSADOR JAMES " GERARD

that unless indemnities are ob- tanned from other counties the weight ut the great war will fall upon the people perhaps makes them readler to risk all i'll final attempt to win the War and impose mdemnlles upon not only the nations Of europe, but upon the United States of America.
 We are engaged in war against the greatest military power the world has ever seen; against a people whose country was tor so many centuries theater of such devastating wars that tear IS bred III the very marrow of lneIr sous, making them ready to submit uheIr nves and fortunes to an autoclacy winch tor centuries has ground their faces, but which has promised them, as a result ot the war, not only security, but riches untold and the dominion of the world; d people, when, as from a nigh noun tain, have looked upon the cities of the world and the glorles of them and have been promised these cities and these glories Oy the devils of autoc- lacy and of war.
 we ale warning against a nation whose poets and professors, whose pedagogues and whose priests have united in stirring it's people to a white pitch of hatred, first against Russia, then against England and now against America
 The U-boat peril is d very real one for England. Russia may eIther break up into civil wars or become so in effective that the millions of German troops engaged on the Russian front may be withdrawn and hurled against the western lines.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 can win this war for us. II Germany wins this war it means the triumph of the autOcratic system. It means the triumph of those who be- lieve not only in war as a national in- dustry, not only in war for itself but in war as a high and noble occupa- tion. Unless Germany is beaten every nation will be compelled to turn itself into an armed camp until the German autOcracy either brings the whole world under it's dominion or is forever wiped out as form of government.
 We are in this war because we were forced into it. because Germany not only murdered our citizens on the high seas, but filled our country with spies and sought to incite our people to civil war. We were given no op- portunity to discuss or negotiate. The ToIty-e4Sht hours uitimatum sent by Austria to Serbia was not, as Der nard Shaw said, a decent time in which to ask man to pay his hotel bill" What of the siX-hour ultimat tum given to me in Berlin on the evening of January J, 1917, when l was noti- fled at that ruthless warfare would commence at F? Why, the German government, which up to that moment had professed amity and a desire to staad by the Sussex pledges, knew that it took almost two days to send cable to America, l believe that we are not only justly in this war, but pru- dently in this war. If we had stayed out and the war has been drawn or won by Germany we would have been at tacked-and that while Europe stood grinping by-not directly at first, but through an attack on some Central or South American state to which it would De at least as difficult for us to send troops as for Germany And what if this powerful nation, vowed to war, were once firmly established in South or Central America? What of our boasted isolation then?
 It is only because l believe that our people should be informed that I have consented to write this book
 From Now on We Need the Doers
 There are too many thinkers, writ CTS and speakers in the United States; from now on we need the doers, the 1 organizers and the realists, who alone : can win this contest for us, for de- .Inocracy and for permanent peacel Writing of events so new, I am, of course, compelled to exercise q great discretion, to keep silent on many