The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-02-28
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this exhaustion Ut our supplies and
necessities shouli be stopped.
/ WE NEED EVERY POUND OF
! OUR FOOD SUPPLIES AND EVERY
| OUNCE OF MUNITIONS AND EV-
FRY CANNON, RIFLE. AERO
PLANE: AND ALL THE EQUIPMENT
WE CAN MANUFACTURE FOR
OUR OWN DEFENSE AGAINST
SUDDEN ATTACK.
| The lingo press and such lingo
politicians as Roosevelt, Lodge. Root,
Gardner and all that sort Of war luna.
| tics do not seem to be able to see
what war would mean.
| Fear Asiatic Treaehery
! They seem to think that all we will
have to do Is to sit secure at home
and feed our young men and our
wealth into the nav Of Europe's dis
tant war.
But we tell you that the stage is
, all set for something far more des-
perate and bloody than long.range
war. And it is Asiatic treachery that
has set the stage.
We should think that even our war
lunatics. bereft of all power to rea-
son as they seem to be, could per.
ceive that the GERMAN MILITARY
CASTE, the Pan.Germans. as they
call themselves. are more DESTROYS
that tho United States should declare
war upon the Central Empires than
are our war.lunatics themselves.
| Germany's Ultimate Aim
And 1t ought to penetrate even their
heads that there must be something
more than mere lust of warfare in
this German military castles anxiety
to be at war with US.
| The reasons are plain enough.
II we go to war with the Central
Empires, the German submarines can
range the whole ocean, instead Of mar
| row blockade zones, and sink every.
thing afloat without hesitation-AND
THAT SPELLS ENGLAND'S DOOM
IN A FEW SHORT MONTHS.
Every oficer in our navy knows
| that Is so.
The English Government knows
that is SO.
Do you see any anxiety expressed In
ENGLISH Papers that we should go
to war with the Central Empires?
You do not.
English Papers Silent
And that is because the English pa
pers say very little which the English
Government does not want said, and
the English Cabinet ministers know
that only Americas NEUTRAL AID
can save England now, and that Amer
| ica's declaration of war upon Germany
means England upon her knees in less
than half year.
The German MILITARY CASTE,
! though not the German PEOPLE,
want ar American declaration of war
in order to remove the last restraint
upon submarine warfare and TO EN-.
ABLE THEM TO SINK SHIPS ALL
OVER THE SEVEN SEAS.
And what else IS in store?
Japan Is Ready
Why, Japan Is armed and ready and
eager to make her war upon us the
moment we are we'll entangled in this
European struggle.
With our navy occupied in the At
lantic and the Panama Canal, the Pa
cific Coast and the Philippines and
Hawaii all wide open to the attack
Of the Japanese navy and the Japan.
csc army-numbering over 100000
trained and largely veteran soldiers
equipped with every weapon and de-
vice of modern warfare. and secretly
or openly leagued with Russia and the
Central Empires, we should simply
BE HELPLESS AND BE BEATEN
TO A PULP If we keep on stripping
our own country of it's resources and
its means Of defense until these Asiat-
ic and European wars are at our doors.
When we say that the stage has
been secretly set for just this tragedy,
we mean exactly what we say
1t Is neither untruth nor mere sur
mise nor exaggeration.
Japan's Real Aims
1T IS THE ABSOLUTE TRUTH.
The alliance which now exists be-
tween Russia and Japan is an alliance
for the seizure and the division of
China. India and Persia. It contem.
plates the seizure Of the German,
Dutch. English and French posses
sions and the election of the United
States from the Philippines and
Hawaii.
The reactionary party pledged to
this program Is now in control of the
Russian Government, and is destroy
ing the power Of the Duma and of the
zemstvos with a ruthless hand In
order to consummate separate peace
with Germany and Austria.
Whenever we declare war upon Ger
many, If We do at all, Russia and ia
pan will withdraw from the allies,
leave the Central Empires to crush
England, France and Italy, and be-
gin their own separate enterprise Of
seiZing and partitioning Asia.
We say again to you that we are
stating facts.
Why, 1t was but yesterday that the
news came Of Japan's latest prepare.
ton: but yesterday that we learned
Of Japanese munition factories being
established in Mexico. with the aid Of